Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 WiFi+3G P6800 16GB Silver Unlocked GSM Tablet - International Version

by Samsung

Product Details

• Item Weight: 3.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• ASIN: B006UAOE42
• Item model number: GT-P6800
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (63 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,983 in Cell Phones & Accessories (See Top 100 in Cell Phones & Accessories)

Product Description

General 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 3G Network HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 Status Available. Released 2011, December Body Dimensions 196.7 x 133 x 7.9 mm Weight 340 g Display Type Super AMOLED Plus capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors Size 800 x 1280 pixels, 7.7 inches (~196 ppi pixel density) Multitouch Yes - TouchWiz UX UI Sound Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones Loudspeaker Yes, with stereo speakers 3.5mm jack Yes Memory Card slot microSD, up to 32GB, buy memory Internal 16/32/64 GB storage, 1GB RAM Data GPRS Class 33 EDGE Class 33 Speed HSDPA, 21 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, dual-band, Wi-Fi hotspot Bluetooth Yes, v3.0 with A2DP Infrared port Yes USB Yes, v2.0, USB Host support Camera Primary 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, autofocus, LED flash Features Geo-tagging Video Yes, 720p@30fps Secondary Yes, 2 MP Features OS Android OS, v3.2 (Honeycomb) Chipset Exynos CPU Dual-core 1.4 GHz Cortex-A9 GPU Mali-400MP Sensors Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM Browser HTML, Adobe Flash Radio No GPS Yes Java Yes, via Java MIDP emulator Colors Black - SNS integration - TV Out - MP4/DivX/Xvid/H.264/H.263 player - MP3/WAV/eAAC+/Flac player - Organizer - Image/video editor - Quickoffice HD editor/viewer - Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration - Voice memo/dial - Predictive text input (Swype) Battery Standard battery, Li-Po 5100 mAh Stand-by Up to 1200 h (2G) / Up to 1100 h (3G) Talk time Up to 34 h 10 min (2G) / Up to 20 h (3G)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

72 of 73 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Amazing! March 21, 2012

By Mr Smart

Amazon Verified Purchase

This is my 2nd Galaxy Tab, my first being the Galaxy Tab 7" which I purchased refurbished from woot for $250. That tab replaced my netbook, which may or may not go to my nephew, for now it sits by collecting dust. When I saw the specs on the 7.7 and I realized how much I use my 7" tab, I went ahead and bought this tab for $655 and it is worth every cent! The screen is amazing; I used it the first day for over 10 hours without having eye strain and the battery still had close to 25% left. I tried my T-mobile sim card from my Galaxy s 4G and the phone worked perfect, and the Edge network ran pretty fast on this tab, but not a replacement for 3G by any means, but it's nice to know I can use my card on this at any time and have a phone and net at my disposal.

The stock web browser works fine, and I have Dolphin HD as well, which works well too. Most apps I have used on this device work perfect, but with this screen resolution you will find the font to be somewhat small on apps not made for the 1280x800 screens, but I don't mind that as the screen and colors are amazing, and until you hold this in your hand its hard to put in writing just how beautiful it really is.

The speed of this tablet is amazing, I have yet to find any lag, I seen some people complain about Samsungs touchwiz as being slow and buggy, I found that out on my Galaxy S4G, but that is not a problem as I use Go Launcher Ex, a free launcher on the Android Market, and by far IMO the best launcher there is, so do not let touchwiz stop you from getting this tab.

I fly several times a year and the size of this tablet for travel is perfect and the weight is so light it is not a worry about having too much in your carry on.

Movies and Videos play very well with the stock video player and there are several on the market you can use if you find videos that do not work on the stock player.

I spent the $50 on the Samsung Case and it was money well spent, this tablet is so thin and weighs so little, it can be hard to hold without this case to add some girth to it and not much weight and also, its nice to have the protection you get with this.

The screen has a coating that really does keep fingerprints and smudges at bay, with my 7" tab you pretty much needed to carry a cloth around to wipe down the screen after minimal use. That is not the case with this tab.

