**The Samsung Tab Pro 10.1 Review**

The Samsung Tab Pro 10.1 is a lightweight and thin tablet that comes with a beautiful high-resolution display, making it one of the most impressive devices in its category. With a weight of just 598 grams and a thickness of 5.6 mm, it's easy to carry around, making it perfect for those who need a reliable device on-the-go.

One of the standout features of the Tab Pro 10.1 is its display. The screen has a 4:3 aspect ratio, which may not be as widescreen as some other tablets, but it still offers excellent visuals with high pixel density. In fact, the display looks better than the iPad Air in certain areas, such as brightness and contrast. The Tab Pro 10.1 also features WID Screen Video, which takes advantage of its widescreen aspect ratio to provide a more immersive viewing experience.

The tablet's stereo speakers are another notable feature, providing clear and loud sound even when playing music or videos. While they may face outwards rather than inwards, they still offer decent sound quality that's perfect for watching movies or listening to music on the go.

In terms of software capabilities, the Tab Pro 10.1 comes with a range of features, including Magazine UX, which aggregates information into a quick viewer like Flipboard or HTC's Blink Feed. This feature is particularly useful for staying up-to-date with news and information in a concise format. The tablet also supports multi-window mode, allowing users to run multiple apps at the same time.

However, not all aspects of the Tab Pro 10.1 are without criticism. Performance can be slow at times, especially when running resource-intensive apps like multi-window mode or video playback. Additionally, touchwiz still tends to be a resource hog, which can impact performance and battery life.

**Camera Capabilities**

The Tab Pro 10.1 comes with a range of camera features, including a 2-megapixel front-facing camera that can record 1080p video at 30 frames per second. The main camera also offers decent image quality, but it's worth noting that digital zoom is used, which means the image is simply cropped rather than being taken using a dedicated high-quality sensor.

In terms of performance outside, the tablet fared well despite windy conditions. However, the wind noise can be audible at times, which may be a drawback for some users.

**Geekbench 3 Scores**

The Tab Pro 10.1's Geekbench 3 scores reveal that it performs on par with other big tablets in terms of processing power and memory performance. While it doesn't quite match the Nexus 7 in single-core performance, it still offers respectable speeds that make everyday tasks a breeze.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, the Samsung Tab Pro 10.1 is an impressive device that offers a range of features and capabilities that make it a great choice for those looking for a reliable tablet. While there are some areas where it falls short, such as performance and camera quality, overall it's a solid choice that's sure to please. With its lightweight design, beautiful display, and feature-rich software, the Tab Pro 10.1 is an excellent option for anyone in the market for a new tablet.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys Mike here the Detroit Borg with one more Galaxy Tab Pro to look at this is the 10.1 in and as you know this joins the 8.4 in and the Note 12.2 in very large tablet and small tablet so this is the middle tablet kind of here to take on the iPad Air in fact it's priced the same at $4.99 we also have a really high resolution display which also once again bests the iPad Air just as the 8.4 best the iPad Mini with retina display so this is available in 16 or 32 gig capacities in white or black now this is the Wi-Fi only model smt520 there is a cellular version with LTE which has a different processor so this is similar to the Note Pro 12.2 this has the same processor as the Wi-Fi model while the cellular version has a Snapdragon 800 processor quad core 2.3 GHz now this one is the exos 5 octacore processor which combines two quad core processors a 1.9 GHz cortex a15 and a 1.3 GHz cortex A6 the A7 is there for lower powered perform or processes to conserve battery life now we have the same cameras as the other new tablets 8 megapixel autofocusing main camera with 1080P and a 2 megapixel secondary camera with 1080p 2 gigs of RAM instead of 3 gigs like you get in the 12.2 an 8220 mAh battery WatchON IR LED for controlling your AV Equipment GPS and Gless full HD playback now the display is LCD 10.1 in wqxga just like the Tab Pro 8.4 and the notes Pro 12 12.2 so that's 2560 x600 and over 10.1 in gives us a pixel density of 299 that's better than the iPad Airs uh 264 PPI so I think we're all familiar with Samsung's packaging at this point pretty much looks the same for all devices and this has the sort of wood grain finish it's more recyclable using soy based inks so it's more environmentally friendly so let's go ahead and crack the seal and get into this little tab here to pull out there's our upside down tablet Galaxy Tab Pro on and the galaxy has its rewards and it looks pretty dusty once again for some reason Samsung's eco-friendly packaging makes a lot of dust so let's go ahead and lift this out the packaging there we go still wrapped in plastic and of course we'll say that for a minute and get to the accessories which I think nobody really cares about because it's always the same pretty much the same literature SL paperwork you get uh we have uh the quick start guide on in the Galaxy hazards rewards just encourage you to register your devices for some benefit software update instructions again very easy and our safety and warranty guide which is in multiple languages now our accessories include a wall adapter Samsung branded and we have a micro USB 2.0 connector so no USB 3.0 in this case like you get with the 12.2 and the Note 3 so once again this is running Android 4.4 or kit kat the latest version of Android with multi- window thanks to TouchWiz so let's go ahead and peel off all of this plastic start starting with the back and then the front little tab up here and of course we have lots of plastic surrounding the edges which we're going to also have to peel off here all right so let's take a close look around of course we have a little more plastic here covering our camera module so there we go same camera module as the other tabs I've reviewed so we have the um 8 megapixel autofocusing camera good for 1080p with an LED flash which is nice to have you can see we have this sort of full leather finish on the back I think it tends to look better in Black than white uh but it gives you a nice grippable texture you can see kind of have the stitching patterns sort of molded into the plastic gives you a more higher quality feel if you look on edge you can see it's actually thinner than the iPad Air and it's just just as heavy as the iPad Air just one PB so it's very lightweight again directly taking on the iPad Air in many dimensions so at the top we'll find an IR LED blaster for controlling your AV Equipment you have your volume rocker sleep wake button on the side you have your headphone jack one of your left speakers or your left speaker there's only one left speaker and on the bottom we have our micro USB 2.0 port with a microphone down here you can see it right there we have our home button with our capacitive backlit controls so we have our recent apps back button on the side we have our micro SD card slot which is hidden behind this door supports 64 gig cards and it does load apps from that card so