Galaxy 7.0 Plus (P6200) or Galaxy 7.7 (P6800)?

magus57

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Kind of a tough decision for me. The 7.7 has battery life, screen quality/resolution, has better tablet app support (1024x600 on the 7.0 makes some apps appear in non-tablet mode), and better build/feel...while the 7.0 fits in my pocket, is cheaper, and doesn't seem to have as many issues (the 7.7 seems to have screen/color issues and overall sluggishness).

Advice? I'd be using it as my primary device (and making phone calls off of it), and I'm looking mostly at the screen size (so phones like the GS3 or Note don't appeal to me).
 

deio

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P6800 is a beautiful device. Can be used as primary phone (if you can make past the funny remarks), an be used as any tablet. You must install a custom ROM from here on XDA, the tablet will fly. Samsung is a bunch of greedy idiots that interest only on money, not on support. But that's why we have the friends on XDA that work hard to give us a better and optimized firmware.
Galaxy Tab 2 is with a very slow CPU, games will stutter, P6800 has the same GPU as S III, that performs on par with Tegra 3 Geforce ULP.

So yes, the better choice would be the P6800. But you need to be just a little more patient, until ICS will be fully compatible, than your tablet will really fly.
 

magus57

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P6800 is a beautiful device. Can be used as primary phone (if you can make past the funny remarks), an be used as any tablet. You must install a custom ROM from here on XDA, the tablet will fly. Samsung is a bunch of greedy idiots that interest only on money, not on support. But that's why we have the friends on XDA that work hard to give us a better and optimized firmware.
Galaxy Tab 2 is with a very slow CPU, games will stutter, P6800 has the same GPU as S III, that performs on par with Tegra 3 Geforce ULP.

So yes, the better choice would be the P6800. But you need to be just a little more patient, until ICS will be fully compatible, than your tablet will really fly.
Um, two things - I'm talking about the Galaxy Tab 7+, not the 2, which has the same CPU/GPU as in the 7.7 (but clocked a little slower). And the Exynos in either is dual-core, not the much faster quad-core in the GS3.
 

deio

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Um, two things - I'm talking about the Galaxy Tab 7+, not the 2, which has the same CPU/GPU as in the 7.7 (but clocked a little slower). And the Exynos in either is dual-core, not the much faster quad-core in the GS3.
The GPU is the same: Mali400. A quad-core GPU. On par with Geforce ULP with 12-core (Tegra3).

But the 7.7" has a SUPER AMOLED screen. Very good in sunlight, consumes less (if you read a lot with black background). Bigger resolution than Plus.