Customer Ratings & Reviews

Best buy helped me with my decision on the tablet that I was looking for. They didn't have the color I wanted,but ordered it for me with no issues and very prompt. They have great customer service, everyone is spoke with.

For a senior at 80, it's a mixed bag and a little more complicated than ipad. It has some features which I like better. I would buy again for the savings over ipad.

Easy to use. Great for games and ebooks. Battery life could be better.

Great buy...lightweight and great picture quality and screen resolution

I just bought this tab for replace another one exactly same, but diferent color that I gave to my father in law and bought the same tablet, because I was pleased with the first one it is really great purchase.

First time user, easy to understand and screen display really sharp

The tab has a major limitation with sleep mode. It would be great if screen went off when cover is shut.

I have only had one class but I learned a lot. I still need to find the time to take at least one more class. I do know that I can go back into the store and ask a question if I need an answer right away.

Got this for my hubby and he loves it. Not too big and not small.

Works well. Cool daul screen capability. Vibrant pictures. Opinions to expand space without upgrading. However I suggest if you have apple devices you should stick to buying apple devices. I later got an iPad because it was better to be connected in all devices.

I had a previous Tablet, used it until it died on me. Now this new one is awesome. Love the fact that it comes with the MicroSoft Office software unlike my previous tablet. I use it like a computer.

I am not very computer saavy (you could call me Wilma Flinstone) however I adapted easily to this tablet. I was using a friends old ipad but I liked this tablet better when I tried it at the store.

Once again thanks to your very helpful staff, I got exactly what I didn't know I wanted. They asked all the right questions and listened to what I was looking for and got me just the right tablet.

Decided to update to a Samsung Tablet since I have been happy with Samsung cellphone and HDTV. I attended two free classes offered at Best Buy which helped me learn how to use many new features.

I purchased this item after months of research. I love the new operating systems and the standard memory. I thing I dislike is the Samsung support. No stores around so hopefully this last.

Bought this for myself last year and I absolutely love it! Also, this model went on sale twice after I purchased it. BB happily returned the difference back to me for both instances.

