Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 Specification, Review and Price

Review

The good: The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 is a well-designed tablet with powerful speakers, a responsive screen, and comes with Ice Cream Sandwich installed.

The bad: At $400, the tablet is overpriced compared with more-powerful competing tablets that offer better features for around the same price. The tablet's dual-core CPU has trouble running large 1080p movies smoothly, and its screen color accuracy isn't as high as on the previous Tab 10.1.

The bottom line: The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 comes up short in performance, features, and value compared with competing tablets.

Specification

Tablet with support for GSM voice communication, SMS, and MMS.

GENERAL	2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
	3G Network	HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100
	Announced	2012, February
	Status	Available. Released 2012, May

BODY	Dimensions	256.6 x 175.3 x 9.7 mm
BODY	Weight	588 g

DISPLAY	Type	PLS TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
	Size	800 x 1280 pixels, 10.1 inches (~149 ppi pixel density)
	Multitouch	Yes
	Protection	Corning Gorilla Glass
		- TouchWiz UX UI

SOUND	Alert types	Vibration, MP3 ringtones
	Loudspeaker	Yes, with stereo speakers
	3.5mm jack	Yes

MEMORY	Card slot	microSD, up to 32 GB
MEMORY	Internal	16/32 GB storage, 1GB RAM

DATA	GPRS	Yes
	EDGE	Yes
	Speed	HSDPA, 21 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, dual-band, Wi-Fi hotspot
	Bluetooth	Yes, v3.0 with A2DP
	USB	Yes, v2.0, USB Host support

CAMERA	Primary	3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels
	Features	Geo-tagging
	Video	Yes, 720p
	Secondary	Yes, VGA

FEATURES	OS	Android OS, v4.0.3 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
	Chipset	TI OMAP 4430
	CPU	Dual-core 1 GHz Cortex-A9
	GPU	PowerVR SGX540
	Sensors	Accelerometer, gyro, compass
	Messaging	SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
	Browser	HTML, Adobe Flash
	Radio	No
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS support and GLONASS
	Java	Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
	Colors	Black
		- SNS integration - TV-out - MP4/DivX/Xvid/FLV/MKV/H.264/H.263 player - MP3/WAV/eAAC+/Flac player - Organizer - Image/video editor - Document editor/viewer - Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration - Voice memo/dial - Predictive text input (Swype)