if you want to load apps on that card you can can do that we also have our right firing stereo speaker on the front we have Samsung branding with our 2 megapixel front-facing camera good for 1080p video with an ambient light sensor now for the most part this looks very similar to the Galaxy Note 10.1 in 2014 edition which is at the top here you can see has that sort of uh Book theme design you can see it's got those ridges along the side as you can see it's thinner and lighter than that tablet but of course loses the stylus in the process so you can see they have the same controls in the same position IR LED Blaster they even have the same camera modules along the side you'll see the of course Stylus is missing but the same speakers with stereo sound same SD card slot toward the bottom you'll find your micro USB connection still 2.0 for both devices same camera location or not camera but microphone location on the left hand side we have another speaker Grill and our headphone jack and you can see it's a little thinner on the uh Tab Pro now if you look closely at the USB port you can see they've actually kind of bumped it out to accommodate the thinner design now from the front they mostly look identical they have the same camera and sensors but the buttons have changed so if you look down here you see we have a menu button on the Note versus the recent apps button on the Tab Pro now just like the 10.1 in Tab 3 and the Note 2014 edition these are geared toward landscape orientation with our Android Keys down here our cameras up here with the IR Blaster uh firing in that direction with the stereo speakers on the left hand and right hand side and landscape orientation you can see the bezels are thinner toward the left hand and right hand side and you can see in landscape or I'm sorry portrait orientation it it feels a little awkward but it's still pretty comfortable and when it's this lightweight it's less noticeable all right so let's go ahead and boot this up for the first time just going to tap and hold the power button so we have those nice stereo speakers which give you a fuller sound all right so let's take a look at the updated user experience so this is again running TouchWiz a new version of Touchwiz on Android 4.4 a new lock screen effect so you can see pretty much looks like classic touchway we have our home screens which we can pinch in and out to view or edit so we can change which one we want to be the home screen or we can add new home screens or take them up to remove and then we have these two home screens which include apps as you can see it's geared toward professional users or Enterprise customers like WebEx remote PC e- meting and handcom viewer all of these are generally not consumer apps handcom viewer is an office suite which uh replicates apps like word excel and PowerPoint we also have our app drawer and as you can see we have widgets and apps you can pinch in and out to see all of your apps they don't give you too many apps here again they're geared toward professional users so they've installed some standard Samsung apps Google apps as well as thirdparty apps you can see we have a folder full of Samsung apps which includes nox security SVO world clock Sid sync which is kind of a parir Down version of group play uh basically it's for sharing displays and images and then we have our Google folder full of Google Apps standard apps such as Hangouts and pictures of course we have YouTube and other things like Samsung's video player and music player contacts the file browser a lot of this is also on the uh home screen now we also have an updated version of the Calendar app which is just a lot cleaner and smoother than it was before we have a new memo app which again is also cleaner more simple it's basically a note-taking app and then we have Dropbox so you can uh get 50 gigs of free storage with your Dropbox account when you purchase one of these tablets and log on now we can see all the widgets they offer here so quite a few widgets we can see the apps we have downloaded we can go to our editor here so we can search Widgets or uninstall widgets and if we that'll change if we go to apps so you can see you can create folders sort by uninstall or disable apps set wallpaper all of that is also available from here now we also have our new drop- down notification shade which includes all of these quick access toggles but not all of them appear in this view if you want to see all of them tap up here that reveals all of them and also reveals some of the features in here which include smart stay and smart paw of course we don't have the S Pen so air view and air command and all that other stuff is not included here but smart stay and Smart Pause pretty familiar features now they go back to the GS3 uh so smart C basically watches your eyes prevents the screen from going to sleep Smart Pause pauses video playback again when your eyes leave the screen so of course we have airplane mode blocking mode which again is a do not disturb feature which you can set or just enable reading mode which only works within certain apps like Google Play Books app basically changes the screen color for better reading conditions screen mirroring so you can mirror the device's screen wirelessly to another device like a Samsung HDTV multi- Window mode which we're going to explore power saving mode now if you tap and hold any one of these it takes you directly to the settings panel where you have a lot more control options so for example we're in the power saving mode and you can toggle on specific features when you're in power saving mode if you go back down to the drop down shade you can see we have our brightness slider as well and then we have our volume controls as well and of course you see our notifications which are expandable and you can clear them all if you want or jump quickly to your settings panel that's one way of getting quickly to your settings panel and as you can see they've also redesigned this so it's much more cleaner much more uniform with these nice uniform uh colorful uh Badges and icons so again this tab viewer and we're going to explore this a bit later now in terms of our Android keys again we now have a recent apps button which brings us this sort of horizontal recent apps controls so you can see all of our recent apps and we can jump right to them if we want uh this also gives us access to our task manager and then we also have the option to close all of these apps at once now you can also just swipe certain apps out of the way just by swiping up or swiping down and then some of these controls have dual purposes so for example if you tap and hold the home button it takes you to Google Now Okay Google what's the weather like it's 36° and overcast in Rochester and then if you double tap the home button it takes you to SVO what's the weather like here is the weather for Auburn Hills Michigan today is cloudy and 35° now we also have this new multi- Window mode which pops up when you swipe in from the right Edge you do have to go past The Edge and swipe in otherwise you just swipe between your home screens so you can swipe in from the edge or you of course can use the back button by tapping holding on it so again these are the apps that are available in multi- Window mode now there's actually two sort of multi- window modes you can just tap on any one of these apps and it launches them into a separate window so for example if you launch Chrome this way gives you this window here now you can open up to three of these at once so let's go ahead and do that so let's