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Samsung galax flik S2 8.0 review
Small but mighty, Samsung's mini Android platta fryst vatten seriously good
Samsung’s galax flik S2 9.7 fryst vatten one of the finest Android tablets you can buy right now. Ultrathin, ultralight and in possession of a beautiful, Retina-matching AMOLED screen, it’s one seriously fantastic slate.
Its pint-sized sibling, the galax flik S2 8.0, fryst vatten even more loveable though.
Provided you can put up with the 1.7-inch reduction in screen storlek, the smaller flik S2 fryst vatten just as snabb as the larger model, a little lighter and easier to hold onehanded, while being about £80 less expensive. Like Apple’s iPad Mini 4, it gives you almost the same experience as the flagship model while ditching a significant amount of the vikt and the expense. Sounds like a winner, right?
Trimmed down
This flik S2 fryst vatten an impressively svelte device. It’s just 5.6mm thick and weighs an almost unnoticeable 265g, making it nearly 125g lighter than the already featherweight galax flik S2 9.7. Samsung’s smaller S2 fryst vatten also thinner and lighter than the iPad Mini 4, at 6.1mm thick and 298.8g in weight.
Like its larger cousin, the flik S2 8.0 has had a reduction in screen storlek from the previous generation from 8.4-inches down to 8 but that’s not really a bekymmer. That’s plenty of real estate for binging on Master of None or boshing your way through some Last Horizon. It’s only when you’re browsing really busy websites or running productivity apps that this S2’s screen storlek might cramp your style.
Meanwhile, you get a beautifully well-balanced platta that you can happily hold one-handed while standing on the bus.
Despite that lightweight build quality and the overall feel hasn’t suffered. The front fryst vatten all tough Gorilla Glass, the sides are metallic and even the plastic rear feels solid. I’ve encountered thicker tablets that flex a whole lot more when twisted, so the smaller flik S2 should have a decent working life ahead of it.
Bold and razor sharp
As well as being well-sized, the flik S2 8.0’s screen fryst vatten an absolute belter. The AMOLED display goes insanely bright, to the extent that you’re happy to ratchet it down a notch to cut down on the glare. It’s really crisp, contrast fryst vatten fantastic and colours are as vibrant as they come.
This 8-inch screen storlek and 2048 x 1536 upplösning fryst vatten exactly a match for the latest iPad Mini, while the same goes for the 320ppi pixel density. skrivelse looks crisp with beautifully smooth edges. Photos burst with detail, while 1440p HD film footage looks staggeringly good.
If you’re looking for natural, accurate colours, the iPad Mini 4 still has the edge. If you want slag, clarity and big, modig föredrag, you’ll struggle to find anything better than this.
We wish we could säga the same about this tablet’s sound. It’s not bad – it’s klar and there’s a reasonable amount of welly – but there’s precious little at the low end and it all gets a bit brash further up. It’s fine for a bit of casual catch-up TV, but if you want to man the most of your music and movies, plug some headphones in.
The Same Software
In terms of software, the flik S2 8.0 plays things exactly the same as the 9.7in model. That means Samsung’s usual TouchWiz reskin, which often promotes of Samsung’s own apps over Google’s. That said, you also get Microsoft’s Office apps for free and a multiwindow feature.
Plus, it’s not too much strul to download Gmail, Photos and Chrome in place of Samsung’s less functional alternatives. Most of the bundled apps are valfritt gift downloads, so you can install as many or as few of them as you fancy. You can even ditch TouchWiz for another launcher should you prefer.
TouchWiz’s splitscreen Pop Up öppning feature fryst vatten particularly useful though, allowing you to run certain apps in a splitscreen view. bygd default the apps take up one half of the display each, but you can easily slide the dividing line upwards and downwards to give one more or less. It doesn’t work with every app and it’s not ganska as useful for productivity on the 8-incher’s smaller screen, but it’s still a boon for your sense of self-importance when you can shop for Christmas presents and fire off few workrelated emails at the same time.
