What's good
- Large, high-definition screen
- Comes with typical phone functions
- Long-lasting battery
What's bad
- Too big to be used as a main phone
- High price tag
The Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 is not a tablet. It's a phone-tablet hybrid, and according to Kob Monney of What Hi-Fi, it’s one that "showed promise when it was released.” Since that time, however, it has already been supplanted by newer rivals, which either use more compact designs or simply offer more in terms of performance.
Some of the Note 8.0’s main features include a 1.6GHz quad-core CPU, a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, up to 32GB of internal storage, microSD card support, and a 4,600mAh battery.
The headline feature is its screen: a 8-inch LCD TFT panel that has a native resolution of 1280x800 pixels, rated by Know Your Mobile’s Dean Quinn as “impressive.” The operating system comes in the form of Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean.
Overall, the Note 8.0 really is quite the performer. And it should be right on the money for stylus enthusiasts, because as Fone Arena’s Bharadwaj mentions, it offers “the comfort of a huge screen coupled with basic mobile functions.” Unfortunately, “there's one main problem with the Galaxy Note 8.0,” says The Inquirer’s Carly Page. “And that's its high price tag.”
In the end, it looks like Samsung might not have done enough to make this product truly stand out from a crowded marketplace of phablet competitors. When you consider how easy it is to find alternatives that are cheaper yet just as useful, you might quickly run out of reasons to justify this one.
What the Critics Are Saying...
- Rob Rich, Pocket GamerI'll admit that Wild Wild West is on the simple side, but it can be quite entertaining to pick up and play for a few minutes here and there.The in-app purchases are also reasonable, and only really serve to speed up your progress by offering you more coins. There's also an option to turn off ads, bu...
- Kob Monney, What Hi-FiThe Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 showed promise when it was released, but its weaknesses are easily exposed by newer rivals – even more so when you consider its price is among the highest of tablets this size.It serves as a stark reminder of just how fast technology is moving when a tablet less tha...
- Dan Carter, CoolsmartphoneTo be honest I still have very mixed feelings over the Note 8.0 and that is more down to software than the actual hardware. <br/>There are many many Android tablets out there now, and some of them seem to act like a tablet such as the Sony Xperia Z Tablet which has a normally landscape orienta...
- Eric Franklin, CnetAT&T overprices the Galaxy Note 8. It's still a great tablet, but with the much lower price and greater cell-provider flexibility of the Nexus 7, the Note 8 effectively prices itself out, unless you have absolute need of a stylus.
- Bharadwaj, Fone ArenaAs ridiculous as it may seem, there are people who prefer the comfort of a huge screen coupled with basic mobile functions, but with Samsung appeasing that crowd with a more compact Galaxy Mega 6.3, this device may prove a choice only for the stylus enthusiasts. Part of that Niche? This device will...
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