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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 AmiMoJo · · Score: 5, Insightful

      a 10.5 inch screen is clearer than a 27cm screen.

      It's really not though, at least to me. When you say 27cm I immediately have a firm idea of how big it is, but 10.5" is a bit vague for someone living in a (mostly) metric country. TV sizes are much easier to visualize in centimetres as well.

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    6. Re:Units! by fractoid · · Score: 4, Informative

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

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

      Actually the unit of weight is newtons

    8. Re:Units! by fractoid · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Metric isn't as perfectly logical as we'd have you believe.

      I mean, um, METRIC IS AWESOME.

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  2. Re:Time for an upgrade by JaredOfEuropa · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I want... similar drool inducing screen specs to make it into the bigger screens, where ultra-high resolutions actualy make sense. The choice in TVs and monitors with resolutions that exceed HD is still decidedly poor. On tablets, a high resolution helps especially when reading for longer periods of time, but I couldn't care less about black levels or color reproduction. Again, such features are more important for bigger screens.

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  3. 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.

  4. Removable battery? by sremick · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does this have a removable battery?

    I've stopped buying consumer electronics that take the markedly ANTI-consumer and needless action of making non-removable batteries. I realize this eliminates most tablets* but I really have little use for a tablet (my job has provided several for me to use but I really couldn't care less about them, having tried them).

    * - And all Apple hardware, but I'm ok with that too.