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hi guys Davy here from phone booths calm and in this video be doing a review on the samsung galaxy note 10.1 tablet I'm really excited to do this review because this is arguably one of the best spec tablets if not the best spec tablet to ever hit android but before actually go into what I like and what I dislike I want to give you guys a quick hardware tour so on the front of the device you obviously you have the screen which is 10.1 inches and given the fact that the name is galaxy note 10.1 that's not really a surprise the resolution is 800 x 1280 it's a TFT display and on the top of the screen you have a 1.9 microsoft front-facing camera similar to what you see on the samsung galaxy s3 on the left and on the right you have speaker grill so it's nice to have dual speakers got your Samsung logo here at the bottom on the back of the tablet you have your samsung level again 5 megapixel camera with LED flash got your typical little logos for Wi-Fi and 16 gigabytes considering this is a 16 gigabyte model on the left bottom left you have your S Pen so you can just pull this guy out and you see the Samsung logo got your physical button right there which gives you a whole bunch of different input methods and also your S Pen tip which is a pressure-sensitive so go ahead and snap this guy back into place you guys can see it's really firmly in there I'm it's not gonna fall out or anything so don't worry about that if you're considering getting this guy on the top of the device you have a power button volume rocker follow up down micro SD card slot you have a infrared signal and then you have your 3.5 million headset jack as expected on the bottom you have your charging port and microphone and that's pretty much it on the left and on the right there's absolutely nothing and that's pretty much it for the outside of device on the inside you have a 1.4 Gertz a keynote for quad processor so basically it's a quad core processor with not one but two gigabytes of RAM and obviously that explains why i said this is the best spec android tablet I've ever seen at least and you know with 2gb RAM with a quad-core you know it's going to be giving you great performance but we'll get into a little bit later as far as the rest of the internals you have a seven thousand million battery and the device itself is not all that heavy in only weighs about 600 grams so let's go ahead and go into the review I'll first talk about the things that I dislike and then I'll talk about things that I think are just ok and then finally I'll finish up with what I like because I do love ending my reviews with a positive note so with that sense go ahead and get right into it also the first thing that I dislike about the galaxy note 10.1 is the build quality now it's not necessarily the way it looks I think it's a pretty sleek looking device I especially like the back I mean it kind of reminds me of a lot I mean looks like a laptop to me when you have it down like this but that what I talk about build quality is kind of a you know what most people complain about as far as you know Samsung devices in the past basically it's kind of plastic II and I've never really you know said anything bad about it in my reviews for samsung phones but on this tablet it really seems to make a difference because i'll go ahead and like kind of move it around and you can actually hear it squeaks oh i'll try to be quiet so you guys can hear it so i don't know if that comes through on camera hopefully does but take my word on it it does squeak and i don't want my five hundred or tablet squeak and sound like a little plastic toy so that's a downside I mean really it's probably not that big of a deal maybe the you know plastic material makes it you know more resistant to getting damaged when you drop it I don't know but anyway that's one of the first thing is just like second thing I dislike is the fact that Samsung opted not to use a micro USB charging port we have this Samsung charging port so kind of suds considering you know I have an android phone I have you know a bunch of Android devices or micro USB devices nowadays because considering it's a standard and the fact that this doesn't use it you know it kind of makes it inconvenient to take a whole nother charger with me you know whenever I go out to places so that's something that you know really wish Samson would have included it but you know I know there they went with this for a bunch of reasons but nonetheless I would have liked to see that and the last thing that I dislike is the fact that the galaxy note 10.1 doesn't have NFC capability i mean my galaxy s3 has NFC capability and i'd like to be able to beam things you know to and from each of these devices and the fact that doesn't have it really isn't fortunate so anyway those are the three things that i dislike and i'll see that's not all that bad considering that it's only three but let's go ahead and talk about you know what I think is just okay and then we'll go into what I like all right so what I think is just okay it's not necessarily bad but I wouldn't consider something that's good is the screen yeah it's 10.1 inches it's nice and as you guys can see it's pretty bright however I feel like the resolution just isn't all that high especially considering the price point five hundred dollars is expecting a better resolution screen at 800 x 1280 you know it's really not that high i mean it's the same resolution you see on the Nexus 7 which is a 7-inch tablet this is a 10.1 inch tablet so the ppi's can be even lower the ppi on this guy is 149 so I'm a I'm getting you know double