I hope this helps anyone who is looking at this tab as a consideration, I say go for it; it is amazing and a stunning example of a small and powerful tablet.

104 of 112 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Display Quality in the Market February 7, 2012

By Leining Lu

I purchased the Samsung Galaxy tab 7.7 along with ASUS Transformer Prime TF201 at the beginning of 2012. When I received them both about the same time, I compared the two. Then I returned the ASUS Transformer Prime to the seller and kept the Samsung Galaxy tab 7.7. Both tablets have been considered the best tablets in their own categories. The Prime has the best overall features among the size 10.1 tablets, such as being thin and light, having micro SD card, very bright display, fastest processing speed (Tegra 3) etc. But Samsung Galaxy tab 7.7, which is a smaller size tablet, beat the Prime in big time in the display quality, specifically, the richness of display color, which is the most important factor for me to choose a tablet. I use a tablet mostly to watch HD movies in 1280x720 resolution in mkv or mp4 format while I am not using my 55 inch Samsung LED TV (Samsung UN55D7000 55-Inch 1080p 240Hz 3D LED HDTV ) at home. The Samsung Galaxy tab 7.7, equipped with Super AMOLED display and highest pixel density in the market, has the display quality which is very close to my Samsung 55-inch LED HDTV at home. The Samsung products (TVs and tablets) in recent years have the displays which can be characterized as being radiantly bright and lavishly colorful. Samsung's display technology seems to be their best kept secret, which makes their products have no rival in the industry and enjoy considerable price margin over other brands. It's simply the best. The display of the Samsung Galaxy tab 7.7 is just incredibly stunning. I have had great viewing pleasure with this tablet since the purchase. However, I did realize that the movie viewing is better in a dark indoor environment than in a bright outdoor environment. Please note that the SD card can be only formatted into FAT32 format in order to be recognized by the tablet. An HD movie in 720P resolution can be as big as 4.7 GB depending on how big the video bit rate is. A file size greater than 4 GB won't fit in an FAT32 micro SD card. What you can do is to reduce the video bit rate to 2.5 mb so that size of the movie would be reduced to around 2 GB, which can fit into the micro SD card. I use a free software called DVDVideoSoft to do so. After several experiments, I realized that using a combination of the 2.5mb video bit rate and a resolution of 1280x720 to compress/convert a high resolution video file (1080p, 720p) and then play it on the Samsung Galaxy tab is the best way to maintain the the picture quality shown on a 1080p large screen LCD/LED TV.

***Update***
As to the storage size, the Samsung Galaxy 7.7 tablet comes with 16GB internal storage and MicroSD card slot, which you can insert a maximum 32GB MicroSD card. Besides, you can buy a USB female port adapter dongle for Samsung Galaxy tablets to further expand your storage. This little thing will allow you to connect a flash drive or thumb drive to the tablet. Again, it has to be in FAT32 format. The Samsung brand is very expensive (around $20.00). I think this price is a rip-off. I bought a generic one from ebay at a very cheap price.

***Update***
After one month of use, I realized that in order to achieve the best picture quality of a high resolution movie on this tablet, you have to compress the movie into 4 mb video bitrate (as opposed to 2.5 mb) and 1280x720. With 2.5 mb video bitrate, I would see some mosaic in some scenes. When I raised it to 4 mb video bitrate, mosaic was gone, the image became much sharper and much more accurate. For a 2 hour movie, it would create a size lower than 4 GB, which can fit into the FAT32 formatted MicroSD card.

