Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite Review | Best Affordable Tablet of 2020 By George Holden

The Samsung Galaxy tab, s6 lite is the affordable, android tablet that comes with an included s pen who's it for is it for you, let's find out. What's up guys, my name is George, I'm a freelance video marketer based in the north of England on this channel. I share content all around tech, filmmaking and freelancing. So if that is your vibe, then hit subscribe and welcome to the channel. I decided to pick up the Samsung Galaxy s6 lite a couple of months ago, following wanting to get a tablet exactly like this over a year ago, but nothing on the market quite fit the bill. Personally, I'm not an iOS user or an android user, or a Mac user or a PC user.

I'm actually all of those things. I use multiple different devices all using different third-party cloud sharing platforms. The typical tablet of choice tends to be an iPad, whether that's a top spec iPad, pro or all the way down to the iPad Mini or entry-level iPad, or you can even get some secondhand. But if you're, not particularly fussy about having iPadOS or iPadOS features, you may be considering some of the android tablets that are available. Samsung have things like the Galaxy Tab, a series which are very basic entry level.

Then they have the highest spec like the s5 and the s6. The s6 light fits somewhere in between these two ranges coming in the UK at roughly 349 pounds, having used a tablet the last couple of months, both casually at home and on some work, I'd like to talk about first, what it does well and then what it doesn't do well, first off. What does it do well in terms of being a media consumption device, I. e. watching YouTube, Netflix or anything else? It does a great job.

It has a 2000 by 1200 lcd which isn't an OLED, but it still is very, very good, nice and vibrant and gets pretty deep blacks, despite not being OLED to go with that they've managed to pack it with some very good audio options, including having Bluetooth connectivity, which you'd expect as standard as a 3.5 millimeter, headphone jack, which is nice to have these days. That's rare, and it is nice to have then also some AKG powered stereo speakers. These are side firing, but they work very, very well, even when you're gaming. As long as you do not cover the speakers, you have to hold the tablet a little lower down. One of the main features that brought me to the tablet at this price was the fact that it came with an included s pen as a lot of the reason I wanted to use it for work was for things like story boarding and marking off shot lists on set.

Unlike some of Samsung's other tablets, the s pen is not battery powered, it does not need to be charged, but that does mean it does not have some remote uses. However, in my experience it's performed great, and it goes with the tablet brilliantly, especially with that satisfying magnet click on the side. The tablet also comes equipped with an 8 megapixel rear facing camera and then a front facing 5-megapixel camera. I'm going to talk a little more about the cameras later on with some comparisons, but for me personally, I don't plan on taking photos with a tablet. I have used the front-facing camera for some Zoom calls recently, and I'll also be showing you a little more about that later on, as well.

For my relatively light use of the tablet, I tend to get a few days worth of battery out of it because I'm not doing an awful lot of media consumption. I might play a little of games for about half an hour than using notion and other task related apps. Now onto a few of the things, I think it doesn't do super well, it's important to bear in mind that this tablet comes in at 350 pounds.249 pounds that's cheaper than the cheapest iPhone you can get and cheaper than most android phones pretty much every android phone. Actually, the overall speed and responsiveness of the tablet is very good when you're doing basic tasks, but when you go into some gaming you'll notice that you get dropped into a medium or lower graphics mode. Also, when browsing using Google Chrome, it has slowed down quite a lot for me, even when doing very basic things online.

I have recently started using Microsoft Edge with it instead which, if you have this tablet, I'd recommend doing it has sped up quite a lot, and I'll be doing a full video on that soon. If you'd like to see another video on Microsoft, edge check out this one here and there's lots more coming on that browser, because it's lightning fast, if you're using anything as mentioned before, the screen is not OLED. While I'm not someone that cares an awful lot about OLED, especially when it comes down to a relatively budget tablet, it would have been nice to have, and it feels like they could have maybe omitted a couple of things to ad doled. But I don't know the screen itself paired with the sound that they managed to back into. It is very impressive.

I think audio is something that is often overlooked when using a tablet, and they've really got it right here. When you order the tablet you'll notice, that it does not come with a case included. If you want to pick up Samsung's book cover, you can, but it's an extra 59 pounds. I was lucky enough that I bought this just after the launch, so I was actually eligible for a free book cover which arrived a couple of weeks later, and I've been very impressed with it. It's not a keyboard cover and Samsung aren't making a keyboard cover of their own.

So if you are to pick up a keyboard cover, you'll have to get a Bluetooth connected keyboard from someone like Logitech or another random brand on Amazon when it comes to the overall user experience in terms of using the android software, I'm a big fan of android, but I prefer android as close to stock android as possible. My last phone before my current iPhone was the Google Pixel and I loved that version of android just clean, no nonsense, no Bixby! Sadly, this does have Samsung's one UI overlaid on android. That does mean that there's a few random Samsung, browsers and galaxy stores and Bixby user interface is a totally subjective thing, so you might be a Samsung user, and you're a big fan of the Samsung user interface in general me personally, I just stow it away same thing with my iPhone. I just push all the apple stuff into one corner, and then I implement all the Google. Apart from more recently, Google Chrome I've now just shunted off when I use Microsoft Edge instead on to the cameras.

