Which device is the ideal purchase for consumers? We compare the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 and the Nexus 7 to see which is better.
For the design and display, the Nexus 7 is a lot thicker at 10.5 mm, but it’s shorter at 18.5 mm and narrower at 120 mm, and users can see the big “nexus” logo on the back, right in the place where it should have been positioned the camera. It has only one camera on the front, with a resolution of 1.2MP, which can be used for video calling. It weighs 340 grams and has 7 inches LED-backlit IPS LCD screen that renders 800×1280 pixels at 216ppi.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 is 6.6 mm thick as its the other dimensions are 212.8x125.6 mm, and weighs 28 grams. The display measures 8.4 inches, and is made of Super AMOLED technology, which managed to obtain a resolution of 1600×2560 pixels at 35ppi. On the front panel users can find the home button with a fingerprint inside of it, and at the top is the front-facing camera of 2.1MP, while the other camera has a resolution of 8MP and lots of features including autofocus, LED flash or geo tagging.
Both tablets ran on the Android 4.4.2 KitKat, but the Nexus 7 is privileged to receive the v5.0 (Lollipop) before the Samsung Galaxt Tab S. The Nexus 7 HAS an Nvidia Tegra 3 chipset which supports a quad-core 1.2GHz Cortex-A9 processor, an ULP GeForce GPU and 1GB of RAM, while the internal memory is limited to 8, 16 or 32GB. The Samsung tablet is powered either by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad core 2.3GHz Krait 400 processor, or by an Exynos 5420 processor with eight cores. The first variant is using an Adreno 330 GPU and the other has a Mali-T628MP6 GPU, but the RAM capacity is the same on both versions at 3GB. It also comes in two variants of 16 and 32GB, expandable up to 128GB.
For the battery specs, the Nexus 7 has a battery of 4325 mAh that last 10 hours, while the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 has a 4900 mAh battery with 29 hours of talktime.
The Nexus 7 16GB variant cost $198, and the 32GB variant cost $240. The Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 16GB variant costs $407.
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