Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 review -10 months later! By TKI Tech

Hello everyone and welcome to the first episode of let's talk, tech and today, we'll be talking about Samsung's, most current flagship tab. Six now I know that tabbed 6 has been out for some time now, and I purchased this one for myself at the time of release, but I thought I'll review. You know my thoughts and opinions that I've had for using this tablet for so many months. What I'm going to do in this video is talk about why I chose this specific tablet. What I use it for what I like about it and what I don't know. I also bought Samsung's keyboard cover case to go with it, so I'll be discussing my experience with that as well.

I decided to buy a tablet so that I could write all my university notes digitally as had managed to accumulate large piles of folders and papers over my first two years at university. Furthermore, I thought about taking notes on my laptop, but personally I just prefer the experience of writing down my notes, I feel, like I remember them better, so I need not only to buy a tablet, but one with good stylus functions. Nearly everyone I know that uses a tablet at uni is using an iPad of some sort, and so that was my initial preference. The iPad Pro was a little out of budget, though, but the iPad Air with a keyboard cover case and Apple Pencil, seemed like a great bundle. However, I wanted to check if there were any competitive tablets on the android side and that's when I came across the tablet, 6 and immediately, I just fell in love with this design.

It has much, much thinner bezels than the iPad Air, which, to be honest in 2020, is really looking outdated. It also came with the s pen, which is great. I didn't have to buy that separately, like I would have had to do with the Apple Pencil, and it had optional keyboard support, which is something that I was actually really looking for in a tablet. However, not everything is about hardware, and software is arguably more important, or at least as important, so I go a little deeper into the software capabilities of both the iPad and Samsung's tablet. Now the Apple app store has some exclusive applications that you just can't find on android, some of which I really liked, for example, notability an apple exclusive note-taking app that is very popular among students with its wide array of tools and features.

To be honest, I did struggle to find a good alternative on the android side, but I'll save this topic for another video. Now when it came to all other applications, you know social media video streaming gaming. These are pretty well-matched. They didn't really have any problems. Um, you know trying to find anything else.

Google's play store is, is, is vast, it has, you know, an incredible amount of applications and on the whole, you won't really find any problems um trying to get an application that you want now both iPadOS, which is apple's operating system and one UI, which is Samsung's operating system um. Both you know they run incredibly well, so, so smooth um, you know really, really easy just to navigate everything. No glitches, no lagging really, really good. Samsung have come a long way in terms of um optimizing their software. However- and this is a big, however Samsung offered something with their tab, s6 that made up for iPad's superior app store, and that was DEX now I know not.

Everyone is a fan of DEX, but just let me explain: DEX is Samsung's way of making your tablet act more, like a laptop when you put the tablet into DEX mode, which you can see can be done from the drop-down menu or if you have the keyboard attached, you can just use a short key to activate it. It puts the tablet into this desktop, like this Windows desktop like interface, which is great, for you know, multitasking, because what you can do is you now you can open up multiple windows like so, and you can snap them, you can have it split, screened, um likes, and you can, you know you can just do much more in this setting. You know if you wanted to use it as a laptop, which is what I want. The thing is right from the offset. I wanted something thin and light that allow me to take written notes, but that I could also use to type up essays or make PowerPoints when I'm out, I have a very capable laptop, but it's just not the thinnest of devices, and I've never felt comfortable lugging it around.

I wanted a device that functioned as a tablet when I wanted it to, but as a laptop when I needed it to and DEX just did that for me now. Furthermore, I know a lot of the iPads have keyboard functionalities, where you can attach a keyboard to them as well, but their software doesn't accommodate. For that. You know the software doesn't change the Apple iPad. Os really is primarily made for touch input, whereas dex is made for mouse input and keyboard input, and it was ultimately this feature of Samsung's tablet of the tab.

Six that pushed me towards buying this over the iPad Air bundle. So, let's jump out of decks and let's talk about what I like about this tablet. First now, like I mentioned before the tabs 6 design, is its just amazing, with a thin metal body and bezel-less display rounded corners, it really rivals the design of something like the iPad Pro. The tab. Six has four speakers with incredible quality.

