S Voice can be used to initiate or answer a call, dictate text, play music, open an app, change a setting, make a memo (including a voice one), add a reminder, schedule an event, set or snooze an alarm or timer, check the weather, do a search on the internet, take a photo, look for local listings (e.g. nearby restaurants) and even get an answer to a question - in other words it's an all you can eat voice assistant.
The problem is S Voice is not nearly as fast or as accurate at recognizing your speech input as Google Now.
Speaking of which, Google Now integrates with your Google account and can access your daily routine, internet searches, email, etc. and give you information relevant to your interests and daily needs.
It provides traffic information to your work or home, knows those scores of sports teams you follow, has the weather forecast for your location and can even tell you who Kevin Spacey is (really, living under a rock or something?).
Google Now also has its own separate widget on the homescreen as well and can show you information in the notification area.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Lite 7.0 is pretty underpowered with a dual-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A9 processor, built by Vivante Corporation. The chipset is a GC1000 and has its own graphics processing unit. To complete the tally the Galaxy Tab 3 Lite 7.0 comes with 1 GB of RAM.
In BenchmarkPi, which measures the calculative skills of the processing cores the Galaxy Tab 3 Lite 7.0 scores an okay 416 which is a little faster than its predecessor the Galaxy Tab 3 7.0. Linpack gives multithreaded performance a gauge, here last year's Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 got the better score leaving the Galaxy Tab 3 Lite 7.0 behind.
Lower is better
Higher is better
AnTuTu 4, Quadrant and GeekBench 3 all give the Galaxy Tab 3 Lite 7.0 a pretty low score and a bottom of the list place, although in Quadrant the Galaxy Tab 3 Lite 7.0 managed to outdo the Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 by a small margin.
Higher is better
Higher is better
Higher is better
The Vivante GPU inside the Galaxy Tab 3 Lite 7.0 was pretty hard to test as it was unable to run the Epic Citadel and NenaMark 2 benchmarks which left us with GFXBench's T-Rex benchmark, where the offscreen capabilities of the Galaxy Tab 3 Lite 7.0 proved to result in a lowly 1.6 fps, luckily you'd be doing gaming not on 1920 x 1080 but in native 600 x 1024 so there's not much need to worry here.
Higher is better
Finally some browsing benchmarks. SunSpider is JavaScript-heavy, BrowserMark is HTML 5-focused while Vellamo gives both the stress test. Our contender managed pretty low scores in all three compared to its rivals and the general list of devices we've tested, all of which means the Galaxy Tab 3 Lite 7.0 won't browse as fast as its pricier rivals nor as top tier smartphones but will do the job for the price.
Lower is better
Higher is better
Higher is better
To sum up the Galaxy Tab 3 Lite 7.0 is no benchmarking champion and its aging Cortex-A9 chipset won't set the mark for fast computing but it does the job most of time. What we did notice is lag and pretty long loading times, especially with apps like Google Play and YouTube.
It's nothing drastic and deal-breaking but it stands to note that some of its rivals - like the Nexus 7 of 2012 are still pretty snappy in daily tasks, snappier than the Galaxy Tab 3 Lite 7.0.
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