{"id":3569,"date":"2025-01-23T09:24:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T09:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.batteriesfast.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=3569"},"modified":"2025-03-04T02:04:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T02:04:00","slug":"samsung-galaxy-tab-s2-review-performance-and-battery-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.batteriesfast.co.uk\/blogs\/archives\/3569","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 review: Performance and battery life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Inside the Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 is the Samsung Exynos 7 Octa 5433 SoC, the exact same octa-core processor found in the Exynos Galaxy Note 4. That means we&#8217;re looking at a 1.9 GHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A57 CPU paired with a 1.3 GHz quad-core Cortex-A53, as well as a 700 MHz Mali-T760MP6 GPU, and a 64-bit LPDDR3 memory controller supporting 13.2 GB\/s bandwidth, connected to 3 GB of RAM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tab S2 is slightly faster than the original iPad Air, though, and overall the tablet is 55% faster than its predecessor, the Galaxy Tab S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for<strong><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.batteriesfast.co.uk\/search?search=Galaxy+Tab+S2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Galaxy Tab S2 battery<\/a><\/u><\/strong>&nbsp;life, the Galaxy Tab S2 9.7, which comes with a 5,870 mAh&nbsp;<strong>Galaxy Tab S2 battery<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>is just average.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tab S2 also comes with 32 or 64 GB of internal storage, as well as a microSD card slot that can accommodate cards up to 128 GB. Samsung removed expandable storage in the Note 5 and Galaxy S6, so it&#8217;s nice to see the Tab S2 have it. The 4G model also supports Wi-Fi 802.11a\/b\/g\/n\/ac, Bluetooth 4.1, and LTE+GPS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The use of Samsung&#8217;s Exynos 5433 instead of the newer and more powerful Exynos 7420 (used in the Galaxy S6 and Note 5) is disappointing, as there&#8217;s a sizeable performance gap between the 5433 and the Apple A8X used in the iPad Air 2. In our series of benchmarks (some of which are shown below), the iPad Air 2 was slightly more than twice as fast on average, while Google&#8217;s Nexus 9 also pulled ahead in GPU performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The battery capacity itself isn\u2019t particularly large, which is to be expected given the size of the tablet, and when paired with a fairly power-hungry SoC and display, it can\u2019t quite match some of the better tablets on the market in terms of battery life. 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