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Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE Review: Can It Replace Your Laptop?


Google has lengthy given up on making its personal Android tablets and has type of left it as much as its OEM companions to hold on the torch. Samsung continues to be probably the most energetic in launching new Android tablets yearly, particularly in India. Its newest launch is the Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE, which similar to the FE line of telephones, is designed to supply many of the premium options of the Tab S7 sequence however at a extra reasonably priced value.

We reviewed the top-end Samsung Galaxy Tab S7+ late final 12 months, and it was fairly glorious but in addition very pricey. Is the brand new FE mannequin a worthy price range various? Let’s discover out.

Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE value and variants

The Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE value in India begins at Rs. 46,999 for the bottom variant, with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage. The second variant prices Rs. 50,999 and has 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. Each variants function LTE (4G) connectivity for knowledge and calls, and help expandable storage utilizing a microSD card of as much as 1TB.

Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE design

The Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE seems to be just like its pricier siblings, the Galaxy Tab S7 and Galaxy Tab S7+, which is to say the design is closely “impressed” by Apple’s iPad Pro line of tablets. The all-metal physique feels extremely premium and you may get this gadget in a number of colors, together with Mystic Black, Mystic Silver, Mystic Inexperienced and Mystic Pink, just like the brand new iPad Air. Samsung despatched me a Mystic Black unit, which seemed extra gunmetal than jet black, however I feel it seems to be very good and would not entice a number of smudges or fingerprints. At round 608g, it’s comparatively heavy making it powerful to carry and use for lengthy stretches of time.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE has glorious construct high quality and appears fairly trendy

 

Alongside the flattened sides, you may discover all of the buttons, ports and connectors. There are additionally uncovered antenna bands alongside the sides of the pill for LTE reception. The Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE lacks a headphone jack, which is the very first thing I observed upon analyzing it. I do know it is trendy to take away this from smartphones lately however with a pill this measurement, it ought to have been included. On the proper (or the highest, for those who’re it horizontally), we’ve got the ability and quantity buttons at one finish and a SIM tray on the different. The latter can maintain one Nano-SIM and a microSD card.

You get two AKG-tuned audio system positioned in a method that they provide correct left-right stereo sound when the pill is utilized in panorama orientation. That is two audio system fewer than what you get with the dearer Tab S7 fashions, however Dolby Atmos continues to be supported. There is a USB Kind-C port on the underside, and call pins and grooves on the left for docking the Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE with an elective keyboard case.

The show measures 12.4 inches diagonally with a 16:10 side ratio, similar to the Galaxy Tab S7+. Nonetheless, the decision is a bit decrease at 2,560×1,600 pixels and it is a LCD panel as a substitute of AMOLED. The refresh price can also be a typical 60Hz, which is a bit disappointing. The panel nonetheless will get lots vibrant, distinction is excellent, and HDR movies play simply advantageous. The bezels across the show are evenly thick with rounded corners, and this affords a great place to relaxation your thumb when holding the pill.

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The Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE has a large 10,090mAh battery

 

The entrance digicam is positioned such that it sits above the show when in panorama mode, fairly than the portrait orientation on all iPads. Samsung hasn’t supplied any fingerprint sensor within the Galaxy Tab S7 FE, which I feel was a giant mistake, however we’ll get to that later.

The again of the pill is fairly nondescript aside from a small digicam bump in a single nook. The included S-Pen is bigger than those that include Galaxy Notice smartphones. It has a flattened facet that helps you align it magnetically with both the again of the pill, close to the digicam module, or the proper facet, just under the quantity button. The Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE ships with an S Pen stylus, a USB Kind-A to Kind-C cable, and a 15W charger.

Samsung additionally despatched me the elective Ebook Cowl Keyboard case, which will be bought individually for Rs. 14,999.

Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE specs and software program

The Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE runs on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G SoC. Telephones that we have reviewed with this identical SoC help 5G, however this pill solely works on 4G (LTE) mobile networks. The Galaxy Tab S7 FE can be utilized to make cellphone calls too. Different connectivity options embody dual-band Wi-Fi ac, Bluetooth 5, and all of the anticipated sensors and satellite tv for pc navigation methods. The Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE contains a 10,090mAh battery and quick cost help of as much as 45W, though you may want to purchase a 45W charger individually.

