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Samsung has officially unveiled the Galaxy View tablet, was last teased in September at the Berlin IFA 2015 Tech exhibition. Samsung Galaxy View rumored to be priced at $599, a very large screen tablet gets a 18.4-inch display and pretty heavy weighs around 2.65kg.
The Samsung Galaxy View is a TV optimized Android tablet when it comes with a very much loaded multimedia content such as Comcast, DirectTV and Time Warner Cable. While the home screen of the tablet also showing some apps like Netflix, HBO Go, Hulu, YouTube and AOL.
The Galaxy View features an 18.4-inch LCD display, but unfortunately there is only full HD 1920×1080 screen resolution, slightly lower than 1536×2048 resolution that Samsung was putting on Galaxy Tab S2 tablet line. As per rumored price, Galaxy View priced at just over $100 compared to Tab S2 so you cannot ask for more in terms of resolution.
Other specifications also quite inadequate to a 1.6GHz Octa-core processor, unknown chipset, but might used Exynos 7580 SoC and 2GB of RAM. The Galaxy View comes in two internal storage options such as 32GB and 64GB, attached microSD memory card slot to expand memory (unknown storage)
The Samsung Galaxy View Tablet is designed with 2-way kickstand especially for multimedia lovers. It’s huge display is perfectly suited for watching videos, there is also news that the tablet interface has also been optimized for better video playback and new interface called Media UX – based on Android 5.1 Lollipop OS. However, in terms of technical performance front, it is not a top-notch device.
In addition, the Galaxy View Tablet also integrated 8W speakers (2x-4W) to bring better sound experience. It packs a 5700mAh battery can rate to deliver video playback time up to 8 hours. The tablet bears only front camera of 2.1-megapixel for video calling, has a 4G LTE SIM slot and includes Side-Sync, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.1 and MicroUSB options.
It measures a 275.8×451.8×11.9 mm and weighs 2.65 kg. The price of the new Samsung View Tablet has not announced yet, but as per previous leak, priced at $599 for 32GB Wi-Fi only model, but the price will be higher for LTE models.
