Samsung Galaxy NotePRO 12.2 Review

We take the biggest tablet out there for a spin, and Josh gives you the rundown.

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for a while now tablets have been trying
to become more potential replacements
for general computing and unfortunately
they haven't quite gotten there just yet
but Samsung is looking to put its best
foot forward now
by taking it's already will receive a
top-tier tablet and quite literally
blowing it out of proportion
well does it succeed well that's what
we're about to find out cuz it's josh of
the guard from android authority what's
going on everybody
and this is the Samsung Galaxy Note pro
12.2 and starting off with the design we
are going to get the obvious out of the
way first yes this is a huge tablet i
had 12 points 2 inches in the screen you
do have a wonderfully big and very vast
black slate at the front but because of
this size it also comes with all of the
issues you would expect from it
mainly that you have to hold it in two
hands in order to have a safe grip on it
you're probably going to use this on a
tabletop more often than not and on top
of all of that it is also quite heavy at
seven and seven hundred and fifty three
grams making this almost like you took a
small laptop and you just snapped the
back off of it and all you got left was
this in my hand but design why Samsung
went with the tried and true aspects
that they usually do with their tablets
the button layout is on the top with the
power and the volume rocker the s pen
and the micro USB 3.0 port or on the
right one real notable changes that on
the front button layout you have the
home button flanked by a back button and
this time instead of a menu button you
have a recent apps button
so the kind of coming in with the new
here instead of looking for a menu
buttons are going to add a little bit
more
multitasking functionality by allowing
you to use a recent apps button as far
as the handling goes when it comes to
using a 12.2 inch tablet like this and
there's really only one way to put it
if you use a 10 inch tablet before and
you thought that that was too big
there is no way you're going to think
that this is any better the bezel around
the screen does make it possible to hold
the tablet with one hand but you're
going to need to really pinch pretty
much almost have a death grip on the
tablet
unless you let it fall to the ground and
you destroy all of the loveliness of
that screen
more often than not you're probably
going to be using the note
throw on a tabletop especially when it
comes to typing because typing on this
large screen is one of the hardest
things you can do when you have it
handheld and quite obviously it is that
toll . 2 inch screen which is the reason
why this tablet is so big but one of the
greatest parts about this tablet is that
screen because it is one hell of a
performer
it comes in with a massive resolution of
2560 x 1600 which makes it one of the
best media consumption tools that is
still at least for most intensive
purposes
pretty portable just about anything you
watch read or enjoy this LCD will shine
through and even if you have it on a
table top and you are a little bit over
on the side the viewing angles actually
look quite great still when it comes to
performance it should be no surprise
that the current most powerful
processing package comes on the note pro
12.2 the snapdragon 800 clocked in at
two . three gigahertz and then the
Adreno 330 with three gigabytes of RAM
now I did kind of want to address this
issue that seems to come up fairly often
where people are really also kind of
sniping at the TouchWiz UI in that any
little stutter make some things that
there's a lot of lag well the one thing
i want to address there is well touch
with obviously is in need of an update
for more reasons than one which I'll get
into later but as far as those little
starters you might find I really didn't
see that many of them and even if it did
happen it didn't keep me from doing
whatever it is I needed to do the
stutter is less about performance and
more of an aesthetic issue which is what
i'll give you but what I'm my point here
is that the stutter is not necessarily
because of the processing package
because it performs really well even
under all that touch was demands of it
a micro SD card slot allows another
notch in the media consumption category
for the note pro 12.2 as you can bolster
the already included 32 or 64 gigabytes
of on-board storage for further media
consumption as far as the battery goes
in the note pro you have a ninety-five
hundred million power unit in here that
goes for quite a long time and that is
really no joke because I let this sit
for hours and hours and the standby time
proved itself by not letting the battery
life go down even more than a couple
percent so you should be able to get two
days it may be even more from the no pro
depending on how frugal your usages
now one aspect about the hardware here
that was a bit of a bummer was
sound quality there are dual speakers
here one on either side of the device
however despite getting pretty
adequately loud i did hope wish that
there was a little bit more richness to
the sound for a tablet like this that