do Gmail YouTube so there we go we have three windows we can move around now the more windows you have open the slower this tends to respond but you can resize them so for example you can resize them manually and then you can maximize them or you can minimize them and when you minimize them it basically turns them into these little badges that you can move around and if you want to bring them back up just tap on them and then move them back into place of course you can also close them but this means that you can have up to five windows open at once and that's because you can also do side by side window at the same time so I'm just going to close these out now this also means that you could watch videos in a separate window like YouTube videos now in terms of side by-side window you basically bring up your multi- window mode and you drag and drop apps to the screen so for example if we drag and drop Chrome to the screen fills it up and now I can drag another app to place it side by side so for example Gmail so I now have two apps I can work in side by side and I can resize the windows as I want of course this also works in portrait or landscape or orentation and you're limited to two windows in this case while the Note 12.2 gives you four Windows you could drop up to uh uh four windows in this uh viewer you can also drop other apps into each window and it will preserve the uh recent apps into that window so for example if I grab YouTube Drop it over here onto my Gmail app replaces it with YouTube I can continue doing this adding other apps so for example let's add the gallery app just drop it in place replaces it so what's happening now is if I go to this blue dot toward the center I can go to recent apps and I can choose one of the other apps and jump right to it so I actually have more multitasking options besides just having two windows side by side so there you go goes back to Gmail if I want to jump back to another app takes me back to my gallery app sometimes it works great sometimes it doesn't there we go now of course you have other options here so you can switch between leftand and right hand side and if you want to control the other window you basically have to tap to the right edge of it now just tap to the left hand side and you can go to your multitasker here and as you can see I just have one window open because I haven't dragged other windows to that one so there you go you can also do other things like maximize a window close a window copy one item from one window to the other window so for example if I want to maximize this window just tap maximize there you go so as I mentioned this in theory means that you could open up to seven windows or five windows at once so for example if I go back to my multi window tray here I could also open up let's say the gallery so open up in a separate window and actually picks up where I last left off I can go to Hangouts and then I could also go to my files now of course this does get really laggy if you do all of these windows at one time especially depending on what each window is doing some are more uh resource intensive than the others so you can see quite a few windows open on this one tablet now if You' like to have these two windows open side by side off you can actually create a custom recipe so go to your multi- window mode uh go to your editor down here go to create and you can create a custom recipe click okay adds it to the tray here so if you slide it out now you have chrome/ youube so for example go to chrome/ youube opens it up for me now to the left or right of the main home screens is the magazine ux which is a Flipboard powered widget board so basically these are new stories sort of space down into these little tiles here which aggregate different stories related to certain subjects so for example I have sports photos and design arts and culture science and technology and news up here we have our email calendaring our office apps as well as business news now we can refresh the feed so it updates to the latest information you can also move between new stories like so and then if you want to see any one of these uh items all you have to do is tap on it takes you to a full screen view Vier and then you can tap again to see the specific article and then you can read through it basically like you're flipping a magazine now you can edit the source of the feed by going to this little menu icon and up here you can select specifically what you want to be fed into those individual widgets so you can see that it's automatically selecting top stories for you so it can do it automatically or you can uh select specifically which ones you want uh so for example you can see mobile science TV space Tech 9 to5 Mac all things D Android authority RS Technica The Verge BGR all of that stuff is in here and you can select specifically which one you would want now you can also edit how many home screens you have here and you can add specific categories to each home screen so for example I just have two by default but you can add a third you're limited to three I think the 12.2 gives you four uh so here if I go to the home screen oops let's go out again here we select this one uh we can select specific categories here so you can see we have no categories here selected right now if we go to this one you'll see the categories they've already added same with that one so if I go here I can add things like news and then style then I can also add social networking such as Twitter and YouTube you can see it automatically resizes the tiles for you and then you can add certain applications such as uh music now if you want one of these windows to be your home screen just tap this little home icon above so when you press the home button it takes you to that specific page so for example instead of this being your main home screen you tap home and now it takes you to magazine ux now if you want to change that just go back to your home screens pinch in and out select which one you want to be your home screen there we go and then when you press home takes you to the classic viewer now you can also edit this so if you tap and hold on them you can move them around reposition them or resize them if you had room right now I don't have room or you can take them up to remove you can also change layout here which basically just rearranges them for you if you go to widgets here takes you to your widget panel which allows you to add more widgets now you can also quickly switch between home screens or magazine ux just by tapping these icons down here now in terms of the keyboard we actually have the same one from the Note Pro 12.2 we even have this directional d-pad here which is kind of nice the key is kind of a dimensional look to it uh and when you type on them you get like sort of a typewriter sound effect and of course we have lots of options including the Voice keyboard this is a test of the voice keyboard period we can also go to our keyboard options so we do have a split keyboard which I find very very useful which you can also move around this is very similar to the iPad uh it gives you a nice thumbal keyboard so you can type comfortably in landscape orientation or portrait orientation without having to kind of reach across the device with your thumb we also have handwriting input so although we don't have an S Pen here you can handw write you can just use your finger if you want and it does a pretty good job recognizing both punctuation and uh your terrible handwriting and it's fairly quick so it actually works pretty well now in terms of the