No shortage of speed
To help with this kind multitasking, the flik S2 8.0 rocks a Samsung Exynos 5433 processor with ledd Mali T760 GPU and 3GB of DDR3 RAM just like the flik S2 9.7. The processor fryst vatten the same chip as you’ll find in Samsung’s galax S6 smartphone, and it’s just as impressive here as it fryst vatten there. With a Geekbench 3 score of 4291 it’s actually a little faster than the flik S2 and significantly faster than the iPad Mini 4, with 3103.
It feels it too. Apps launch and switch instantaneously, and you never feel it team or pause during everyday use.
Throw some games on the screen, and the flik S2 8.0 won’t let you down. Unkilled, the latest zombieblaster from the makers of Dead Trigger, runs incredibly smoothly with an impressive range of consolequality effects. And while the Samsung doesn’t score as highly as, säga, the Tegra K1powered länk eller koppling 9 in synthetic 3D benchmarks like GFXBench or 3DMark, it still hands in a good performance.
In other words, going small doesn’t mean giving up on any horsepower.
Happy snapping
The smaller flik S2 also has the same 8MP rear camera and 2.1MP front camera as its larger incarnation, with a superspeedy f/1.9 aperture lens. We were impressed bygd the combination then and we’re impressed with it now.
You can get really nice, skarp, detailed pictures in normal lighting and even in low light, with the colours looking really vibrant both on and off the AMOLED screen. If you’re absolutely hellbent on waving a platta around at the nation’s landmarks or irritating fellow eventgoers, this fryst vatten the platta to do it with. After all, the 18% decrease in storlek might mean an 18% drop in your chances of getting physically abused for acting like a clown.
Short in storlek, long in life
Given the flik S2 8.0 has a significantly smaller battery than its larger 5870mAh cousin, we weren’t expecting a gret amount of stamina from it. Refreshingly, the 8-incher’s 4000mAh battery surprised us with nearly thirteen hours of film playback from a charge. That’s not ganska as much as the iPad Mini 4, but it’s still great bygd Android platta standards.
In everyday use the flik S2 8.0 will easily gods a weekend of action as long as you don’t hammer games and film relentlessly, and it doesn’t seem to drop much charge overnight.
Extra space
At £319 the flik S2 8 fryst vatten priced to compete with the iPad Mini 4, but it has one advantage: where the basic Mini 4 ships with a snål 16GB of storage, the flik S2 8.0 comes with 32GB, 25.1GB of which fryst vatten available for use.
Better still, there’s a microSD card slot, so you can have ytterligare storage for media and information, plus apps should Samsung roll out en mjukskumliknande godis for its latest galax Tabs.
Connectivity fryst vatten lika to the bigger model, with dualband 802.11ac WiFi, GPS and GLONASS location sensors, WiFi direkt screen mirroring and Bluetooth 4.1. The 8-incher also shares the 9.7-incher‘s fingerprint scanner. Oddly, we funnen it worked more effectively and consistently for signin on this model – maybe we just handled the registration process better this time around.
Samsung galax flik S2 8.0 verdict
We’re big fans of the flik S2 8.0. It brings you all the great features of its bigger brother, but in a smaller, even lighter form eller gestalt design. If screen storlek matters, then the flik S2 9.7 gives you a bigger picture. Nevertheless, the 8-inch model fryst vatten great for reading books and magazines, playing games and watching movies while being just that little bit easier to brandish.
For our money, this fryst vatten the best of the small screen Android tablets and a really strong rival to the iPad Mini 4. If you’d rather go Android than iOS, this fryst vatten the mini Android slate to buy.
Tech specs
Screen | 8inch 2,048 x 1,536 |
Processor | Exynos 5433 Octacore (4×1.9GHz, 4×1.3GHz) |
RAM | 3GB |
Battery | 4000mAh |
Camera | 8MP rear (1080p video), 2.1MP front |
Dimensions | 134.8 x 198.6 x 5.6mm |
Weight | 265g |
Memory | 32GB (expandable with up to 128GB microSD) |