Samsung has been pitching the Galaxy Tab A7 Lite as a small, useful Android tablet that's easy on your wallet, and in my experience that's exactly what you get when you buy one. Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite review: Verdict That means that, unlike with Amazon’s Fire tablets and their Android-based Fire OS, you get full access to Google Play store and its hundreds of thousands of apps and games. When you set it up, it comes pre-installed with the Samsung app store, but it’s otherwise a relatively pure Android experience. If you love stock Android you’ll appreciate the experience of using the Galaxy Tab A7 Lite, as Samsung has mercifully restrained itself from shipping it with a lot of extra cruft. Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite review: Software Setting up facial recognition on the Tab A7 Lite was a painless experience for me, though it had a lot of trouble reliably identifying me when I wore my glasses. Still, there is one nice thing to say about the Tab A7 Lite's camera setup: the front-facing camera supports login via facial recognition, a security feature that most sub-$500 tablets (including iPads) still don't offer. In our battery test, which involves surfing the web over Wi-Fi at 150 nits of brightness, the little tablet lasted 10 hours and 7 minutes. The Galaxy Tab A7 Lite’s battery packs enough power to get you through a cross-country flight or a few nights on the couch without having to scramble for a charger. Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite review: Battery life It’s a poor score that puts it quite behind tablets like the 2021 Amazon Fire HD 10 (969), Microsoft’s Surface Go 2 (1,563) and the iPad 2020 (2,685). The Galaxy Tab A7 Lite earned a score of 907 in the Geekbench 5 multicore performance benchmark, which we use to help measure the tablet’s overall performance. In short, using the Tab A7 Lite for anything more than browsing the web and watching media is often a lackluster experience, and that’s backed up by our lab testing. I could play games like Asphalt 9 and Call of Duty Mobile pretty well on the Tab A7 Lite, but it often struggled to maintain a smooth framerate when the screen got busy in either game, and cutscenes promoting new content in Call of Duty Mobile often looked more like slideshows. When I opened 15 tabs in Chrome and tried to flip between them quickly, I regularly saw a bit of slowdown. However, be prepared for some hitches and slowdown when you open a lot of apps simultaneously, or try to play more demanding Android games. The MediaTek MT8768T chip powering the Galaxy Tab A7 Lite isn’t exactly a powerhouse, but its 4 GB of RAM helps make the experience of flipping between apps and playing games nice and speedy. Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite review: Performance Though there still isn’t a ton of Dolby Atmos content readily available for Android users, switching this setting to on will (in my experience) make most music and movies sound a bit deeper and fuller. This setting promises to make audio coming out of the tablet sound better and more immersive, especially if it’s been mixed for Dolby Atmos. To check out the full capabilities of the A7’s speakers, make sure to pop into the Settings menu, tap “Sound quality and effects”, and toggle on the “Dolby Atmos” option. However, if you push it up to maximum volume you may notice some distortion, as I did on tracks like The Who’s Baba O’Riley and Elton John’s Rocket Man. You can crank your tunes up pretty loud, too even at three-quarters volume I could clearly make out vocals and drum patterns playing on the A7 Lite from the opposite end of my one-bedroom apartment. Sure, you aren’t going to feel the bass notes in your gut, but vocals, synths and other treble-y sounds come through nice and clear. Listening to a few of my favorite playlists on the A7 Lite, I was pleasantly surprised at how good a job this little tablet does of producing crisp, accurate sound. Together they kick out some decent-sounding audio, and their location along the edges makes it easy to hear what’s happening when the tablet is lying flat. The Galaxy Tab A7 Lite has two speaker grills, one along the top right edge and another along the bottom left. I had no trouble tapping and swiping my way through Android, and gesture controls worked well. However, the display works well as an input device. These results are well in line with the Tab A7 Lite’s budget-friendly asking price, and they help explain why it can sometimes be hard to make out dark scenes or use the tablet in bright light.
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