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The Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE ships with the S Pen within the field

 

The pill runs Samsung’s OneUI 3.1 which relies on Android 11. The expertise and options are what you’ll be able to anticipate from any latest Galaxy smartphone, simply supersized for the massive display. The usual interface helps you to speak in confidence to three apps directly in split-screen mode however the process for this can be a bit convoluted. After you have launched the primary app, you may have to open the opposite two through the Edge Panel, a floating carousel of shortcuts. You may should manually populate this floating tray with the apps you want, and you may even arrange mixtures of apps you want to open collectively. It really works nicely, however the preliminary setup is usually a chore.

Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE Ebook Cowl Keyboard, S Pen and Dex

When you’ve determined to purchase a Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE or any of its siblings within the S7 sequence, then you probably wish to do extra with it than merely watch motion pictures or surf the net. Let’s begin with the S Pen, which comes bundled with the pill. It feels nicely constructed, and robotically expenses when it is magnetically hooked up to the pill.

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The S Pen works as you’d anticipate it to and will be hooked up to the again or facet of the Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE

 

The S Pen works as you’d anticipate it to. You may take notes, have your written textual content instantly transformed into typed textual content, and use it in just about anywhere that has a textual content enter discipline. A fast press of the button on the S Pen brings up all of your pen-friendly apps and shortcuts. Samsung has included a limited-time membership to some premium artistic apps corresponding to Clip Studio Paint and Canva Professional, together with some good note-taking apps corresponding to Noteshelf and Samsung Notes.

I am not a lot of an artist so I did not use the S Pen to sketch an entire lot, however I did discover myself utilizing it to take down notes throughout Zoom conferences. The massive show makes it simple to have a video name on one half of the display and your notes app opened on the opposite.

The keyboard case is a bit costly however you may get it at a reduction for those who purchase it with the pill. It has a matte black plastic physique with a flap on one facet that attaches magnetically to the higher half of the pill. When folded, the duvet affords respectable safety for the show and is held in place with magnets, so it does’t flop open when carrying the gadget round. There’s even a slot within the hinge for the S Pen, which is neat.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE sits at a 60 diploma angle when it is docked to the keyboard, which was snug for my utilization. The keys themselves are clicky (even a bit noisy to an extent), nicely spaced, and really snug to sort on.

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The Ebook Cowl Keyboard case is well worth the funding if you’ll be utilizing the Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE for work too

 

Since Samsung had despatched me the Ebook Cowl Keyboard case too, I made a decision to attempt to swap my every day driver laptop computer for this pill for a number of days to see if it may well really change a correct laptop computer. My typical day entails writing, modifying images for the articles I publish, and naturally e mail, Slack, and common Net browsing. It wasn’t the simplest to make use of on my lap, for the reason that complete contraption will get a bit top-heavy, however on a desk or the sofa, I had no points.

There are few obtrusive shortcomings with this keyboard cowl, that are price addressing. Firstly, the keys aren’t backlit, and the letters do not glow at midnight both, which suggests utilizing it underneath dim lighting is difficult. Secondly, there is not any trackpad which suggests you may want to succeed in for the show now and again, both to resize a window in Dex mode, or choose a textual content field to start typing.

The keyboard case for the Samsung Galaxy S7 Tab+ had a trackpad, so it is puzzling why Samsung designed a special one and left this out for the Tab S7 FE. Lastly, one factor that basically aggravated me was that in an effort to use the shortcuts on the perform keys for quantity, brightness, Dex, and so forth, it’s worthwhile to press the Fn button first. I’d have appreciated it to be the opposite method round, or not less than have the choice of selecting the default set off for the perform buttons.

Coming again to my work routine, I used to be fairly pleased with the laptop-like expertise that I received out of the Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE when in Dex mode. There is a really feel of Home windows or macOS to the way in which every part is laid out. You get a taskbar on the backside of the display, to which you’ll pin your favorite apps, a desktop with shortcuts to apps, and a system tray within the backside proper for the time, notifications, and so forth. My USB Kind-C hub was recognised correctly, and through the My Information app, I used to be in a position to copy recordsdata to and from pen drives, copy images from my digicam’s SD card to the pill, and even use exterior gadgets corresponding to a wi-fi mouse.

