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

Posted by samzenpus on from the brand-new dept.

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.

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  1. Units! by SuricouRaven · · Score: 4, Funny

    "The 10.5-inch device weighs just 467g and measures a mere 6.6mm in thickness" ...

    1. Re:Units! by fractoid · · Score: 5, Funny

      The 0.267m device weighs just 0.467kg and measures a mere 0.0066m in thickness.

      Happy now?

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    2. Re:Units! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I prefer my units rounded.

      The 0m device weighs just 0kg and measures a mere 0m in thickness.

    3. Re:Units! by fnj · · Score: 4, Funny

      See? Imperial is no different from metric.

      The 0 mile device weighs just 0 hundredweight and measures a mere 0 miles in thickness.

    4. Re:Units! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I prefer my units rounded.

      sorry, Apple has the patent on that.

    5. Re:Units! by cdrudge · · Score: 1, Funny

      Happy now?

      No. Why did you use kilograms when grams is obviously the base SI unit of measure?

    6. Re:Units! by Blaskowicz · · Score: 4, Funny

      Actually the unit of weight is newtons

    7. Re:Units! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well, it's a good thing that weight isn't the force experienced by mass via gravity then. Otherwise you'd look really stupid.

    8. Re:Units! by OhSoLaMeow · · Score: 3, Funny

      Why doesn't slashdot allow the <sup> tag?!

      What's <sup>?

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  2. Re:No word on cost by wed128 · · Score: 5, Funny

    But without anything like iTunes behind it.

    Not having iTunes sounds like a feature...they should charge a premium.

  3. Don't believe the hype. by Ecuador · · Score: 3, Funny

    They say "94% of nature's true palette" yet it still cannot reproduce a single shade of octarine...

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