First Things To Do With Your Galaxy Tab

Did Santa pop a Samsung Galaxy Tab into your Xmas stocking? If so you'll need to do some things to ensure that you make the most of your new toy... I mean tool.

1. Download Dolphin HD. The standard webkit based browser is pretty good and the tweaks that Samsung have implemented to improve bookmarks in particular are excellent. However Dolphin works just a little bit better on the big screen of the Tab. Swiping left for bookmarks and right for settings feels incredibly natural and after a little bit of aclimitisation using menus to perform these tasks feels a bit backward.

2. Set Swype as your default input method. A little bit of time invested in the drawing text input method is handsomely rewarded and as a result text input into the Tab is far quicker and easier than its larger rivals.

3. Turn off power saving mode for the screen display. This does its job, at the cost of a slight yellow tinge to the screen. However you're not going to be panicking about the battery life of this thing believe me, so make the most of the really rather excellent display and turn this power saving feature off.

4. Download movies. Whether it be from the Samsung movie store (especially if you have the free vouchers) or other sources (BBC's iPlayer is another good source) movies play exceptionally well on the Tab with the added bonus that it is light enough to hold up for the duration of an entire movie, unlike some of the competition.

5. Use the Samsung apps application. Samsung seems to be feeling very generous to its Tab customers and regularly offers to give you free software through this application. Cream of the crop so far has been the unannounced arrival of Need for Speed Undercover HD as an early Xmas present from Samsung. Its regularly updated and even if some of the applications aren't to your taste there's bound to be a few that you'll enjoy.