There are Samsung's usual trio of buttons on the bottom bezel, with a home button as well as capacitive back and recent buttons. Your phone screen is mirrored onto the tablet screen so, instead of juggling two separate devices, you keep your S5 in your pocket and access it on your Tab S. Every phone refurbished can have a second, third or fourth life in the hands of another user before it reaches its true end-of-life. s screen having supposedly inferior technology, we struggled to find fault with it when compared to the Tab S 10.

Anecdotally, the tablet's 7,900mAh battery lasted for two days of medium-to-heavy use without needing a charge. That’s before you even get on to the Ultra Power Saving Mode, which can keep it going in standby for well over a month. The Galaxy Tab S uses Samsung’s eight-core Exynos 5 Octa system-on-a-chip, which consists of four ARM Cortex-A15 cores running at 1. If you have a device from prior to 2017, and if your device has a home button, you can press and hold the Home and Power (On/Off) buttons simultaneously for a screenshot. Samsung offers special apps for communicating with your Galaxy Gear Fit , as well as a few fun extras like a video editor and popular mobile games.

It's easy to setup and I preferred it as a way to unlock the screen -- the added level of security is useful, but it also reduces the smudges caused by swiping to unlock the screen.

Like the Galaxy S5, the tablet boasts a fingerprint scanner that you may or may not prefer to a PIN code. After the promo period ends, the standard Purchase APR also applies to the remaining balance and the charged interest. The point of the Tab S line is the display, and it indeed looks great when watching videos, viewing photos and reading ebooks. There's much more to a device than raw specs of course, but on paper at least Samsung has produced a true champion. This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees.s web browsing performance, though, as it tended to stutter when scrolling through complex pages containing large numbers of images. While overall rear camera quality isn't noticeably better than the capable iPad mini with Retina display, the software features are much more extensive. Storage ranges from 16 GB to 32 GB depending on the model, with a microSDXC card slot for expansion up to 128 GB. Another hardware advantage in the S9 is within the camera, which has slightly better low-light performance than that of the S8.