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everybody that's Michael Boetcher here at CES 2014 checking out the new Samsung Galaxy Tab pro let's check it out so we've done the best we can on this screen guys a lot of hands have been on this so you know it's typical matter what's displayed but this is the largest Samsung Android tablet that we've ever handled it is 12.2 inches on the diagonal the screen technology is AMOLED Super AMOLED there correctly and it's running at a resolution of 2560 2560 by 1600 I wasn't fed that at all I promise except that's not true power on the screen here this is the Tab pro so we've talked about the note pro and another video but this model is identical unlike what they've done previously the tab pro bears the same exact specs as the note pro except it doesn't have the s-pen you'll notice this is also the first Samsung product that is the first non note Samsung product to feature the stitch leather so it's interesting that Samsung is broadened a little bit in that regard moving that physical thing this is an 8 megapixel camera by the way battery underneath is 9,500 milliamp hours a real monster and flipping around to the front sorry about the horrible lighting once again but you will notice a very new user interface this is the first major revision of Samsung's TouchWiz user interface the section are called TouchWiz anymore all that often but the first major revision of Samsung's interface is sliding panels it's a little Metro like it's a little like the news magazine app that we saw on the existing notes and it's actually fairly responsive on this 12 point 2 inch screen to talk a little bit about that I want to talk a little bit about the wood the heft though this is a 732 gram device or give or take a couple grams the mass varies by a few grams depending on whether you're getting the Wi-Fi version or the 3G version healthy version so does the processor if you get the Wi-Fi and 3G it's the Exynos model you get the LTE version it is the Snapdragon 800 3 gigs of RAM in each case I believe but that's not quite as interesting as this new interface which you know when I first saw this I think it was set to this mode and you can do legacy Android if you want to you know you can you can come back here and you can add home screens in the traditional way it's happened hold and you've got all your kind of usual stuff here and you can change the wallpaper all that all the stuff that we're used to seeing but this new interface is just a swipe away and now here's all of the the panes that are available to you such a spill you can just tap and it will fill in any available space or you can you can tap and drag it specifically to where you want it to be and the tiles around it will automatically resize we have an empty tile here very very simple matter just to tap and hold let's say we want to put in the gallery that sounds like a good idea drop it right in that empty frame and there it is another thing Samsung is done you'll notice the HOME key is flanked by the back key and the multitasking select there oh wow I actually didn't see this before that's pretty cool it's now been moved to the bottom and you can swipe up to dismiss which is very cool but there's no multitasking if you press and hold like that it doesn't mean multitasking is not here just swipe out from the edge from the bezel and there is your multi screen select drag the internet browser over here and ah the whole browser fills the whole screen pool but I also want to do some text messaging while I do that I'll pop that right there the familiar resize option is exists and also if you want to just say let's see we're doing both those things but we want to quickly view a YouTube video you tap instead of drag you're given the app in a poll window which can go on top of anything you want and you know we've done this a couple times on this device it's running pretty snappy especially for a demo unit not willing to say at this point that that Samsung has has fixed all of the all of the lag issues that we often complain about on these large tablets but man it's it's running pretty well right now I'll tell you that there's our drop-down notification shade with the new bubble-like thing but this is just a quick UI tour we're gonna get to know it a little bit better hopefully we've given you a small sense of how the galaxy tabpro in the 12 inch size operates we're taking a look at a lot more from samsung here at CES 2014 and Tony behind the camera is doing a great job keeping up with my nonsense stay tuned for a lot more from pocket now