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hey what is going on everybody I'm nowhere from technobuffalo calm and this is my samsung galaxy tab 10.1 limited edition google i/o 2011 edition tablet I've had it for almost two days now and really have had about a day to play with it because i was at google i/o you know i got it at i/o two days ago there an unboxing and then i've had a couple days the senator senator i'll tell you what hardware was this thing is killer software wise it's really pretty good it's got some hiccups and then obviously there's a whole thing of what platform you want to use but hardware wise this thing is pretty sweet let's take a little more of an in depth look 48 hours with the galaxy tab 10 dot 10 androids alright so right off the bat I'll tell you that John is sending up our sous transformer are you pad transformer eat transformer pad transformer review unit so i can check it out and go head-to-head because as of now the tab 10 1 may be my favorite android tablet to date and john is really high on the transformer so i am excited to get my hands on that one I haven't yet tried it myself and check it out but what I really like about the tab which is also what I really like about my other favorite android tablet the LG G slate for tmobile or optimus pad is the hardware the form factor this thing is incredibly thin incredibly lightweight it's about a third of an inch thick it weighs one point three pounds i believe and it's just my criticisms about the motorola xoom software aside but hardware wise my tuba criticism is where the screen was kind of washed out and it was bulky heavy it's kind of thick and kind of heavy and just for one-handed use there was no way it was going to happen for me but this thing is not a problem to hold one handed and what was really cool actually was at the show at Google i/o people got these on the first day after the opening keynote and there was a long line to wait and then everybody got one for free and I saw lots of people walking around the rest of that day and especially on day two using this with the the official app from the show to figure out where to go you know what sessions were happening when where they were located all that kind of stuff so really very cool one of the other things that i want to say very cool i mean to fold i mean very cool that they were able to use that instead of you know having a whole bunch of paper printed up but it's cool especially the tech conference to see people using the tech instead of you know old tech like paper that's not reusable but then the second thing is just that people were walking around with them because it's so lightweight and easy enough to hold the I'm still going to say that I think the widescreen form factor is superior for a tablet to the route that ipad went ipad went with the 43 aspect ratio and look to everybody out there who's already saying why are you comparing this to to ipad why talk about apple all the time it's because it's the market leader it's not this is not getting into you know which is better right now it's just that's the market leader the other thing and I'm just going to mention the strip because it's obvious it's not digging it Sam science not digging at Android or Google it's just saying this straight up everybody who's seen this who is not a geek so that's about five people so far has said oh that your iPad because it looks like an iPad it really does I mean the form factor is different and like I said that's a big plus for me the widescreen form factor but you know the black bezel with the chrome band around it I mean it's very iPad looking granted any tablet is going to look like any other tablet to an extent but if you look even at the zoom you know the zoom looks a little bit different so so definitely there is something to the samsung's recent hardware designs being reminiscent of some vapis anyway that being said to get off of that trade let's load up slowed up some music in the background here this is the this is the new music beta by Google which works very well we'll do a separate hands-on video on that one no I don't want to hear that song I want to hear this song there we go but this works on this works on Android devices it works on on the web and it works very well streaming your music from the cloud rotate that into a portrait mode so we'll get to a separate video on that but anyway to get back to the the tab 10 1 the fact that it's lightweight enough and it's you can use it one-handed you can hold it you know the long way left to back the camera up here so you can get a better better view of this but you can hold it the long way no problem because it's light enough weight and then it's narrow enough with the widescreen form factor that you can do things on it with one hand and you can do to two thumbs typing in this mode will stop the music even though the isley brothers have much better voices than I do we'll get back to the home screen there so if i go into let's go to the browser and i want to type in a URL it's not a problem at all to go to you handy you can see there's a custom samsung keyboard on here which so far i really like actually think it's a minor improvement over the stock android keyboard just because things are a little more clearly labeled the caps lock button things like that just little minor things that I like more than I like the the stock android keyboard and then obviously you know it's andres you can install all kinds of stuff on it will go to customizations widgets you know custom keyboard replacements all that kind of business so here's TechnoBuffalo in the mobile theme mode I've had a few crashes I had the camera crashed on me actually started this video in the camera crash dummy yeah for some reason Android browsers seem to have a problem switching into mobile theme Oh with our website every time I do a review video it's like that I don't know why one site that always works for me is ESPN's true hoop so let's go there but it's speedy performance it's got the dual core processor inside it's Wi-Fi only one thing about this galaxy tab which is a little disappointing but i understand it doesn't