Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 & S7 Plus launched

nam · 5 Aug 2020 at 17:50

Available from 20th,

https://www.samsung.com/uk/tablets/galaxy-tab-s7-plus-t970/SM-T970NZNAEUA/

Snapshot · 6 Aug 2020 at 07:47

Undoubtedly great hardware but still crippled by running Android. There's no point in building something that can physically rival the iPad Pro unless the software matches it as well.

HACO · 7 Aug 2020 at 00:54

Snapshot said:
Undoubtedly great hardware but still crippled by running Android. There's no point in building something that can physically rival the iPad Pro unless the software matches it as well.

That large one is going to be amazing for media consumption though. iPad Pro will be better at literally everything else.

chrismscotland · 7 Aug 2020 at 12:35

I was holding off to see what the S7+ was like but the cost is much more than I was hoping for - £1000 for the Tablet and £220 for the keyboard; at £1220 I can't justify that for an Android machine that is never going to have the software and support of the iPad Pro.

Its also disappointing that the UK isn't getting the larger Storage/RAM option (8 GB RAM and 256 GB Storage) only the 6GB/128GB one which means in those regards any of the S7/S7+ is a downgrade from the S6.

I could order from Germany (Amazon.de) but I'm not confident that an EU warranty is going to stand up to much beyond the end of the year.

HACO · 7 Aug 2020 at 13:40

chrismscotland said:
I was holding off to see what the S7+ was like but the cost is much more than I was hoping for - £1000 for the Tablet and £220 for the keyboard; at £1220 I can't justify that for an Android machine that is never going to have the software and support of the iPad Pro.

Its also disappointing that the UK isn't getting the larger Storage/RAM option (8 GB RAM and 256 GB Storage) only the 6GB/128GB one which means in those regards any of the S7/S7+ is a downgrade from the S6.

I could order from Germany (Amazon.de) but I'm not confident that an EU warranty is going to stand up to much beyond the end of the year.

Why on earth would they restrict the UK market to the lower-end configs?

chrismscotland · 7 Aug 2020 at 13:44

HACO said:
Why on earth would they restrict the UK market to the lower-end configs?

I have no idea but Samsung themselves confirmed that the UK isn't getting them yesterday (the Editor of TechRadar queried them), I suppose its not hugely different to them screwing us on Snapdragon v Exynos CPU's in their phones

sandys · 7 Aug 2020 at 14:40

Snapshot said:
Undoubtedly great hardware but still crippled by running Android. There's no point in building something that can physically rival the iPad Pro unless the software matches it as well.

But the software is superior if you want to use the device for office type productivity IMO, guess it depends on what you do with it but this gets very close to general laptop capability that an ipad doesn't manage, I have an ipad pro + keyboard and find Dex superior as a general computer replacement, downside I don't think the S7 has enough RAM, if my Note 10 has 12Gb and struggles with more than 6 windows can't see the s7+ doing the business, though sd865 is more powerful and maybe my limitation is exynos.

chrismscotland · 7 Aug 2020 at 14:45

sandys said:
But the software is superior if you want to use the device for office type productivity IMO, guess it depends on what you do with it but this gets very close to general laptop capability that an ipad doesn't manage, I have an ipad pro + keyboard and find Dex superior as a general computer replacement, downside I don't think the S7 has enough RAM, if my Note 10 has 12Gb and struggles with more than 6 windows can't see the s7+ doing the business, though sd865 is more powerful and maybe my limitation is exynos.

Personally since I tried the new Magic Keyboard I've found that the iPad Pro is great for most of my office type stuff (Office 365 / Outlook) although I would love to have a proper DEX-like external screen display option for the iPad.
I personally find the apps and capability on the iPad to be better; although a lot of that is due to the Desktop grade Safari thats on it now; I hate using the mobile browser on DEX and none of the alternatives seem to be great; I don't really understand why Google can't just put the desktop version of Chrome on tablets now - a £200 Chromebook can do it!

sandys · 7 Aug 2020 at 14:59

Its fair to say we gave up on the ipad for this stuff and haven't tried since, perhaps it has got better, it was the main reason we got the keyboard and 12 inch ipad Pro on launch but that was years ago.

HACO · 7 Aug 2020 at 15:32

chrismscotland said:
Personally since I tried the new Magic Keyboard I've found that the iPad Pro is great for most of my office type stuff (Office 365 / Outlook) although I would love to have a proper DEX-like external screen display option for the iPad.
I personally find the apps and capability on the iPad to be better; although a lot of that is due to the Desktop grade Safari thats on it now; I hate using the mobile browser on DEX and none of the alternatives seem to be great; I don't really understand why Google can't just put the desktop version of Chrome on tablets now - a £200 Chromebook can do it!

Google has given up on Android tablets. They're all-in on Chromebooks and Chromebook tablets (or 2-in-ones).

braveheart · 10 Aug 2020 at 20:13

I'm keep my tab s6 until next year to see if tab s8+ change or add new features etc.. ive review s7 and s7+ but there were some downgraded from s6.. very weird from Samsung . Best save money first cos covid19 impact on economy and hope it recover into 2021. Tab s6 seem great tablet.

niko · 22 Aug 2020 at 08:08

I've just got the s7, works really well and lovely screen. the+ was just to big for my use. really happy with my purchase so far. the trade in they gave me made it an easy decision really

chrismscotland · 23 Aug 2020 at 12:49

braveheart said:
I'm keep my tab s6 until next year to see if tab s8+ change or add new features etc.. ive review s7 and s7+ but there were some downgraded from s6.. very weird from Samsung . Best save money first cos covid19 impact on economy and hope it recover into 2021. Tab s6 seem great tablet.

Yeah I don’t think the S7 is really much of an upgrade from the S6; I don’t think the new CPU is going to make a huge difference.
I’m personally interested in the S7+ but would like to see one first, I wasn’t keen on the aspect ratio of the S6 for anything but watching movies/tv - for work and reading i find the IPad Pro aspect ratio to be far better as its got that little extra height!