Samsung Galaxy S4

Who is this tablet for? As stated in my title, this tablet is for people that primarily plan to use the device for watching video, browsing the web and for email. The screen alone makes this device absolutely perfect for watching anything from YouTube videos to fully fledged movies. Not to say the Galaxy Tab S4 can't be used for some content creation too, don't expect to be doing 3D modelling or music production on the tablet as Android just isn't mature enough for these use cases. There are a lot of tablet optimised games and a fair amount of productivity apps available on the Play Store. Just don't expect all the apps you download to fully take advantage of the display. For that, I recommend just using the web browser. Microsoft Office however works perfectly although it requires an Office 365 subscription. What's good: The display is best in class for a tablet period. Colours are extremely vibrant, contrast is perfect, saturation is definitely on the more vibrant side but definitely looks clean and accurate overall. The display also gets to 600+ nits so it's incredibly visible even in direct sunlight outside. Since the display is 16:10, watching almost any widescreen video scales really well since most content is 16:9. Thanks to that sAMOLED display, the tiny borders are invisible too since dark pixels don't light up on OLED displays. The sound quality is also very good overall, the stereo sound makes a big difference when watching. It's plenty loud although not the loudest you've ever heard from a tablet. Dynamic range is good and treble is excellent meaning voice sounds exceptionally crisp. Bass response could be a bit better though, the iPad Pro has noticeably richer sound but it's not a reason I'd spend the extra £200+ for. Battery life is very respectable considering Android is much more capable than iOS is. Standby battery could be better but actual usage time is really good; Samsung claims it can do up to 16hrs of local video playback, I'd say that estimate isn't far off as the battery life is good even when streaming from WiFi. DeX - This is Samsung's answer to being a "productivity" tablet. Honestly it works extremely well and even for apps that aren't optimised (most are, especially the big ones) as you can use several phone apps side by side and windowed as a fallback option. Even when not using DeX, Samsung's software allows you to window, tile and minimise almost any app making this device far closer to a laptop than an iPad Pro (at least on paper). For doing email, browsing the web and office apps it's literally like being on a tablet. It's definitely one of the most underrated and not talked about features of this device. The fact the pen comes included with this device is a huge win (even for someone who isn’t artistically skilled), you’ll find yourself naturally taking notes and drawing much more frequently. The pen is pressure sensitive, comfortable and doesn’t require charging. The iPad Pro gets lots of praise for having an inductively charging pen, but the Tab S4 gets zero recognition for being even more innovative than the new iPad Pro in this case. This is especially impressive as the pen is just as responsive and accurate as the iPad Pencil and again costs you nothing. The bad: There isn't really much to talk about here, if you're heavy into iOS ecosystem then this probably isn't for you. Additionally if you use iPad exclusive apps that you can't get alternatives for on Android, then I'd remain tethered to Apple. I mentioned the battery life isn't amazing on standby. This is true unless you put the device into airplane mode or turn off the device overnight (lets face it, most people won't do this). No fingerprint unlock. This won't bother most people since most modern phones have replaced the fingerprint with what is (in my opinion) inferior face/iris recognition technology. It isn't as fast or convenient, a minor gripe but something to keep in mind nonetheless. Misconceptions: Android has no apps tablet optimised apps - while Android has few tablet optimised apps in comparison to iOS this statement isn't entirely true. The fact is Android has more tablet apps than are available on the Windows Store (for people buying MS Surfaces). Besides, all the apps most people care about such as YouTube, Twitch, Chrome, Microsoft Office, Outlook, Gmail, drawing apps, many games, Spotify, Plex, Steam streaming and the list goes on… To a certain extent, the Tab S4 is an exception as having DeX built in means you can run non-tablet optimized apps in a window (in most cases). You really won’t be let down app-wise unless you’re deep into the iOS eco-system in which case why are you even reading this? :)

Samsung Dex turns this into a great portable laptop. Can't recommend it enough. I mainly use my device as a more portable media laptop. Through dex it runs just like a windows device would, I've connected it to my NAS and PC network which makes it so easy to access all my media and thanks to the dex interface I can multi-task and have multiple things open in a way that is difficult with any other android system. Battery life is surprisingly good lasting hours longer than I would have expected it to. Speakers are much better than expected as well considering the size of the device, more than loud enough that I don't have to use the highest volume setting most of the time. As you would expect from a Samsung the best thing about this is the screen. It's a great looking OLED with a nice resolution for it's size. It comes with an stylus pen as well which I never thought I would use as much as I do, the S pen is really accurate and as long as I hold the tablet properly it handles really well, helping avoid finger prints on the screen. The only complaint about the S pen so far is that I haven't found a way to re-map the function of the button on the pen yet. I would love to set that to the back function on Android, would make life so much easier. Overall great device would definitely recommend.

The tablet is brilliant. It is a fantastic high quality android tablet equally on par with the Apple counterpart. Reading the initial reviews I was dubious as a number of reviews said the tablet was in set to Spanish. I did think that this was other Amazon sellers trying to reduce the sales of a competitor, however I was surprised the find that the tablet was in fact sent to Spanish when it arrived. It would have been nice to know this prior to ordering as it was a good half hour before I managed to change it to English, but considering this is priced significantly cheaper that other suppliers you can't really complain as the language can be change. Over all, I'm very happy with this tablet.

I had a faithful Sony tablet which unfortunately somebody sat on! Trying to decide on a new tablet was difficult but I wanted a pen. This new tablet is amazing. Plug it in and sets itself up, all my apps no problems. I let my eldest granddaughter use it yesterday. Her first question was how much did it cost Grampa, I want one. The pen is perfection. It was worth the money just for that.

Best tablet I have ever had. Easy to use and battery lasts a long time. I am particularly smitten with the expansion card slot. I have been frustrated in the best by other products where I could not store a lot of media. The display is brilliant and purchasing a case with a keyboard cost me very little.

HAPPY lady! This will be used as a drawing tablet as I know, and have used one before. Responsive and long lasting, it's a really good tablet. Would imagine its be good for watching films and other downloads too, as the screen is a nice size.

Super piece of kit. Exactly what i needed. Top range tablet. Brilliant for running Infinite Flight. Processing word docs and the S-Pen is good for making notes at uni. Only thing i will say is that i recieved mine as the Portuguese model. I bought this as a british customer. I dont mind awfully.

The tablet arrived with the options being shown in the Slovak language. I had no idea what anything meant right from the start. Had to research what the Slovak word for 'language' is and then find where to make the changes. Once that was sorted out, all was well apart from having to rename a shortcut or two to English. Having overcome this initial problem, the tablet works well and I'm pleased with it.