Galaxy Tab S5e- 64GB, Wifi Tablet - SM-T720NZSAXAR, Silver

First off---I am NOT affiliated with Samsung whatsoever . I am a previous owner of the original Samsung Tab S 10.5 wifi model. I simply wanted this new highly upgraded Tab S 5e with all the new superior features and especially more RAM in this particular model---it doubled my previous Ram from 3 to 6 GB! This new baby BLAZES--- PERFORMS LIKE IT'S HAIR IS ON FIRE. I gave my original Tab S to someone who does not have much money-- a solid Samsung and still working wonderfully tablet. You'd have thought I had given him a new car, the way he reacted. I bought my brand new Samsung Galaxy Tab S 5e directly from Amazon...also I have included a little comparison vs the Apple iPad ( all iPad models not compared one by one here because of space.... yet you will pick up on my intent here ) ------The inutile iPad that can't even expand internal storage up to 1 TB forcing you to buy higher storage at obscene prices? The dumb iPad with Wifi only that doesn't even have a screen that comes remotely close to the gorgeous Super Amoled display in this 'half the price' Samsung tablet with LTE? ( compared to an iPad )... (An iPad with LTE costs insanely even more!) The jurassic iPad that doesn't even allow seamless file transfers and file sharing to and from Windows PC's and many other accessories, thumb drives, external store and peripheral devices? Many Apple buyers I speak with are proud of their overkill, (largely superfluous for 99% of tablet users) they brag about their ultrafast bionic processor equipped iPad, however, it doesn't even offer a superb multimedia experience with AKG tuned, Dolby Atmos sound quality from four, yes, that's f-o-u-r high quality speakers like the Tab S 5e has. The iPad you say that doesn't even allow the simplest of customizations and flexibility like the Samsung tab's DEX mode or an equivalent desktop mode with multiple windows open for true multitasking and productivity? An iPad that can't even wirelessly mirror its screen to smart TV's without resorting to a wired dongle or an overpriced Apple TV accessory? Please do more research next time. A super powerful processor that is locked up in a jurassic, restrictive and suffocating system called a 'walled garden' which actually is more like a walled prison is just that: Another Apple product meant for just bragging rights--primarily. With the younger people ( 18 to 35ish )....it's their peer groups that usually render the "Apple Sway" to buy Apple products...I have seen this many times Only 1% of iPad users actually do some productivity work on it, but still 99% of the time its for media consumption, which gives you a TRULY AND HONESTLY INFERIOR experience compared to this less expensive Samsung tablet that costs less than half the iPad Pro. ( The previous sentence most likely says it all when comparing Apple iPads vs this Samsung Tablet model....oh the pen??....surveys say those devises that come with the pen are once again are very rarely used be it Apple or Samsung..its a knee jerk "gimmick addition" to get you to buy it---to spend more $$$. Do NOT get it. The extra gadgetry newness of it wears off quickly. Once again in summation--- THIS TABLET is the best tablet right now.---in comparing everything.. Much better than the cheapest iPad Pro for half the price or even less than half. Loud, excellent quad speakers with Dolby Atmos, beautiful Amoled display, long battery life, accepts 1 TB micro sd cards, Widevine L1 certified so offline movie downloads get played at full HD. DEX mode is excellent too! Tablet allows both wired and wireless connections to smart TV. Just use DEX mode if you use wired connection for sending video out from Netflix offline download to TV so video doesn't get resized (common problem when device is at an aspect ratio other than the TV standard of 16:9). A word of warning for Google Play Movie users: For wireless mirroring of Google Play Movies, don't update the tablet's built in Google Play Movies app. The newest Google play movie app version disables wireless screen sharing and also disables wired screen sharing so that you will be forced to buy a Chromecast. If you have accidentally updated Google Play Movies app, just uninstall it and it should revert back to the older factory version. Disable auto update to avoid Playstore from updating automatically your Google Play Movies app and other apps. (You can manually update the other apps).