If you are a tablet, camera enthusiast, which I don't think you exist, but if you do hello nice to meet you, my name's George, as I mentioned before, the tablet comes equipped with two cameras, one on the rear, which is eight megapixels and one on the front which is five megapixels. I went out on a walk the other day and I thought I'll take a couple of photos and a couple of videos to compare the rear camera with the iPhone 11 and the Google Pixel 2. I think when compared to these it's quite easy to see that it's a perfectly good camera. Looking at these side by side, you can tell straight away that the tablet camera is a tablet camera and, if you're taking photos with a tablet outside I've seen people do it at tourist destinations to be fair. At the same time as just you've got a phone, you've got a phone or a camera.

The tablet is not the convenient option to use same goes for the video on the back camera. I mean it's perfectly fine, but it's nothing. It's nothing! Amazing! I mean the cameras, don't need to be included. I personally think that the front-facing camera is the most important because when using it for webcam on Zoom calls- and things like that, it has proved to be actually really, really useful, especially with the book cover. It's quite a nice little video conference device.

It's a nice experience. I like it. Also, here are some selfies of me with the tablet versus the iPhone and the pixel 2. There. You go that's my early morning, selfie for you on the tablet, the tablet yang.

If you enjoyed that when using the front-facing camera for webcam, it's pretty similar to an iPhone, it's actually there's nothing particularly bad about it or good about it. In a webcam capacity, it's perfectly fine. I'm used to a 2013 MacBook pros webcam, which is really hideously bad, so having it. Next to this is actually perfectly fine, so we need to answer this question. Who is this tablet for coming in at 350 quid without a cover which you will ultimately buy a cover, but that's up to you how much you want to spend on that coming in at 350 pounds.

This tablet sits quite comfortably between the higher end android tablets and like the Amazon fires and the lower end android tablets, but it's very much in the android pricing spec once you start looking at the apple pricing spec to get the base level something equivalent with an Apple Pencil included, you're going to spend 100 150 pounds more. I personally think this does everything a tablet is expected to do and a little more with the inclusion of the s pen and fantastic audio. For me, I see it as a great round. The house tablet in terms of anyone can pick up and use it, and it has certain niche us abilities that are very, very nice to have outside a smartphone a laptop or a desktop PC. I think this fits very comfortably for people who are on a budget who don't have super high power.

Professional needs some light media consumption, even some light gaming. This will suit you very nicely now who isn't it for when you're looking at a tablet or any piece of tech, it's very important to ask yourself: what do I need, and what am I going to use it for? Are you going to be using this for very high power professional tasks? Will it be used every single day as your primary device for delivering client work? Are you looking at an iPad Pro? That's 1, 000 pounds plus, because I think if you fit that bill, if you're already considering something that is three plus times the price, this maybe isn't for you, but if you think an iPad Pro sounds great, but I don't need it. I don't really want to spend that much then. This is where this fits in. That's essentially where it fit in for me, and I have not been disappointed at all since purchasing this tablet.

I've used it for everything I anticipated using it for and then a little extra as I've started playing Call of Duty mobile, and I actually think it's great I'd like to quickly touch on why I personally bought this tablet and not someone's ever really had much of a want for a tablet in the past. Until about a year or so ago, when I went freelance as a video marketer for myself, I'm someone who has a background in TV production so coming from that world. I have a bit of a want for hyper organization in terms of my shooting days in terms of shot lists and storyboards and things of that nature. So for me, this tablet is actually fit into a place where a printer printed ink paper, a clipboard and pencils would be required. For me, this tablet has essentially replaced all those things, and it's fully interactive and connected to the internet all the time.

Most recently I've been using on a music video. I used this for showing the shot list when we were on the day, taking things off in different colors and making adjustments that we could then just erase on the screen like easy-peasy. It was really, really nice, and then I've also used it in the edit in terms of going through each shot and making sure I've got things where they need to be on the timeline. That is one of many ways I'm going to be using this going forward. For me, this feels like a very worthwhile investment as someone who is a tech head, if I can avoid having excess paper on a set with me and worrying where's that paper where's this paper I'd rather have a tablet that I'm always going to know where it is because I care about it, and it costs more than paper.

For me, it's a very specific random niche purchase and everything else around it in terms of using apps like notion and then a little of gaming and watching Netflix and going on Zoom calls has all been a bonus. I hope you've enjoyed this video if you found it helpful at all or have any questions about Samsung Galaxy tab, s6 lite drop a comment down below and leave a like on this video and if you haven't already remember to subscribe to the channel until next time, I'm out I love you.

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