that on my galaxy nexus on my galaxy s three as far as the quality and this kind of something I wish that they would have done better now I'm not going to complain i'll go ahead and show you a little video that samsung included which does kind of demonstrate the screen quality so it's not that big of deal s why i didn't put it as something that i dislike let me go ahead and find the gallery really quick there it is all right so you guys could check this video out um kind of impressed me so maybe it'll impress you i'll go ahead and fast-forward maybe so it is a little demonstration as far as the screen claudine you guys see it looks really really nice um just which was better i mean i don't know i couldn't expect it a little bit higher resolution but like i said it's not going to hinder your experience 149 ppi isn't all that bad screen is really bright the TFT display and as you guys can see from this video it you know isn't something horrible so that's why i say something that's okay um the next thing that I'd say is just okay is the front and rear cameras I mean it's a tablet I don't really care all that much about the camera on the front actually isn't that bad is one point I make whistles but on the back it's really the one that you know isn't good at all I mean it's five megapixels it's I I was kind of expecting it to be kind of like the one we saw on the galaxy nexus with five mixels but it's not this guy doesn't really shoot video although i'm gonna upload a video sample on the channel to check that out but it doesn't record in 1080p it's only 720p which is definitely something that I dislike in consider like I said this is five hundred dollars i just kind of accept a little bit more um kind of feel like it's made it you know fee it makes the tablet feel a little more overpriced when considering those two factors anyway that's what I think is ok but you know like I said it's not bad it's not good just okay let's go ahead and talk about what is good and why you'd want to get this tablet over the others all right so let's go ahead and talk about what I like about this happen because I know that's what you guys been waiting for and honestly there's a lot to like first thing that I really like and what I feel like makes it stand out from any other tablet on the market is the S Pen so I'll go ahead and pull it out and notice that this little dog opens up on the right and basically these are S Pen specific applications like s no s planner which basically calendar crayon physics you have photoshop touch and florists office go ahead and open up s pen and show you a little bit about you know this application I did a full-on review and in-depth you know walkthrough on the channel so if you guys want to learn more about it check that out but i'll go ahead and show you some of the features on here so one with the s pen with the pressure sensitivity I could do you know I could draw lightly and make little lines I could push a little bit harder make bold lines I could you know switch what kind of utensil amuses right now it's a pen I could use a brush so for example if I want to do a brush I can do light little strokes I can do dark strokes like that really cool makes it feel like you're actually holding a actual paint brush in your hand you're actually using you know a memo pad or a piece of paper um now the cool feature over here on the right is S Pen only modes basically right now can use my finger if I tap this my finger doesn't work and what's great about that is because if I'm using my hand and putting my you know resting my palm down on the screen it's not gonna affect my palm is only going to check the s pen which really is what you'd expect you know when you're using actual piece of paper your your palm is it going to you know put ink on the paper but the pen will so that's a cool feature like I said you have a whole bunch of different you know options here as far as utensils you have different strokes that you do as well we here on the right but that's pretty much that you can also change the colors what I really want to show you though is the productivity tools which I find really really cool basically the first thing you can do is right here it's called formula match so basically what i can do is let's say I'm in you know algebra or pre-algebra handa will do x plus five equals 20 and I want to solve for x right it translates you know my handwriting to text right over here I just hit Search and it's going to actually search wolframalpha for my solution so you can see x plus 5 is equal 20 get a bar or a little graph yeah you get an alternative form of writing it and then you get the answer x equals 15 now where was this you know when we're in school or when I was in school you know some of you guys are obviously still in school and this is a great taught me not for you know cheating or you know having this do your homework but if you really can't figure something else it's a great way to help you you know and helps you figure things out and get the solution if the answer isn't in the answer key so while we're here we'll go ahead and talk about the what is it called multiple window mode basically what you have here is two screens you can see I have my notepad still open and I could actually still use it and I have my browser open it's not just Wolfram Alpha I could actually go to you know any website i want so I'll go to phone buff and you guys can see phone book is rendering in the background i'm still using this little bit of light because i want to figure out you know which screen i'm actually or what side of the screen i'm actually using but yes see i could use you