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Tab S 8.4 compared to Tab Pro 8.4

Hi all,
Currently I have the Tab Pro 8.4, and have the chance to return it to the shop and buy the Tab S 8.4 for £40 extra.
However, after playing with the Tab S in the shop and reading reviews online, I do have some pros and cons of “upgrading” from the Tab Pro the Tab S I hope forum members can help me with.
The Screen on the Tab S is great for watch YouTube and Netflix which is what I do most of the time on the tablet. However, I also take the tablet on holiday with me to review pictures taken with camera and watch media under direct sun light. The lower brightness of the Tab S and the cartoonish look of the screen makes it not as good as the Tab Pro.
The Snapdragon 800 in the Tab Pro seems to be faster compared to the Samsung SOC in the Tab S according to reviews. The Snapdragon 800 also looks to have a major advantages when comes to graphic performance. This is important to me as I use the tablet to play graphic intensive games such as GTA, N.O.V.A and large RPG games.
The other advantages the Tab S have such as finger scan, smaller, lighter body and 1GB of extra RAM are not a major concern to me.
So, are there any Tab Pro users changed to Tab S and are happy with the screen and graphic provenance?
Many thanks

Bigmille said:
Hi all,
Currently I have the Tab Pro 8.4, and have the chance to return it to the shop and buy the Tab S 8.4 for £40 extra.
However, after playing with the Tab S in the shop and reading reviews online, I do have some pros and cons of “upgrading” from the Tab Pro the Tab S I hope forum members can help me with.
The Screen on the Tab S is great for watch YouTube and Netflix which is what I do most of the time on the tablet. However, I also take the tablet on holiday with me to review pictures taken with camera and watch media under direct sun light. The lower brightness of the Tab S and the cartoonish look of the screen makes it not as good as the Tab Pro.
The Snapdragon 800 in the Tab Pro seems to be faster compared to the Samsung SOC in the Tab S according to reviews. The Snapdragon 800 also looks to have a major advantages when comes to graphic performance. This is important to me as I use the tablet to play graphic intensive games such as GTA, N.O.V.A and large RPG games.
The other advantages the Tab S have such as finger scan, smaller, lighter body and 1GB of extra RAM are not a major concern to me.
So, are there any Tab Pro users changed to Tab S and are happy with the screen and graphic provenance?
Many thanks
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If you set the Display Mode to Cinema you lose the overblown cartoonish look. Reds become more red and less orange.

Or set it to "Basic" for more natural look.

The screen looks dark and reddish compared with my Note 8.

I love having a choice with "Adaptive Display"

After reading your title I thought you at least needed a video comparison
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xhsMFOwksAM
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Had some time to go back to the dealer and spend some time with the Tab Pro 8.4 and after some comparison I feel the Tab S is the better device. There is little doubt that the super amoled on the Tab S is superior, the screen on the Tab Pro seems like just another LCD screen. I thought I could make the pixels out more easily on the Tab Pro, where with the Tab S you cannot see any pixels without a magnifier. My main interest in looking at the Tab Pro is that I thought the lower contrast on the screen might be better for watching video, but after using it for a bit I don't think it's superior at all.
Another issue is the thinner Tab S seems like a much more modern device, even though the difference is less than 1 mm. There is something about that fake leather look on the Tab Pro that makes it look very dated.
Anyways in my case I will be keeping the Tab S.

I only wish that they kept the Snapdragon but I assume when development kicks off we will enjoy possible overclocking of all 8 cores.
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Since I use the Samsung book cover on my 10.5 I had almost forgotten how incredibly thin and light this device is naked. Any lighter and it would actually be difficult to maintain a firm grip on it.
P. S. Once it's broken in a bit the cover is much easier to take on an off than the first time.

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and Note Edge Display Technology Shoot-Out

A little hidden but already available (by mistake?):
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and Note Edge Display Technology Shoot-Out - by DisplayMate.
Conclusion:
Galaxy Note 4 is the Best performing Smartphone display that we have ever tested.
Regards,
noct

noct00 said:
A little hidden but already available (by mistake?):
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and Note Edge Display Technology Shoot-Out - by DisplayMate.
Conclusion:
Galaxy Note 4 is the Best performing Smartphone display that we have ever tested.
Regards,
noct
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That is some juicy display pr0n.