settings panel we have our tabs up here for connections device controls and general uh under connections you have Wi-Fi Bluetooth airplane mode data usage location more networks for VPN setup as well there is no NFC technology in any of these tablets nearby devices for DLNA which you can enable and you do have screen mirroring here which you can turn on this allows you to broadcast the display of this wirelessly to an HDTV such as a Samsung TV we have sound control controls so we have lots of options here so we can enable touch sound effects screen lock sound effects haptic feedback and that sort of thing display so you can change your display such as touch key light duration screen mode you can change the options you have here either to adapt display or dynamic Etc we have multi- Window mode which you can enable or disable lock screen so you can enable shortcuts so shortcuts basically are apps to appear on the lock screen so for example if you want to add chrome here just go to plus select Chrome and if you don't want the native webkit browser just take it to delete and now if you go to the lock screen you'll see them here and you can quickly launch them just like that you also have your wallpapers so we have home screen lock screen home and lock screen and you can also adjust this directly from the home screen just by tapping and holding anywhere on the home screen get you to those controls you can also add folders Pages apps and widgets from here so for example if you want to create a folder you can do that as well or if you're on the home screen if you tap and hold one of these apps you you can take it up to create a folder or go to app info to find more about this device or about the app or remove one so for example you can go up to app info shows us the info again takes you basically to the App Manager under controls we also have language and input we have voice control which are off by default but basically this allows you to control things like your alarm camera and music just by using your voice so for example you can tell your alarm to stop or snooze camera you can say shoot smile or cheese to take a photo or record video music you can say next previous play pause Etc now under motions these are less useful so Zoom just to show you this basically you hold two fingers on the display move it up and down like this and you can zoom in and out we also have browsing image same principle here you tap somewhere on the screen and move the device left to right now we have Palm motions so we have screen capture basically what happens is you can swipe your hand across the display to grab a screen capture this works anywhere in the system and then we can mute or pause music just by palming our hand over the screen just like that we also have smart screen features such as Smart Stay smart rotation and Smart Pause again smart stay all of these are off by default but Smart Stay basically monitors the presence of your eyes prevents the screen from going to sleep we also have Smart rotation which again uses the camera to monitor the orientation of your eyes versus the orientation of the tablet so if you want to lay on your side and you don't want it to go automatically into portrait orientation it's smart enough to determine that we also have Smart Pause which pause this playback of video uh when you avert your eyes from the video now if you ever want to enable or disable any of these smart screen features just go up to your uh quick access toggles and either turn them on or turn them off now under General we have our accounts our cloud storage in both Samsung and Dropbox backup and reset date and time accessories application manager uh this is where you can see everything that's on the SD card anything that's running all of the apps and the resources they're using default applications for certain tasks users so you can add additional users again this is the latest version of Android so you can't add other users to log into the device battery information so you can see the entire timeline for the battery information and specifically what each app is using power and saving mode storage so you can see how much storage we're using security and about device now just to give you some idea of the size differences here we have the Tab Pro 8.4 then the 10.1 and the Note Pro 12.2 so we have a three-pronged approach for the Pro Series tablets the only only the 12.2 has the stylus at this time now just to give you some idea of the size differences between this and the iPad Air as you can see the iPad Air is sort of geared toward uh portrait orientation more so than landscape uh so this is more widescreen than the iPad Air but it's actually even thinner than the iPad Air just slightly it's kind of hard to tell and it's just as light about one PB and both of them have excellent displays of course the display is more 4x3 here than widescreen uh and the pixel density is also higher um the uh Tab Pro 10.1 now one of the benefits of having a widescreen tablet is that WID Screen Video fills it up better than something like the 4x3 aspect ratio of the iPad of course we also have these stereo speakers in landscape orientation so they sound pretty good they're pretty loud and clear although it would be nice if they fac the user as opposed to facing out Ed process fter PCI stage now let's take a quick look at our camera app so we have tap to focus we can pinch in and out to zoom we can shoot our photograph we can tap and hold the shutter release to take up to 20 photos at once and then we can record video while recording video we can snap a photo pause it resume recording we can pinch in and out to zoom tap to focus and of course we can stop it now we also have our modes here so we have the standard array of Samsung uh camera app mode such as beauty face best photo best face sound and shot drama rich tone HDR eraser Panorama Sports and auto and if we go up here we'll find dual shot mode so dual shot mode basically allows you to record both cameras at the same time and there I am recording you can change the size of the thumbnails whoops just by dragging them like this and of course you can also change the surround of that thumbnail to many others such as oval blur instant pick many many options here we also have lots of options up here I'm not going to go through all them for both still camera video camera settings and then uh we can also use our voice to Snap photos if we enable voice control so we can say cheese record video now taking a look at our geek bench 3 scores we can see that the two big tablets perform about the same while the 8.4 is a little on the low side now compare this to the iPad Air which is AE on all accounts for the other tablets or compared to the other tablets but then if we look at the Nexus 7 we can see that it does do a bit better than the Nexus 7 at least on the single core score so in conclusion there's a lot to like about the T Pro 10.1 in it's nice lightweight and thin with a beautiful high resolution display that even best the iPad Air looks great off access with bright vivid colors deep contrast not much light bleeding along the edges also has those great stereo speakers and that widescreen aspect ratio for great uh video watching and you have a lot of software capabilities such as multi-winding mode and a new and improved version of Touchwiz which just looks a lot better we also have magazine ux which I actually really like again I like services like Flipboard or HTC's blink feed which Aggregates information into a quick viewer uh and I really find that useful and of course