They are honestly, like surprisingly loud, like I found this out once when I went to watch a film on my friend's laptop, and he had a pretty brand-new laptop actually, but we actually couldn't hear anything that even on max volume, it just wasn't loud enough, and so we actually ended up having to um link an external speaker to it. So the speakers on this tablet are really, really impressive. You all have any problem, um consuming any media playing any games. It really do you know the stereo aspect of it really engages you in whatever content, um you're, watching or playing another thing I love about the tabs 6 is the included s-pen. It attaches magnetically to the back like so um, and you know it's fairly strong.

Furthermore, it doesn't come off very easily, but I guess, if you do put it in a bag, there is a chance of it being. You know, pushed off, but I still think it's better than having it attached to the sides like you would find on an iPad. The screen quality is the other huge selling point of this tablet. I mean it, it can't, you can't even compare it to the iPad Air. You can compare to the iPad pros, but not not to an apple product of the same um price category, which is the iPad Air um.

The display is a 10.5 inch. Super AMOLED display it's incredibly crisp and incredibly bright as well. Even outdoors, I've had no problem looking at what's on the display. Also, the glass of the tablet is right. On top of the display, there's no air gap like you might find on some of apple's, cheaper, iPads or Samsung's cheaper tablets they're directly on top of each other.

So what that means is that when you're, you know, let's take a note here when you're writing or drawing the tip of the pen looks as if it's touching the display. It doesn't look like it's hovering above the display, which is what you get when you have that that air gap between the glass and the display. Another good thing about this tablet is that it has an under display fingerprint scanner. So if I've got my tablet locked, I can actually unlock it. As you can see with my fingerprint directly onto the screen, now it's not the fastest thing in the world.

I would still say the traditional style of fingerprint scanners. Um are much faster, but it's there, and it's. You know it's an option that you can use now. This facial recognition, which I use most of the time, but you know sometimes say like the tablet- is far away from you, or you know it's just not facing you being able to just put your finger on it and unlock it is just giving you that extra option. Okay.

Now, let's talk about specs the tablet? Six, you know it's its about 10 months old now, so it comes with a pretty outdated, snapdragon 855 processors. But, to be honest, the performance of it hasn't changed since the day I got it. It also comes with six or eight gigabytes of ram, depending on the storage model that you get. This one is six gigabytes but, like I said, the performance has really just been quite amazing. I haven't really found any glitches or hasn't lagged at all.

You know, and I've had no issues, multitasking or playing games. You know load up some Call of Duty and, as you can see, it runs very smoothly and very, very well. Actually, you know no glitches, no lagging the snapdragon 855 processors is still a very capable chip. Now I know that people, including apple love, to rant about the over-the-top performance of their iPad, think about it. These iPad pros are faster than 92 of all the portable PCs sold in the last 12 months.

Now, if you don't have any applications that make full use of apple's, bionic chipsets and to be honest, there aren't that many out there, then I just don't find its worth paying that extra money for processing power that I'm not really ever going to use and another good thing about the tapas six, and I know it looks like I'm making comparisons between. You know Samsung tablets and iPads, but this is not. This is not an android versus apple um kind of video. This is just really. You know my situation, my dilemma that I faced when choosing the tabs 6 or the iPad Air, and this is why I'm making the comparisons I am between this tablet and apple's Apple's iPad.

So, like I was saying, the tabs 6 comes with a SD card slot uh on the side. Here and honestly, you know this is something I guess that you don't know you need until you need. You know when you run out of storage, or you need to transfer files. You just have that option that no Apple devices have, and you know apple charge you much, much more to have higher storage than it would to just buy uh. You know: 64 gigabyte, 128, gigabyte, SD card that you could just pop in here, so you could buy the base model, lower storage of the tablet.

Six, for quite you know, for much less um and then just pop a SD card slot in it now for any iPad fans about to hate on me in the comments section. Don't worry because there are plenty of things that I don't like about this tablet. Firstly, and actually this is quite a major one. It's the screen size of the tablet, six that I don't really like. Unlike the iPad Pro, which goes up to an impressive 12.9 inches, I found the 10.5 inches of the tabbed 6 to be a little cramped, and what further adds to this is the 16 by 10 aspect ratio. Now this aspect ratio is great for media consumption sum, because you know, films are shot in this wider aspect, aspect ratio, so you don't get those black letter boxes, and it makes the film just or whatever content you're watching just that much more engaging, but when it comes to writing and drawing it, just it's just too narrow for me in portrait mode.

