Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 Hands on And First Look: Bigger, Lighter and Thinner Than iPad Air

By Anuj Bhatia

| Updated: Thursday, July 3, 2014, 11:16 [IST]

Rating:

4.0/5

Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 Hands on And First Look

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PROS

Super AMOLED Display
TouchWiz UI
Android 4.4.4 Kitkat
Superb Design

CONS

Build Quality
Not affordable

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Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 - Processor

The high-end Galaxy Tab S 10.5 tablet is powered by an Exynos 5 Octa processor (1.9GHz quad-core+ 1.3GHz quad-core), coupled with 3GB RAM. The slate offers 16GB of on-board storage and a microSD card slot that supports cards of up to 128GB.

In our brief encounter, we hardly faced any initial hiccups. The tablet did not lag or crash during our testing. It managed to impress us in very little time. Thus, it is safe to say that the Galaxy Tab S 10.5 will be a monster multimedia power house.

Connectivity options on the tablet are as follows: 3G+ 4G LTE, WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac MIMO, WiFi Direct, Bluetooth v4.0, IrLED, GPS, GLONASS, amongst others. The 4G-LTE version of the tablet will be launched shortly.