I bought the black 9.7” S2 tablet. I evaluate it according to how I use it & what’re important to me. My most priority are: Portability, Reading/Web searching comfortability, & Gaming capability. (I posted my review in other webpage also,) 1. The S2 is IMPRESSIVELY THIN & LIGHT for the size, that's great for portability & for long holding/reading. It is sturdy, too. It feels good & solid in my hands. It is sleek & stylish. If putting by its side, the tablet S appears thick & plain, the Surface 3 looks fat, & the Ipad seems boring. Every single detail on this S2 is well designed & well made – the buttons, the port, the logo, the frame, … All scream premium. I want to use it w/o the case, but I dare not. The micro USB card slot is a wonderful option. But, 32GB storage is enough for me for now. 2. The Super Amoled SCREEN is gorgeous. It is very responsive, & is only fully appreciated when playing certain games. I play a lot complicated, fast-pacing soccer games which require good virtual control D-Pad on the screen. With this S2, I can easily control my team soccer players with only light press on the D-pad, which is great. The S2 is better than Ipad Air on this aspect. . The screen is very bright, & is much brighter than the Dell Venue 8 Pro Window tablet which has more than 400 lux (average is < 400 lux#. So, S2 could be between 450- 500 lux. In a dim room, I keep the brightness at 25% or less for reading. In a well lit library, I need only 50% brightness or even less. . The screen color is deep, vibrant, & natural, & luckily is NOT like the Galaxy S which is too saturated producing weird color, worst with the orange. If putting by its side, the famous Nexus 7 #2nd Gen# & the Surface 3 appear washed out. . Mine has no dead pixel or bleeding screen. In fact, I could not even see my S2 tablet in the dark when running the Bleeding Screen test on it. The screen has absolutely no light gray spots at the edges often seen in other tablets #even with the premium ones#. It is perfectly uniformly white when looking at different angles. On this aspect, it is better than Surface 3 & Lenovo & many others. . The PPI is only few points lower than Tab S. Human eyes would not see any difference on 8-10 inch tablets anyway. With lower PPI, it will draw less power juice. So, it should not be a point for complaining. 3. The PROCESSOR is better than the S tablet, but is not the best one currently available in the market. This upsets quite few people. Several Tech reports say it beats tablet S all the way #by 40%#. It beats the Ipad Air on multi-CORE, but falls a little behind on single CORE. To my experience, for the 9.7” size, only the Ipad Air & this Galaxy S2 could play these complicated soccer games well at fast-pacing rate, which means their processors are very powerful. Many others, including the older version 9.7” IPads & the 10.5” Galaxy S, are sluggish to play these games enjoyably. Of course, for normal daily uses & basic games like Fun Run, Marvel, Real Steel, etc ... the S2 runs very fast & snappy. It opens heavy web pages, multiple web pages, or long web pages full of colorful pictures very quickly, and runs w/o any hiccup. Also, it does not get warm at all even with heavy games & web search for several hours. 4. THE WIFI is execellent. I have the most pathetic, weak wifi at home #1.5Mbps for down load, 0.5Mbps for upload#. But, this S2 maintains good wifi signal persistently at 5-6 room-distance away from the router, while the others – miniIpad #1st gen#, LG Gpad, Nexus 7 #2nd Gen#, Dell Venue 8 android tablet, Lenovo ultrabook – keep dropping the signals on & off even with just one Wifi user. The tablet S2 streams You tube videos instantly at 480 resolution, but gets hiccups on & off on 720 or 1080 videos. But this is due to my house weak wifi. You tube & Netflix movies will have 1 inch of black horizontal spaces on the top & at the bottom due to 4:3 ratio screen. It’s not bad though. The MOVIE color & sharpness are great. The AUDIO sound is loud enough, & the sound quality is awesome when using the ear phones. Also, the BLUETOOTH works well. My Bluetooth mouse runs quickly & is stable. 5. The S2 has a clean, SIMPLE UI which I like. There are only few bloatwares, but they could be useful to some people. The Samsung on-screen keyboard is too much … The keys are little small to type comfortably. I switch to Google keyboard, which is not perfect but is simpler & easier to type. . The S2 is a MIRACAST enable device. I can mirror the S2 to ANY TV that has HDMI port, using MS wireless adapter. You have to update the adapter to its newest version first by downloading its app from Window store to a Window 8 computer, then, the WiFi, which connects the computer to the MS wireless adapter, will update it to the MS wireless adapter that you plug into the TV. 6. The READING/ WEB SEARCHING experience is very good due to many factors: the screen ratio 4:3, the large size 9.7”, the crispy letters, high resolution, the beautiful, deep color, the very responsive screen, & the strong processor w/o lag …. The tablet S2 open the web pages quickly within 1-2 seconds even with pages full of colorful pictures like Netflix or Red Box. The pages slide up/down extremely fast with just one finger flick. When I move the pages up/down, the letters get blurry a little but not much shaking which is great. However, the page lags behind the finger about 1-2 inches. On Window tablet & Ipad, the pages lag behind the finger only 1/2 to 1 inch, making me feel as if the page sticks to my finger #awesome !!#. In general, the Window tablet & the Ipad are little better than Android tablet on the subject of web search comfortability, propably because Android does not have as solid Web browsers. The stock Web browser & Chrome are stable on S2, but don't have embedded flash to play video clips, which is annoying. The Dolphin Web browser does, but it has been very shaky in S2 - very frustrated. . I wish Samsung would make digitalized screen plus the palm rejection to use with the pen. I also wish the MS Word Android version has the Ink features. There is NONE right now. So, I have to carry both the Surface 3 #for college works/study# AND Galaxy S2 #for entertainment/games, & some light works#. Galaxy S2 has no palm rejection feature, making it hard to use with the pen. 8. The GAME experience is awesome. Mostly, I play complicated, fast-pacing soccer games which require a powerful machine & a good on-screen D-pad control. Only few tablets are able to handle these games well at fast pace AND have good D-pad to play efficiently. They are miniIpads, Dell Venue 8 android, the new Dell 8700, & the Shield tablet. For the 10 inch tablets, only Ipad Air & this Galaxy S2 could perform well enough. The S2 is better because having better responsive screen. The older Ipads, Galaxy S, other Samsung tablets, Nexus 7, LG Gpad, etc …. either don’t perform well or don’t have good, smooth D-pad, or both. The large 9.7" size is great for these soccer games as well as other action games like The Marvel, Real Steel, Spider-man, etc ... The colors & pictures of these games ARE STUNNING on S2. I don’t want to go back to 8.4 inch tablet. The soccer players are too small on it, putting lots of strain on my eyes. . There's complaint about smaller battery & lower PPI. But, to me, these are NOT significant or bad on daily use. The web search drains the battery the most, but it still lasts around 7hr of continuous web search. The S2 drains its battery a little more than 10% per day in sleep mode w/o wifi on or app running. I have no problem with charging the battery every night. By the way, the charger is small, & is easy to carry around. . To SUM UP, the Tablet S2 is much better than tablet S in many ways –lighter weight, slim & stylish design, more responsive screen, more natural screen color, stronger & faster processor with no lag, better UI, better reading experience, better gaming capability, & fewer bloatwares. With $100 promotion discount with old tablet Trade-in deal, the S2 is even a better choice.

Replaced and older pad with this one. So much faster.

I like my Samsung galaxy. It takes beautiful pictures.

This tablet works awesome for movies and games. Add SD for more memory. The screen picture quality is vivid crisp clear. Bought it on sale great bargin! Will buy a second one for myself.