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1.0 out of 5 starsAbsolutely not fitted to work with text
Reviewed in Canada on September 2, 2023
I bought this tablet to use as a mini-laptop in travel and at home for personal projects and I have been successfully using ipad for this purpose for years. I also bought an external keyboard. However, I realized that this tablet is absolutely not adapter to be used with an external keyboard and work with text. Of course, you can write the text, like I do it now, but if you’re used to use keyboard shortcuts to move through the text, to select the words and paragraphs, you won’t be able to do this on this tablet. Its OS just doesn’t have a function for it. You will have to use your finger on the screen. First I thought it was a problem of the external keyboard I bought, so I returned it and bought another one. But the experience and frustration were identical.
So, maybe it’s an ok tablet to read books, surf internet, watch videos and type simple texts on the screen, but it can’t be used as a laptop, even if somebody makes compatible keyboards.
I feel like I should give this tablet at least 3 stars, because the basic function is there, however I’m giving it 1 star as my frustration is too big, because I didn’t expect to get a device with functions of 2011 pretending like it’s 2022, and it took me a couple of months of searching in the Settings, googling and trying to contact Samsung support (unsuccessfully, as they only have chat bots there) to figure it out, when the automatic return window closed. Fortunately Amazon was kind enough to process my return manually.