you can ignore it if you don't want to use it in the end you're still left with a tablet with great Hardware uh great display and some great features some of them you don't have to use unfortunately touch wh still tends to be a resource hog performance tends to be slow here and there I did close all the apps here to make performance a little smoother and of course if you're using multi- Window mode this does tend to be more resource intensive it would be great if they had included 3 gigs of RAM because we may see better performance here especially since the Note 10.1 2014 Edition comes with 3 gigs of RAM as well so the Tab Pro 10.1 is definitely an interesting device lightweight thin and a beautiful display and I think Samsung has done a really nice job here with a new and improved touch with so that is going to do it for me in this review thanks for watching and I'll see you again in the next video all right guys so this is a test of the front-facing camera again 2 megapixels 1080p video at 30 frames per second so it's pretty decent again it gives you an idea of the microphone performance as well as the camera so now let's go outside and take a look at the main camera all right this again is Zoe and Chloe down here in the foyer ready to go outside to test out the camera so uh as you can see this works just as like all the other Tab Pro uh Galaxy cameras you can pinch in and out to zoom which is just digital zooming so it's basically cropping the video all right so let's go outside and take a look at performance outside it is very windy so you're probably going to hear a lot of wind noisehey guys Mike here the Detroit Borg with one more Galaxy Tab Pro to look at this is the 10.1 in and as you know this joins the 8.4 in and the Note 12.2 in very large tablet and small tablet so this is the middle tablet kind of here to take on the iPad Air in fact it's priced the same at $4.99 we also have a really high resolution display which also once again bests the iPad Air just as the 8.4 best the iPad Mini with retina display so this is available in 16 or 32 gig capacities in white or black now this is the Wi-Fi only model smt520 there is a cellular version with LTE which has a different processor so this is similar to the Note Pro 12.2 this has the same processor as the Wi-Fi model while the cellular version has a Snapdragon 800 processor quad core 2.3 GHz now this one is the exos 5 octacore processor which combines two quad core processors a 1.9 GHz cortex a15 and a 1.3 GHz cortex A6 the A7 is there for lower powered perform or processes to conserve battery life now we have the same cameras as the other new tablets 8 megapixel autofocusing main camera with 1080P and a 2 megapixel secondary camera with 1080p 2 gigs of RAM instead of 3 gigs like you get in the 12.2 an 8220 mAh battery WatchON IR LED for controlling your AV Equipment GPS and Gless full HD playback now the display is LCD 10.1 in wqxga just like the Tab Pro 8.4 and the notes Pro 12 12.2 so that's 2560 x600 and over 10.1 in gives us a pixel density of 299 that's better than the iPad Airs uh 264 PPI so I think we're all familiar with Samsung's packaging at this point pretty much looks the same for all devices and this has the sort of wood grain finish it's more recyclable using soy based inks so it's more environmentally friendly so let's go ahead and crack the seal and get into this little tab here to pull out there's our upside down tablet Galaxy Tab Pro on and the galaxy has its rewards and it looks pretty dusty once again for some reason Samsung's eco-friendly packaging makes a lot of dust so let's go ahead and lift this out the packaging there we go still wrapped in plastic and of course we'll say that for a minute and get to the accessories which I think nobody really cares about because it's always the same pretty much the same literature SL paperwork you get uh we have uh the quick start guide on in the Galaxy hazards rewards just encourage you to register your devices for some benefit software update instructions again very easy and our safety and warranty guide which is in multiple languages now our accessories include a wall adapter Samsung branded and we have a micro USB 2.0 connector so no USB 3.0 in this case like you get with the 12.2 and the Note 3 so once again this is running Android 4.4 or kit kat the latest version of Android with multi- window thanks to TouchWiz so let's go ahead and peel off all of this plastic start starting with the back and then the front little tab up here and of course we have lots of plastic surrounding the edges which we're going to also have to peel off here all right so let's take a close look around of course we have a little more plastic here covering our camera module so there we go same camera module as the other tabs I've reviewed so we have the um 8 megapixel autofocusing camera good for 1080p with an LED flash which is nice to have you can see we have this sort of full leather finish on the back I think it tends to look better in Black than white uh but it gives you a nice grippable texture you can see kind of have the stitching patterns sort of molded into the plastic gives you a more higher quality feel if you look on edge you can see it's actually thinner than the iPad Air and it's just just as heavy as the iPad Air just one PB so it's very lightweight again directly taking on the iPad Air in many dimensions so at the top we'll find an IR LED blaster for controlling your AV Equipment you have your volume rocker sleep wake button on the side you have your headphone jack one of your left speakers or your left speaker there's only one left speaker and on the bottom we have our micro USB 2.0 port with a microphone down here you can see it right there we have our home button with our capacitive backlit controls so we have our recent apps back button on the side we have our micro SD card slot which is hidden behind this door supports 64 gig cards and it does load apps from that card so if you want to load apps on that card you can can do that we also have our right firing stereo speaker on the front we have Samsung branding with our 2 megapixel front-facing camera good for 1080p video with an ambient light sensor now for the most part this looks very similar to the Galaxy Note 10.1 in 2014 edition which is at the top here you can see has that sort of uh Book theme design you can see it's got those ridges along the side as you can see it's thinner and lighter than that tablet but of course loses the stylus in the process so you can see they have the same controls in the same position IR LED Blaster they even have the same camera modules along the side you'll see the of course Stylus is missing but the same speakers with stereo sound same SD card slot toward the bottom you'll find your micro USB connection still 2.0 for both devices same camera location or not camera but microphone location on the left hand side we have another speaker Grill and our headphone jack and you can see it's a little thinner on the uh Tab Pro now if you look closely at the USB port you can see they've actually kind of bumped it out to accommodate the thinner design now from the front they mostly look identical they have the same camera and sensors but the buttons have changed so if you look down here you see we have a menu button on the Note versus the recent apps button on the Tab Pro now just like the 10.1 in Tab 3 and the Note 2014 edition these are geared toward landscape orientation with our Android Keys down here our cameras up here with the IR Blaster uh firing in that direction with the