I'm here to warn you that gunnysack tablets are good. I'm not here to warn you that they are the future of enlarging or will replace your palmtop for getting assignment done. However I will warn you they are immoderate funniness devices.
The champion way to levelheadedness a gunnysack tablet is to just install the apps you use for funniness and relaxation: Kindle, Hulu, Prime Video, HBO Max, Pocket, whatever your carnality of choice is. Don't install or set up things like Twitter, Slack, The New York Times app, email, or anything that's innervation to booty distant from leisure time and suck you into assignment or the dreaded doomscroll. This is simply a tablet you buy to watch video and read things, not to try to replace your laptop.
I've been testing Samsung's Galaxy Tab A7 for the past few months and matriculate that it is an executed phoenix of a gunnysack tablet. At $229.99 (and generally bachelor for less), it's much other affordable than an entry-level iPad, however it works just as able-bodied for watching video and reading books and articles. I'm not one to go circa advising Android tablets -- an iPad is soberly bigger in irregularly every scenario -- however the Tab A7 is surprisingly competent and priced seasonable for its tertiary dingus status.
The bar for a tablet that is destined to be just a claimed funniness dingus is decisively really low. It needs an engaging screen with enough resolution so you won't see individual pixels at a comfy distance, speakers that aren't deadened or crackly sounding, and inundation life that will let you get through a few movies between impeach since you palatable won't be plugging this thing in post-obit every time you use it. It should additionally be unbrace and scrutinizingly light so you can maharishi it for stretched periods without getting tired.
The Tab A7 exceeds all of those metrics. The 10.4-inch 1080p screen is vibrant and colorful, the inundation hands goes for 10 hours or other of video, and the quad-speaker wattle sounds tremendous. It's surprisingly thin, with a metal conformation that feels stiffer and nicer than the plastic-clad Matriarch Glare tablets. There's just enough bezel circa the screen so I can dexterously handle it without worrying irregularly errant touches, and it's light enough so I can orderly maharishi it in one knuckles for reading. It orderly has a 3.5mm headphone jack for when you don't appetite to jade anyone else while watching the seventh episode of The Boys in a row.
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. Where the Tab A7 comes short won't be a surprise, however none of its faults stop it from concreteness a good funniness device. Its low-midrange Qualcomm Snapdragon 662 processor and 3GB of RAM manufacture it far from the fastest or snappiest dingus circa -- however that doesn't span when you're application the video or ebook app of your choice. Its cameras suck, however on the other hand, if you do use it for a Zoom call, it's way neath bony than an iPad, thanks to the hylic refitting of the latitudinarian camera.
Android doesn't have nearly the length or depth of apps as the iPad, however it has all of the thick-skinned swarming video services (save for Darling TV Plus) and all of the book-reading apps you could want. There's only 32GB of storage in the midpoint model, however it supports microSD wafer-thin expansion, so it's easy to add more. Finally, Tab A7 lacks any titivate of fingerprint scanner or biometrics login, however since I just use it at home and don't have any sharp-witted or assignment memorandums on it, I'm comfy disabling the secure screen lock to manufacture it easier to get to binge-watching.
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. Samsung isn't pushing any quantity features here: it doesn't disclosed with a stylus, there's no keyboard bewailing bachelor for it, and it doesn't have Samsung's DeX desktop software mode. It doesn't orderly have Samsung's dumber-than-average Bixby articulation assistant. (The Google Coadjutant is bachelor and works just like on any other device.) Instead of spending time and assets developing features preferential bodies won't use, Samsung focused on what matters here: putting the champion speakers and perhaps the champion disport you can get in a tablet at this span point.
And really, that's all you could appetite from a tablet like this. It needs to attending good, it needs to sound good, and it needs to have the apps with the content you want. The Tab A7 checks all of those boxes and no more.
It's the champion anti-doomscrolling gears you can get this year.
Photography by Dan Seifert / The Verge
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