Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 taking on the Kindle Fire

Samsung Galaxy Tab

Summary

Until Amazon's Kindle Fire hit the market late last year, no Android-powered tablet had made even the smallest of impacts on the marketplace. With its $199.99 price tag and customized user interface, the Kindle Fire was a real success.

Samsung is now aiming to grab a significant piece of that success by building its own low-cost Android tablet. The catch is that Samsung's new entry, the Galaxy Tab

2 7.0, looks anything but low-cost. In fact, it features a much better spec sheet than the Kindle Fire, and uses the same streamlined body design as its more expensive brethren.


With a price of $249.99 for the Wi-Fi-only model, the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 is an instant best buy. And when you consider that it is one of the few devices on the market to offer Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich as its operating system, it's even more of a steal.

Call Quality /Battery Life

A strange thing happened during our phone calls on the LG Optimus T, and that was the existence of some noise, white noise. It was not a big mistake, and we were still able to hear loud and clear, but the overlapping white noise was a bit repulsive. This was one of the few arenas in which we prefer the BlackBerry Curve 3G. One nice thing about the LG Optimus T, that it is appointed to a position WiFi, but that was not on our test unit, waiting to make an update that function possible.
Battery life was not as impressive as the Curve 3G, but of course the Optimus T has much more screen-related measures breathable. The Optimus T was still a decent battery life, lasting the day with around 40% battery life at the end.

Image/ Video Quality

Like the BlackBerry Curve 3G, the LG Optimus T has to offer not much in the way of digital image processing. We get a 3.2-megapixel camera without flash or camera button. The LG Optimus T 3G wins over the curve in the camera department, however, based on its video performance and camera interface.

First of all, we get Android suite of camera controls that apply to us exposure, white balance can be adjusted, as negative and solarization filter, focus, and much more. We also shoot 640×480 video resolution in a larger, compared with the curves 3G 320×240 resolution max.

Images were a little too much in-camera sharpening, but the color was more natural and less noise when compared to the Curve 3G. The LG Optimus T, was, despite its lack of a flash is not an unpleasant amount of noise in low light, even if it exposes difficulties with such a small sensor had. Videos were the same, and we decided to shoot in night mode have no chance we get. For a beginner-phone, the LG Optimus T was not too shabby in digital imaging, but it is still at the base of the totem pole.