know phone book i can zoom in and out go to a different article if i want and continue using you know the s no application here so for example if i'm taking notes on something i could do that I'm right handed so I'm not going to be able to do on the left I guess it switches to the right really cool functionality and this is thanks to the processing power in the ram they find on the galaxy note 10.1 you know otherwise it would be lagging like crazy so this really shows you the power go ahead and close out of here um you know a few different things you actually so it's actually called multi-screen I don't know what I called earlier but you could open up your internet browser like we just did your video player Polaris Office your gallery and email we want to do video player really quick while we're here and for example let's say I wanted to take notes on this video which i showed you earlier I could do that you know I don't have to use this I can just go back to regular pen mode and take my notes as I wish and really cool to be able to do that you know while there's a video playing and that this kind of is a sign of you know how powerful this tablet so anyway well go ahead and close out of here so i just hit X really quick so whatever side of the window you get ice on it closes that while we're here also i'll show you that you can tap this guy right here and basically it takes your video player and makes it a little window and you can continue using you know your web browser or whatever you were doing before and still be watching the video so again really shows you how powerful you know the tablet is but i believe the galaxy s3 has this feature as well so um doesn't need all that much power but really cool feature with TouchWiz and honest as the secondary like so other than the s pen and the S optimized apps I really like touch was because I feel like you know they add a lot of value to the user experience that you normally wouldn't get so I'm going to close out of this video we're going to hit stop I'm just going to hit home um speaking of you know TouchWiz one thing you'll notice over here is you have your back home multitasking window and you have your app screen right over here but let's say for example I wanted to hit here you would think it's your regular ass but it's not these are your little pop-up windows they could actually so we used the video player earlier and you could actually do different things like for example I can open up the calculator here and you know follows for example in my estimate application trying to figure out that same algebra you know problem that was on and how to use my calculator I could actually do it while I'm in you know this note so I could write that or I can go over here use s note and use this guy can move it around and continue using the notepad I could set it down all the way over here if I wanted to and if i want to go to the main calculator app i'll just tap the store arrow and it goes right into it so really cool functionality it works with you know the music player s planner so you have a little calendar your task manager world clock and there's different ways to get it there's a lot of shortcuts so for example if I want to get it 2 2 s note for example I don't have to go to through the dock which you know I don't think it's on here because I took it off well you can edit hit edit and then add it like that so anyway I don't have to actually go through there I can actually press the physical button on the S Pen double tap the screen and it's going to show up so I don't think it registered it there you go so you guys can see same idea you have your little pop-up window you could use the application but if you want for example if I wanted my task manager instead of going here I could just press and hold on home and it brings my task manager app open i could close all the app so let's go ahead and do that right now so we'll go ahead and all you guys can see close it out see how much ram i have so 89 out of one point seven eight available a bunch of ram available you're probably never going to use it all up right here you guys notice the bottom you have a screenshot button which basically you press it you can take screenshots of course if i wanted to use the S Pen like I said earlier press and hold the screen and take screenshots that way too so there's multiple ways to do things on the galaxy note 10.1 really cool functionality TouchWiz is you know something i like a lot on here because like i said adds value things like you know you're able to hide applications are you're able to uninstall applications and books so for example if i wanted to install some apps i just do it like that i mean really really easy to uninstall applications I go out of that mode I wanted to hide some applications like this for example you know what I don't use the screensaver app and world clock hit done boom it's gone I'm not uninstall it maybe it won't let me uninstall it but at least I could hide it and if you want to learn more about touch woods check out the in-depth review that I did I did on the galaxy s3 but pretty much getting the same features here on the galaxy note 10.1 will go on and talk about the next thing I like and that it's the infrared sensor the infrared sensor is really cool to have one here because there's application pre-loaded which is called peel they call it smart remote and basically what this does is it you go to your TV as long as it's supported and you pretty much set it up and it's really easy all you do is turn off the TV you opens up and say turn on my TV and automatically like scan through all its little codes it'll