No. You have to purchase a hardware keyboard separately. However, it does have the usual on screen touch to type keyboard with haptic feedback.

Mine will go all day long with average use, however, if you use battery hungry apps like high powered games and video streaming it will greatly reduce the battery life.

Go to the Samsung website. I believe they publish the battery life for different usage demands somewhere in the specs for the device.

Mine came with a 25 dollar gift voucher. I had to jump through some hoops to get it activated. Once activated I spent it just fine on the Google play store. I was able to purchase some higher value apps I'd had my eye on for a while, so it was a good deal.

I had the same problem with a Samsung Galaxy player in the 5 inch model. What caused the problem with my battery was that I accidentally charged it with another Samsung branded phone charger (not the one it came with). Using the wrong charger did something to the battery and it would not take a charge when I tried charging it with the oem charger.

When I took it back to Bestbuy it was after a year had already gone past, so my one year warranty was gone. I was told that I would have to send it to Samsung for them to fix it. I think I remember that they also told me that even if it was still under warranty I would have had to send it to Samsung myself.

I did some research and found out that if you remove the battery it should reset the device so that the battery will than take a charge once reinstalled in the device. Many people said they tried this with their devices and it worked, however, my player had a non-removable battery. I even took it apart to look it over to see if there was any way to unhook the power from the battery. The power ribbon was very delicate and I was sure I would ruin it if I messed with it.

So I put it back together and ran the battery down as far as it would go until it would just auto shut down and I tossed it in a drawer and figured it was a write off. I couldn't afford to have Samsung fix it for me.

A few months went by and I wondered if the battery had bled off enough power to reset the device. When I plugged it in it said it was charging, but unlike before it actually started building up a charge on the battery. It has worked ever since that day, and I make sure to only charge it with the charger that came with it.