come with Samsung's new TouchWiz panel for honeycomb that I saw at Mobile World Congress the rumors all point to that being unveiled on May twenty-fourth and an event Samsung's having in New York City which everybody and their cousin is betting is going to be the official release of the galaxy tab 10 one on a carrier in the US etc etc so I'm kind of excited cuz I actually thought that touch was looked pretty good and pretty useful I'm kind of psyched to see that but lots of people don't like the TouchWiz or just don't want anything you know besides sake Android so this is android 301 kind of weird they announced three dot one yesterday and it was available to Motorola Xoom customers although as adryana reported change on both having problems getting it downloaded their devices but then they hand it out to developers you know this this really slick top-of-the-line tablet with only three dot 0 dot one on it three dot one is coming on the coming weeks apparently for us but it's the same screen size as the zoom 10.1 inches 1280 by 800 to me the screen on the galaxy tab just crisper brighter looks nicer than the screen on the zoom did the performance is zippy with the dual core 1 gigahertz processor it's got 32 gigs of RAM for internal storage it's got a front facing camera like we showed in the intro and then the rear facing camera it's a 3 megapixel camera with a flash and then on the the front facing cameras 2 megapixels you can see this is this is just kind of fun that they did this the limited edition google i/o the developers edition with the cool custom backplate they're kind of a neat touch on the side you've got the stereo speakers actually sound quite good considering off smallest devices and then you've got a 3 NF millimeter headphone jack on the top it came with earbuds then obviously you can you know send your music or your audio out to you know better speaker system and so on it's got a rocker switch for volume it's got a power locks which as well and then again I'm just pointing out this you know interesting that instead of a USB port in a mini HDMI port samsung one went with a proprietary connector that I'll get the cable here it is kind of you know it is ipad esque that's all I'm saying Apple not the only company to ever use a proprietary dock connector so yeah that being said but again just mentioning interesting they went with a proprietary connector and then it's modular hooks up to the AC adapter via USB or you can take the adapter off and use it for syncing with your computer obviously you can see the accelerometer built-in again nothing custom as for our samsung goes except there's a link to samsung apps which in the u.s. you have to set your language and from the US doesn't really do much you know if there are 10 apps here now and they're all just like these tests so not really much going on there we'll see by the 24th what samsung has in store for the official launch but again so far really enjoying it you know i am not going to get in right now to a whole Android versus other platforms debate but you to say that as Android tablets go for a kind of a full on let's go to youtube and watch little video for a full on honeycomb I don't know what's going on so watch this one for full on honeycomb experience I mean this is just great and a lot of that has to do with the form factor because all these devices now you know the honeycomb devices have the dual core processor and the performance is generally pretty good there are some bugs still like I said some crashes but you know that that happens on any platform you're going to get some crashes and whatnot unfortunately it's just kind of the way it is these days but really they nailed it on the form factor haven't had a chest chance chance to really run down the battery yet so I'll have to get back with some battery battery performance info and like I said it's Wi-Fi only there's no cellular data on this device so it's just going over Wi-Fi but so far so good really really impressed I think Samsung nailed it on the hardware I think the hardware you know for my money is probably the best tablet hardware out there I mean performance wise you know you can compare it to what whatever you want but but form factor wise i prefer this to ipad 2 i prefer it to the other android tablets that i've used maybe with the exception of the g slate just because i like the smaller size but this is so lightweight that it you know it makes me not care so much about the size because i can use a one-handed which for me you know i think is really key so there you go a quick kind of i've had it for two days i've used it for about a day first impression review of the samsung galaxy tab 10 dot one limited edition google i/o developer edition Wi-Fi only etc etc it's a big thumbs up for me so far if you're looking for an Android tablet and in general you know as tablets go really really digging it so far excited to use it more for sure try out the integrated google video chat do some you know some ereading on it because that's that's a big thing you know what the one-handed use and all that kind of stuff and also play more with the google music beta and like i said gonna do a separate hands-on walkthrough of how that works you can't buy music through it but if you want somewhere to stick all your music in the cloud and access it from any computer through a web browser or via any Android device i guess to dot 2 and higher so far it works pretty well as long as your cellular carrier works well I'll get into that more in the other video so next time I name is Noah thanks again to google and samsung for providing these to all the attendees at the show and like I said May twenty-fourth big event Samsung in New York City looking like we're going to see the official launch of this thing with the with the TouchWiz panel which I at least I'm kind of interested to see some of you out there like what are you talking about TouchWiz hate it others do you like TouchWiz like it let's get the camera fired up one more time so i can say goodbye properly there we go until next time my name is Noah much much more on TechnoBuffalo com we'll see you later bye bye