I am really enjoying my 10" Galaxy Tab S5e tablet. I chose the rose gold back and was pleasantly surprised to find it very attractive indeed. I ordered the 128 GB to give myself plenty of future space. Before I unpacked it I waited for the Omotion tempered glass screen protectors, that I ordered with the tablet, to arrive so my new tablet could start out fresh with no fingerprints all over the screen. Glad I did cause it turned out amazing. Those are wonderful glass screen protectors and I am very pleased. They are very clear and do not hamper the clarity of the screen in the least. Very easy to install, with very clear instructions. The tablet is wonderful. I had no trouble loading on the apps I use and there does not seem to be any lag time in what I have used so far. The battery life is very good. I read reviews complaining about the fact that there is no 3.5 headphone jack in the tablet, which made me do further research before I bought it. What I learned convinced me it would be OK. And it is OK. It comes with a 3 & 3/4 inch dongle adapter that has a 3.5 connector on one end and a plug-in that attaches to the charging (multi-purpose) port on the other end. I just leave the dongle attached to my earbuds and it works very well. The only drawback might be that you wouldn't be able to charge the tablet and listen through earphones at the same time. I just keep it charged when I am not using it and have not had an issue with it so far. I have used the tablet for online shopping at Amazon and other sites, and for watching movies on Netflix and Amazon Prime, and for reading eBooks and listening to audio books on Nook and Walmart eBooks, and I play a few simple games like 7 Little Words and Solitaire. Of course I have to also check out the weather report regularly. I am having fun exploring the possibilities of new apps. So far it has responded admirably to every task I have asked of it. I do recommend this tablet, and the shipping was really fast too, even before I signed up for Amazon Prime and their fast shipping promise. I am very satisfied with my S5e.

So my old Samsung Tab S2 finally broke -- it was still working fine but it fell. I then thought: "It's 2020, I should try out a cheap low-to-mid-range brand, surely they've come a long way." Well, not really. I spend $200 on a Vankhyo tablet with case and pen (P31); when I first got it, the heft of the tablet, the pre-applied screen protectors (front and back, back is glass too), the fact that it came with Android 10 pre-installed, etc., gave me a somewhat good impression. But the quality of the IPS screen and UI and many other things on the cheaper tablet left much to be desired. There is one thing that econo-tablets lack: finesse. Well, that and just good hardware. This Samsung S5e tablet has all that and it makes a huge difference. The screen of the S5e is just leagues above cheap tablets. It is, of course, an AMOLED display which allows for very deep blacks. I'm talking about black as night blacks. Most of my reading I do at night, and the fact that (when you invert the text) the black can get pretty much as deep black as the bezels is just incredible. The resolution is 2560 x 1600 with pretty high pixel density and that makes for fine/crips lines and detail. My Tab S2 had all this too (and at only 8 inches!) and it's a must if you're reading with the lights off because you don't want a light-haze to blast your eyes right before you're going to sleep. The Vankhyo tablet, even though it had a pretty good resolution at 1200x1920 (IPS screen), could not achieve deep blacks. In fact, everything including videos just looked washed out. So if you're using your tablet to read at night or you appreciate good contrast in videos I would really recommend you get a tablet with an AMOLED (or: OLED) display that can achieve deep blacks. Cheaper tablets from Samsung that have IPS/TFT screens, although quite good, also can't achieve deep blacks like AMOLED can, although they're probably better than cheaper non-brand tablets. For example the new Samsung A7 does not have an AMOLED screen and it achieves a minimum brightness (or maximum darkness) of: 3.66 cd/m², whereas the S5e gets: 1.74 cd/m² -- so from that you can see how much darker the screen of the S5e can get at half the A7's value. A 10.5 screen is quite big for a tablet, especially when mainly used for reading books. In a way I prefer the 8 inch Tab S2 that I had because it's such a good size to hold in your hand and move around and has a better aspect ration for my use. Samsung has stopped making high end 8 inch tablets, but I'm hoping they'll return to that because there is utility to these. The Tab S2 has 4:3 ratio which is better suited to reading/editing documents and books. Widescreen tablets are really geared toward media consumption (i.e., movies, series, videos) but there is so much else you can do with a tablet that I think it shouldn't be given that much emphasis -- or at least they should offer 4:3 options as well. The S5e has a 16:10 ratio and if you read books in contiguous mode it is quite enjoyable. Since it's quite a large screen, you can keep the tablet at a greater distance which, depending on your position, can be useful. Everything from the material finish to the UI to the smoothness of operation to the overall feel just exudes quality and finesse. Yes, it cost $349 at my time of buying but the extra $ over the econo-tablets is more than worth it. I am sure that, for most people, the new Samsung A7 will be just fine as well and it currently sells at $249 and is going to be better than any cheap- or non-brand tablet. No. 1 for tablets are Samsung and Apple, of course; if you're already tied into the Apple eco-system it makes sense to go with Apple, but otherwise Samsung is king. If you have a PC and just want to drop some music or PDFs onto the tablet, it is way easier with an Android device. Apple's closed system makes it so you have to install iTunes on PC, etc.; just a hassle really, so I'd recommend going with Samsung for ease of use unless you have all Apple devices already. I think it's a sport for Samsung and Apple to make devices as thin and feature-rich as possible, but personally I wouldn't mind having the device a little thicker if it somehow increases longevity. I would also rather have a 3.5mm headphone jack rather than only the USB-C port and the headphone converter dongle. I did test the USB-to-3.5mm dongle with some Sennheiser corded headphones and the sound was good. The sound over the tablet speakers is surprisingly good. The A7 does have a 3.5 jack still so if that is important to you maybe get the A7 instead. All high-end tablets by Samsung have left behind the 3.5mm jack in favor of just a USB port. I don't like having wireless devices *on my head* for any great length of time so I'll always want wired headphones. The S5e is kind of the sweet spot right now. Its price is much lower than the newer high-spec tablets but you get a premium tablet with great picture and sound, and it is still getting Android updates from Samsung. When I received the tablet, Android 9 was installed on it. After configuring I checked for updates and it downloaded Android 10 (~2gb in size). After this installed and I rebooted, I checked for updates again and a 700mb November update was then installed. I read that this tablet is also slated to receive Android 11 (and UI 3.0 that comes with it) so it is still future proof for a while. If I had to find some negatives, I'd probably say that the touch swipes and such don't always quite register as I intend, but I don't think it's due to any hardware issue with the screen so it could just be an Android 10 thing. When I swipe up to get past the lock screen, it will require a more thorough (greater distance) swipe upwards to actually unlock it, while I would think that the movement in itself should indicate what I want to achieve and that it shouldn't require me to travel as great a distance. One the Tab S2 I would just do a half-hearted swipe up with my thumb while holding the tablet with the same hand and that would unlock it, but not so much with this tablet. I like the power button being inverted, whilst the volume button lever is extraverted (so you can easily tell the difference between the two) but, at least with a case around it, I often find myself having to feel around and then use my nail to "get in there" to press the power button. In summary: this is a great, high quality tablet and is the current sweet spot for people wanting a Samsung tablet with high-res AMOLED display. It is worth the extra money over cheap exotic brand "high spec" tablets. If an unknown brand tablet has similar specs like 4gb of RAM, 64gb of storage, etc., it doesn't mean it will perform the same -- it won't. Samsung tablets are at another level. This performs better in most things than a Samsung S6 Lite (it being in the price range of the S5e). The processor and graphics on the S5e are better, however the S6 Lite has an S-Pen included. The S5e does not support the S-Pen and doesn't offer palm-rejection, so if you need S-Pen functionality in this price range you're better off with the S6 Lite.