stereo speakers on the left hand and right hand side and landscape orientation you can see the bezels are thinner toward the left hand and right hand side and you can see in landscape or I'm sorry portrait orientation it it feels a little awkward but it's still pretty comfortable and when it's this lightweight it's less noticeable all right so let's go ahead and boot this up for the first time just going to tap and hold the power button so we have those nice stereo speakers which give you a fuller sound all right so let's take a look at the updated user experience so this is again running TouchWiz a new version of Touchwiz on Android 4.4 a new lock screen effect so you can see pretty much looks like classic touchway we have our home screens which we can pinch in and out to view or edit so we can change which one we want to be the home screen or we can add new home screens or take them up to remove and then we have these two home screens which include apps as you can see it's geared toward professional users or Enterprise customers like WebEx remote PC e- meting and handcom viewer all of these are generally not consumer apps handcom viewer is an office suite which uh replicates apps like word excel and PowerPoint we also have our app drawer and as you can see we have widgets and apps you can pinch in and out to see all of your apps they don't give you too many apps here again they're geared toward professional users so they've installed some standard Samsung apps Google apps as well as thirdparty apps you can see we have a folder full of Samsung apps which includes nox security SVO world clock Sid sync which is kind of a parir Down version of group play uh basically it's for sharing displays and images and then we have our Google folder full of Google Apps standard apps such as Hangouts and pictures of course we have YouTube and other things like Samsung's video player and music player contacts the file browser a lot of this is also on the uh home screen now we also have an updated version of the Calendar app which is just a lot cleaner and smoother than it was before we have a new memo app which again is also cleaner more simple it's basically a note-taking app and then we have Dropbox so you can uh get 50 gigs of free storage with your Dropbox account when you purchase one of these tablets and log on now we can see all the widgets they offer here so quite a few widgets we can see the apps we have downloaded we can go to our editor here so we can search Widgets or uninstall widgets and if we that'll change if we go to apps so you can see you can create folders sort by uninstall or disable apps set wallpaper all of that is also available from here now we also have our new drop- down notification shade which includes all of these quick access toggles but not all of them appear in this view if you want to see all of them tap up here that reveals all of them and also reveals some of the features in here which include smart stay and smart paw of course we don't have the S Pen so air view and air command and all that other stuff is not included here but smart stay and Smart Pause pretty familiar features now they go back to the GS3 uh so smart C basically watches your eyes prevents the screen from going to sleep Smart Pause pauses video playback again when your eyes leave the screen so of course we have airplane mode blocking mode which again is a do not disturb feature which you can set or just enable reading mode which only works within certain apps like Google Play Books app basically changes the screen color for better reading conditions screen mirroring so you can mirror the device's screen wirelessly to another device like a Samsung HDTV multi- Window mode which we're going to explore power saving mode now if you tap and hold any one of these it takes you directly to the settings panel where you have a lot more control options so for example we're in the power saving mode and you can toggle on specific features when you're in power saving mode if you go back down to the drop down shade you can see we have our brightness slider as well and then we have our volume controls as well and of course you see our notifications which are expandable and you can clear them all if you want or jump quickly to your settings panel that's one way of getting quickly to your settings panel and as you can see they've also redesigned this so it's much more cleaner much more uniform with these nice uniform uh colorful uh Badges and icons so again this tab viewer and we're going to explore this a bit later now in terms of our Android keys again we now have a recent apps button which brings us this sort of horizontal recent apps controls so you can see all of our recent apps and we can jump right to them if we want uh this also gives us access to our task manager and then we also have the option to close all of these apps at once now you can also just swipe certain apps out of the way just by swiping up or swiping down and then some of these controls have dual purposes so for example if you tap and hold the home button it takes you to Google Now Okay Google what's the weather like it's 36° and overcast in Rochester and then if you double tap the home button it takes you to SVO what's the weather like here is the weather for Auburn Hills Michigan today is cloudy and 35° now we also have this new multi- Window mode which pops up when you swipe in from the right Edge you do have to go past The Edge and swipe in otherwise you just swipe between your home screens so you can swipe in from the edge or you of course can use the back button by tapping holding on it so again these are the apps that are available in multi- Window mode now there's actually two sort of multi- window modes you can just tap on any one of these apps and it launches them into a separate window so for example if you launch Chrome this way gives you this window here now you can open up to three of these at once so let's go ahead and do that so let's do Gmail YouTube so there we go we have three windows we can move around now the more windows you have open the slower this tends to respond but you can resize them so for example you can resize them manually and then you can maximize them or you can minimize them and when you minimize them it basically turns them into these little badges that you can move around and if you want to bring them back up just tap on them and then move them back into place of course you can also close them but this means that you can have up to five windows open at once and that's because you can also do side by side window at the same time so I'm just going to close these out now this also means that you could watch videos in a separate window like YouTube videos now in terms of side by-side window you basically bring up your multi- window mode and you drag and drop apps to the screen so for example if we drag and drop Chrome to the screen fills it up and now I can drag another app to place it side by side so for example Gmail so I now have two apps I can work in side by side and I can resize the windows as I want of course this also works in portrait or landscape or orentation and you're limited to two windows in this case while the Note 12.2 gives you four Windows you could drop up to uh uh four windows in this uh viewer you can also drop other apps into each window and it will preserve the uh recent apps into that window so for example if I grab YouTube Drop it over here onto my Gmail app replaces it with YouTube I can continue doing this adding other apps so for example let's add the gallery app just drop it