Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 Hands-On And First Look: The Ultra-Thin Tablet That's Ultra Strong

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Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 Hands-On And First Look

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PROS

Super AMOLED Display
TouchWiz UI
Super Thin
Superb Camera

CONS

Insanely Expensive
Not so solid build

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Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 - Performance

The Galaxy Tab S 8.4 has one more advantage over the Apple iPad Mini Retina. The Tab S 8.4 comes with Samsung's custom built Exynos 5 Octa chipset, which utilizes two separate quad-core processors, one clocked at 1.9 GHz and the other at 1.3 GHz.

This very slate offers 3GB of RAM and 16GB of on-board memory, which can be expandable up to 128GB via a microSD card slot. That'll surely give the Apple iPad Mini Retina a tough competition. Just for the reminder, some select markets will get a model with a quad-core Snapdragon 800 chip.

Samsung will launch a 4G LTE powered Galaxy Tab S 8.4 in India soon. Connectivity options on the tablet are regular one including Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth v4.0.