Bought this very one last week. This is the 2nd purchase of this tablet. 1st one was bought elsewhere but was the 6gb/128gb model that came with a free 128gb microsd card and paid exactly the same $349. But I returned it because the free microsd card was unreadable/defective on all devices. No big deal, it was free and they are cheap now. But main reason was the included fast charger stopped working (all my other chargers worked) and samung wanted me to return everything in package, which was inconvenient and I saw no point in doing that. PROS - Display is fantastic, you have to see it. Words cannot express how it looks. - Sound is great for a tablet, best I have heard. - Very thin and light, under 1 pound. - High end look and feel for an upper midrange model. - Performance is exceptional for me, smooth as butter with no lag or hitches. Oddly, this 4gb/64gb is a better than previous 6gb/128gb one. Unsure why, running same apps and software (both updated to android 10 out of box), thinking there was small latency issue with previous tab or was defective. - Supports HDMI output with an adapter, which I already had for my S10e phone. This was a MAJOR issue for my use, mostly watching videos and moderate games. It seems to use Dex mode for this but you can easily get back to normal homescreen and continues to stream just fine. - Better value, performance, features, and capability than the S6 Lite if do not need Spen for comparable price. Also better than newly introduced Tab A7 (but A7 is much lower price). - My S10e works thru this for calls and txt messages > I think this is only for S8 and above. - Everything works so far. - So thin and light you really need a case, but I used the one I bought for previous one. CONS - not much to quibble - No Spen but I have no use for that. - No dedicated headphone jack. Issue for some folks but included usb-c adapter is fine for me. - Other tablets may have longer lasting battery use but 8-10 hrs plenty for me. - Price could be lower as always but I would gladly pay more for the screen. Upgraded from Tab S2 9.7 (2nd gen). Honestly not a huge move for me except slightly faster and smoother operation. But prefer the 16x10 ratio of S5e for videos vs the 4x3 on S2. S2 still perfect after buying new 2 yrs ago. Also have a Tab Pro 8.4 and Tab S 8.4 that still function fine, except slowing down. Did buy 3 yr accident protection for S5e.

