Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 10.5-Inch - Grey (UK Version)

I am a sixth form student and I bought this tablet for my school work and it is an absolutely amazing productivity tool. The battery life is incredible, easily lasting an entire school day and still having 50% by the time I get home. The screen is bright and vivid in colour and its HDR capability makes it especially great for watching movies, and when you couple it with the tablet's quad speakers with Dolby Atmos support you get an incredible movie experience. When playing music, the sound is crystal clear and it fills the room. But the tablet's main attraction (for me anyway) is the S Pen that's included in the box. It's a brilliant productivity tool that supports pressure and tilt sensitivty as well as palm-rejection so you can rest your hand on the screen while you write or draw. The S Pen is powered by a digitiser under the screen so you never need to charge it or connect it to the tablet, it just works straight out of the box. It also has a button on the side with multiple uses. You can use it as an eraser in Samsung Notes and PENUP, and you can hover the pen above the screen and press the button to access useful tools like Screen Write (takes a screenshot and allows you to annotate it with the S Pen) and Smart Select (allows you to capture a specific area of the screen).I would highly recommend buying a Samsung Keyboard Cover case to go with this tablet as it's a pleasure to type on and it will protect the tablet from drops and scratches when carrying it around.Overall, this is truly a great device and an amazing productivity tool, and it's served me well for the past month that I've had it and I would highly recommend it, not only for work but for entertainment as it's Super AMOLED HDR capable screen and it's quad speakers with Dolby Atmos make for a truly immersive movie experience.

Bought a used version of this product from Amazon about a week ago. I am so, so pleased with it!The tablet came earlier than expected, in very good condition. I'm using it with the S-pen for my classes, and it's amazing. I can now take notes directly on the slides as the professor presents, and I don't have to worry about mis-transcribing notes from slides, or about how to incorporate hand-drawn diagrams in my digital notes. It's all together now! :)This was a great purchase, especially used. This tablet is super fast and seems to be able to handle lots of apps at once. It can access the Play store, and I've ported my Google settings over so that it has the exact same appearance as my Pixel phone, so I have a seamless experience. It's as seamless as the Apple ecosystem, but much more flexible.This tablet works great with the S-pen, it's a very slight learning curve but there's little to no lag, and all sorts of options for how to use the pen. The display is gorgeous and has an enormous range of bright light, black, and colors.

Good:- the pen comes with the tablet, and doesn't require charging- the wide screen is perfect for Netflix, Viki, Amazon etc - movies are stunning- the sd slot will take up to a 400 GB card, so the standard 64 GB internal memory is fine- the operating system is Android so well suited to the deviceNot so good:- the 'secure folder' for confidential storage/apps only applies to internal storage. Whilst the sd card can be encrypted, controlling access further is problematic. Not all apps take kindly to being sandboxed in the secure folder, for example Kindle. However it is possible to set up a different profile to log in with more restricted access.- the lack of hard buttons means there is little space wasted but is a pain when you accidentally skip your place in a movie back or forth when trying to switch apps. On balance, I'd prefer hard buttons.- the iris/face scanner offers biometric access protection to the device but requires the correct positioning of face and tablet as well as reasonable lighting. There's also less control - just because your face is in sight doesn't necessarily mean you want to unlock the device, authorise a transaction, or whatever. The iris scanner in particular sometimes causes me headache/eyestrain. It's a nice idea, but not as practical as a fingerprint scanner. It's lack of reliability in all conditions may prevent you from using a really strong password as you'll need to be using an alternate access method quite frequently.- the wifi connection can be problematic. If i am in the front bedroom with my router in the back bedroom I often have to use the hotspot on my phone rather than home wifi. In the end I extended the wireless network using a second Apple Airport. This is ridiculous. Other tablets have no such problem.Overall:It's a decent high-end tablet with a lot going for it. I've mentioned a few reservations, but there are no real show stoppers. After a month's usage there are still features to explore, so I'll update the review as and when.Update:Another option to consider instead of a 400 GB sd card at around the same price is to get a basic 64 GB card and a 500 GB Samsung T5 SSD external drive connecting to the USB C port which has built in AES encryption and can also connect to PC and Mac via USB-C or USB3 to allow easy file transfer rather than having an encrypted sd card tied to the tablet.

This tablet looks to be good quality. (As it should, considering the price of it!)I don't claim to be an expert, so I took advantage of one of the free, one-to-one lessons that are available at Samsung shops. The man there was very helpful and explained enough to get me going. I can go again, once I get stuck on something else.The tablet boots up very quickly and the 'picture' is very clear.The filing system seems logical enough, although i think my old Galaxy Note 10.1 was a bit easier to use.That one wouldn't print to my HP printer and the Bluetooth didn't match my remote speaker, but the S4 does.Battery life is far better than the old device.The S Pen seems to be pretty useful, but I'm going to need a bit of practice with it.I'm sure I won't be able to scratch the surface of its capabilities, but I'll do my best.It was a bit pricey and I don't know it compares to other brands, but so far, I'm happy with it.