在這款平板上,短邊屏幕的邊緣很窄。當然這是好的,這樣可以使平板的尺寸不至于過大,但是在你瀏覽電子書或看電影時可能會比較難把握。
•相機
通常,無論怎樣,你用平板進行拍照都會看起來十分滑稽。但是這款平板的相機不同,在它的背面還有一個閃光燈。很顯然,Android平板在硬件創新方面取得了很大的成果。
但還有一些比其平板本身更有用。硬件設計只是你考慮買平板的三個關鍵因素之一,其他兩個是軟件和系統。
軟件:
另Android平板電腦制造商十分痛苦的事實是,ipad,即使經過了這么些年,仍然是最好的平板電腦的應用程序。ipad比Android平板擁有更多的應用程序,它們通常是更好的。公司還傾向于釋放應用程序首先為ipad。例如,Adobe公司最新免費的平板電腦應用程序,聲音,線,和素描,都是ipad僅有。為解決應用程序的情況,三星正編寫自己的軟件和基于標準的Android操作系統上自己的系統。這里有一些新選項卡上的元素:
•papergarden是購買和閱讀雜志中心應用程序。你有24個目錄選擇,從鉚接閱讀喜歡鄉村生活,紅皮書,HGTV雜志,和奧茲醫生好生活。
•簡介是一個側面板顯示你的一天,一目了然:今天的事件,股票報價,報警,和三種你最喜歡的網站的書簽。
•值守是三星的遙控電視和其他娛樂設備的應用程序。
•分屏。像在其他三星平板電腦,這一個讓你屏幕上的兩個應用程序之間的分離,很方便的。例如,你可以閱讀你的電子郵件,于此同時觀看視頻。然而,只有13個應用程序支持分屏。幸運的是,他們是你最經常使用的配置-電子郵件,視頻,音樂,Chrome瀏覽器,Gmail,地圖的,等等。
人性化:
這些天,問題不在于“我應該買什么平板?而是“應該購買哪個人性化平板?每個公司,蘋果,亞馬遜,谷歌,微軟,三星都是努力使其產品的一個無縫的整體的一部分。 你的日歷,地址簿,和照片都是同步在您的設備從一個單一的公司,例如。各公司保持的歌曲,一個在線商店的電視節目,電影,最好是在自己的小玩意兒。各公司正試圖將其手機,平板電腦,電腦,和手表一起工作。
例如,三星第一款智能手表,只用三星,三星的手機和平板電腦模型(新Android戴手表,其中之一是由三星與任何Android手機一起連接)。蘋果即將推出的智能手表,毫無疑問,只會與iPhone和iPad的工作。 選項卡上的片,三星提供所謂的sidesync。如果你擁有一個三星Galaxy S5的電話,這個功能可以讓你查看你的手機屏幕上的平板屏幕。一個臨時的,私人的WiFi連接兩個設備。
這個想法是,你的手機可以穿過房間,也許還在充電,而你在平板電腦和手機的應用程序可以運行,拖動的手機和平板之間的照片,甚至回答平板上的電話。它只需要較少的步驟就可運行,這個技巧需要確切的三星平板模型和精確的三星手機。但是對于真正的三星家庭,它可以很方便地進行連接工作。
一開始,可以是谷歌/ Android系統的三星同步,先是Android產品放入,然后再有三星自己的生態系統,它具有一些獨特的特點,但真正限制你只能使用三星的產品。
所有的中斷減少使用你的新機器的樂趣。
在太多的部門:有太多的軟件堆在軟件,整個事件是找出變硬,難以控制。
平板需要兩種省電模式?
它需要一個帳戶的系統和一個孩子的方式?
我們需要廣告主屏幕上的應用程序?
平板需要客戶提供兩種Web瀏覽器?
它需要兩個不同的設置應用程序嗎?兩個相互競爭的音樂應用程序?對Gmail和其他電子郵件帳戶的單獨的應用程序?
然后有聲轟鳴的但不工作的特點。如選項卡上的指紋掃描儀(以及Galaxy S5手機)。
它不是像iPhone上的一個,你只是用你的手指觸摸到它;相反,你必須滑動你的手指穿過它,在合適的角度和速度,如果你想打開你的平板的話。
根據中國中國進出口網www.zxy2021.com對各類平板用戶的統計數據表明,用戶們普遍關心的問題主要有以下幾個:平板的尺寸,續航能力,安裝系統,硬件配置,材質,品牌等。至于一個平板做的是不是成功,關鍵還在于能不能得到消費者的普遍認可。
評測來源:中國進出口網 www.zxy2021.com ; 亢豐磊/編譯
Let’s just face it: Tablets may now be fully baked.
They’ve pretty much reached their maturity. There’s not much more anyone can add to them.
It happens. Sometimes, products fulfill their destinies and stop growing. We don’t complain about the lack of breakthrough new features in lawnmowers, toasters, or even PCs, do we?
Samsung is only making the sense of stagnation worse by flooding the market with very similar tablet models — nine different Android tablets this year. Trying to describe and review them, let alone trying to choose one to buy, gets exhausting.
But here’s a shot: a review of the latest hot tablet, the Samsung Galaxy Tab S.
The hardware
Samsung has done an excellent job on the hardware of this device. It’s available in two sizes, $500 for the 10.5-inch model, $400 for the 8.4-incher. (Those are the 16-gigabyte, WiFi-only models. $50 more buys you 32 gigabytes; no cellular version is available yet.)
Here’s what’s good about these devices:
• Weight. Weight makes a huge difference in an object you have to holdall the time you’re using it. The Samsung tablet is much lighter than the iPad: two-thirds of a pound instead of a whole pound. It’s slightly thinner, too.
