Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 Pro Reviews

The form and size of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 feels perfect for a device you can grab to take with you for a long trip, a meeting, or a trip to the ballpark. It isn't as unwieldy as a 10-inch tablet, but the tradeoff is the screen loses real estate previously devoted to input. As a result, it doesn't feel like a serious business device (unless you pair it with a keyboard) that you would want by your side through a busy day of meetings and projects. What you're left with is a very pretty, functional, and expensive media device. Android fans should consider this device if it fits their needs, but with other more attractive options in similar price ranges, you'll want to take a hard look at those needs and decide if it actually works for what you need it to do. For a casual camera and entertainment unit, it works well. Any more than that, and you're going to find the capabilities stretched very thin.

The Galaxy Tab 7.7 is one of our favorite Android tablets to date, and fortunately Verizon's version doesn't give us any reason to doubt our feelings at all. It still keeps the same solid design, good performance and gorgeous display, and it offers better battery life using LTE than what we were able to eke out of its HSPA+ compadre. If you're specifically interested in a tablet that runs Android, we can't imagine you'd find much better elsewhere. Unfortunately, you're also paying a hefty premium for the device: it only comes with one storage option (16GB) and will run you $500 when you sign up for a two-year commitment. Sans contract, you'll be forking out $700. You might be getting the best available tablet in that size and form factor, but you can also shell out close to the same amount of money for a new iPad or Transformer Prime. Oh, the anguish of decisions. We suppose there could be worse things to worry about in this life, right?

Once again, the Galaxy Tab 7.7 has almost everything perfect: a 7.7" form factor, lightweight, plus a brilliant screen, what should be a fast processor, and a high speed antenna to wrap it all together. But something still isn't right - namely the sluggishness which seems to raise its ugly head just when you are starting to enjoy the hardware. Perhaps ICS will change this, but it could be due to TouchWiz. At the current price point (with a contract), it's extremely hard to recommend this device without some noticeable improvements to the user experience. After all is said and done, we still rate the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 from Verizon a 3.5/5. One can only hope ICS will be able to improve the experience in the future.

There are obviously cheaper tablets out there. There are better too but - as things stand now - they're all ten-inchers and that's a different kind of ball game. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 is special. The least you could do is keep up to date about the upcoming ICS upgrade and an inevitable price drop. They will make an already great device a bit better.

The Verizon Wireless Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 is one of the most beautifully designed Android tablets you can find, offering up solid performance with fast LTE, and a stunning Super AMOLED Plus display, but it's simply too expensive.

From strictly a design standpoint, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 is the tablet all other small-form tablets should aspire to. It's thin and light, with two cameras and expandable memory. As full-featured small tablets go, this is the high-water mark with its gorgeous AMOLED screen and Samsung Exynos CPU delivering fast game and UI navigation performance. The lack of HDMI and dedicated USB ports is disappointing, but not a deal breaker. Unfortunately, the price may be for most. A price of $500 in addition to a two-year contract is a lot for Verizon to ask for, especially when the tablet market is still in its nascent form and no one really knows what the market will look like a year from now. You could plop down $700 for a noncontract version, but no one should be paying $700 for an 8-inch tablet. I don't recommend signing a two-year contract for any tablet, but if you really feel you just have to do so, this is the one you'd want to choose.

Hands down, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 is the best tablet is its class, at least at the time of this review. With its fantastic Super AMOLED Plus screen and an exceptionally fast processor, the Tab 7.7 is strong where it counts. Also, it is very light and slim, and TouchWiz UX actually adds to the overall Android experience (though it doesn’t make us want Ice Cream Sandwich any less) Still, there is room for improvement. The Galaxy Tab 7.7 should have a microUSB hub and the rear camera should at least shoot 5 megapixels. However, this is surely one of the best tablets on the market as of February 2012. We can see why Apple wanted it pulled from IFA, and we can't wait to see how Apple responds with the next-generation iPad.

There are really only two things wrong with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7, and both of them could be addressed in time. For starters, its high price will make the small 7.7 a bit of a hard sell when facing competition like Apple's new iPad. Additionally, the fact that it ships with Android 3.2 instead of 4.0 is a let-down. Samsung has promised an upgrade, though. Apart from those two issues, the 7.7 is a fantastic tablet. It offers a great compromise between size and portability, it's fast in terms of both data and processing power, and it has the best looking display available on any compact tablet on the market. If you're a Verizon Wireless user looking for some LTE tablet action, you could do far worse than the Galaxy Tab 7.7.

The Galaxy Tab 7.7 has a gorgeous screen, a thin and light body, amazing battery life and sturdy construction, but some intrusive software and a fairly high price make it less attractive

Seriously, Samsung has every consumer covered now that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 LTE is finally on the scene – and it’s pretty amazing considering the feverish rate they pump out new models. Ready to tackle the tablet landscape by surprise with its gleaming Super AMOLED Plus display, which is still a rarity amongst tablets in general, this small bundle of joy surely packs a punch with its set of arsenal to make it a valiant offering. However, some people might be scared away by the $499.99 on-contract or $699.99 outright cost that Verizon is asking for the tablet. Perhaps, if it were lower, or simply made available as a Wi-Fi only model, it would indeed fetch more prying eyes, but in the meantime, its price will surely keep some people at bay from rushing at the opportunity of picking it up. Looking ahead to the future, the new iPad is set to debut very shortly with its own dreamy hardware – thus, the pricing of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 LTE will indeed come into play more than ever at that point.

A terrific tablet, with a great screen and all the features you could ask for, packed into an elegantly compact frame

This device is, again, what I’m gonna go ahead and say is the sweetest spot for tablets at the moment. If I had to choose between this device and the Galaxy Note (original), I’d choose the Note. I’m still of the opinion that tablets are mostly bonus devices made for fun rather than utility, and the Galaxy Note takes care of everything I could possibly want a smart device to do. That said, if you’ve got a want for a tablet, this one’s a magical size. If you’ve tried a 10-inch tablet and you find it sort of absurd, but still want a display larger than your everyday average smartphone, take a peek at this tablet at your local Verizon outlet. It’s certainly an entertaining device to play with.

As crowded as the market for Android tablets has become, the impossibly long-lasting Galaxy Tab 7.7 belongs in an elite echelon of memorable devices -- a fraternity that's home to the likes of the older Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the ASUS Transformer Prime (GPS issues not withstanding). Putting it bluntly, the 7.7 is the best 7-inch tablet money can buy: it performs well, offers a stunning screen and manages to deliver twice the battery life of other small tablets, despite being markedly thinner. In fact, we can't remember ever seeing a tablet this size that was so carefully designed. But here it is, and it presents the same level of quality that the 10.1, iPad 2 and Transformer Prime offer in the 10-inch category.

The Galaxy Tab 7.7 has got almost everything right: it's a great size, it's lightweight, plus has terrific battery life, a fast processor, and a gorgeous display. It is Honeycomb that hampers the Tab 7.7 almost to the point of rendering it unusable at times. The Tab 7.7 is promised an upgrade to ICS in Q1, which can't come soon enough. We recommend that you hold off buying the Tab 7.7 until ICS is available.