While this test is about the laptop replacement capability, these are both tablets at heart. What makes this type of combination shine over real laptops is the ability to take the tablet off the keyboard and use it as a slate. The advantage of being a wireless keyboard means the Galaxy Tab can be simply lifted off the keyboard and used as a tablet.
When it's needed as a laptop replacement, the Tab can be placed in the slot on the keyboard and it's back to typing. The ThinkPad Tablet is plugged into the keyboard, and it can be difficult to remove from the case for use as a tablet.
Plugging it back into the keyboard is easy enough, but removing it not so much. It is obviously designed to be left in the keyboard case most of the time. Both keyboards have special tablet control keys designed to make interacting with the Honeycomb interface easier. These keys allow you to jump to the Home screen, and do things like control the tablet's volume if listening to music in the background.
The two keyboards are very similar in capability in this area. The ThinkPad Tablet Keyboard Folio has a feature that the Tab keyboard lacks, an optical trackpad in the middle of the keyboard.
This makes for a user experience that is much more like using a "real" laptop. Being touch tablets, Honeycomb doesn't have a cursor on the screen but when you touch the ThinkPad's trackpad one appears on the tablet screen.
The cursor works as it does on laptops, and it is easy to work with the interface without taking your hands off the keyboard. I didn't think this would be a big deal at first, but quickly found the trackpad to be a welcome feature. While this special feature fits the needs of the professional worker likely to be using the tablet as a laptop replacement, a design decision by Lenovo prevents taking quick notes with the pen while in the keyboard case.
The app included for taking ink notes only works in portrait orientation, rendering it impossible to jot a quick note while in the keyboard case. What might be an advantage over other tablets being used as a laptop replacement, that is not the case. I have come to realize that many folks require style in the gadgets they use. For these users it is not enough to be a productive gadget, it must look good while doing it.
While the Galaxy Tab is an attractive tablet, and the keyboard has a nice brushed aluminum case, the ThinkPad in the folio looks more stylish to me. The portfolio is nice leather and can be carried in the hand, looking very professional. The ThinkPad Tablet in this case looks at home in the conference room, more so than the Tab in its keyboard case.
This makes the decision between the two tablets even harder, as price is not a factor. I find both the Galaxy Tab and the ThinkPad Tablet to be decent laptop replacements, with a nod to the latter due to the superior keyboard. The ability to use the trackpad as a laptop is also an advantage over the Galaxy Tab. The Galaxy Tab is a thinner, lighter tablet compared to the ThinkPad Tablet, and if those are major considerations it gets the nod.
It is easier to remove from the keyboard and use as a tablet, too. The keyboard is as good as a laptop's, the trackpad makes it work like a laptop. In the US, you'll get Samsung's 1. Until performance test results are in, don't automatically assume that eight cores are better than four.
This model I'm testing is the 32GB variety. The Note Multitasking wonderland Samsung has given both its new tablet and Note 3 phone a handful of smart, important productivity enhancements through new stylus software. Any time you pull the S Pen from its holster, or click the S Pen button on the side while hovering over the screen, the new Air Command fans out with a palette of five shortcuts you can take.
Air Command fans out as a task shortcut. On the left, a fresh preview pane and look for your notes. Action memo can "read" your scrawling handwritten addresses, e-mail addresses, and the like, and drop them into an address book, onto a map, or stick a URL into a browser.
Accuracy seemed pretty good in my tests, and I've been known to produce some pretty bad chicken scratch. The other shortcuts were equally good at doing what they say with lassoing items for the scrapbook, saving screenshots of pages you can immediately annotate, and my favorite: initiating the universal search.
Even though it looks great, using the Air Command shortcut wheel wasn't always the fastest way to do something. Since you're hovering over it to navigate, there's a bit of delay as you pan the wheel. One shortcut, Pen Window which launches an applet on top of whichever screen you're on , takes three steps to use. At that point, it might just be faster to find the app or shortcut on your own. Multi Window is Samsung's name for split screen, which just means that you can drag two app windows onto the screen for simultaneous side-by-side use.
Pull the frame to adjust the window size, and tap the blue dot separating the screens for more options, including dragging and dropping items across screens. New functionality lets you create templates for your favorite combinations, say two browser tabs or your e-mail and the gallery. I always enjoy that pressing and holding the back button toggles Multi Window on and off.
OS and apps 's Note Samsung's TouchWiz interface for tablets rides on top, bringing with it a host of add-on functionality. There's Air View to preview items like photos and tool tips, Smart Pause to halt a video when you look away and resume when you look back, and screen mirroring, to name a few.
You launch Google Voice Actions and Google Now by tapping a button on the home screen, and can dig into the settings to turn on gestures for a variety of actions, like waving your hand to browse an image or cover the screen to pause or mute what's playing. Here's something entirely new to the tablet. Swiping up from the bottom of any home page opens My Magazine, a Flipboard-made news-reading experience. It's a stylish, cool way to discover and share the news, but has one fatal flaw.
Although you can select different categories you'd like to read -- technology, travel, food, science -- you can't actually pick your outlets. We'll get to the redesigned S Note app in a minute, but before that, you might want to know about some other apps you'll find.
Watch On is there to change TV stations and set your DVR, and preinstalled folders group even more tools, like: a translator, video editor, calculator, the Knox security layer, and group play for playing music, video, and games over multiple Samsung devices. Evernote, Dropbox, and Trip Advisor are also onboard. Handwriting is something you can do in most text fields; just tap the icon of a pencil that pops up under your hover.
Writing-to-text recognition is pretty good, but hardly perfect. It took me no kidding 10 attempts to get it to understand my last name, even after tidying up my looser style. The same happened enough times and in enough occasions to identify it as a chronic complaint. If the signature experience is in the pen, you had better make sure you get writing recognition exceptionally accurate. That said, using the S Pen to write out e-mails, messages, notes, and even navigation feels natural on the tablet, even though I spend the majority of my day typing on keyboards.
To meet the tablet's recognition software halfway, write legibly. The new S Note Samsung's note-taking app, the creative culmination of the Note experience, had always been a mixed bag. A straightforward writing tool on paper, in practice, problems with the S Note software made it much more difficult to accurately draw and write. A completely overhauled app, the new S Note is a beautiful, logical, immersive experience that addresses most of the previous app's issues -- but others remain.
Notes are now saved in colorful "jackets" that make them easy to distinguish by name and design when glancing at them on the overview screen. Settings are simple to access, and previews let you glance at your note before opening it.
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