With a range of decent slates available for all costs, Samsung is the undisputed monarch of an unequal Android tablet business. The Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 is the polar opposite of the highly over-the-top Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra. We have an intelligent design, one or two great bells and whistles, and a fair starting price of £219/US$229. It’s a tempting choice if your bank account won’t stretch to something like an iPad or a Samsung Galaxy Tab S8. Box gratefully gave our review sample.
Key points:
- Whether our family is streaming or video chatting with friends, the Galaxy Tab A8 tablet brings out the most in every moment on a 10.5″ screen.
- Everyone’s Power and Storage: LCD. Get the power, storage, and performance our family needs with an upgraded CPU and plenty of storage space – 128GB.
- Fast Charging, Long Battery Life: A long-lasting battery lets you be unplugged for hours, keeping the family delighted. Battery life varies based on the network environment, use patterns, and other factors. Thanks to the USB C connector’s rapid charging capability, it can run for hours on a single charge and fast recharge.
- Galaxy Ecosystem Adventures: The Galaxy ecosystem experience offers a whole new universe of possibilities since our gadgets, including our phones, laptops, all connect automatically.
- One location for all of our notes: Samsung Kids is a collection of kid-friendly and parent-approved games, books, and movies that children may access.
Product Specifications
When it comes to family, sharing is caring. The Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 brings home a high-quality tablet that everyone will appreciate. With a sleek new appearance and seamless connectivity across our Galaxy devices, we can answer a phone call on our tablet, swap files quickly with Quick Share, etc. Thanks to the LCD screen, the 10.5 “Everyone has plenty of room to do their thing, studying, watching movies, or checking emails. We will also be able to multitask, such as watching a movie and using social media, while having other windows and programs open on the same screen. Samsung Kids piques our child’s interest in learning while keeping them safe online with various activities and challenges. The Galaxy Tab A8 is an affordable tablet with an upgraded CPU, a long-lasting battery, and 128GB of storage. Battery life may vary depending on the network environment, use patterns, and other factors.
Our Finding
The Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 is the best-built tablet in our Finding Budget category. It falls short of top scores due to a weak screen and delayed charging, but it’s still a solid value alternative. Add in some good speakers and long battery life, and you’ve got yourself a well-priced media player.
Design and construction
The Samsung Galaxy Tab A8’s most prominent feature is crafted brilliantly. If you had handed me this tablet in a powered-down state with no accompanying information. I would have thought it was a mid-range tablet that cost at least twice as much.
One of the most noteworthy absences is a fingerprint reader for buttons. You’ll have to utilize a cumbersome password entering technique or a hazardous and unreliable facial recognition technology to lock your smartphone. Neither is truly significant.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 is significant in more ways than one. This is a full-sized tablet with a flat-edged but slender 6.9mm frame and lower bezels around the screen. In portrait position, it’s nearly as tall as an iPad but nowhere near as comprehensive, and its weight of 508g is about average for a ten tablet. With a mainly metal body, it feels reassuringly solid in hand. The power and volume controls are located on a plastic strip around the edge, which reportedly facilitates network access (there are both Wi-Fi and LTE variants available) (there are both Wi-Fi and LTE models available).
Specs and Performance
The Unisoc Tiger T618 CPU drives the Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 with 3GB or 4GB of RAM. Although this isn’t the most well-known CPU on the market, you’d expect Samsung to use one of their Exynos processors; it works decently for an inexpensive tablet.
A Geekbench 5 multi-core score of 1250 places it just above the Nokia T20 and on par with the Galaxy Tab S6 Lite in terms of performance. It consistently exceeds the Nokia T20 and the previous Galaxy Tab S6 Lite and Galaxy Tab S5e in GPU performance.
That’s not to pretend that navigation is faultless; there are occasional lags or stuttering when moving between programs and between home screens and menus.
