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greetings all this is deke Adams of pocketnow.com and today we're going to take a look at the hardware on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 from Verizon so sit back relax enjoy the show so first off this 7.7 inch display this Super AMOLED display is absolutely brilliant colors look really good on it and the color accuracy is really strong compared to a lot of the other devices that I've used out there especially for tablets it's going to be hit and miss for that sort of content and using some of the relative pictures that I use in other reviews comparing them to this particular tablet with its color capabilities I have to say that the results have been very pleasing with color actors it's hard to see here in this in this lighting and with this camera because we're getting some white adjust as well from it but really the color accuracy is pretty decent it still has some suffers from a little more blue tint than expected just like the samsung galaxy s2 but overall I like the screen brightness and the blacks and the density of the colors and the pixels it just looks really good on this 7.7 inch screen and it's really easy to read text you do have a blue a little bit of zooming in because the screen isn't as large but in the hand I do really like a 7-inch form factor one thing I found though is that it's got a tiny tiny bezel now in the past I've always said that a bezel is it can be problematic but in this case or rather the large bezel being problematic in this case the bezel being too small is actually makes a little difficult for my largish hands when holding on to it to try to read a book and with the back being a little slick without much grip here it actually makes it a little hard to hold on to and there's no place to really rest your finger without at least with my large fingers rest them on the without resting them on the screen which then will cause problems if you're reading a book or that sorting going this way holding it with two hands no problem it's really comes down to holding it in the portrait mode rather than landscape now turning it to between here and there between portrait landscape you can see how slowly this display turns and it's really surprising because with this dual core processor 1 point 4 gigahertz Exynos processor it should be a lot faster than that and i tried voting up a different launcher to see if it was the the skin that Samsung and put on this that's causing the problem and it's it's really just the same even the widget without any widgets on their finding like the road screen rotation and just the way that sometimes things pop up that it's just really sluggish now that could be due to Honeycomb but I've used other honeycomb devices that don't seem to perform so sluggishly now once you're in a nap and you're actually like scrolling around through things I found that it's prettiest pretty snappy device opening up Netflix watching content playing games it really is a snappy device and the quadrant and linpack and then to two scores are really very high for this device so it's it's it's a powerhouse of a machine it just doesn't feel like a powerhouse machine especially when you compare it to your phone or an iPad or other devices will get back to more comparisons later volume rocker on the side is is easy enough to find it was a lad I found a little trouble finding the power button I tend to slide my finger up the side of the do the side of the case looking for the the button there and then looking at the the bottom of the connector the speakers are plenty loud enough even by themselves playing Netflix movies it's been very nice and well I don't like proprietary connectors it is seems to be the way that most folks are going especially with Samsung and Apple so no complaints there other than you know you have to spec hair on a special cable and you don't get to use a standard microUSB as expected on the side here one of the things that Apple does not have that this device does is easily accessible microSD card slot and then it does have the LTE device Fred because it's verizon LTE in this sim card slot here we mentioned in the unboxing that this device had a small dent in it and we'll try to get that and focus there this is the way this device came unboxed you know it is review unit so I'm I imagine it's been used before but as you can see there it did take a ding pretty well and not something I would have expected from this casing but it is a rather thin metal I've also talked about the fact that on the back here there isn't much pop and movement although right here is a little bit of squish I noticed on the front of the screen that however there is a little more flex now if you can hear that clicking there and when you twist the vice it's got some noticeable click and pop as well otherwise it's put together very well I do like the you know slightly beveled edges back on the front of the device we've got the 2 megapixel front-facing camera it takes 2 megapixel style pictures and on the back we've got the pre megapixel rear facing camera with a flash unfortunately this camera is pretty miserable log even especially the white balance is really off especially to use the flash I took a couple pictures just before starting this this particular review and the colors were really really yellow when the flash was used and if I set the white balance to fluorescent then the colors came out correctly and those pictures will be in the final review the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 from Verizon habits of a 5100 milliamp hour battery found that the battery life has been very good mazai would expect it to for this salad advice it doesn't seem to last as long as say the the ipad but that's unsurprising especially with the LTE radio in it got 1 gig of ram and a 16 gigs of storage the usable space on this device we scroll there so we've got a total space of 12 point six seven gigs and maybe a little difficult to see that in this picture and you can see what we've got loaded up here and then we've got an insert SD card option down at the bottom as mentioned in the unboxing it's got bluetooth Wi-Fi in the standard set of sensors and calibration capabilities that the gyroscope and compass and GPS etc it also has ways we talked about on the review this this IR port I can find it that will talk about a little more in the software review but it does work really well with the devices that I tested with it kind of a surprising addition for this style of device while I've only been able to test the standard speeds not the LTE speeds the 3g speeds from verizon are right on par with what expected i'm hoping to be able to get to the LTE area and i'll post some reviews on that speed after the fact if it doesn't go up before the time of the review really i'm excited to see more devices like this the seven point seven inch size if they work very well i'm really hoping that ice cream sandwich comes out for this soon hopefully that will resolve some of the the stability issues i had the camera crashing just a few minutes ago we'll talk more about that in the software review but really this device just needs something to make it a little more appealing a little more snappy because compared to a lot of the other devices that are on the market today it just doesn't fit the price point that's coming in for a seven point seven inch device and being so sluggish will get more to thing to that with the comparisons as well that wraps up our hardware tour for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 from Verizon if you have any comments please leave them alone if you like the video please give us a thumbs up thanks for watching