in place replaces it so what's happening now is if I go to this blue dot toward the center I can go to recent apps and I can choose one of the other apps and jump right to it so I actually have more multitasking options besides just having two windows side by side so there you go goes back to Gmail if I want to jump back to another app takes me back to my gallery app sometimes it works great sometimes it doesn't there we go now of course you have other options here so you can switch between leftand and right hand side and if you want to control the other window you basically have to tap to the right edge of it now just tap to the left hand side and you can go to your multitasker here and as you can see I just have one window open because I haven't dragged other windows to that one so there you go you can also do other things like maximize a window close a window copy one item from one window to the other window so for example if I want to maximize this window just tap maximize there you go so as I mentioned this in theory means that you could open up to seven windows or five windows at once so for example if I go back to my multi window tray here I could also open up let's say the gallery so open up in a separate window and actually picks up where I last left off I can go to Hangouts and then I could also go to my files now of course this does get really laggy if you do all of these windows at one time especially depending on what each window is doing some are more uh resource intensive than the others so you can see quite a few windows open on this one tablet now if You' like to have these two windows open side by side off you can actually create a custom recipe so go to your multi- window mode uh go to your editor down here go to create and you can create a custom recipe click okay adds it to the tray here so if you slide it out now you have chrome/ youube so for example go to chrome/ youube opens it up for me now to the left or right of the main home screens is the magazine ux which is a Flipboard powered widget board so basically these are new stories sort of space down into these little tiles here which aggregate different stories related to certain subjects so for example I have sports photos and design arts and culture science and technology and news up here we have our email calendaring our office apps as well as business news now we can refresh the feed so it updates to the latest information you can also move between new stories like so and then if you want to see any one of these uh items all you have to do is tap on it takes you to a full screen view Vier and then you can tap again to see the specific article and then you can read through it basically like you're flipping a magazine now you can edit the source of the feed by going to this little menu icon and up here you can select specifically what you want to be fed into those individual widgets so you can see that it's automatically selecting top stories for you so it can do it automatically or you can uh select specifically which ones you want uh so for example you can see mobile science TV space Tech 9 to5 Mac all things D Android authority RS Technica The Verge BGR all of that stuff is in here and you can select specifically which one you would want now you can also edit how many home screens you have here and you can add specific categories to each home screen so for example I just have two by default but you can add a third you're limited to three I think the 12.2 gives you four uh so here if I go to the home screen oops let's go out again here we select this one uh we can select specific categories here so you can see we have no categories here selected right now if we go to this one you'll see the categories they've already added same with that one so if I go here I can add things like news and then style then I can also add social networking such as Twitter and YouTube you can see it automatically resizes the tiles for you and then you can add certain applications such as uh music now if you want one of these windows to be your home screen just tap this little home icon above so when you press the home button it takes you to that specific page so for example instead of this being your main home screen you tap home and now it takes you to magazine ux now if you want to change that just go back to your home screens pinch in and out select which one you want to be your home screen there we go and then when you press home takes you to the classic viewer now you can also edit this so if you tap and hold on them you can move them around reposition them or resize them if you had room right now I don't have room or you can take them up to remove you can also change layout here which basically just rearranges them for you if you go to widgets here takes you to your widget panel which allows you to add more widgets now you can also quickly switch between home screens or magazine ux just by tapping these icons down here now in terms of the keyboard we actually have the same one from the Note Pro 12.2 we even have this directional d-pad here which is kind of nice the key is kind of a dimensional look to it uh and when you type on them you get like sort of a typewriter sound effect and of course we have lots of options including the Voice keyboard this is a test of the voice keyboard period we can also go to our keyboard options so we do have a split keyboard which I find very very useful which you can also move around this is very similar to the iPad uh it gives you a nice thumbal keyboard so you can type comfortably in landscape orientation or portrait orientation without having to kind of reach across the device with your thumb we also have handwriting input so although we don't have an S Pen here you can handw write you can just use your finger if you want and it does a pretty good job recognizing both punctuation and uh your terrible handwriting and it's fairly quick so it actually works pretty well now in terms of the settings panel we have our tabs up here for connections device controls and general uh under connections you have Wi-Fi Bluetooth airplane mode data usage location more networks for VPN setup as well there is no NFC technology in any of these tablets nearby devices for DLNA which you can enable and you do have screen mirroring here which you can turn on this allows you to broadcast the display of this wirelessly to an HDTV such as a Samsung TV we have sound control controls so we have lots of options here so we can enable touch sound effects screen lock sound effects haptic feedback and that sort of thing display so you can change your display such as touch key light duration screen mode you can change the options you have here either to adapt display or dynamic Etc we have multi- Window mode which you can enable or disable lock screen so you can enable shortcuts so shortcuts basically are apps to appear on the lock screen so for example if you want to add chrome here just go to plus select Chrome and if you don't want the native webkit browser just take it to delete and now if you go to the lock screen you'll see them here and you can quickly launch them just like that you also have your wallpapers so we have home screen lock screen home and lock screen and you can also adjust this directly from the home screen just by tapping and holding anywhere on the home screen get you to those controls you can also add folders Pages apps and widgets from here so for example if you want to create a folder you can do that as well or if you're on the home screen if you tap and hold one of these apps you you