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A USB Kind-C hub is a should for those who want to simply join all of your peripherals to the pill

 

Regardless that I used to be in a position to get the Samsung Galaxy S7 FE to behave considerably like a laptop computer, I needed to adapt my workflow round Android’s limitations. I used to be in a position to entry all my work instruments with out a difficulty since all of them run in a browser, however little issues corresponding to modifying images in Photoshop Specific is simply not the identical as utilizing the full-blown desktop app. Discovering a workaround for the apps I am used to utilizing on the desktop did sluggish me down, and I did discover myself reaching for my laptop computer for time-sensitive work.

Having mentioned that, I nonetheless assume Samsung Dex is the closest you may get to reaching a desktop-like expertise on an Android pill. It opens any app in a window, and most of them are resizable. You may ‘snap’ a window to suit one half of the show and select one other open app for the opposite half, and so forth.

Nonetheless, there are some limitations too and most of those are to do with the way in which Android is constructed. As an illustration, whilst you can have a number of apps open directly in a number of home windows, whenever you return to an app that was opened beforehand, it would typically “relaunch” inside the identical window. Then there’s the problem of some apps’ full incapacity to adapt to a big show. Slack, as an illustration, is horrible to make use of on an Android pill. Additionally, whenever you exit Dex mode and are available again to it, there is not any assure that each one your apps will nonetheless be within the state you left them in.

Dex is additionally nonetheless a bit tough across the edges, as an illustration, for those who minimise an app, there is not any indication within the dock of what is operating within the background, even when that app is pinned to the dock.

Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE efficiency and battery life

The Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE had no bother with customary pill duties. The Qualcomm SoC was highly effective sufficient for UHD video playback and video games. Asphalt 9: Legends, Battlegrounds Cell India, and the like ran simply advantageous. The pill did get a bit heat however nothing that was unmanageable. Movies seemed excellent too and I discovered myself utilizing this pill so much for watching on-demand content material.

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Video games look and run nice on the Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE

 

The one function that I actually missed is a fingerprint sensor. Face recognition is sluggish and nearly by no means works in low mild. Plus, it’s worthwhile to be in direct line of sight with the digicam for it to work, which isn’t at all times simple for those who’re not sitting at a desk. A capacitive fingerprint sensor within the energy button would have fastened this pointless downside.

The LTE performance within the Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE is unquestionably useful for those who’re prepared to pay for an information plan. Positive, you’ll be able to at all times use your telephone as a hotspot, however seamless switching between Wi-Fi and LTE on a 4G pill ensures you are at all times linked, which is usually a life-saver for those who’re doing delicate work that requires a dependable Web connection.

The cameras on the Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE are serviceable. The 5-megapixel entrance digicam is greater than satisfactory for video conferencing and is miles higher than your common laptop computer webcam. The 8-megapixel rear digicam is strictly common for images however is helpful in terms of scanning paperwork. An LED flash would have actually come in useful for such a use case, particularly when making an attempt to scan paperwork in low mild.

Battery life was excellent. When utilizing Chrome and a little bit of Netflix with about 8-10 hours of screen-on time, I used to be in a position to get by means of practically one full day on a single cost. I may drain the battery faster if I performed a number of video games, however on common, I used to be fairly pleased with the quantity of runtime I received from the pill. I did run our HD video loop take a look at, and it lasted for 13 hours and 47 minutes which is decrease than what I anticipated.

Charging such a big battery with the bundled 15W charger took round three hours, however it does cost faster when linked to a better wattage USB PD charger.

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The Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE is a feature-packed pill for the value and can be utilized for productiveness too, for those who purchase the elective Ebook Cowl Keyboard case

 

Verdict

The 6GB variant of the Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE, which I reviewed, prices Rs. 50,999, which isn’t too dangerous contemplating it has LTE and also you get a stylus within the field. When you add the price of the Ebook Cowl Keyboard case, the full price is kind of equal to purchasing a 128GB iPad (8th Gen), Apple Pencil, and Good Keyboard. Of the 2 combos, I feel Samsung affords higher worth as a result of LTE help, higher stylus performance, and a extra productive atmosphere because of Dex.

Issues aren’t good although. I actually missed having a fingerprint scanner because the face recognition is painfully unreliable. There was additionally no have to take away the headphone jack. Lastly, little issues corresponding to a better refresh price show or an LED flash for the digicam would have made the utilization expertise higher.

In case you are on the lookout for a laptop computer substitute answer for fundamental productiveness work, I feel the Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE with the elective keyboard case ought to fulfill most of your wants. It isn’t good and you will most likely have to adapt your workflow round Android’s limitations, however it’s nonetheless one of the crucial feature-rich options you may get at this value.

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