The main menu, however, is too simple and offers no user organization options.

Newly installed applications will automatically show up on the home screen as a shortcut, too.

That much is progress, at least.

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Even still, I am waiting for Samsung to do this one better in the future with TouchWiz.

The icons are poorly designed, but once you know what they are, they work.

I dislike the fact that the menu button only appears some of the time, depending on the app.

That inconsistency bothers me.

Doing so lists all of the notifications and some quick access functions.

Samsung showed better controls at CTIA, but those are nowhere to be found now.

Usability with applications varies greatly from app to app.

New, tablet-specific apps (of which there are few), generally work well.

Up-scaled smartphone apps, however, generally have over-sized input boxes and undersized fonts, and just work acceptably.

There is no voice capability in the Tab, at least not in the traditional phone sense.

you’ve got the option to make use of VoIP applications like Skype, though.

Good luck with that.