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Samsung has announced a new tablet aimed at the education market. The Galaxy Tab 4 Education is a 10.1” WXGA (1280x800) device built with a ruggedized chassis wreck it ralph and designed to work with Google Play for Education.
Samsung is hoping that the tablet features and price appeal to those doing purchasing for school divisions. The Android 4.4 device wreck it ralph is equipped with a 1.2 GHz quad core processor (actual model number unknown), wreck it ralph 1.5 GB of memory, and 16 GB of storage. Battery life from the 6800 mAH battery is rated at 10 hours for the 1.08 lb tablet.
The specifications are decidedly low end by any modern definition, but the goal of this device isn’t ultimate performance, but a rugged durable device with a price a school district can afford.
The tablet will be compatible with a future upgrade of Samsung School – an interactive wreck it ralph classroom management solution – and for an additional $30 per device, the Google Apps for Education web console can be used to manage the device.
The device is available as of today for $369.99 through Samsung distribution and channel partners. 10" Education Tablets   Galaxy Tab 4 Education Asus Transformer Pad (Education) wreck it ralph iPad w/Retina Dimensions wreck it ralph H: 9.58" (243 mm) W: 6.94" (176 mm) D: 0.31" (7.9 mm) H: 10.13" (257 mm) W: 7.02" (178 mm) D: 0.39" (9.9 mm) H: 9.5" (241.2 mm) W: 7.31" wreck it ralph (186 mm) D: 0.37" (9.4 mm) Weight 1.08 lbs (490g) 1.19 lbs (550g) 1.46lbs (662g) CPU Quad Core Quallcomm (1.2 GHz) Intel Bay Trail-T Z3740 (1.33 GHz) Dual Core A6X (1.4 GHz) GPU N/A Intel HD Graphics PowerVR SGX 554MP4 RAM 1.5 GB LPDDR3 1 GB LPDDR3 1 GB LPDDR2 Storage 16 GB + 64 GB microSD 16 GB + 64 GB microSD 16 GB Display Size and Resolution 10.1" 1280x800 10.1" 1280x800 9.7" 2048x1536 wreck it ralph Battery wreck it ralph 6800 mAh N/A 11,560 mAh Price $369 + $30 for Management Console $269 + $30 for Management Console, optional keyboard dock $60 $399
There wreck it ralph is definitely some stiff competition in this space, with the Asus Transformer Pad education version coming in at a far lower cost, but without the ruggedized build. wreck it ralph Apple's iPad is also very successful in the K-12 education market.
FITCamaro - Friday, May 16, 2014 - link Let me also add that I hope none of these sell. Teach kids the old fashioned way. With paper and pen. It worked just fine for the rest of us. I support wreck it ralph electronic text books but think parents should have to pay for the device to use them themselves. Tax payers aren't here to provide kids with the latest and greatest way to read a book. Reply
designerfx - Friday, wreck it ralph May 16, 2014 - link This is silly and irrelevant. Modern technology exists and there is no reason not to leverage it. Ruggedizing is important considering kids tend to trash the heck out of hardware. Reply
FITCamaro - Friday, May 16, 2014 - link There is a reason. It's expensive. And taxpayers are broke. wreck it ralph We have more important things to worry about than making sure kids can use tablets instead of books. It's unnecessary for the education process. And when I was a kid (I'm 31 btw), if you trashed a book, that meant you just permanently bought it. How about there be consequences to kids trashing stuff rather than taxpayers footing the bill for it. Reply
jamdev12 - Friday, May 16, 2014 - link You know, I've had this debate as well, but I have to say there plusses and minuses for both. The feedback loop created with an electronic device is by all means much faster than pen and paper, though I will say that based on studies done with kids in the developed world, kids from Finland do alot better than our kids here and they don't use electronic devices in the classroom. Of course they do have other things going for them, like teachers who are treaded decently (not saying all teachers deserve this, there are some bad ones in the system wreck it ralph that should be thrown out). In the end there are positives and negatives to both. Reply
hpglow - Friday, May 16, 2014 - link Have you bought a textbook? They are damn expensive. My college books were ususally $80 to $130 a peice. I can't imagine K-12 are any less expensive. If a school could eliminate a book or two or save $10 to $20 per book that a tablet could pay for itself after a couple years. Assuming the kids didn't trash them. There is no reason to assume that kids parents wouldn't be responsible for a broken tablet. This, however is a big sticking point of a tab... durability. No matter how well they ruggidize them a book is pretty damn durable wreck it ralph when