The display consists of a gorgeous 10.9-inch Liquid Retina display. At 10.9 inches it’s slightly larger than the iPad Air 10.5-inch panel, but it has the same resolution and pixel density at 2360x1640 and 264ppi. The screen is crisp and bright at 500 nits and looks great even outdoors resulting in sharp text, graphics, and media content. One important thing to note though is that the display isn’t high refresh and doesn’t support standards like HDR10. Despite being an Android slate, it’s possible to see some common design elements between the Galaxy Tab S7+ and iPad Air 4. Both make the bezels as narrow as possible, remove any buttons from the front of the device, and push the buttons off to the side. The fingerprint sensor is in-screen, though registers a tad slow. Like the Air 4, the Galaxy Tab S7+ is designed to work with additional accessories like Samsung’s Book Cover keyboard and S Pen. The screen quality of the Tab S7+ is one of the best on the market. It boasts a Super AMOLED HDR+ panel with a 2800x1752 pixel resolution. It’s incredibly pixel-dense at 266ppi, and it supports a 120Hz refresh rate making for smoother screen animations, responsive S Pen use, and appealing multimedia. This is a big advantage the Tab S7+ boasts over the iPad Air 4. If your main use is consuming media and productivity, the Tab S7+ is a device without compromise. Apple says the iPad Air 4 has 10 hours of battery for general use, like surfing the web on Wi-Fi, and our reviewer clocked it at 12 hours of video streaming. That’s enough to get you through a full workday or a long plane flight before needing to recharge. The Samsung Galaxy Tab S7+ is no slouch when it comes to performance. It has the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 865+ processor and a base model with 6GB of RAM as well as an 8GB RAM option. It excelled at benchmark testes, handled running programs like Adobe Photoshop without a problem, and tackled games with ease including streaming Halo 4 through Xbox Game Pass. The addition of the Book Cover and S Pen also turners the Galaxy Tab S7+ into a full-fledged laptop replacement. Despite the power-hungry screen, the Galaxy Tab S7+ manages solid battery life. Watching videos at reasonable brightness, our tester clocked 14 hours of video playback. That’s two hours longer than the iPad Air 4 and enough to keep you covered for an entire workday or very long trip. The Samsung Galaxy Tab S7+ comes running Android 10 out of the box with Samsung One UI 2.5 skin on top. Like the iPad Air 4, the software is geared towards multitasking and productivity, focusing on turning the slate into a laptop replacement. Aside from running apps side-by-side, you can use Samsung DeX to put the Tab S7+ into desktop mode. This gives you a taskbar, program files, and draggable, overlapping windows for applications. This essentially gives you an experience similar to a Chromebook or the pared-down Windows 10 S. Add in the Book Cover and S Pen for word processing and note-taking, and you get a tablet that genuinely can serve to replace your daily use laptop.