So you know personally, I just end up. You know, writing my slides or sorry annotating, my slides um in landscape mode. You know I can just you know jot down any notes that I want here on the side um, whereas if it was in if it was in portrait, I just find you know. I all that real estate is just gone, and it's just taken up by the slide, and I never just got nowhere else. I could write now.

Luckily I should say this that Samsung are rumored to release the tab s7 in two sizes, and one of them should be bigger than the tablet six. So you know I'm looking forward to seeing how that looks. It's great that Samsung's tab six comes with an s pen inside the box, but it just doesn't feel as premium as something like the Apple Pencil or even the pen on Samsung's previous tablet, the tab s4, the plastic just feels like they've recycled it from a children's toy or something now the actual functionality of the pen is great. You know, as you can see, you know it has good pressure, sensitivity, the harder I write, the harder I press, sorry, the thicker the lines are, it has a good palm rejection, so you know you can write and put your palm on the screen, and it won't make any. You know inputs incorrect inputs, but it's just it's just the quality of the pen and the design of the pen.

It feels a little cheap and also the tip of the pen is just a little strange. The body of the pen doesn't gradually flow into the tip. The body is quite flat at the end, and it just it looks like they've stuck a tip onto it. This means that sometimes, when drawing or even writing with too much of a tilt, the tip no longer touches the screen and the pen input stops. This can get annoying if it keeps on happening, especially when drawing now.

Let's talk about the keyboard cover, because there's stuff that I love about it and stuff that I hate now the actual keyboard cover attaches magnetically like such. So I do really like the fact that it comes with a trackpad. I mean it's an incredibly small trackpad and not very comfortable to use, but it's much, much better than not having any kind of trackpad at all. I also like the fact that the back cover and the keyboard are separate, and you can attach the um, the Samsung back cover onto it. Well, they say it's magnetic, but really it's its some kind of suction involved.

So what I like about it is that when you detach it um, you still get this back cover, so you still get the protection on your tablet when you don't want to use the keyboard, whereas something like the apple's magic keyboard um. You know when you detach the iPad, that's it the iPad that has no no protection around it. I mean granted. This is only on the back and the sides are still exposed, but it's much better than having nothing at all. However, what I hate about it is how it attaches.

Samsung have done a to be honest, a poor job um this year in terms of their designing on how this back cover attaches, because, no matter how hard I press against it, it just doesn't fix to it properly, and you know when I, when I put it, if I put the angle a bit too um shallow, I guess it just comes off like so it's its just not a great design in terms of how it sticks onto the tablet. I do hope that next year they come with some either stronger magnets or just some sort of better way for this back panel to just stick onto the back. Now. All in all, the tabs 6 has aged incredibly well with me. The performance in the applications and the interface is just incredibly smooth and that performance hasn't dipped over time.

The screen size is still a bit of an issue, but I've gotten used to it, but I'm still I'm looking forward to that bigger screen size on the tab. S7, the design is still as modern and fresh as it was in 2019, with small bezel and rounded corners. The pen, though, I'm still not a huge fan of it, does the job, and it does it well, but it's not the most comfortable to hold, and it doesn't feel great either. I am happy. I chose this tablet over the iPad, though, because DEX has really allowed me to make the most of this device.

Furthermore, I've been able to sit in a coffee, shop and type on my tablet without it being a hassle. My laptop wouldn't really leave any space on the table. For my coffee, I even used decks when I had to make some quick changes to a PowerPoint presentation. A few moments before I actually had to present the app support hasn't been an issue on the whole, with Google play offering a vast library of applications, admittedly not all optimized for tablet use. For my note, taking I found Microsoft OneNote to be my preferred, my preferred application.

I tried many applications, but in terms of you know, pen, support and organization. I just found that it just did a much, much better job than anything else. On the android side, I may make a future video on the best note-taking apps for android. If that's something that you guys are into, but for now I will leave it here. If you want to buy a reasonably affordable tablet, I mean it's still quite expensive, but if you want a tablet with the ability to use it truly like a laptop, then I would go with a Samsung.

However, I would wait for the top of seven, and you know get that bigger screen and hopefully better pen as well. If you enjoyed this video, please give it a like and subscribe for more like it. I've just started this YouTube channel and your support would mean so much to me. Thanks for watching I'll, see you on the next episode of let's talk, tech.

Source : TKI Tech