Yes, it's an old tablet, but just want to share my quick review on the tablet.
I bought this tablet for my dad so he can watch Youtube about a year ago. It was roughly $130, and it's a cellular model (Samsung only sell tablets with cellular in my country). So we're talking about bottom of the barrel here.
Let's start with the goods.
Build quality is excellent. Samsung even uses aluminum for the back cover instead of plastic. They probably think durability is important. Really nice and feel premium when you touch the aluminum. Screen, although not FullHD, is quite good for the price. Sharp, great viewing angles, still a great quality. And it got OneUI 3.1 Android 11 as well! So Samsung manages to update this $130 tablet from Android 9 all the way to Android 11. Amazing. Majority of cheap Android tablet don't eve get a single update. Speaker quality is very good as well, despite the two of them being located on one side. And surprisingly it supports VoLTE of one of the major carriers.
Now the bad.
It's sporting Snapdragon 429, which is quad core A53. Yeah, ancient. The 2GB RAM is not helping. This is basically a tablet designed just for single app use (which is fine for my dad, it will be simply running youtube). Once you want to do anything else like web browsing, you will feel that $130 price. It lags and slow. You can see it trying its best, but you can only do so much with such old A53 cores. It lags even running the SMS app. I sometimes think this tablet would fare better if it ran Android Go instead.
The meh.
microUSB port might be a turn off for us here, but the segment this tablet is targeting probably still have phones with microUSB as well, thus having microUSB is more useful is that it can share cables with older/lower end phones.
Anyway, just a quick one. A solidly built and inexpensive tablet with limited use. Not recommended for anything else other than simple content consumption. Its current replacement is the Tab A7 lite, which has larger screen, octa-core SoC (but same A53 cores, seriously OEMs should stop using these), an extra 1GB of RAM, for $50 more. Probably a better choice if you want something that is more usable.
I bought this tablet for my dad so he can watch Youtube about a year ago. It was roughly $130, and it's a cellular model (Samsung only sell tablets with cellular in my country). So we're talking about bottom of the barrel here.
Let's start with the goods.
Build quality is excellent. Samsung even uses aluminum for the back cover instead of plastic. They probably think durability is important. Really nice and feel premium when you touch the aluminum. Screen, although not FullHD, is quite good for the price. Sharp, great viewing angles, still a great quality. And it got OneUI 3.1 Android 11 as well! So Samsung manages to update this $130 tablet from Android 9 all the way to Android 11. Amazing. Majority of cheap Android tablet don't eve get a single update. Speaker quality is very good as well, despite the two of them being located on one side. And surprisingly it supports VoLTE of one of the major carriers.
Now the bad.
It's sporting Snapdragon 429, which is quad core A53. Yeah, ancient. The 2GB RAM is not helping. This is basically a tablet designed just for single app use (which is fine for my dad, it will be simply running youtube). Once you want to do anything else like web browsing, you will feel that $130 price. It lags and slow. You can see it trying its best, but you can only do so much with such old A53 cores. It lags even running the SMS app. I sometimes think this tablet would fare better if it ran Android Go instead.
The meh.
microUSB port might be a turn off for us here, but the segment this tablet is targeting probably still have phones with microUSB as well, thus having microUSB is more useful is that it can share cables with older/lower end phones.
Anyway, just a quick one. A solidly built and inexpensive tablet with limited use. Not recommended for anything else other than simple content consumption. Its current replacement is the Tab A7 lite, which has larger screen, octa-core SoC (but same A53 cores, seriously OEMs should stop using these), an extra 1GB of RAM, for $50 more. Probably a better choice if you want something that is more usable.