Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9

We scored the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 in keeping with our overall impression - that this is one of the top tablets available today....Go To Full Review

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 is just more comfortable to hold and operate than anything else outside of the iPad....Go To Full Review

Samsung's tweener-size tablet perfectly balances usable screen real estate and portability, but we saw a slightly greenish cast to the display...Go To Full Review

Large enough to enjoy a film on but smaller than a hardback book, 8.9 inches could be the perfect size for a tablet. Add good build quality and great performance and the only thing holding back the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 is its shocking price-tag....Go To Full Review

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 is impossible to dislike. Unlike some Honeycomb tablets (or tablettes even), it doesn’t make a virtue out of being confusing or crashing randomly. It’s well made, light and extremely portable, with a screen that’s big enough for web, email and films, but small enough to hold one-handed....Go To Full Review

This slim, light Android tablet has a beautiful 8.9-inch display, and it's very comfortable to hold and use. Just mind Samsung's few crucial omissions in the name of thinness....Go To Full Review

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 is everything we loved about the Tab 10.1 in a slightly smaller form, with a slightly smaller price....Go To Full Review

Although it’s almost hard to not like this offering, especially when it’s fashioned after its bigger brother, there are some things that diminish its overall appeal in drastically establishing its own identity....Go To Full Review

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 is the slightly more portable version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android Honeycomb tablet. In terms of software and hardware the two tablets are nearly identical, with the Tab 8.9 being 1.2" smaller (diagonally) and a quarter pound lighter....Go To Full Review

Unfortunately, aside from the preferred size of the hardware, the Galaxy Tab 8.9 let me down on the user experience. Android 3.1 Honeycomb still feels woefully unfinished, and I experienced numerous app crashes and random reboots while using the device. The performance of the tablet also was not what one would expect from a 1GHz, dual-core processor with 1GB of RAM at its disposal, as I found the interface to be laggy and choppy more often than not....Go To Full Review

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 is better than its larger sibling, delivering the same Android tablet performance in a more compact package with a lower price. But it still suffers from the app deficit that plagues Android tablets....Go To Full Review

Samsung's Galaxy Tab 8.9 packs all the features of its 10-inch Android tablet in a more compact design, but it's almost as expensive....Go To Full Review

Samsung's Galaxy Tab 8.9 is essentially just the Galaxy Tab 10.1 with a smaller screen and dimensions. The performance and features are nearly identical to the larger model save for the running time being the result from the smaller battery size....Go To Full Review