Does Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 Have 2 Cameras

Camera: Photos and Videos

The number of users that use their tablet every bit their primary photographic camera is far larger than anyone ever could have predicted when the tablet marketplace was emerging. However, there are some obvious reasons why someone would opt for their tablet. It may actually exist the best camera they own, and older users with aging eyes can definitely appreciate the fact that their tablet brandish turns into a giant high resolution viewfinder. The cameras themselves have also improved significantly from the night days of the i.2MP rear camera on the iPad 2.

Since the Tab S2 is extremely thin, Samsung has needed to allow for a camera hump in lodge to fit their 8MP sensor. The hump isn't very large, and although information technology's larger than that of the iPhone half-dozen, it'southward not almost as large as the camera hump on the Galaxy S6. Information technology's honestly not really an issue, but some customers who are very serious about the design of their devices may take effect with it.

Below you tin can view the known specifications of the Tab S2'southward rear and forepart-facing cameras. Unfortunately I don't accept data on the specific model of the rear-facing sensors used in the original Tab S series, then that info is omitted on the chart.

Camera Specifications
	Galaxy Tab S1 Serial	Milky way Tab S2 Serial
Front Camera	2.1MP (1920x1080)
Front Camera - Sensor	S5K6B2 (1.34 µm, 1/half-dozen")
Front Camera - Focal Length	N/A	27mm eff
Front end Camera - Max Aperture	F/ii.4	F/2.ii
Rear Camera	eight.0MP (3264x2448)
Rear Camera - Sensor	North/A (1.12 µm, 1/4")	S5K4H5 (1.12 µm, 1/iv")
Rear Camera - Focal Length	32mm eff	31mm eff
Rear Camera - Max Aperture	F/2.4	F/ane.9

While Samsung hasn't made any radical changes to the photographic camera sensor specifications with the Tab S2, they have significantly widened the rear-facing camera's aperture. Changes to epitome processing and ISP improvements will also have an enormous touch on image quality.

As always, my photo testing begins with a scene during the 24-hour interval, followed by that same scene at nighttime to exam low calorie-free operation. While the low calorie-free test is yet pretty savage on current tablets, information technology's a very good indicator of the quality of an OEM's image processing.

During the day the Tab S2 performs very well. Detail is on par with the iPad Air 2, which isn't surprising given the similar sensors and Samsung'southward large improvements in image processing quality this yr. My only complaint is that there is a bit too much sharpening going on which exacerbates the artifacting on the wall of the building caused by the limited effective resolution of the camera system. What's interesting is that the Galaxy S6 Edge processes the image with less sharpening, which is likely intentional on Samsung's part every bit the S6 has a much larger sensor with a higher resolution. Overall, I'm happy with the Tab S2's camera quality, and I'm glad Samsung decided to requite the tablet a bit of a photographic camera hump instead of crippling the camera quality to fit in the 5.6mm contour of the chassis.

Low lite photography is where I started to take some issues taking photos with the Tab S2. For some reason it simply refused to run the autofocus, and I had to try and manually focus past tapping which is difficult on such a large device. In one case I was able to focus and have the shot I took a few, and the all-time result is the one you see above. For a tablet it's actually a pretty skilful photo, although as you lot tin can encounter from the street lamps the photo is definitely overexposed to a degree. Compared with the iPad Air 2 there'southward actually non much more visible in the frame despite the overexposure, and the Air 2 has a better rendition of the grassy patch on the right side as well as the no parking sign. Both photos are still very expert every bit far as tablets go, but I do think the iPad wins out by a fiddling bit considering of the exposure and slightly amend particular preservation.

The Tab S2 tin tape video at 1080p30, and also at 1440p30 although the latter disables video stabilization and so I've opted to but use the 1080p recording manner. Looking dorsum at all the tablets I've evaluated, it'south articulate that the Tab S2 has the all-time video recording quality by far. It'southward definitely not perfect, with some jiggle to the frames caused by the EIS and a fleck too much saturation to the colors, but the overall quality, sharpness, and consistency of the frame rate is better than any other device I've tested.

WiFi Functioning

Like the original Tab Due south, the Tab S2 ships with a 2x2 802.11ac WiFi implementation. I actually haven't been able to track downwardly exactly which WiFi chipset they're using, which is unfortunate. The original Tab S really had strangely tedious WiFi performance given its acme theoretical bandwidth of 866Mbps, and I was hopeful that the Tab S2 would fare ameliorate.

WiFi Performance - UDP

As you can run across, the WiFi performance on the Tab S2 is miles ahead of the previous models, and ends up having the highest superlative bandwidth on tape for a mobile device. Samsung did a great job improving on terminal twelvemonth's WiFi implementation, and if there'southward going to be whatsoever bottleneck over WiFi it's not likely that t it will exist the Tab S2.

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