This is a good piece of hardware: Thin, light, with a good display. The touch can be somewhat unpredictable, sometimes responding to a hovering or passing finger and sometimes not responding to a decisive tap, but I'm getting used to it. I don't listen to tablet speakers, and I don't really understand why they're included, and I feel pretty much the same about cameras: I'm OK with the screenside one for Zooming, etc., but who takes snapshots with a big, clunky tablet? Anyway, they both seem to work OK, but I've used them minimally. The sound output quality is fine (I use various headphones, and/or stream to external speakers via bluetooth--I listen to a good bit of music from online sites). Bluetooth and wifi have given no problems (after I figured out that I needed to protect the web browser from sleep while streaming music with the cover closed). It serves well as an e-book reader, which is also significant for my use. I don't watch movies or TV on tablets so I can't address its performance for that. The downside is all the stupid bloatware that needs to be removed. Way too much of it is complete crap, useful only to Samsung (Google gets some blame, too) for generating traffic to its mostly-useless website, and much of it is redundant--who needs a browser from Samsung with so many better alternatives? I'm technically oriented, so I did a little web research and figured out which bits I needed to keep and which could be removed, and how to remove the ones that Samsung irritatingly protects from simple removal, so now I've got a more secure and private tablet that gets great battery life because it isn't wasting bandwidth on pointless Samsung background traffic. The bloatware removal is nontrivial, however, and most users will be stuck with a tablet bogged down with vendor junk. But then I don't know if there are good tablets that don't have this problem--Apple has its own "we know how you should configure and use your Ipad" problem--so what's a buyer to do?

I am a fan of Galaxy Tab s-series. Before buying S5e I owned S2, S3, and S4. I especially like the screens, which for me is the most important part of the table. S4 was somewhat of a let-down: face (iris) recognition is flaky, and glass back panel is easy to crack. S5e beats S4: lighter, more durable, great fingerprint sensor position in addition to an excellent screen quality. S5e is also priced better than S4 (or S6). This comes at the expense of the S-pen, so if you really want one, you have to go with something else. I have not used S-pen much on my previous tablest, so this is not an issue for me. I took one star off due to two design shortcomings of S5e: 1. The WIFI version does not support vibrate mode for the ringer. Come on, Samsung, this is a stupid decision! 2. Antenna design is bad, holding the tablet by the bottom left corner in landscape mode reduces signal strength. Transfer speeds suffer, especially when the signal is weak, and the range is shorter. I found that with a case, the problem is not as bad, and most places I use the tablet have strong signal, so I can live with this, but if you have a weak signal, you should take this problem into account. Update 8/29/2020: I dropped and broke my old s5e and got a replacement. Pleasant surprise! WIFI works better now. With the case, there is only slight slowdown, and without the case I can use the new tablet where the old one lost the signal. I am increasing my rating to 5*.

I have had a bunch of tablet computers over the years and this is near the top in terms of quality. First of price is no object the iPad line is where I would shop. I have an iPad air 3 and in my opinion is a little better quality than this model. Obviously that would make the iPad pro line muchbetter. But I like the Android software so in terms of Android tablets this is much better than the galaxy a which was the best android I had ever had I closing Amazon s line of fire tablets. In terms of price which must be considered in the Samsung line of tablets which in my opinion is top of the line Android the s models are truly better than the a models. However is this model two hundred bucks better? I am not sure on that. If price is really an issue for you go with the newer a models. If quality is the issue I would go with this tablet nere. The extra two speakers are fantastic. The plead high res screen is amazing. The processor is fast. The n.a.org size is very good. I love the Android application selection. There are two negatives with this model. One is the size of the scrubs a touch too small compared with other ten inch tablets. Two, the cost is a bit high compared with the much more inexpensive but lower quality galaxy a means not as good quality color with the iPad air3 for the same price. Overall this tablet has to rank among the best in terms of mix prices models with the sound quality the best tablet I have listened to. This includes the air3. At this price a tad high but you will defiantly the quality build from the Samsung galaxy a line. Would recommend for an Android but if you like Apple products I would go with the air3 overall.

One of the nicest looking and performing tablets around. The screen looks phenomenal, the thickness is about the best I've seen or even heard of. There is a little bit of bloatware which takes a while to delete or hide, but just about every device you buy today has that. The battery life is about average for modern tablets, it's good enough to watch a couple movies on a flight, but not much more than that. The touch screen is very responsive and the tablet is powerful enough to keep up with the requested changes. Note that I use it purely as a media and reading device, I haven't tried to use it as an actual productivity tool, so I can't speak to it's usefulness in that area. Currently the OS is very up to date, but Samsung (like many tablet makers) is terrible at updating their tablets, so you should expect updates to lag Google by 6 to 9 months, and probably no updates will be available beyond the 2 year mark. Maybe they will get better on this front, but I doubt it. The only factor that makes this a little more acceptable now than in the past is that Android is already pretty mature, so the need for updates is much less now than in the past.