Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 full Review

The galaxy tab s7 is directly competing with apple's iPad pro for tablet market share you might have already picked up a slight vibe of that just by its design trust me there is a lot to unpack here with this device it's not just the aspect ratio of the screen and android that separate this from the iPad Pro there's a lot of pros and a lot of cons too the highlight attracting features to me are the 120-hertz display Qualcomm's incredible snapdragon 865 plus processor and expandable storage even the more expensive tab s7 plus has the same chipset when it comes to these features the cake is no lie let's start with the package contents Samsung has provided us with an s pen in the box an adaptive fast charger and the usbc to standard a charging cable we also get a little tray tool to pop out the micro-sd card slot it sure is nice to see the inclusion of expandable memory on a tablet that already has base storage starting at 128 gigabytes storage models range from 128 gigabytes 256 512 and this is all ufs 3.0 fast memory note that samsung did not cheap out on us and they didn't cut a short on the regular tab s7 for the ship speed with that being said if you do choose a higher capacity variant or even 8 gigabyte ram variant you're not throwing away your money entirely my model is the base with six gigabytes of ram we'll talk about how this holds up to the multitasking that we would do on a tablet in this regard i am going to be more critical of the device as compared to my regular phone comparisons and reviews the display is what most people want to know about and how this tft lcd panel differs from the tab s7 plus and other high-end tablets yes as I mentioned we do have a hertz refresh rate panel not just 120 hertz touch sensing but the real smooth deal and it sure is a treat to have an 11 inch display android tablet like this and 16 by 10 aspect ratio the display resolution is 2 2560 by 1600 giving it a pixel density of 274 pixels per inch my eyes are used to ppi all over the place from the high 200s to the mid 500 pixel per inch really i can tell you best that the 274 pixels per inch here.

on tab, s7 is the sweet spot in the tablet game this beats out the current gen ipad pro and the tab s7 plus in terms of pixel density leaving only the difference of panel size and the type of displays the more expensive Samsung galaxy tab s7 plus packs an AMOLED display at 12.4 inches now TFT LCD display here is just fine not only in terms of the brightness the colors and the sharpness but also viewing angles too I gotta give props to Samsung for nailing the displays on both variants of the s7 let's talk more about what they've done right for the first time in a while I can say something very positive about the speakers of a Samsung galaxy device maybe because they're quad akg powered speakers the audio is rich and very satisfying for gaming watching movies really any kind of media consumption the inclusion of the s pen is always commendable on a Samsung product considering the competition is charging 130 u.s for the pencil on the tab s7 the s pen has some cool functions such as the air actions to allow for custom quick commands functionality of the s pen is the same across both models of the tab s7 the pen itself is thinner than apple's pencil and Microsoft surface pen this is even more comfortable to hold which makes use with precision easier for me to stow it away you can attach it to several magnetically fitted spots on the tablet, these include the top or bottom of the tablet or the charging location where the pan battery actually charges wirelessly on the rear black magnetic strip no complaints from me about the pen battery at all I'm confident that you'll like this s pen now with the 120hz display as much as I like it as well I wanted to also note the magnets on the tablet are quite strong and sturdy I don't feel like it's going to unintentionally fall off the tablet and hit the floor the glass display is protected by corning's gorilla glass 3. we do have a unibody aluminium housing with a matte finish on the back and a clean brushed aluminium around the corners the tab s7 has put on some weight I mean the tab s6 its predecessor, of course, was a whole 80 grams lighter the weight difference is noticeable it's not too much to the point where it's uncomfortable to hold it could even add to the premium feeling of the tablet but given this, I would have thought that you know they would have added a much bigger battery and improved the battery life by a decent bit right well they have housed the tab s7 with an 8 000 milliamp-hour battery which is an improvement but once you factor in the 120-hertz display battery drain it's no surprise that the screen on times are not great it blows my mind that the samsung product team decided an 8 000 milliamp-hour battery was sufficient for an 11-inch tablet of this caliber hear me out if you're packing in the best of mobile computational power the snapdragon 865 plus which if you are familiar with you know is the current golden standard for graphics too a lot of us are going to be enticed to play games such as asphalt 9 you know the graphics intensive games such as fps titles so it begs the question why bottleneck the device in this way i guess it's fine if you're you know okay with carrying around a battery bank or plugging in the tablet to the wall adapter but for the price i paid for the tab s7 i expected something a lot more along the lines of 9 500 milliamp hours or more gaming aside you can actually make it through a full day of use when being battery conscious and staying away from graphics intensive tasks when using it to take notes watching videos for a couple hours and taking brief calls you're going to be just fine going through a whole day from the morning to night on a single charge so i wouldn't disregard it for just this reason alone the snapdragon octa-core 865 plus chip is paired with adreno 650 graphics so when you do decide to hop into a game lobby you'll be cranking up those settings all the way to maximum with high frame rate thankfully in my gaming sessions and use I did not encounter any heating problems either six gigabytes of ram was entirely fine with my testing and believe me I did throw some graphics-intensive tasks and just a lot of tasks at it and the only reason why I would go for that eight-gigabyte ram model is if you're really concerned about further future-proofing your device to run uh later iterations of android smoother currently the galaxy tab s7 is running one UI 2.5 and android 10 but obviously, we will get the update to android 11. Samsung has been very good recently with their software updates of basically all galaxy devices so I would even venture out to say that the tab s7 will get software updates for one UI for a couple of years at least I'm really glad they've started tying up loose ends with the minor bugs and just small software issues here and there from galaxy tablets of prior years the tab series has been on my radar ever since ces of 2016 and this is the first year that I actually wanted to keep the tablet for my own media consumption use I am not gifting this away or reselling it anytime soon I'll just use the battery bank and the wall adapter way since I'm mostly at home anyways all right it's time for the fun part now only in 2020 would I say it's acceptable to take a photo like that on a tablet but we've seen much worse stuff this year so go ahead and take your photos on that 13-megapixel camera on the back this is also the exact same module that's found on the more expensive tab s7 plus after all interestingly the tab s7 does support 4k video at 30 frames per second and the real cherry on top here is that the front camera is acceptable not only that but it's also well placed too well placed on like the capacitive fingerprint scanner they literally put onto the power button, an optical or ultrasonic sensor on the screen would have made a lot more sense that way we can just cover up the edges entirely with a real full protection case luckily this isn't the only unlock biometric as Samsung has included my preferred method the fast face recognition if you're buying this as a student or for media consumption or the arts I would say there's really not that much more products that you're getting by going for the plus model aside from the panel type the size and that model's slightly larger battery life it's a 200 difference in us for just that.