Samsung GALAXY Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Review

Samsung GALAXY Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) is a totally amazing Android portable tablet launched back in the year 2013, which features a really big 10.1" display, an extremely powerful Quad-Core processing unit ticking at 2.3 gigahertz, and 2 cameras, an 8 megapixels back-facing camera and a 2 MP front camera.

This tablet is a compact tablet, taking into consideration it has a 10.1 inches screen and it's just 9.57 inches long. Being just 0.31" thick,the Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) is extremely thin and stilized. This tablet isn't very light comparing with today standards, weighting 19.29 ounces. The Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) is sold in 2 different colors, black and white.

Samsung packed this tablet with a nice 10.1" display, and a resolution of 1600 x 2560 , making everything look very good. This display uses Super Clear LCD capacitive technology, and is multi-touch enabled.

Samsung decided to equip this tablet device with an extremely powerful Quad-Core CPU speeding at 2.3 GHz, included in a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MSM8974 system chip and a huge 3 GB RAM. Graphic intensive apps generally consume a lot of processing power, so this tablet also counts with a 450 megahertz Adreno 330 graphics processing unit to improve overall performance. A great point of the Samsung GALAXY Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) is its huge 64 GB internal storage memory and an SD card slot, more than enough to install hundreds of apps without having to worry about how much memory is left.

The Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) features two cameras, an 8 megapixels back side camera and a 2 MP front side camera. It also captures videos in Full HD 1920x1080. Additionally, the camera counts with multiple cool characteristics: flash, auto-focus, face detection shooting, fast burst mode, smile detection shooting and geo tagging.

The Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) offers Wi-Fi connectivity (and it can share it with other devices around, acting as a wireless router or modem), 4G LTE fast connection and also HSPA+ data connection, a lower speed 4G variation and 3G fast data connection, using HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS, EV-DO A and EDGE technologies. This tablet works with a Micro SIM card for GSM carriers.

The Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) has a big capacity 8220 mAh Li-Ion non-removable battery providing this tablet a marvelous battery life. An issue to evaluate is that this tablet's battery is not removable so you can't throw it away and buy a new one when it starts to get older, even though with its 8220 mAh you will probably discard this device before that becomes an issue.

The Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) also includes a handful of cool features as Infrared Transmitter, Bluetooth (4.0) and GPS Localization, and multiple sensors like Light Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope and Compass.

The Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) is priced about 549 dollars, which is very expensive for a tablet this level. No matter if you want it to take plenty of pictures, will use it majorly for social networks and internet browsing, will use it as a gaming tablet or will use it as a work tablet, this tablet is definitely the correct choice for you.