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Samsung Galaxy TabPRO 10.1 review: “Pro” in name only

Posted on March 13, 2014 by Michael Fisher

There’s a certain minimum threshold that a product should be required to meet before it can rightfully wear the “pro” label. It should offer high-end specifications and enhanced capabilities over its more mundane, “non-pro” counterparts. Ideally, it should appeal to the consumer looking for a more versatile, more capable product. Above all, it should offer a top-notch customer experience. With the Galaxy TabPRO 10.1, Samsung gets some of that right. This Galaxy Tab is far and away the most powerful yet produced, with capabilities never before offered on the ...

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Four ways full-sized Android tablets (still) aren’t ready for primetime

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Michael Fisher

I’ve had some wonderful experiences with Android tablets. Loading CyanogenMod on the HP TouchPad, an activity I documented in my first-ever video for Pocketnow, filled in some crucial capability gaps left open by the TouchPad’s native OS. Carrying a first-gen Nexus 7 for a week in 2012 taught me just how compelling Jelly Bean in the 7-inch form factor ...

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Samsung Galaxy TabPRO 10.1 unboxing & hardware tour (Video)

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Michael Fisher

When we first went hands-on with the Galaxy TabPRO 10.1 at CES 2014, it wasn’t always easy to tell it apart from its immediate neighbors in the Galaxy Note line. Down to the stitched leatherette and chromed-out accents, the new Tabs were doing their utmost to ape the higher-end Notes, making a meaningful comparison much tougher than in generations past – particularly in the bustling atmosphere of the show floor. Fortunately, ...

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Samsung planning far-reaching Android software changes under Google pressure?

Posted on January 29, 2014 by Stephen Schenck

Samsung users are only all too aware that the software Samsung delivers on its Android devices can be a bit “heavy.” On top of the TouchWiz changes, you’ve got all of Samsung’s custom apps – and together, this adds up to a ton of stuff; just look at how Samsung fared in that phone-free-space breakdown we examined last week. But could this soon be changing? Word arrives today that Google may have convinced Samsung to tone things down, following

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Samsung patent apps reveal possible smartphone UI changes

Posted on January 23, 2014 by Stephen Schenck

Samsung’s cooking-up a new look for its smartphone user interface; we’ve already seen the new Magazine UX debut on the company’s tablet at CES, and leaks have been teasing us with a similar new look for Samsung’s phones. As we look forward to the day when we might be able to give the latter a spin for ourselves, we’ve been made aware of some patent applications Samsung filed in South Korea, which just might provide some ...

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Pocketnow Weekly 080: HTC M8 x, Galaxy Note 3 Neo, a $50 Motorola smartphone & a resurgent BlackBerry

Posted on January 23, 2014 by Michael Fisher

”Our revels now are ended, Kirk.” That’s a quote from Star Trek VI, paraphrasing a line from Shakespeare’s The Tempest. In the latter instance (minus the “Kirk” bit) it’s a conceit of sorts, an admission that the play is a falsehood – and an observation that so, perhaps, is life. In the former example it’s a wisecrack from a Klingon bent on shooting our favorite captain’s ship out from under him. In both cases, it’s a kind of farewell. And in today’s example, it’s also a goodbye – to the old times. ...

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Samsung’s Magazine UX: hot or not?

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Taylor Martin

It’s easy to be overly critical of Samsung. The company is larger than some of its biggest competitors several times over, and it has the man power, resources, and know-how to not make some pretty obvious mistakes over and over again. We’ve reamed Samsung more than once for shipping substandard products with laughably awful software and performance optimization. TouchWiz UX, for example, has shipped on dozens of Samsung products over the years. It’s not only long in the tooth, cluttered, and … ugly, it ...

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