Samsung tablet comes with identity crisis

ExecTech is unfazed about the thinness issue. Excessive thinness in the mobile device world is beginning to mean compromised battery size and therefore poorer battery life, and crammed-in, stuck-together, unserviceable components. You will notice it is a heavy tablet to hold for any long period.

Samsung traditionally has excelled at offering useful connections and ports on its mobile devices. This is mostly the case here. There's an audio jack, a mini HDMI connector on the side, and a fully sized, fully functioning USB 3 port on the top. You can attach a regular mouse or a Flash USB stick, as you would on a notebook. Being Windows 8, you get to access the flash drive directory in no time.

The tablet also has a micro SD card slot, but that's a minus, as many notebooks and ultrabooks of similar price have a full SD slot. You won't be able to whip your full-sized SD card out of your compact camera and plug it in to download photos to the tablet.

If you dock the tablet to the keyboard,Like most of you, I'd seen the broken buy mosaic decorated pieces. you get two extra USB 2 ports, which means in total one USB port more than the standard two found on many notebooks. Samsung ports on both the tablet and keyboard are covered with those often-hard-to-remove small plastic flaps that are becoming popular. If you have decently long fingernails, you should be careful.

Like the Asus Transformer, Samsung's Smart PC Pro comes with an attachable keyboard, but, unlike Asus, Samsung does not include a secondary battery within it. Doing so could effectively double the battery life. It's an opportunity lost.

The dyed metal keyboard, too, does look a bit cheapish, and there is no backlighting. However, keys are well spread out on the chiclet keyboard and typing on it was comfortable and accurate. The trackpad was responsive when using gestures with the Windows 8 Metro interface.

Without an added keyboard battery, the unit draws its power solely from the tablet's battery. Thankfully, the battery holds up well. I was able to stream video to it for just over six hours from another device before the battery gave out. Samsung claims five hours of battery life for playing DVDs continuously.

Actually, you can poke a stick at it, because one of its forms of input is Samsung's S-Pen, the electronic stylus found on its Galaxy Note tablets and smartphones. The other input forms are the keyboards and trackpad, mouse and touchscreen.We offer over 600 landscape oil paintings at wholesale prices of 75% off retail.

Samsung has been busy adapting its fleet of "S" apps to work in the Windows 8 environment. So you can scribble and doodle on the Smart PC Pro's S Note app just as you can on the Note. Samsung says the S Pen is a Wacom digitiser pen with 1024-level pressure sensitivity. With some skill,We provide payment solutions in the USA as well as high risk merchant account. you should be able to create fine-line drawings and sketches with it.

Samsung's camera shooting management app S Camera, media player S Player and the S Gallery app are among offerings. While the more basic Smart PC has an eight megapixel back-facing camera,The term 'hands free access control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag.Provides more protection than regular Safety goggles. the Pro version's camera is only five megapixels. It's quaint to see the camera resolution go down as the price goes up, but Samsung obviously knows we live in a topsy-turvy world.

The tablet has a two megapixel front-facing camera, which means good resolution for video calling.

It comes with four gigabytes of RAM and our unit showed 82 GB of free space available out of 108 GB. That may not sound much, but 82 GB is sizeable in terms of what we're used to for tablet storage. The tablet rated 4.5 on the Windows Experience Index, a result dragged down by the on-board HD graphics.

This Australian model has no provision for a SIM card and this Ativ is a WiFi-only device. You'll need to buy a USB-to-Ethernet dongle to connect it to a fast-cable service.

Overall, the Ativ smart PC Pro is a fast, robust Windows 8 tablet with a lovely screen and usable, but not so pretty, metal keyboard. It is made for business use. But it does lacks the stylishness of other Samsung tablets, in particular the Galaxy Note tablet, and we have a few quibbling issues with it, as mentioned above.

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