Samsung Galaxy Tab A9
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- JustSum1PassingBy
- 7Xn
- 25 Feb 2024
I dont know why the battery seems to last longer than my pova5 even though I use split screen most of the time with floating window from time to time. Yesterday I use this actively more than my pova 5 watching Youtube on the top while reading novels below and an idle game from time to time on floating window, while I use my pova 5 to play games on Lazada and Shopee which my time usage is around half compare to the tablet. I began around 95% battery on Pova 5 while 85% on Tab A9 both using mobile data, at 6PM when the electricity went back after a wholeday of brownout the Tab A9 still have 69% left while the Pova 5 had only 58%.... Hmmmm.
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- MeoWoe
- xPQ
- 24 Feb 2024
Tan, 26 Dec 2023Does it support eSIMI dont know about other variants but my 4gb/64gb LTE variant doesnt support eSim
i bought eSim for nothing
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- MeoWoe
- xPQ
- 24 Feb 2024
They advertised that it supports eSim but it actually doesnt
It only supports one regular simcard and sd card
I bought eSim for nothing
what a scam from samsung
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- Peter
- pwv
- 23 Feb 2024
Anonymous, 23 Feb 2024Might want to check if you're using hardware or softwa... moreSadly I've already tried that but the result is the same.
If it has hardware decoding either the G99 doesn't do it as efficiently as Qualcomm or for some reason does not kick in.
Even for other codecs run equally as bad in comparison even for software where you can't choose between hard and software decoding yourself!
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- Juicy Jacob
- Fvc
- 23 Feb 2024
just got mine buy 1 take 1 promo here in the Philippines via Samsung store in Lazada, 4/64 with LTE for only 9,740 pesos which is less than $200 so yeah this tablet is great because it has sim slot and microsd slot, played some games with low settings and mostly for movies and social media
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- Anonymous
- B4Z
- 23 Feb 2024
Peter, 20 Feb 2024One not so cool discovery. I've noticed a worse perf... moreMight want to check if you're using hardware or software decoding.
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- Sherwood420
- IbF
- 21 Feb 2024
Hechh , 19 Feb 2024I completely agree, That would be just Perfect ! I hope Sam... moreI would honestly highly doubt it, if you're saying Samsung should sell or could sell a, let's say 8.7" tablet with S Series performance for the price of this.
I'd like to see Samsung do a 8.7" S -Series tablet. Maybe one like the S-Series fe to help keep the cost down.
I recently purchased a S9 11" wi-fi for myself. I pre-ordered it, came with S-Pen and the keyboard cover. I feel this tab is too small for a keyboard cover.
I got my dad a S9FE5G for probably about $400. That was a out as cheap as I could find one. It's got 6gb/128gb RAM/ROM. It also doesn't have the Snapdragon processor, any of the 3. It has the Exynos1380. I'm not a gamer, so I don't notice any difference in the processors. The main difference is the fe has an LCD screen, while the S9 11" has an AMOLED screen. Again, I can't t see the difference.
If I did it over, I'd get 2 S9fe's.
As for the 8.7" "S-Series" I would think more along the lines of the fe. Not quite "top of the line" but a step above the A-Series. I'd say the Exynos processor, 6/128, with an LCD screen. I'd pay $400.
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- Peter
- pwv
- 20 Feb 2024
One not so cool discovery.
I've noticed a worse performance for decoding MPEG4 AVC than for the Tab A8 (2019).
In playback power usage for HEVC video they are even but for the old MPEG4-AVC the A9 performs 50% worse at the same brightness settings, resulting in 18% power draw in 2h.
The Tab A8 (2019) gets along with 12% for MPEG4-AVC in 2h.
Before I enabled power saving the A9 (2023) even consumed 25% of the battery under MPEG4-AVC in 2h....
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- Hechh
- M05
- 19 Feb 2024
Kingchi, 07 Feb 2024It will be interesting if Samsung can release small sized t... moreI completely agree, That would be just Perfect ! I hope Samsung is listening ...
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- gxG
- 18 Feb 2024
I've got the one with 8 gb ram. There's no any sofware updates.
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- Peter
- pwv
- 16 Feb 2024
I have it now for 2 days. Biggest surprise for me is currently, compared to the Tab A8 (2019), how the speakers have improved. For side-firing speakers, I'm astonished, how clear the music sounds, when you looking straight at the tablet, it almost sounds like the speakers aiming right for your head, even though it looses the punch in almost all under 1000Hz to the Tab A8 (2019).
Also I've noticed that compared to the Tab A8 (2019) the color reproduction seems to a bit more neutral, while the Tab A8 (2019) had a very slight greenish tint, this one A9 (2023) has better reds. Also the backlight seems to have improved a tiny bit, maybe the count of backlight LEDs was slightly improved (tested under maximum brightness), there are less spots where colors fall off into undistinguishable colorless blacks.
And compared to the (Tab A8 2019) the weight distribution is far superior, when you lifting it one handed, it feel like a difference of 50g, even though its only like 20g lighter 344g vs 326g.
If I notice anything more I'll write it down.
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- Bandungman
- XVe
- 13 Feb 2024
Anonymous, 13 Feb 2024No issues with ghost touches here. I'm pretty happy... moreI have bought it & been using it for 4 days now. I found some multi touch issues but only when playing games. I've been playing same games in several other Samsung Galaxy products, but I only find these issues in Tab A9 and Tab A9+.
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- Anonymous
- 6jZ
- 13 Feb 2024
Bandungman, 05 Feb 2024There are a lot of complaints (including from me) about mul... moreNo issues with ghost touches here.
I'm pretty happy with it overall. It's a nice tablet for the price I paid (effectively less than 100 euro). The chipset is sluggish and the display unimpressive but again, for the price it's fine.
It's really stupid that it's still not received the Android 14 upgrade though. It should have launched with that because when it came out Android 14 had been released for months,
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- Bandungman
- KLU
- 13 Feb 2024
James, 12 Feb 2024S Pen for S series only Actually there was an S pen included with "Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8.0 & S Pen (2019)".
But for this model (Galaxy Tab A9), there is no S pen included & it's not even compatible with Samsung S pen, so we have to use universal stylus from other brand.
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- James
- M7Y
- 12 Feb 2024
Daryl, 12 Feb 2024Does this have an S Pen?S Pen for S series only
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- Daryl
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- 12 Feb 2024
Does this have an S Pen?
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- potato4k
- XZ8
- 11 Feb 2024
Peter, 11 Feb 2024Those random read and write speeds look more like a UFS ver... moreHelio G99 uses UFS. Nobody said it uses eMMC.
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- Peter
- pwv
- 11 Feb 2024
potato4k, 09 Feb 2024It will never happen because Google couldn't care less... moreThose random read and write speeds look more like a UFS version than old eMMC!
youtu.be/EGBDnV6gzHE?feature=shared&t=59
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- Kingchi
- 4nH
- 09 Feb 2024
Alex, 09 Feb 2024Well where I live (ln Baltics) 4/64 - 169€ 4/64 LTE - 23... moreThanks Alex … appreciate
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- pVc
- 09 Feb 2024
Bandungman, 05 Feb 2024There are a lot of complaints (including from me) about mul... moreNo, a9 doesn't have this problem