can take it up to create a folder or go to app info to find more about this device or about the app or remove one so for example you can go up to app info shows us the info again takes you basically to the App Manager under controls we also have language and input we have voice control which are off by default but basically this allows you to control things like your alarm camera and music just by using your voice so for example you can tell your alarm to stop or snooze camera you can say shoot smile or cheese to take a photo or record video music you can say next previous play pause Etc now under motions these are less useful so Zoom just to show you this basically you hold two fingers on the display move it up and down like this and you can zoom in and out we also have browsing image same principle here you tap somewhere on the screen and move the device left to right now we have Palm motions so we have screen capture basically what happens is you can swipe your hand across the display to grab a screen capture this works anywhere in the system and then we can mute or pause music just by palming our hand over the screen just like that we also have smart screen features such as Smart Stay smart rotation and Smart Pause again smart stay all of these are off by default but Smart Stay basically monitors the presence of your eyes prevents the screen from going to sleep we also have Smart rotation which again uses the camera to monitor the orientation of your eyes versus the orientation of the tablet so if you want to lay on your side and you don't want it to go automatically into portrait orientation it's smart enough to determine that we also have Smart Pause which pause this playback of video uh when you avert your eyes from the video now if you ever want to enable or disable any of these smart screen features just go up to your uh quick access toggles and either turn them on or turn them off now under General we have our accounts our cloud storage in both Samsung and Dropbox backup and reset date and time accessories application manager uh this is where you can see everything that's on the SD card anything that's running all of the apps and the resources they're using default applications for certain tasks users so you can add additional users again this is the latest version of Android so you can't add other users to log into the device battery information so you can see the entire timeline for the battery information and specifically what each app is using power and saving mode storage so you can see how much storage we're using security and about device now just to give you some idea of the size differences here we have the Tab Pro 8.4 then the 10.1 and the Note Pro 12.2 so we have a three-pronged approach for the Pro Series tablets the only only the 12.2 has the stylus at this time now just to give you some idea of the size differences between this and the iPad Air as you can see the iPad Air is sort of geared toward uh portrait orientation more so than landscape uh so this is more widescreen than the iPad Air but it's actually even thinner than the iPad Air just slightly it's kind of hard to tell and it's just as light about one PB and both of them have excellent displays of course the display is more 4x3 here than widescreen uh and the pixel density is also higher um the uh Tab Pro 10.1 now one of the benefits of having a widescreen tablet is that WID Screen Video fills it up better than something like the 4x3 aspect ratio of the iPad of course we also have these stereo speakers in landscape orientation so they sound pretty good they're pretty loud and clear although it would be nice if they fac the user as opposed to facing out Ed process fter PCI stage now let's take a quick look at our camera app so we have tap to focus we can pinch in and out to zoom we can shoot our photograph we can tap and hold the shutter release to take up to 20 photos at once and then we can record video while recording video we can snap a photo pause it resume recording we can pinch in and out to zoom tap to focus and of course we can stop it now we also have our modes here so we have the standard array of Samsung uh camera app mode such as beauty face best photo best face sound and shot drama rich tone HDR eraser Panorama Sports and auto and if we go up here we'll find dual shot mode so dual shot mode basically allows you to record both cameras at the same time and there I am recording you can change the size of the thumbnails whoops just by dragging them like this and of course you can also change the surround of that thumbnail to many others such as oval blur instant pick many many options here we also have lots of options up here I'm not going to go through all them for both still camera video camera settings and then uh we can also use our voice to Snap photos if we enable voice control so we can say cheese record video now taking a look at our geek bench 3 scores we can see that the two big tablets perform about the same while the 8.4 is a little on the low side now compare this to the iPad Air which is AE on all accounts for the other tablets or compared to the other tablets but then if we look at the Nexus 7 we can see that it does do a bit better than the Nexus 7 at least on the single core score so in conclusion there's a lot to like about the T Pro 10.1 in it's nice lightweight and thin with a beautiful high resolution display that even best the iPad Air looks great off access with bright vivid colors deep contrast not much light bleeding along the edges also has those great stereo speakers and that widescreen aspect ratio for great uh video watching and you have a lot of software capabilities such as multi-winding mode and a new and improved version of Touchwiz which just looks a lot better we also have magazine ux which I actually really like again I like services like Flipboard or HTC's blink feed which Aggregates information into a quick viewer uh and I really find that useful and of course you can ignore it if you don't want to use it in the end you're still left with a tablet with great Hardware uh great display and some great features some of them you don't have to use unfortunately touch wh still tends to be a resource hog performance tends to be slow here and there I did close all the apps here to make performance a little smoother and of course if you're using multi- Window mode this does tend to be more resource intensive it would be great if they had included 3 gigs of RAM because we may see better performance here especially since the Note 10.1 2014 Edition comes with 3 gigs of RAM as well so the Tab Pro 10.1 is definitely an interesting device lightweight thin and a beautiful display and I think Samsung has done a really nice job here with a new and improved touch with so that is going to do it for me in this review thanks for watching and I'll see you again in the next video all right guys so this is a test of the front-facing camera again 2 megapixels 1080p video at 30 frames per second so it's pretty decent again it gives you an idea of the microphone performance as well as the camera so now let's go outside and take a look at the main camera all right this again is Zoe and Chloe down here in the foyer ready to go outside to test out the camera so uh as you can see this works just as like all the other Tab Pro uh Galaxy cameras you can pinch in and out to zoom which is just digital zooming so it's basically cropping the video all right so let's go outside and take a look at performance outside it is very windy so you're probably going to hear a lot of wind noise\n"