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Verizon Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 with 4G Unboxing

2011-08-20
greetings all this is deke Adams from pocketnow.com and today we're doing the unboxing of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 from verizon with 4g the LTE service so sit back relax and enjoy the show now the samsung galaxy tab 10.1 is a pretty well-known device in the world already and this is just the verizon iteration with 4g service built into the device let's go ahead and open up the box and take a look what's inside in here we have the 4g LTE sim card which will put it in a minute the actual device itself with the little overlay instructions on how to put that card in then under here we have the user manuals the Samsung proprietary cable it's got a dock connector looks like I got 10 pin connector almost like the Apple is so the power charging sync cable is not a standard USB and then you've got the wall wart and the adapter for the wall work for us plugs so that's all there is in the box let's go ahead and strip the plastic off get that sim card in and will boot it up for the first time had to make a quick backdrop change because couldn't actually see the device against the black background except for this the silver coated rim around the outside here we've got the main device we've got a 2-megapixel front-facing camera right here up at the top on this top end is the headphone jack and the sim card slot which I've already placed in there on this side over here we've got the one of these speaker holes on the bottom we have the microphone hole the dock connector / charging / sinking ports here moving around to this side we have the other speaker whole power button volume rocker and then moving into the back we have the 3 megapixel camera with flash and then the back of the device is covered in a gunmetal gray sort of brushed look it's a little difficult to see here so I can get a little more light on it and give you a little more as you can see it there here across this effect the brushed gunmetal feel and look slip the dice over and power it up now it is powered by a dual-core Tegra one gigahertz processor it's got a 7000 milliamp hour battery and it is supposed to be able to do 720p recording it's got 4g LTE with 3g evdo rev a radio as well I can do Wi-Fi with all the standard specs and Bluetooth is 2.1 pretty typical there the screen itself is 10.1 inches it's a 1280 x 800 wxga screen that's a TFT display see here we are please waiting while your tablet is being prepared zoom in here a little bit can see this the soft buttons appearing down here in this corner the clock over here just taking a good amount of time to actually activate right now we'll come back in just a second after it's activated and we'll talk about look at the software a little bit so after a reboot with the sim card finally activated itself and we ended up here at the welcome screen and it'll allow us to sign in with all the settings and we can see the soft keyboard here which we'll come back to in the the more in-depth review later on in hand the device feels a little the back feels a little plastic even though it's got kind of that brushed gunmetal feel it doesn't feel bad in the hands in fact it doesn't feel like it's going to slide out of your hands at all because of that brushed texture on the back the screen itself and the there's a little bit of or at least not right this moment but there is a some haptic feedback that happens with the keyboard when I was trying to activate it the previous setting and I was inside of the settings there was a map haptic feedback and so far the screen seems to be very responsive colors Y and viewing angles are pretty good thus far but we'll do a little more in-depth coverage on that later so now we're looking at the main home screen I've added a couple of apps here to the the desktop already and we can swipe back and forth between the different pages can drop in apps like expect up here as your apps button and brings up all the apps that are on the system and the my apps the ones that are installed tap the clock to get access to settings tap the + to add widgets and then down here is your back button your home button and this is kind of a quick my app switcher we're going to more that more depth later on and then when you're in an app that can actually handle looking at other menu items then another button will appear down here below for actual menu button if you have any questions leave them below and we'll try to cover them in the next review thanks for watching
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