This is a beast :good:

So it'll be better then my S3? You're killing me Samsung, I can't wait to pick this phone up!

750 nits? Unbelievable

Just to sweeten the deal for people just scanning this thread; the full conclusion quote is pretty awesome:
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the Galaxy Note 4 is the Best performing Smartphone display that we have ever tested.
It matches or breaks new records in Smartphone display performance for:
Highest Absolute Color Accuracy,
Highest Screen Resolution,
Infinite Contrast Ratio,
Highest Peak Brightness,
Highest Contrast Rating in Ambient Light,
Brightness Variation with Viewing Angle.
Its Color Management capability provides multiple Color Gamuts – a major advantage that is not currently provided by any of the other leading Smartphones. The Galaxy Note 4 delivers uniformly consistent all around Top Tier display performance: it is the first Smartphone display to ever get all Green (Very Good to Excellent) Ratings in all test and measurement categories (except one Yellow for a Brightness Variation with Average Picture Level) since we started the Display Technology Shoot-Out article Series in 2006, an impressive achievement for a display.
The Galaxy Note 4 has again raised the bar for top display performance up by another notch.
"

Gear VR - S7 or Edge7?

Hi,
I'm thinking of getting myself a gear vr with either a Galaxy S7, or a Edge7. I already had the chance to play around with a Gear VR and an Edge7, but I was wondering if the S7 would give a different experience due to the smaller screen? These phones have the same resolution, so the S7 has more pixels per inch, meaning a sharper image, but since the screensize is smaller, would that affect the field of view? Would I get a "smaller" screen? Or would that be a simple matter of adjusting the focus on the gear itself?
Maybe that someone has experience with both devices and can tell me the difference?
Thanks!

Hi,
I've played around with the S7 Edge and the S6. Both looked pretty similar on the Gear VR, since it zoom in the screen I do not think it'd be much of a difference - at least it wasn't very noticeable for me. However it has been some long time since I last used it, so maybe I may be confusing things.
All in all, there is not much difference between the two I think. If you have the budget go for the S7 Edge - larger battery - else the S7 will be just as great.
All the best,
~Lord
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Thanks for the info!
Having a larger battery is indeed something to think about...

Both of them will work perfectly but I would go with the SGS7 Edge as it has a larger battery.

Note 8??

What do you want from the Note 8?
for me I need :
- battery that lasts a total of 7 hours of SOT At least at MAX Brightness (4000+ Mah battery)
I don't care if its Thicker.
- More S Pen Features
- Dual Camera Setup
- Preferably 6 GB Of Ram for Long Use.
- Less Smaller Edgey Design PLS Because The Edge Design is Pointless it distorts the screen viewing experience.

6GB of RAM is overkill unless you are running an emulator or virtual machine on your phone. I'm still not convinced that even games are making the optimal use of or existing 4GB of RAM. I'd prefer a better gaming graphics processor for console like quality

1)I will prefer flat screen like Note 5 (5.7' is comfortable for me But with 6.2' I can manage) instead of S8/S8+/Note7 As There are no actual benefits rather than look But more risky if device fails down accidentally
2)More Powerful Snapdragon Chipset i expect this time from Sammy (Unfortunately in my country samsung releases exynos variants/ Also on newer devices especially for flagships samsung prefer to use home exynos chipset) With better optimisation of cores available
3)Camera should be more crispy, Yup Samsung's camera is improving from S7/S7E But still on this price tag of 800-900$ Everyone will expect better camera with dual pixel camera/better camera sensor/aperture should be optimum/S8+ shooting modes should be available
4)Software features on S8 like bixby vision/bixby assistant/face or fingerprint gestures should be implemented on Note8 too With hardware features like Iris Scanner And Yup fingerprint sensor location should be front mounted Not sure about AOD but if battery is like 4000mAh then ok with AOD (S-Note Pin To AOD feature like Note 7 Should keep as like)
5)Design should not be oriented to S8( So that it should not look like S8 With S-Pen), Design should be flat,sleek,handy and premium
6)Display should be 4k infinity which is used in S8 (Images and Video quality on Infinity display is great by S8 user's reviews) But if it fails to optimise on Note8 regarding power/battery management (If different CPU is used than S8 as on S8 battery management and feedback is great like 7-8hrs of SOT with FHD resolution/AOD/Advanced Features On/Without PowerSaving Mode Enabled) then QHD or UHD Amoled displays are to be accepted also

