Samsung Debuts Thin Galaxy Tab S With Super AMOLED 2560X1600 Display

MojoKid (1002251) writes Samsung unveiled its latest flagship tablet, the Galaxy Tab S, at an event in New York City tonight, and the new device is thin, lightweight, and sports a killer Super AMOLED display. Samsung boasts that the Galaxy Tab S's 2560x1600 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.

Time for an upgrade

[CaptQuark]

Ok, I want one!!

Re:Units!

[Racemaniac]

well, screens are even in metric countries still mostly measured in inch. a 10.5 inch screen is clearer than a 27cm screen.
It's indeed strange and stupid, but unless there is a sudden movement to get rid of this convention, it's rather convenient to keep it that way. Everybody knows the sizes in inch of the screens they have, so if a new screen then also measures it in inch, it's easy to compare it to what you currently have.

If i read somewhere the screen diagonal measured in cm, it's most of the time a tiny TV they're trying to make it sound bigger than it is...

id get one but

[Anonymous Coward]

id get one but I'm gay so I have to buy apple

Differences to TabPro?

[Anonymous Coward]

These tablets sure look nice. The main downsides seem to be (i) price and (ii) Samsung's customized TouchWiz UI (so you gotta wait for custom ROMs).

But the question in my mind is the following: how do these differ from the TabPro tablets? They look quite similar to me... Thoughts?

Re:Time for an upgrade

[by (1706743)]

I think parent was merely pointing out that this seems like a legitimately cool product, as opposed to, "here's our existing product with a new name!"

Re:Units!

[fractoid]

Because it's not. [unc.edu] The kilogram is the base SI unit of mass (unintuitive as that may seem, given the included scale prefix.)

Re:Units!

[sexconker]

Actually the unit of weight is newtons

A Newton is a measure of force, not weight.