Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This is my second Samsung Tab A. Loved my first one, until I accidentally dropped it into the laundry. So I purchased a new one (SM-T290) expecting the same performance or better. Unfortunately, the new one is a huge step backwards. UPDATE: Don't buy this edition. What should have been a great tablet was seriously misrepresented in Samsung's advertising. Even thought it has an SD card slot, you cannot move apps to it. There is not enough RAM (only 2GB) to allow it to perform reasonably – even browsing the web on the Chrome browser is very slow and very sluggish. It is not nearly as good as my 2017 Samsung Tab A. I'm also disappointed that it is missing features that were included with my 2017 version of the Samsung Tab A (SM-T380): 1) My old tablet had a USB-C port, the SM-T290 has old school mini USB port. 2) My 2017 tablet turned off/on when closing/opening the cover; closing the cover (a new one from the same company as my old one) on my new tablet doesn't turn the tablet off, so the battery runs out much too fast if I forget to manually turn it off. 3) The front camera on the new model is only 2 MP (old one was 5 MP), and 4) The new tablet at 1.1 lb is considerably heavier than the old one (0.79 lb). The new tablet runs on Android 9.0 (Pie), while the old one was Android 7.1. So I did get an upgraded operating system. I'm not techie enough to evaluate how the Qualcomm SDM429 Snapdragon 429, Quad-core 2.0 GHz Cortex-A53, compares to Qualcomm APQ8017 and Quad-Core 1.4GHz on the old one. I assumed that the new one would be faster but that's not been my experience. This does work good as a Kindle reader (if I can get books downloaded), but I'm having trouble getting my books moved to the SD card. Urgh! Don't buy this if you care about performance at all. I'd be better off with a Kindle.