(Unfortunately, one way Samsung made this tablet so light is by building it from plastic instead of metal. The back is cheesy dimpled plastic, pocked by logos and fasteners, which are designed to attach to special cases.)
• Expansion. You can expand the storage of this tablet by buying a microSD card and popping it into the slot. (iPads, by contrast, are not expandable.) Note that the Android operating system doesn’t permit you to store apps on a memory card — only files, like music and movies.
• Battery life. The usual: You’ll get a couple of days of typical use out of it.
• Screen. Nobody exactly complains about the screens of existing tablets, but this one looks wonderful. The sharpness, brightness, and color saturation are excellent. (It uses something called AMOLED technology.)
On this tablet, the margins around the screen are very narrow on the short sides. Small margins are nice, of course, because they make the tablet itself smaller, but they’re also tricky to hold when you’re trying to watch a movie or read a book.
• Camera. No matter what, you’re going to look goofy using a tablet to take pictures. But in any case, the camera on this tablet is very good; it even has a flash on the back, which is rare on tablets.
Clearly, the makers of the Android tablets are doing a wonderful job of hardware innovation. (See also: Sony’s even thinner, lighter, waterprooftablet, the Xperia Z2.)
But there’s more to the usefulness of a tablet than its physical self. The hardware design is only one of the three key things that matter when you buy a tablet. The other two are the software and the ecosystem.
The software situation
The painful truth for Android tablet makers is that the iPad, even after all these years, is still the best tablet for apps. There are more apps for the iPad than for Android tablets, and they’re usually better. Companies also tend to release apps first for the iPad. For example, Adobe’s latest free tablet apps, Voice, Line, and Sketch, are all iPad-only.
Samsung is doing what it can to address the app situation by writing its own software and overlaying its own design on the standard Android operating system. Here are some of the elements on the new Tab S:
• Papergarden is a central app for buying and reading magazines. You have a catalog of 24 to choose from — riveting reading like Country Living, Redbook, HGTV Magazine, and Dr. Oz The Good Life.
• Quick Briefing is a side panel that displays your day at a glance: today’s events, stock quotes, alarms, and the bookmarks for your three favorite websites.
• WatchON is Samsung’s remote-control app for TVs and other entertainment equipment.
• Split screen. As on other Samsung tablets, this one lets you split the screen between two apps, which can be very handy. You can read your email while watching a video, for example. However, only 13 apps work on a split screen. Fortunately, they’re the ones you’d use most often in that configuration — Email, Video, Chrome browser, Gmail, Music, Maps, and so on.
The ecosystem
These days, the question is not “What tablet should I buy?” It’s “Which ecosystem should I buy into?”
Each company — Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Samsung — is working hard to make its products part of a seamless whole. Your calendar, address book, and photos are all synchronized across your gadgets from a single company, for example. Each company maintains an online store for songs, TV shows, and movies that works best on its own gadgets. Each company is trying to make its phones, tablets, computers, and watches work together.
The first Samsung smartwatches, for example, worked only with Samsung phone and tablet models (the new Android Wear watches, one of which is made by Samsung, work with any Android phone). Apple’s upcoming smartwatch, no doubt, will work only with iPhones and iPads.
On the Tab S tablet, Samsung offers something called SideSync. If you own a Samsung Galaxy S5 phone, this feature lets you view your phone’s screen on the tablet’s screen. A temporary, private WiFi connection hooks up the two.
The idea is that your phone can be across the room, perhaps in its charger, while you’re on the tablet — and you can run the phone’s apps, drag photos between phone and tablet, and even answer a call on the tablet. It should take fewer steps to get going, and this trick requires this exact Samsung tablet model and that exact Samsung phone. But for the true-blue Samsung family, it could be handy.
So there’s the Google/Android ecosystem, which the Samsung Android products fit into, and then there’s Samsung’s own ecosystem, which has some unique features but really limits you to using Samsung’s products.
The classiness czar
The problem with this tablet, as with so many Samsung efforts, is that nobody at the company is in charge of class, beauty, or elegance.
You can’t move two inches on this tablet without being interrupted by some unnecessary warning or dialog box or license agreement.
All the interruptions diminish the joys of using your new machine.
Also in the Too Much department: There’s so much software piled on software here that the whole affair is becoming hard to figure out, hard to navigate.
Does a tablet need two power-saving modes? Does it need both an Accounts system and a Kids’ mode?
Do we need ads for apps on the Home screen?
Does a tablet need to ship to customers with two Web browsers?
Does it need two different Settings apps? Two competing music apps? Separate apps for Gmail and other email accounts?
The whole thing screams of design by committee — or, worse, design by rival marketing teams — and it’s nuts.
And then there are the features that sound whizzy but simply don’t work.Like the fingerprint scanner on the Tab S (and on the Galaxy S5 phone). It’s not like the one on the iPhone, wher you just touch your finger to it; instead, you have to swipe your finger across it, at the right angle and speed, if you want it to unlock your tablet. It’s balky. You deserve better for your $500.
You know what Samsung should really do? Hire a “classiness czar.” There needs to be somebody available to pull the Stop handle, somebody at the end of the line who can say: “Guys, guys — we alreadyhave a music app. Why are we building another one?”
Or, “Hey, people — why don’t we consolidate all the license agreements and permissions boxes into one? Or figure out a way to eliminate them entirely, as Apple has done?”
Until that happens, Samsung will continue to produce tablets, like this one, with extremely impressive hardware — and a hot mess of software that holds these machines back from becoming truly great.