Samsung Announces Galaxy Tab S7 & S7+: S865+ & 120Hz Tablets

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• abufrejoval - Tuesday, August 11, 2020 - link

  I got an S5e early this year to replace my Nexus 10 (Samsung OEM), that was just getting a little too slow with what web sites are throwing at browsers these days.
  
  Main use was just browsing during meals, because keyboard are much more trouble to clean afterwards. Screen and performance was generally ok, even if it wasn't quite as snappy as my phone (835 at that point).
  
  When the S6 like came out with a pen, I longed to see what my daughter could do with it, who will spend hours "painting" with a mouse on her PC but also with her finger on her phone.
  
  But I couldn't quite imagine going back from the wonderful OLED sceen of the S5e just for a pen... So I got the S6 instead, which had both and could be had from Hungary at around €600 with LTE, really just a small increment over the S5e, which I could still return for a refund.
  
  My daughter wasn't convinced but I was: It's way snappier than the S5e and in the mean-time the phone is on the same SoC, too, both 855.
  
  I had to wait a long time to get a proper tablet at a price that wasn't punitive and I am very happy with the value. While I haven't travelled nearly as much in recent months thanks to Corona, it has still been very nice to have around for an evening in the hotel when I did. I got a cheap bluetooth keyboard and cover that does just fine in case I want to write some mails, even carry a small bluetooth mouse with it, so it can do corporate mail office stuff apart from surfing and video.
  
  I've tried the DEX mode, it's rather good once you enable developer mode and do away with the silly restrictions, and I have tried various Ethernet adapters, even 2.5Gbit I think, which worked just fine. DEX ist limited to around 3k, not the full 4k of my main screen, which is a little sad, as that also powers the tablet. It's getting pretty close to being a full thin client in addition to being a tablet and low-power computer.
  
  Lack of Windows hasn't bothered me, Windows on ARM is too much of an iJail clone to interest me, I'd rather like to see support for Linux desktop apps with Wayland and a Linux userland of choice in a chroot() or better container. I've used Linux Deploy to run a full Linux userland on other Androids and it's much more attractive as a typical developer/admin desktop than Windows. And then there is always RDP when a Windows desktop is a must.
  
  I am glad it can be rooted, that will most likely extend its life-time significantly and give me at least part of the contral I require from every very personal computing device I own.
  
  Samsung introductory prices always seem rather inflated to me, too, so I'd suggest y'all keep looking for the price drop, which is sure to come before the next generation rolls out.
  
  One thing that irritated me very much initially is that upright scrolling gave me vertigo: As you scroll up, everything on the screen tilts a bit with the left side lagging behind the right; opposite effect as you scroll down. I went back to my Nexus 10 to check and observed the very same thing. All three devices, which offer vastly different CPU and GPU power actually exhibited that behavior.
  
  Once I thought it through, it became evident that there is nothing to be done about it, except to design a tablet with dual display controllers, one for each orientation. Smooth scrolling that follows the frame buffer layout is easy enough to do, but smooth scrolling where you have to fully transpose every pixel requires one or two orders of magnitude more data to move and that's visible even with the latest and greatest silicon.
  
  That is a little sad, because I actually like using the upright mode on PDFs and browsing, but knowing that it can't really be fixed, made it easier to bear. With an 8" variant I might prefer an upright base design, the way it's done for phones.

• Archer_Legend - Wednesday, August 12, 2020 - link

  It is a tablet, you may need to charge it while using for example to take lessons and then you have your wonderful 3.5mm headphones and... how the hell do you use them?
  I hate the fact that they removed the headphone jack, i passed onto wireless buds on my s10 plus but i still want the jack to be there wheter it is for gaming or I amn far away from home and i urgently need some cheap buds to plug in, or even to use my over the ear headphones to listen to mucis.
  
  They removed the jack with the excuse of space, which is proven to be wrong, and here they cannot use that excuse.
  
  Never going to buy something without a headphone jack, especially at those prices, they higher the price the more versatility the device should givve you. The removal of the jack is unacceptable altogether

• imaheadcase - Saturday, August 22, 2020 - link

  Then you are going to be in a huge disappointment because its pretty much going away forever in the coming years. Why the hell would you care anyways, every study has shown that the difference in sound quality is nill for users when comparing to headphone jacks. Its wireless, its simple to use.
  
  Seriously grow up.

• Andrewsacar - Thursday, November 12, 2020 - link

  Really nice tablet. It's great How technic is increasing and developing. I would buy galaxy tab s7 I need for watching movies do some work staff and gaming especially. Geometry dash game Will perform great on it.