potentially could be a great movie
watching experience or even YouTube
I was really hoping for this thing to
really boom and unfortunately it fell
just below those expectations and of
course there is the s pen which includes
every new enhancement originally broad
sense the Galaxy Note 3 and thus its
functionality is very similar to those
so if you aren't familiar with it you
can refer to previous reviews of no
devices and you'll get the gist of it it
still remains as one of the best stylist
experiences available on pretty much any
peripheral to date
usually there isn't too much to say
about a camera on a tablet and that is
also true for the note pro 12.2 and this
is also primarily because with such a
large body especially in this tablet we
do run into a very familiar problem
nonetheless the 8 megapixel shooter
comes with a rather surprising number of
enhancements in the app that originated
from the galaxy s4 and the quality of
the photos actually isn't all that bad
but as is the case with many different
tablets when it comes to their cameras
you probably have a better and much more
portable shooter in your pocket already
and the tablet is really just a backup
more than anything else
and finally make it over to the software
in which touch was finally got an update
but it can be best described as the my
magazine second screen coming to the
forefront but before we get into that
will say that the elements you may
already be very used to have been
somewhat altered with more flat elements
and colors and a motif leaning more
towards circles as you can see in the
notification drop down and speaking of
multitasking the screen real estate is
taken full advantage of with multi
windows new capability of simultaneously
running for windows at once
now this is a very welcome addition and
while i would argue that you may not
often run into situations where you need
for windows running all at once it is
still pretty damn cool
and now the magazine you
x swipe over from the right and you will
hit the magazine ux that has its own
indications on the bottom for its own
home screens
once again the full screen real estate
is being taken advantage of
as a sizable tiles quite literally take
up every inch of the display
now you can add regular widgets to the
magazine ux as a set list of additions
are available for news applications and
social categories
all of which focus on content delivery
for example the news widgets take on a
flip board back end to provide sources
and avenues of content when you are
looking at that tile you can change
which sources it pulls from video
Flipboard as the back end and you can
pick the different sources that of the
news that you will find now when you
consider the magazine you XO sort of a
at a glance type of home screen you will
get a lot of content from the tiles and
they are customizable and a number of
different ways but there's really only
one main gripe that I had with it
for example if you look at the youtube
tile down here if I was going to click
on that I would hope that it would take
me straight to that trailer that it is
showing me already but if i click on it
right now it will bring me right into
Flipboard which will essentially show me
the same exact picture again that i have
to press once more in order to open up
the actual video itself
so instead of being short cut straight
to the content that is displaying it
actually brings you to a couple more
layers which is something that it's a
little bit of a bummer
in the end the magazine UX is a very
nice step forward but ultimately touch
with still looks very familiar in its
super colorful and somewhat bloated
elements now while the whole screen is
being taken advantage of and that is
great
those other aspects are what we still
notice and those are the things that we
want to be updated at very soon
so when it comes to the price there's
really only one way to put it
big tablet big price the note pro 12.2
comes in at seven hundred and fifty
dollars and is as expensive as actually
a number of halfway decent laptops that
are
available in the market but then that
brings us to our question that we
started this review with does this
tablet provide an experience that can
replace the general computing
well if anything the note pro 12.2 gets
as close as probably any other tablet
has with a screen that plenty of gaming
laptops just wish that they could have
heavy multitasking capabilities a very
good stylist experience if you need it
the note pro 12.2 tries to be quite
literally everything for you and for
those of you that it succeeds in doing
that for the note pro 12.2 will likely
be amazing for you but for the rest of
us
this is still a pretty damn good tablet
despite its huge size but in the end
what is important is it is also pretty
damn fun
so as always thank you guys very much
for watching and i hope you enjoyed this
review of the Samsung Galaxy Note pro
12.2 it is definitely quite the tablet
to try and wrap your head and even your
hands around but in the end i find that
it is a nice experience and touch was
being slightly updated with the magazine
ux was a nice touch but there's still
more that has to be done
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