Samsung Galaxy NotePRO 12.2 review 2014

Introduction

There may be a time inside a person’s existence once they request themselves how they have continued to be productive to date with no 12″ stylus-carrying tablet with very high definition display. That’s exactly the moment Samsung is betting on if this introduced the Galaxy NotePRO – the biggest person in its Note family, that perhaps began the entire large-screen mobile phone swoop with the development of the very first phablet.

 

Samsung argues the 12.2” NotePRO offers PC-like productivity in present day mobile age that blurs the lines between computing device segments, and when we consider the specs of the Android tablet, the organization includes a point, so let us preview what’s going to be available using the newcomer within the Note portfolio, a little hints from your prototype unit.

 

Design

Samsung has utilized the substitute leather look with stitching accents developed using the Note 3 once more. It perhaps gives its electronic products a far more buttoned-lower and complicated look than sheer plastic, and we must say you may be misled it’s a leather notepad searching from afar. It’s still plastic, but better to touch when compared to a glossy coat. Glossy, however, is providing more traction for the hands, because it just stays for your fingers, whereas the leatherlike back here’s more slippery. There’s a metallic-searching rim all around the sides from the NotePRO, further adding up to the more premium looks.

 

Regardless of the elevated leather pattern with edge stitches, though, named handles to remain in the sub-8mm category, that is where all of the catwalk stars from the tablet arena belong, too. The precise dimension is 11.64 x 8.03 x .31 inches (295.6 x 204 x 7.95 mm), and we’d say this is because compact like a 12-incher could possibly get, while still departing some bezel quietly for resting your thumbs throughout handling. To compare, among the nearest rivals – the The new sony Vaio Tap 11 – sports an 11″ screen, and measures more at 12″ x 7.40″ x .39″.

 

The problem here’s weight, though – at 26.56 oz (753 g), Samsung’s biggest tablet is not feathery to hold around, or retain in your hands for any very long time. Sony’s Tap 11 weighs in at comparable, however it carries an Apple Haswell processor using the particular fan, running full desktop-grade Windows 8.1, along with a full USB 3. port. Whenever you add keyboard folios, such as the one Logitech introduced for that NotePRO, and also you start considering ultra thin and lightweight laptops, like Sony’s Vaio Professional 11, which carry a lot more oomph than Samsung’s tablet with this particular setup.


 

Fortunately, we obtain Samsung’s excellent S Pen stylus using the NotePRO, which sits hidden nicely inside a silo at the very top right corner from the slate, prepared to alternate your productivity urges with doodling sprees. It’s very easy to get or break the rules in, yet feels snug and never shaky within the silo.

 

Display

Samsung is betting on this type of high definition display, which very few products with this particular screen diagonal can offer yet. At 2560×1600, the 12.2″ panel crams 4 million pixels on its surface, which is ample to ensure that the toughest screen purists will not notice any icon or text jaggies, in addition to detail flaws, from the normal viewing distance. We examined it having a macro lens, also it it appears to become from the PenTile variety, because the pixels are arranged inside a diagonal matrix not the same as the conventional “stripe” RGB one, however, you are only able to observe that searching very carefully at solids, and when guess what happens to search for. Samsung calls the brand new screens Super Obvious LCD, that is a expression used because of its LCD screens because the beginning from the original Galaxy S, so do not get your hopes high it’s a completely new screen technology, very different compared to Please-LCD sections on Samsung’s high-res pills recently.

 

At 247ppi, however, this is actually the most pixel density you are able to presently receive from a 12-incher, who can complain concerning the screen. It appears good, includes several modes to select from, for example Movie or Dynamic, but we’ll pass a judgment whenever we obtain a completed unit and run the panel through our screen benchmarks.

 

Samsung Galaxy NotePRO 12.2 review 2014