One of the most noteworthy absences is a fingerprint reader for buttons. You’ll have to utilize a cumbersome password entering technique or a hazardous and unreliable facial recognition technology to lock your smartphone. Neither is truly significant.
Except for a very lengthy gap soon before your character dies. It’ll Slay the Spire completely well for more intensive activities like gaming.
Though microSD extension up to 1TB is conceivable, there’s a good reason for opting for the 64GB choice. If you reside in the United States, you can also acquire the Tab A8 with 128GB of storage. Meanwhile, PUBG Mobile, the experienced warhorse, offers HD visuals (the third lowest of the six) and a High frame rate, which isn’t horrible. The game’s performance wasn’t spectacular, especially with those fuzzy visuals blown up to 10.5 inches, but it was playable.
Battery life and charging
The Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 boasts a massive 7040mAh battery that will last you several days with casual usage.
Increase the quantity of rigorous labour, and the figure will fall dramatically. The Galaxy Tab A8 earned an average of 8 hours 49 minutes in our standard PCMark World 3.0 battery life test.
That’s better than the Nokia T20’s newest inexpensive rival (6 hours 39 minutes). But it’s only 8 hours and 35 minutes better than its older brother, the Samsung Galaxy S6 Lite.
Samsung has only supplied a 7.8W charger in the packaging, even though it permits 15W charging. That’s more than even its most pricey smartphone can accomplish, but given the size of that battery, it takes a lifetime to complete.
In my experiments, it climbed from 0 percent to 10 percent in 30 minutes, then from 10 percent to 80 percent in 3 hours and 15 minutes. Of course, speedy charging isn’t as vital on a tablet as it is on a smartphone. But the Lenovo Yoga Tab 11 gets to 43 percent in 30 minutes, which is pretty slow.
Software
Samsung’s newest affordable tablet runs on the now-out-of-date Android 11 operating system, with Samsung’s One UI in care of the front end. Android 11 features a single user interface. Samsung’s software looks to be a love-hate relationship. It’s not my cup of tea because of its overly picky nature, somewhat gauche menus, idle animations, and tons of home-brewed and third-party apps. But I’m completely aware that many people consider it the ideal Android experience, even more so than stock Android.
Whatever your perspective, there’s no disputing that One UI has been well-optimized for tablets—in particular. Employing two apps in split-screen works efficiently, despite the limiting hardware powering it all.
The new Screen recorder feature, which may be available via the drag-down shortcut settings menu, enables you to record anything on your screen, including comments if requested. This may be helpful for the Galaxy Tab A8 as a teaching and learning device.
However, unlike the Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite, there is no support for the S Pen. I understand budget restrictions given the Galaxy Tab A8’s projected demography, but it looks like a missed opportunity.
Camera
The camera isn’t usually the focus of any tablet, and it shouldn’t be. This is particularly true with low-cost drugs.
There’s only one 8-megapixel rear camera, no flash, and no ultra-wide or telephoto backups. That single sensor creates grainy photos, lacks depth and dynamic range, and is generally overexposed.
However, if you insist on pointing and shooting with a 10-inch tablet. Even a cheap smartphone will deliver better results than the Galaxy Tab A8.
On the morning of my test photographs, the 5MP selfie camera was practically useless. Unable to handle the decently bright surroundings. Nonetheless, it will function admirably in its intended duty as a Zoom camera. In the pictures, you can see the blown-out results for yourself.
Conclusion
The Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 is the king of Android tablets’ newest affordable offering. Its stunning design and powerful, clear sound are remarkable for such a low price – if 32GB of storage is enough for you.
The tablet’s TFT display, on the other hand, is disappointingly flat and washed out. Limiting its potential as a low-cost media player. Another issue is the lack of solid biometric authentication. But it isn’t essential, and the Tab A8 has a surprisingly decent sound system.
While not extraordinary, performance is respectable for a tablet at this price range, and battery life is superb. With the provided charger, it’ll take a long time to get back to 100 percent from empty, but that’s not a significant concern in the tablet world.
