The Samsung Galaxy TabPro S has an AMOLED display.įinally, a Windows tablet with AMOLED! Many Android smartphone and tablet (and Apple Watch) owners know the benefits of AMOLED displays, including the deep blacks, vibrant colors, and power savings.
This presents two problems: You can’t charge the TabPro S and connect any accessories at the same time without a special adapter, which Samsung is happy to sell you and you probably don’t have any USB Type-C accessories. The bad news: it’s new and it’s the only input on the TabPro S outside of the proprietary keyboard connector. The good news: USB Type-C is fast, small, and reversible. The Samsung Galaxy TabPro S has a single USB Type-C input for both charging and data. But their placement on the side and top make it easy enough to remember which is which. We were ready to complain that the Windows and power are the same exact size, neither with a distinguishing texture. There’s little worse than having an adapter hanging from and tugging on an input. It works, and we like that Samsung put the USB Type-C jack toward the bottom of the device, given that you’ll have to use it for both charging and expansion. Yes, this is a basic tablet design with no frills. A 5-megapixel camera rests centered on the upper portion of the back panel. A speaker, antenna stripe, USB Type-C input, and 3.5mm audio jack all reside on the right. A physical Windows key, speaker, and another antenna stripe sit on the left portrait side. The bottom houses the keyboard smart connector. The top landscape edge houses the power button and volume rocker on the left side, with two Wi-Fi antenna stripes. The tablet has rounded corners, while the edges sport a subtle point. The Samsung Galaxy TabPro S has a textured plastic back panel. We expect the Galaxy TabPro S to survive a drop or two because of it, and the tablet’s light weight. Say what you will about plastic being a cheap build material, but it’s light and absorbs shocks well. The plastic has a slight texture that makes it pleasant to grip, and helps it shrug off most smudges and fingerprints. Samsung went with high-quality plastic for the back panel, and a magnesium alloy ring around the sides. As with anything this thin, it will flex with moderate force. It’s obvious Samsung wasted no space and packed all the internals as tight as possible. It’s built well and feels as solid as it can for such a thin device. The tablet alone is thinner and weighs less than the 12.9-inch iPad Pro, and is just a hair thicker and half a pound heavier than the 9.7-inch iPad Pro. It weighs 1.53 pounds, also without the keyboard cover, and 2.37 pounds with it. 25 inches without the keyboard cover, and. The Samsung Galaxy TabPro S is thin for any tablet: iPad, Windows, or Android. We wonder with each new generation of Windows device if they can get any thinner, and then they get thinner still.
The Samsung Galaxy TabPro S is a premium Windows 10 2-in-1.