Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014

Samsung is acutely hell angled on its Note cast acceptable the go-to name for primary book devices, auspicious its a lot of able accessory with a huge blueprint upgrade.

The Note 10.1 2014 (henceforth accepted as the Note 10.1) isn't acceptable to be bargain though. The antecedent archetypal came in over $500, and with the adapted 10.1 advancing as either the octa-core or cloister amount models both packing 3GB of RAM, there's no agnosticism things will get big-ticket here.

At atomic you'll be able to acquisition out soon, with the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 absolution date set for the end of September.

The Note 10.1 not alone has all the appearance we've apparent on the new Galaxy Note 3, it aswell appearance such a bulk of top-end tech that we can't absolutely accept it alone comes in at a best of 545g.

Certainly it feels absolutely ablaze in the duke – conceivably not at the aforementioned akin as the Sony Xperia Tablet Z, but its lighter than the iPad for sure. It's aswell got the S Pen, absorbed with all new powers, as able-bodied as getting accustomed a acerb up in the architecture stakes.

It's still not as simple to use as Samsung would accept you believe, with things like autography still afar abroad from the tactility of cardboard and a pen but it's absolutely closer

Design

Samsung's new faux-leather aftereffect is absolutely traveling to draw in some criticism. It's an odd best to go for from the all-plastic activity of afore and it feels a bit bargain to be aggravating to attack a exceptional accomplishment afterwards alms the abstracts to aback it up.

That said, it's at atomic altered to all the added accessories out there and it does accord the air of a able notebook, which is what Samsung is acutely after.

However, that cheaper activity has continued to the bezel and buttons too, with the metallic, asperous artificial accepting nice abundant to authority but not activity acceptable beneath the hand, abnormally accustomed the amount you'll apparently accept to pay.

There's not a lot abroad to the Galaxy Note 10.1, but we would say that it's adequately able-bodied balanced, as it's accessible to authority it in the duke for an continued aeon of time afterwards accepting an achy breaky wrist.

CPU And Battery

With the CPU, Samsung has gone all out on the Note 10.1. While the antecedent abundance didn't absolutely skimp on specs, we're seeing a lot added here: the 2.3GHZ cloister amount advantage is abundant bigger than before, and with 3GB of RAM this is traveling to be a accessory that keeps on giving... in approach at least.

The alone acumen we're agog to action that admonition is that the Note 10.1, like the Note 3, has a lot traveling on. A LOT.

Not alone are you accepting Android 4.3 from the off, but there's aswell a the S Pen to control, a accomplished new multi-tasking arrangement to play with and added windows to accessible and abutting than you can agitate a stylus at.

We anguish that bushing the Note 10.1 with proprietary apps may aftereffect in a adverse arrest over time, but there was annihilation in our aboriginal testing to say this ability be the case.

Battery is acceptable to be appealing able as well, acknowledgment to the 8220mAh ability backpack beneath the hood. There's the accepted arrangement of ports to be affiliated into as able-bodied but they just serve to highlight that the array isn't disposable - although that would be odd with a book of this size.

Samsung has absitively to try to accomplish the Note 10.1 one of the a lot of able in the world, and it seems to accept accomplished that goal.

Interface

Samsung looks absurd to anytime accord up on TouchWiz - and with so abounding accessories getting awash active the overlay, why would it? It still works on the book belvedere and, while it can attending a little baby to some, it's a affluent interface that gives you a lot to attending at all the time.

The capital home screens are simple to flick through and we were admiring to see that Samsung's agreeable hubs were assuredly accessible on a book rather than just the Samsung Galaxy S4.

There's no Group Play app present on the Note 10.1 but we can't see that getting a bad affair as we're not abiding of the absolute point of it anyway.

The added capital change to the interface is the S Pen's adeptness to anxiety up a baby 'fan' of functions, and all of these plan so abundant bigger than they did before. Be it absent to alpha a search, blow out important locations of whatever you're searching at or draw a baby box on the awning to anxiety up things like an anxiety or calculator, application the S Pen has become abundant added user-friendly.

We like the way the S Pen now controls something added than a disparate agglomeration of apps and the baby fan is abundant in that it can be opened up from anywhere aural the tablet.

Scrapbooking formed absolutely well, although you'll charge to absorb at atomic two or three canicule aggravating to accept all the nuances of the app (as able-bodied as why you'd charge to do such a thing).

At atomic it looked nice.

Screen

Samsung has been talking the upgraded awning on the Note 10.1 up - and we accept to accede this is account shouting about. The Super Clear WQXGA (2560 x 1600) LCD is one that absolutely shows off the best of everything, be it browsing about the web after defective to zoom in or watching video that oozes detail and drips with colour.

The accuracy is in fact amazing - and with about 300dpi on action it's a battling for abounding others out there at the moment.

Storage

It's absurd you'll wish for accumulator with the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 acknowledgment to up to 64GB of onboard amplitude getting available, and the adventitious to add added through a microSD agenda slot.

You'll charge that analysis if you're traveling to bash in a bulk of new music, as like the LG G2, Samsung has gone big on audio superior in the Note 10.1, acceptance for 14-bit complete at 192KHz. It's an absorbing spec, and one that will accept abounding extensive for the upgraded cans to get the best out of their new tablet.