06-29-2012, 04:21 AM | #31 | |
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My empirical observation is that playing video for an hour drains the battery by about 10%. |
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06-29-2012, 04:58 AM | #33 |
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Thats pretty much the average for hq tabs these days. My Tran gets about 10 hours of hard use before it drains down to 10% or so. I usually use it 1-2 hours a day, leave it on standby with wifi on most of the time. I usually charge it every 3-4 days or so, once it gets down to 20-30%.
What video player are you using? Did you get one from the market or was it pre-installed by Samsung? Sounds like you got a nice little tab there, good choice for an impulse buy! |
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I'm using the "Video Player" app that was pre-installed. Seems to do everything that I need.
Yes, I'm very pleased with it indeed. I think it's going to get a lot of use! |
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I got one of these for my husband a couple of weeks ago. He's never had a smart phone or tablet before and isn't very 'into techie stuff', so I was a bit worried that he wouldn't find android easy to use, but it's gone surprisingly well (I have an android phone so could help him along) and he seems pretty happy with it. He uses it a lot to watch videos and net TV and to Skype, as well as some games and the basic email checking and web browsing. He's very happy with the screen, and personally I quite like the size from a portability point of view. He also seems to be doing fine on battery time. It seems to me like this tablet is pretty good value for money.
Does anyone have experience with reading PDFs on this size tablet? Is it too small? And can anyone recommend a good pdf annotation app for android? |
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I find reading PDF books fine to read because most are about 9" including the margins. Good PDF reader can easily autocrop the margins off so you don't have to pan-zoom the pages. When reading pdf gets a bit cumbersome is when the PDFs are letter/A4 or bigger. At this point you can use reflow, and which works great, so long as you don't have pictures or graphs. As for a reader I recommend both RepliGo and ezPDF you can have both for around $5. Each one of these have some advantage over the other and both are excellent readers. |
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Like Harry, I'm also wondering which orientation you use. |
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OK, thanks. That wouldn't work for me. As a part of my job I need to read lots of PDFs with complex formatting, diagrams, etc, so reflow just doesn't work for me. Displaying such PDFs is one thing that the iPad is superb for. But for most other tasks, I find that I'm using the Tab 2 7" now.
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I rarely use reflow mode unless I know there are no tables/images then I turn it on. In landscape mode you do not have to use reflow at all. The screen is wide enough to fit most PDF. I just don't like landscape for the reasons I mentioned above. |
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