The new and ultra-thin Samsung Galaxy Tab S debuted on June 12, at a launching event in New York.
Samsung is well-known for churning out a perplexing volume of phones and tablets, but it’s devices like the Galaxy Tab S that make us wish the company would just hunker down and focus on producing only the best.
Samsung calls this its flagship line of tablets, and has packed all the bells and whistles it could into 8.4- and 10.5-inch packages. The new Samsung slates will immediately be compared to Apple’s iPad and iPad mini, Google’s Nexus 7, Amazon’s Fire HDX devices, LG’s G Pad, and Microsoft’s Surface tablets.
Samsung boasts that the Galaxy Tab S’s 2560×1600 AMOLED display has 73% better color reproduction than conventional LCD displays and can match colors up to 94% of “nature’s true palette” with deeper blacks and a 100,000:1 contrast ratio. The 10.5-inch device weighs just 467g and measures a mere 6.6mm in thickness (and there’s an 8.4-inch version, too). Under the hood, the Galaxy Tab S features Android KitKat 4.4, 3GB of RAM, 16GB or 32GB of storage with a microSD slot that supports up to 128GB. The front camera is 2.1MP and the rear 8MP camera has an LED flash. No word on the exact processor on board just yet, other than it’s a quad-core SoC. It’s likely a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 though an Exynos variant or perhaps even Tegra 4 wouldn’t be beyond the realm of possibility.