turn the key box is gonna turn on it yes and basically control your TV from your tablet with the infrared I just like it was the remote and also you can control your cable box so i have universe i set it up with my uverse and i'm able to you know go to my whole TV guide on here and then change your channel so really nice application really cool that they added that future it really you know opens up the opportunity or capability of the tablet I want to be doing a video on that showing you how to set it up in a quick little review so check that out in channel as well um next thing that I'm really happy about with the galaxy no tempo and I you know when I almost think Samsung floor is thank you for this micro SD card slot because i feel like the general trend lately has been not to include these the fact is I has it is also because I could know it's a 16 gigabyte model here to hire one but 60 gigabytes I could add a 32 gigabyte card here which i can probably get a lot cheaper than trying to get the higher model and I have forty eight gigabytes total which is awesome if I run our room I get swapped at 32 gigabytes and you know carry a few of them on me really awesome feature I have next thing that I like is the speaker positioning I mean Samsung really seem to listen to us and put the speakers on the front mean why do you really need speakers in the back or on the bottom when you're using your tablet you're looking at it you know like this you your face is facing the tablet so why not have these speakers pointing at you so that way the sound you know is louder and not only you know as a speaker position great which makes you know the audio experience better but the speakers are actually good themselves to you know a lot of tablets you know for example the nexus 7 doesn't have that kind of speaker sound that you'd expect this guy definitely isn't like that it has a loudspeaker you don't need any applications to amplify it it gets the job done and that considering it on the front you don't even need that a lot of a speaker anyway so that's the next thing that I like um that's pretty much it i mean everything else I mean you're familiar with as far as Android tablets I mean you're gonna love it out before the tablet experience but those are the things I feel like make the galaxy note 10.1 stand out overall I have to give this tablet a thumbs up I mean I kind of feel like it's a little bit overpriced I wish to the price a little bit lower considering there's other options out in the market with you no higher resolution screens like the iPad which offer you know different things with the same kind of processing power but you know the s-pen experience really really is what's really going to make you want to get this tab over another I said really three times because I meant it i mean the S if you like the S Pen you feel if you're looking for a tablet that you can actually work on and right and you're looking for a tablet that's going to help you with school for example or a tablet that you going to be able to take a lot of notes on this is it because it really gives you almost like a lifelike experience for us you know writing on a piece of paper and like I showed you can help you with your math homework can help you draw shapes I you get if you're not comfortable typing your right and it'll kind to text whole bunch of features having Photoshop over here did a falling review being able to edit your pictures on Photoshop Touch which is preloaded by the way normally this thing cost 999 you get for free with the galaxy note 10.1 editing photos isn't all that easy especially even on the computer you know using the mouse it's not that easy to follow you know for example if I'm editing this or it's not easy to follow uh his nose or whatever with the mouse but with your pen it's really easy to do and you're able to edit it you know just like you want so if I wanted to make it I look like that could do that and it's really accurate the S Pen so just the you know overall thumbs up for it so far oh I forgot to mention this last thing which which is what I like is the power the power of the galaxy no tempo like I said the processor the quad core 1.4 it's icky knows you have to give us ram I mean you're gonna get better performance on this tablet than most tablets out there I did speed comparisons with the nexus 7 8 beat that out I did benchmarks on this guy and the benchmark just blow everything out of the water I didn't compare some of the ipad and that is the performance actually pretty much the same on those two tablets but if you look at the benchmarking when this guy gets jelly bean it's gonna blow everything out of the water I mean it has the hardware to do it so I'm really excited about that like i said though if you're gonna consider getting it you consider the pros and cons that i mentioned earlier what's important to you how important is the S Pen and also you know do you feel like you know for five hundred dollars it's worth it because like I said some things you know don't reek of you know or don't you really make you feel like it's a five-hundred-dollar tablet like the squeaky call build quality the you're not so high resolution on the screen things like that but anyway that's it for me in this review just wanted to give you guys you know my experience with the tablet want to give you my likes and dislikes if you found it helpful in any way please hit the like button and subscribe to the channel and again check out all those other videos that it did with the galaxy note 10.1 because this give you a lot better idea as far as whether or not you this is the tablet for you thank you