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greetings all this is deke Adams of pocketnow.com and today we're going to do a comparison video between the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 from Verizon and a couple of other devices that are on the market today so sit back relax enjoy the show so we have here the side-by-side text comparison between the kindle fire over here and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 over here and as you can see that the little difficult here but from my view the brightness in the background here on the Kindle Fire this area here where that you would expect to be black is actually kind of a dark grey because of the side lighting whereas with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 the space right above the text here is just a really deep rich black the text color here the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 from Verizon the Texas noticeably more blue a little bit brighter whereas with the kindle fire the text is kind of a yellowish pink tint and these are both at full brightness between them really as far as the readability between them I say both are very good although the the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 does have with that that dark dark black background looks so much better I'm going to go ahead and go into here to the settings and i'ma turn the brightness down to the lowest levels and as you can see here although again with the camera it's a little difficult to tell the brightness on the kindle fire actually goes to a lower brightness setting then the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 does the which is nice when you're reading in bed the brightness I found that the brightness on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 is really a lot brighter a little harsher on the eyes and doesn't seem to go down as far in the brightness levels versus the kindle fire we still have the the deep rich blacks over here and we still have kind of a dark gray that's over here and you can see it better in in this lighting here this kind of grayish background birches the black readability is still the same between them versus you know large fonts or small fonts I kinda set them the same but otherwise it's pretty good as far as speed of like changing pages they both seem to be fairly quick as you can see here obviously we're not in complete sync with the pages because the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 does have additional text down here at the bottom that we're not seeing on the kindle fire because of the differences in the screen size otherwise both are very good for reading and seemed to be very solid for the use of ebook reading in this case moving to the side by side comparison of the browsers the kindle fire versus the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 these are both at full brightness here and as you can see in this particular view the kindle fires actually brighter and verses the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 see here we've got the brightness all the way up and cheer on the Kindle Fire all the way up there as well that said the readability between the two devices the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 with the bullies all you know fully zoomed out versus fully zoomed out the text is actually easier to read here the text here in all it's difficult to see in the view the text here is a little pixelated and difficult to see and on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 you can actually read the text if you've got you know good eyesight but really the differences are very strong now the galaxy tab is loading up all the flash by default and the kindle fire is not by default so I'm just going to zoom in here text versus text you can see a little better there the differences between the fonts the galaxy tab font seems to be a little more bolt versus the kindle fire which is a little more light as far as font goes so our screen size goes you can see that the Galaxy Tab 7.7 is a little wider and a tad taller in screen dimensions than the kindle fire here and then compare it in thickness obviously the the kindle fire is going to be the loser in this serve or the thicker of the two in this situation although i don't know that i would call it necessarily the loser in the situation i'll explain that in just a minute between the two devices of course we've got some noticeable advantages on the Galaxy Tab 7.7 side namely it's got the LTE 3g capabilities it's a little thinner and lighter than the kindle fire it does have a front facing and rear camera although they're not very good but the price difference is pretty noticeable as well whereas you've got you know for a couple hundred dollars for the kindle fire and then you're looking closer to 500 with a contract for the 7.7 tab here from verizon as far as in hand feeling I really still prefer this size form factor the kindle fire and the way that it's weighted and balanced and it's it's it just sits in your hand very nicely you barely have to rest your finger on it to keep it in one place which I really really like whereas with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 I feel like I have to kind of grip the device or it's going to fall out of my hands and when it's out here and i'm reading from this angle i'm feeling like i'd have to rest my thumb some place to grab on to it versus on the kindle fire if i'm reading out from that far away it still feels very balanced in my hand and it rests nicely against the meat of my thumb pad here it still sits very nicely in my hand in comparison what about the differences in the processor you say it does the one faster than the other is does the difference in the RAM really seem to matter personally I think we're getting to the point with Android devices that the chips that are in it and the amount of RAM the amount of processing power doesn't matter as much as the experience and since the kindle fire was updated to its mer the newest firmware release it skips right along very quickly that the scrolling back and forth here is very fast and then we go into the app drawer there's you know it's very snappy now it suffers like a lot of other android devices in so far that if you get a bunch of apps loaded in the background and i know that they say that you're not supposed to have to do this but the reality is closing apps does make the kindle fire better so if you find your kindle fire acting sluggish just go in and kill the apps or reboot the device whereas with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 the experience is just not the same there's these hiccups that happen when you rotate the screen it doesn't go as fast and when you're scrolling through the apps it seems to kind of pause and and glitch along and I could be due to Honeycomb again or it could be to touch waves indeed but again this is the my point here is that the experience makes the bigger difference even between say a iOS this the new iPad that just came out and Android devices really weak there's there's the same thing you're the interface on iOS is just small and lightweight it doesn't have all the widgets or the capabilities that Android can have it's probably as far as processors goes you can see the battery life is already dying on me too as far as processors go you really can't compare them because the experience on iOS is better than Android and I actually had somebody ask me that today about Android and their comparison comparing one Android device to iOS and saying that the Android device was better because the processor ram etc etc and again it goes right back to experiences the experience better or is it just the process of really making much of a difference and I think we're finding that the processor doesn't make much of a difference especially when we're comparing going back to the kindle fire and the Gauss Tab 7.7 let's look at a one more device ER compared to the Galaxy Tab 10.1 from verizon and the Galaxy Tab 7.7 the size difference is just immense and and really you're talking about a much much much larger device here it's it's really as far as thickness goes there about the same but really you're talking it's this device didn't seem that large until it was up against this particular device as well and then if we bring in the samsung epic touch here for a third view you can see the three of them together the kind of family of devices but even the epic touch here is there's noticeably different pales in comparison here to the 10.1 as far as capabilities between these two devices really you know we're both at the bed full brightness here and the the grey down here is not as rich and crisp as the grey down here on the samsung 7.7 really it is just about that you know they're both running honeycomb here and frankly between the two of them I don't find a whole lot of difference between as you can see there the rotation speeds are really suffer from the same issues which makes think maybe it's more of TouchWiz than say honeycomb but honeycomb does have its own issues as well battery life between them it's really about the same i really wouldn't find bound that the devices are too terribly different when you're comparing that to say a i OS device the batteries still don't hold up nearly as well i still really really like this this 7-inch form factor i really like this in my hand that 7.7 inch style it makes it more like that paperback format and i really do like that much better