The notifications menu – are in the typical place at the foot of the tablet, joined by a one-touch screen capture button – which is a nice touch. The usual selection of apps and widgets is here and, of course, you can access the Google Play store, while the standard key controls – back, home, task manager and Samsung’s TouchWiz skin is fairly subtle, but there are still some interruptions to the interface, and at times the speed and the way in which the screen responds to commands isn’t quite as we’d like – or as faithful as rivals.
#Galaxy note 10.1 tablet update
The tablet uses the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, with a 4.1 Jelly Bean update for the 10.1 promised by the end of the year. This tablet packs in a 1.4GHz quad-core processor and 2GB of RAM, which should mean fast operation and a tablet that’s well capable of handling power-hungry apps and features. Is bright and colourful and the five customisable screens zip along at the flick of a finger. Power the tablet up and it starts to look much more like it. To charge and transfer content you’ll need Samsung’s proprietary cable and not a standard USB one – so don’t lose it.
There’s a microSD card slot for expanding the 16GB memory too. In landscape mode you’ll find the power and volume controls on the tablet’s top edge. There’s also a black and grey model, but reports suggest there’s no difference in the chassis quality. While the thin plastic rear casing and white style worked on the Galaxy S3 (just), it looks unappealing and feels flimsy on this larger tablet. On a more positive note, at 597g (for the wi-fi-only model), it’s about 50g lighter than the mighty new Apple iPad. The Google Nexus 7 married build quality and affordability, while pricier tablets from Asus and Sony have had solid build quality. It looks a bit cheap, and feels it too, but at £400 for the 16GB model, it isn’t. While that all sounds exciting, our first impressions of the tablet’s feel and design are less positive.
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