The 8-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 is the latest example of the company's weird pricing decisions. At $300, the Tab 3 is expensive for a small tablet that - aside from its 1.5GB of RAM - has fairly modest specs and hardware features. In the small tablet space - 7- to 9-inch screen sizes - great models are more affordable than ever. The Tab 3 is still obviously plastic, but with its smooth, rounded corners and well-placed physical features, it doesn't feel cheap. The navigation array from the Note line makes a return here with the bottom bezel playing host to a home button, menu button, and back button, features typically found on the actual screen of pretty much every post-Honeycomb ( Android 3.0) tablet. The removal of the array from the Tab 3 screen translates to apps and games getting just a little extra room to stretch their legs, resulting in a game like Real Racing 3 using the full screen as opposed to only some of it, as it does on most Android tablets. The most useful feature is the easily accessible shortcut tray that lets you turn off features like Smart Stay, Multi Window, Screen Mirroring, Wi-Fi, Reading Mode, and GPS among others by simply swiping down from the top of the screen and tapping the feature on or off.