Question Wide Color Gamut

So I just came to the S21 ultra from a OnePlus 8 pro. 8 Pro has the ability to turn on wide color gamut in display settings. 'Vivid' mode on the S21 supposedly does this. But when I turn on vivid, and then look at the two device screens side by side, the color is richer, and fuller, and just looks all around better on the OnePlus 8 pro.
Does anyone know of any secret or hidden color settings on the S21 ultra? I'm shocked that such an expensive device using the newest screen tech/LTPO just simply doesn't look as good.
Additionally, what shocks me, is that the 8 pro also has better touch response. Literally does feel like ala bonafide 240 touch sample rate. Even with touch sensitivity turned on on the S21 ultra, it just doesn't feel as good. I will concede, the screen is smoother on the S21 ultra, however.

Strange because it's the exact opposite for me coming from the 8pro. To me the display on the 8pro was horrible compared to the s21u. An example of this would be the green tint at low light levels and uneven display of the 8pro. No problems with the touch response either.....

Batfink33 said:
Strange because it's the exact opposite for me coming from the 8pro. To me the display on the 8pro was horrible compared to the s21u. An example of this would be the green tint at low light levels and uneven display of the 8pro. No problems with the touch response either.....
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That's because you have one of the early manufactured builds. I have a warranty exchange that was built in September, (because the original had the same problem you had) and it has a perfect screen. Much richer color than my s21 ultra.
Also the s21 ultra has this weird brownish yellow piss tint I noticed as well. I had to really turn down the white balance in advanced display settings. I realize it's supposed to be closer to 'cinema color', but it still looks like crap. I'm realizing how underrated the one plus 8 pro is now..

Burt Squirtz said:
That's because you have one of the early manufactured builds. I have a warranty exchange that was built in September, (because the original had the same problem you had) and it has a perfect screen. Much richer color than my s21 ultra.
Also the s21 ultra has this weird brownish yellow piss tint I noticed as well. I had to really turn down the white balance in advanced display settings. I realize it's supposed to be closer to 'cinema color', but it still looks like crap. I'm realizing how underrated the one plus 8 pro is now..
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The 8pro was terrible for me. Poor display, and lost Widevine L1 without even rooting.

Burt Squirtz said:
So I just came to the S21 ultra from a OnePlus 8 pro. 8 Pro has the ability to turn on wide color gamut in display settings. 'Vivid' mode on the S21 supposedly does this. But when I turn on vivid, and then look at the two device screens side by side, the color is richer, and fuller, and just looks all around better on the OnePlus 8 pro.
Does anyone know of any secret or hidden color settings on the S21 ultra? I'm shocked that such an expensive device using the newest screen tech/LTPO just simply doesn't look as good.
Additionally, what shocks me, is that the 8 pro also has better touch response. Literally does feel like ala bonafide 240 touch sample rate. Even with touch sensitivity turned on on the S21 ultra, it just doesn't feel as good. I will concede, the screen is smoother on the S21 ultra, however.
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Are you talking about touch sampling rate during gaming as I've noticed it's not so good on the S21U, I came from a p30 pro and call of duty run perfectly but with my s21U moving the character has a slight delay. Supposed to be 240hz touch sampling but don't see or feel it.

