Gadgetory

hey everybody it's Chris Wells with The Verge and we're here looking at the Samsung Galaxy view technically speaking it's a ginormous huge tablet it's 18 inches so the screen is positively massive this is a Galaxy Note 5 I have here and it is dwarfed by the size of this tablet Samsung has made this mostly for video entertainment and consumption you've got Netflix Hulu and you can download HBO Go and lozano HBO all the kind of stuff you'd usually watch and so they've got this home screen here it's a 1080p screen so it's not super sharp resolution but I mean most of the content that you would watch on this is probably going to max out at 1080p for now anyway so aside from the home screen here you can just kind of swipe over and you've got your usual Android home screen with folders apps and all that stuff Google Play Store and your app folder so from that perspective it's a pretty common tablet at a very uncommon size so for TV providers here you can choose from Time Warner Cable there's Comcast DIRECTV that's about it for now samsung says they're going to add more maybe switch them out over time as is the case for this home screen which you actually can't customize yourself but they said its cloud-based it'll change over time with new options maybe slim TV hopefully it'll come there HBO is actually not in this menu but you can download it and run that separately so if I swipe over there you've got HBO right there as well so the point of the galaxy view is to watch TV shows and movies and it does that for a long time Samsung that says it'll run for eight hours on a charge and that's straight video playback so that's pretty good for binging on Netflix or ever taking it on a trip you can just kind of hit play and I'll keep going and going and going so that's the very big samsung galaxy view it'll be out pretty soon and you'll see our full review and more information on the verge