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You can stream content directly from your TV to the Galaxy Tab S2. Say you want to watch the last few moments of the big game in the kitchen or out by the grill. The TV connectivity works in the other direction, too. MORE: 10 Tablets with the Longest Battery Life During a demo, it took just a few seconds for the Galaxy S6 Edge Plus' display to pop up on the larger Samsung TV, and from there, it was a cinch to pull up photos or stream Netflix. Samsung says Quick Connect will work with any smart TV that is DLNA compatible.
After you connect, you can mirror your phone's display on your set to display photos or videos, or play games. You just swipe your finger down from the top of the screen and press the Quick Connect button to start searching for nearby TVs on the same Wi-Fi network. The Quick Connect feature on the Galaxy Tab S2 lives up to its name. Sometimes, you want to beam what's on your tablet to the big screen, but not if it's a hassle. What I like most about SideSync 4.0 is that once you've gone through the setup, it automatically connects to your phone. I could view my entire phone's screen on the Tab S2's panel and move it around, as well as play games like Golf Star from the S6 Edge Plus, although the lag over Wi-Fi Direct messed up the timing of my swing.
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After that, a box popped up the tablet's display, showing shortcuts for the Files, Music and Photos apps across the top, with a Plus button to add more. Using the Galaxy S6 Edge Plus, I quickly found the Tab S2, and the two devices connected.
Whether you want to continue texting on a bigger screen, drag and drop photos to your tablet from your phone, or take a call without picking up your phone, the SideSync 4.0 app can make it happen. That's much higher than the first-gen Tab S (13,481), but the iPad hit 21,660. The Samsung once again trailed the iPad Air 2 in the graphics department, scoring 19,724 on 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited.
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The Galaxy Tab S2 made slightly quicker work of our video-editing test than the Dell did, taking 5 minutes to transcode a 1080p clip to 480p. That smokes the Dell Venue 10 7000's score of 2,900 (Intel Atom Z3580 CPU, 2GB of RAM) and the Microsoft Surface 3's 3,531 (1.6-GHz Atom CPU, 4GB of RAM), but the iPad Air 2 hit a higher 4,547 with its A8X chip. On the Geekbench 3 multicore test, which measures overall performance, the Tab S2 scored 4,175, which is 1.5 times faster than the original Galaxy Tab S. Using Samsung's multiwindow feature, I had no problem streaming a Marques Brownlee YouTube video on the left side while scrolling through the highlights of the VMAs on the right in Chrome. That might seem like an old chip to stuff into a shiny new tablet, but the proof was in the multitasking. Samsung equipped the Galaxy Tab S2 with an octa-core Exynos 5433 processor and 3GB of RAM - the same CPU found inside the Galaxy Note 4. Performance: Made for Multitasking, But Not the Fastest I pressed the full-screen option in the video player to make the picture bigger, albeit at the loss of some detail to the left and right of center.
The Ve(249 nits, 10.2 Delta-E) wasn't even close in those two categories.īecause the Tab S2 uses a 4:3 aspect ratio, movies had pronounced black bars above and below the action. On the Delta-E test, where a score close to 0 is best, Samsung's slate registered 4.07, compared to a near-perfect 0.9 for the iPad and 3.1 for the Surface 3. The Tab S2's screen is brighter than the iPad Air 2's and the Surface 3's (450 nits versus 345 nits and 407 nits, respectively), but Apple's tablet offers more accurate colors. MORE: Best 2-in-1s (Laptop/Tablet Hybrids) I just wish the screen were better at resisting fingerprint smudges. The warm yellow-and-orange glow from the resulting explosion almost felt like it was going to singe my face. While watching the trailer for Spectre - the latest James Bond flick - I could make out beads of sweat on Daniel Craig's forehead on the Tab S2's screen as he prepared to take out a target.