*** Update on March 23, 2012 - Galaxy 7.7 compared to Ipad 2 and Ipad 3 ***
A co-worker of mine brought his newly purchased Ipad 3 to the office, and I brought my Galaxy 7.7 and Ipad 2. We played the same video clip on three devices and compared them side-by-side. It is a 20-minute 1080p mpg video featuring some colorful natural scenery. We used "O Player HD" app on the Ipad 2 and Ipad 3, and "MX Video Player" on the Galaxy 7.7 tablet to play the video clip. After the extensive comparison, the people in my office reached consensus. The Ipad 3 has slightly better visual effect than Ipad 2, but its brightness, sharpness and color vividness are still no where near the Galaxy 7.7 tab. The difference between the Galaxy 7.7 and the two Ipads (Ipad 2 and Ipad 3) is much more obvious than the difference between Ipad 2 and Ipad 3. The allegedly much improved pixel resolution of the Ipad 3 is not as so easily noticeable when playing video (720p and 1080p) as viewing the photographs.
I admire Apple Ipad for being the first to introduce the tablet idea, which has allowed Apple enjoy much hype and greatest market share. I myself have owned an Ipad 2. But as a rational consumer of electronics and a serious tablet user, I believe Samsung Galaxy tablets, especially the Galaxy 7.7 tablet, seem to be the best choice in the market for watching high definition movies and TV shows because of its superior display quality.

*** Update on November 8, 2012 - Galaxy 7.7 vs. iPad 4 ***
I received the new iPad with Retina display (4th generation) yesterday. It's the most expensive tablet on the market. But I would say the price is probably justified. Despite the complaints about the proprietary features, iPad is by far the best tablet on the market in overall performance. The display is truly amazing. The speed is very fast. There is no delay in reading PDFs. I've written a review on Samsung Galaxy 7.7 earlier and spoken highly of its HD Super Amoled display. Well, the iPad Retina high resolution display (2048x1536) is a complement to the Galaxy 7.7, rather than a substitute of the same kind. They both are the best displays, but have different usages. The iPad Retina display is best suited for photo viewing. It has the most realistic colors and such high pixel density. The photos just look stunning if they are taken by a good camera. The Galaxy 7.7, however has somewhat exaggerated colors and brightness, which are best suited for movie viewing. The colors of most movies are often artificially enhanced. They are not the real colors that we see in our life. The Galaxy 7.7 is very faithful to reproduce that effect.

32 of 34 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars REALITY OUTSIDE THE BOX March 20, 2012

By Dan

Amazon Verified Purchase

Soon there will be more than 30 million people jammed inside that box, lol! For third year in a row, not me! There's a real world outside that box and cannot be more of the same every year. I was amazed by tab 7.7 usefull features that i can even use it as a phone while its being a tablet, lot of things u can do to personalized. Super Amoled Plus is really more superior than retina, i took an Iphone 4S & Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket in broad daylight at the beach, Amoled is hands down superior. What the other dont have: 16x9 HD screen format, hot swappable SD card, Phone-Data or both, Unlocked format from the factory, thats freedom! 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz a/b/g/n wifi frequency, 2Megapix front camera(not vga like the revolutionry tablet lol), 5.1 surround audio, customizable equalizer. No wander Samsung got sued in Germany to block the release of this little killer earlier this year. This is a the reality outside the box, i'm glad not too many knows about it coz theyre all headed inside the box lol!

*********Update as of 25 Mar 2012 **************

Just like the screen test i did between iphone 4S and Galaxy S2Skyrocket outside at the pool side in broad daylight, only this time its between the new ipad 3 and Galaxy Tab 7.7 (International version), tested and proven, Super Amoled Plus realy outperform the over rated Retina screen of ipad3 in that harsh broad daylight setting in all three screen brightness(min, mid, max) settings. The tab 7.7 has an additional screen setting(Standard, Dynamic, Movie) leaving behind the ipad retina flat dead, lol! If any doubters out there pls perform this same test i did before making any comments coz thats the only way to prove it. I have a T mobile SIM on my 7.7 tab and uses the cellphone function, for data, i have Clear Wireless 4G Apollo wifi hot spot, using a separate hotspot takes away the abuse the 4G or LTE does to your tablet or smartphone, i heared about the ipad3 over heating issues, i never and will never hav those over heating issues coz i dont use my tablets 3G, 4G, LTE feature to receive internet data, i use wifi. Well, just like most apple diehards out there, i'll be waiting for the next version of this galaxy tab, the Quad Cores cpu. Thanks for reading. Good luck and choose wisely, its your hard earned money.