Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 : Today’s Android tablets may be showing signs of new life thanks to Google’s push for the Android 12L operating system, but Samsung has never left the Android tablet market.
Along with the release of the Samsung Galaxy S22 smartphone series, the companies in Latest Gadget News are also upgrading their line of tablets and increasing the size of the Galaxy tablets with the flagship variant of the Samsung Galaxy S8 Tab Ultra tablet.
The Galaxy S8 Tab Ultra has a jumbo size with a 14.6-inch OLED screen, supports a 120Hz refresh rate, a resolution of 2960×1848 pixels, and has an aspect ratio of 16:10.
The body of this tablet is made of aluminum with dimensions of 326.4×208.6×5.5 mm and accommodates a battery with a capacity of 11,200 mAh and weighs 0.73 kg which makes the Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra even larger than many laptops on the market. current market.
The company’s choice to make this jumbo tablet was accompanied by a decision to streamline bezels, which is unprecedented for any tablet today. Users may be able to hold the smartphone on the side, so the bezels don’t contribute much, but users need something to hold with the tablet.
Samsung looks to be trying hard in its war of thinnest bezels and added a MacBook Pro-like notch to the front display of the Samsung Galaxy S8 Tab Ultra, which houses two 12 MP front cameras of which one is an ultrawide one.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra is priced at IDR 20 million and has the same price range as the 12.9-inch iPad Pro and the tablet is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset, 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage which can still be expanded via the MicroSD slot. .
There are two additional configurations which are of course more expensive with the option of 12GB RAM and 256GB RAM and 16GB RAM and 512GB storage. There is an on-screen fingerprint scanner, a USB-C port, Wi-Fi 6E, and two rear cameras consisting of a 13MP main camera and a 6MP ultrawide.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra has support for the S pen, though not like the tiny plastic S pen found on the Galaxy S22 Ultra. It is the size of an Apple Pencil and may require a battery. The stylus attaches magnetically to the back of the tablet, parallel to the camera protrusion and this S pen also works on the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra.
Samsung also has a keyboard case to turn this tablet into a mid-sized laptop. The keyboard connects to the tablet via a set of pogo pins and includes a trackpad and backlit keys.
