Samsung GALAXY Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Review

Samsung GALAXY Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) is a fascinating portable tablet launched in September 2013, coming with an enormous 10.1" display, a 2.3 gigahertz Quad-Core processor, and two cameras, an 8 mega-pixels back-facing camera and a 2 mega-pixels front side camera.

The Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) doesn't feel very lightweight comparing to other portable tablets , weighting 19.29 oz. Samsung made the Samsung GALAXY Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) in two colors, black and white. While this device is only 9.57" long and 6.75" wide, it manages to contain a 10.1 inches screen. Being just 0.31 inches thick,the Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) is very thin and good-looking.

The Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MSM8974 system chip, backed up by an extremely powerful 2.3 gigahertz Quad-Core processor and a large 3 GB RAM. To handle graphic calculations, it also uses an Adreno 330 graphic processing unit running at 450 megahertz. This device has aquite big 16 GB internal memory and an external memory slot, which allows you to store hundreds of applications without any trouble.

This device features two cameras, an 8 MP back side camera and a 2 mega-pixels front camera. This tablet can also shoot Full HD 1920x1080 videos. This tablet device also features a high number of amazing characteristics: flash, fast burst mode, auto-focus, smile detection shooting, face detection shooting and geo tagging.

This tablet includes a nice 1600 x 2560 10.1 inches screen, which makes all photos and movies look vivid. This screen uses Super Clear LCD capacitive technology, and allows multi-touch gestures.

This tablet has Wi-Fi connection (which can be provided to other devices around, as a mobile hotspot), LTE 4G fast connection type and also HSPA+ connectivity, which is a lower speed 4G type and 3G fast connection type, over HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS, EV-DO A and EDGE technologies. This tablet works with a Micro SIM card for GSM services.

This tablet counts with a 8220 mAh long lasting Li-Ion non-removable battery that can keep this tablet device running for many hours and even reach the end of the day without having to charge it at all. An issue to take into account is that the Note 10.1 (2014 Edition)'s battery isn't replaceable so you won't be able to replace it when it begins to lose capacity, even though having 8220 mAh you will probably replace this tablet before it becomes a real problem.

This tablet also features a few cool characteristics as Infrared Transmitter, Bluetooth (provides communication with other tablets, computers and accessories) and GPS Geolocation, and multiple sensors like Light Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope and Compass.

The Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) is very expensive considering it costs $ 460, while many similar tablet devices can be found for much less money. No matter if you you love taking photographs, want this device to play games, want a social tablet device or are looking for a work tablet, you will probably be very pleased with this tablet.