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When held in landscape, while watching a movie for example, all sound comes from the right side, providing zero sense of stereo image. Getting stereo sound in a tablet is a neat extra, but it’s not particularly well-executed here. Its speakers are – sensibly – placed poles apart on the bottom edge – and there are two of them.
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The 3.5mm headphone jack sits on the top edge, right next to a teeny pinhole microphone. Its 16GB of internal memory (8GB version also available) is already reasonably generous, but this slot makes upgrading quick, cheap and painless. It features what’s arguably the most important, though – a plastic flap on its right edge covers a microSD card slot. It’s almost as if professional designers produced this thing…Īs with the other tablets in the Galaxy range, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 keeps its on-body connections simple. At just 344g, the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 feels right at home in one mitt – and in this situation the generous bezel comes in handy, giving you space to rest your thumb without obstructing the screen. One of the best things about a 7in tablet is that you can hold it in one hand without developing muscles in weird places within your forearm. It’s not Gorilla Glass as far as we can tell, but feels just the same under the finger and avoids the “oil slick” effect that plagued many Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets last year. The front of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 is glass. And while it doesn’t have that cool touch of metal, it has been textured to afford it a similar feel on the finger to anodised aluminium. In making the plastic rear plate non-removable, Samsung has been able to fashion a solid and strong-feeling slab. It feels much better-made than the vast majority of budget tablets we’ve tested, though. Its inch-thick screen bezel looks chunky, it has a plastic rear and while hardly rotund at 10mm thick, its form feels designed to be comfortable rather than razor-thin. With its gaze set on the budget buyer who doesn’t want to make do with a cheapo no-name tablet, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 doesn’t have a particularly dynamic or interesting design.