I purchased the Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2 Android tablet this week. To date I have spent nearly 40 hours with it. The hardware is outstanding and the readability of the screen is absolutely awesome. There is no thumb drive connection but there is a slot for a micro SD card. I had a 16 Gig Samsung SD card and installed it.

The OS works great but is certainly not intuitive. I did not find it to my liking.
The on-screen keyboard is the best I have seen on a tablet and I could actually type on it using normal typing techniques. The initial setup out of the box was very simple. The tablet is extremely fast - everything pops up almost before you finger leaves the screen. There is even a GigEasy holder that will fit the Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2 tablet. So, if it is all this great then why am I returning it today???

The downside started when I purchased a program called Mobilesheets to use with my collection of PDF lead sheets. This program has no way to transfer complete folders with the folder's contents - each PDF file must be added on a one-by- one basis. There is a batch download function and it works ok but there is no way to download a batch of files into a selected folder - it all goes into a main library from which you must add - again one-by-one files to a setlist. There is an option to avoid duplicate files during the batch downloading process but it did not work very well and I spent over 15 hours yesterday going through over 4000 files deleting duplicate files. But the real deal killer for me is - there is no way to copy and paste a a group of files from the Tablet to say your computer - only a backup process is offered which creates a file only readable on the tablet.

Perhaps in the future there will some outstanding Music Readers for the Android tablets that rival those available for the iPad but for now they are not even close. I also downloaded Orpheus for the Galaxy tablet and it was not much better.

Today I will return the Galaxy Tab Pro and purchase the latest iPad to replace my first generation iPad.

At least I tried.

Deane