Samsung takes on the iPad Pro with the Galaxy Tab S4

The Galaxy Tab S4 is Samsung’s latest premium Android tablet

Samsung takes on the iPad Pro with the Galaxy Tab S4 2

Samsung just announced the company’s all-new Galaxy Tab S4 tablet at a low-profile press event in Manhattan. Stocked with a 10.5-inch Super AMOLED display, 64 or 256GB of storage, a Snapdragon 835 processor, 4GB of RAM, Android 8.1 Oreo, S Pen support, and Samsung’s innovative DeX software, the S4 will hit shelves on the 10th of August.

Recently, it’s become trendy for tablet manufacturers to coin their devices as “2-in-1”, meaning users supposedly get all the flexibility and mobility of a tablet, while maintaining the processing power of a modern laptop. More often than not, however, regardless of the marketing hype, the 2-in-1 tablet experience is often found to be lackluster. Samsung’s latest tablet attempts to change that with DeX.

DeX offers S4 users a unique PC-like user environment that’s wholly separate from the regular Android OS that comes installed. Users are free to toggle between the two modes, however, when connecting peripheral devices – such as Samsung’s $150 keyboard dock – DeX automatically engages.

Samsung takes on the iPad Pro with the Galaxy Tab S4 3

Going further, the company worked with speaker giant AKG to fine tune the tablet’s four-speaker sound system. According to reports, Samsung envisions the Tab S4 as a device that will be adopted by various industries including retail and healthcare.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 will retail for $649 for the 64GB version and $749 for the 256GB model. An S Pen is included in the box. LTE models will also be available.

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