Burt Squirtz said:
So I just came to the S21 ultra from a OnePlus 8 pro. 8 Pro has the ability to turn on wide color gamut in display settings. 'Vivid' mode on the S21 supposedly does this. But when I turn on vivid, and then look at the two device screens side by side, the color is richer, and fuller, and just looks all around better on the OnePlus 8 pro.
Does anyone know of any secret or hidden color settings on the S21 ultra? I'm shocked that such an expensive device using the newest screen tech/LTPO just simply doesn't look as good.
Additionally, what shocks me, is that the 8 pro also has better touch response. Literally does feel like ala bonafide 240 touch sample rate. Even with touch sensitivity turned on on the S21 ultra, it just doesn't feel as good. I will concede, the screen is smoother on the S21 ultra, however.
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There are hidden color settings, but none will offer more color volume than vivid mode.
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adb shell settings put system screen_mode_setting a number from 0 to 4
- 0 AMOLED Cinema (DCI P3 target)
- 1 AMOLED Photo (Adobe RGB target)
- 2 Basic (sRGB target)
- 3 Natural
- 4 Vivid
In order for this to work, you need to switch in and out of the screen mode menu after you've sent the command for the screen to update.
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The touch sample rate is 120 Hz for the S21U when scrolling through most tasks and 240 Hz in games only.

Burt Squirtz said:
So I just came to the S21 ultra from a OnePlus 8 pro. 8 Pro has the ability to turn on wide color gamut in display settings. 'Vivid' mode on the S21 supposedly does this. But when I turn on vivid, and then look at the two device screens side by side, the color is richer, and fuller, and just looks all around better on the OnePlus 8 pro.
Does anyone know of any secret or hidden color settings on the S21 ultra? I'm shocked that such an expensive device using the newest screen tech/LTPO just simply doesn't look as good.
Additionally, what shocks me, is that the 8 pro also has better touch response. Literally does feel like ala bonafide 240 touch sample rate. Even with touch sensitivity turned on on the S21 ultra, it just doesn't feel as good. I will concede, the screen is smoother on the S21 ultra, however.
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Noticed that too when comparing my 7 pro. Wish this had wider color gamut. All the other small issues I got makes we wish I waited for the 9 pro.

I'm using a little "hack" to achieve richer colors since the Android 10 update on my S10+ and now on my S21U this still works. But with this option you can't change the screen color settings anymore. Just enable the built in blue light filter mode with an intensity that suits you and keep it always enabled.
After my S10+ was updated to Android 10 I was shocked how pale my photos suddenly looked even with vivid mode enabled. I was surprised when I opened the gallery in the evening and my photos had rich colors again. I was using scheduled blue light mode and thats how I noticed this behaviour.
If you want to compare the changes just open a picture in your gallery and look at the colors before and after. I don't know if this will work on all regions, I'm using an Exynos Version S21U.

VertigoOneX said:
I'm using a little "hack" to achieve richer colors since the Android 10 update on my S10+ and now on my S21U this still works. But with this option you can't change the screen color settings anymore. Just enable the built in blue light filter mode with an intensity that suits you and keep it always enabled.
After my S10+ was updated to Android 10 I was shocked how pale my photos suddenly looked even with vivid mode enabled. I was surprised when I opened the gallery in the evening and my photos had rich colors again. I was using scheduled blue light mode and thats how I noticed this behaviour.
If you want to compare the changes just open a picture in your gallery and look at the colors before and after. I don't know if this will work on all regions, I'm using an Exynos Version S21U.
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Wait, this doesn't make sense bro. I put on blue filter under 'add color filter'. All it does is make it extremely blue, which looks like sh1t.
I did find something that actually works. It's an app called 'color changer' in the play store. I bought the pro version which allows profile to stick on reboot. It works great. Despite using it, the color still doesn't look as rich and full as my Oneplus 8 Pro, however.

Burt Squirtz said:
Wait, this doesn't make sense bro. I put on blue filter under 'add color filter'. All it does is make it extremely blue, which looks like sh1t.
I did find something that actually works. It's an app called 'color changer' in the play store. I bought the pro version which allows profile to stick on reboot. It works great. Despite using it, the color still doesn't look as rich and full as my Oneplus 8 Pro, however.
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Not the blue filter but blue light filter. They changed it to Eye-Comfort, don't know exactly cause my phone is not set to english, option or something like that in latest OneUi. The one you can schedule to reduce blue colors before going to sleep. But nice you found another solution.