Android Tablet: Samsung Galaxy 2 Tablet

Tuesday, 23 October 2012

Samsung Galaxy 2 Tablet

There are tablets and seven-inch tablets and portable devices that wear their Android affiliation on their sleeve, but Samsung has gone and combined the best of all that has come before and pushed it someplace decidedly newer and better with their new Samsung Galaxy Tab 2. As the name will tell, the two models in this line represent a second generation of Samsung's popular Galaxy Tab, and the 7.0 iteration we tried affirms the evolution away from the ten-inch range and toward a more compact, increasingly common seven-inch screen size that is more affordable and generally easier to handle. (For those who prefer the larger form factor, Samsung does also offer a 10.1-inch second-gen model.)

Of course, the user experience is only going to be as good as the operating system, and the Galaxy Tab 2 arrives running Google's Android 4.0 OS, codenamed "Ice Cream Sandwich." This is further enhanced by Samsung's own "TouchWIZ" interface, which combines a series of gesture-based controls with a collection of "Mini Apps" These mini's--which include an alarm clock and world clock, calculator, music player, task manager, scheduler and more--are always just a tap away via the ubiquitous bottom taskbar, and any of them can open atop whatever else we're currently doing, for seamless multitasking.