Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 Hands On: Thin Like an iPad Pro but Still as Big as My Head

Samsung’s Tab S9 Ultra was already a elephantine tablet, sporting a hulking 14.6-inch display. But present the caller sanction of the crippled is simply a bladed frame, and the caller Apple iPad Pro with M4 is the 1 doing it best. So what’s Samsung to do? Well, it’s releasing different really, truly large tablet, but this clip with much AI. Now, the Tab S10 + and Tab S10 Ultra athletics aggregate Galaxy AI features that were antecedently lone seen connected Galaxy phones.

I attended Samsung’s motorboat lawsuit to effort them out. The S10 Ultra features the thin-bezel plan of the erstwhile generation, but it maintains the 14.6-inch screen. It besides contains the AMOLED 2X show arsenic the smaller, 12.4-inch S10+. Both incorporate an anti-reflection coating to trim glare, and I was satisfied with the device’s wide look.

The $1,200 Ultra is inactive enormous. It’s 5.4mm heavy compared to the 5.5mm of the S9 Ultra. It’s a tiny difference, but it’s somewhat lighter than past year’s by a small much oregon little than 10 grams, depending connected if you get the WiFi oregon 5G version. It’s inactive a precise dense tablet. It didn’t privation to enactment enactment connected the integrative stands that Samsung enactment retired astatine the event. In hand, the instrumentality demands you remainder it against your limb similar you’re holding an infant’s head. That’s not to accidental I don’t similar specified a large screen, particularly erstwhile utilizing the S Pen to gully and write. 

Though smaller, the $1,000 Galaxy Tab S10+ sports the aforesaid MediaTek Dimensity 9300+ chip, which Samsung said is 18% amended successful CPU processing and 28% amended successful GPU than past year’s Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. Otherwise, it inactive contains the aforesaid 11,200 mAh artillery coupled with accelerated charging up to 45W. The caller Galaxy Tabs inactive incorporate the aforesaid four-speaker setup arsenic past year’s large tablets.

The alteration successful spot benignant is meant to facilitate each the on-device and cloud-based AI features coming close disconnected the Galaxy S24 and Galaxy Z Fold 6 from earlier this year. This includes Circle to Search with homework help, Note Assist, and extra-handy handwriting assist. The handwriting diagnostic is akin to the 1 connected the latest iPads, which tries to rearrange your chickenhearted scratch to look much legible. I seemingly person specified atrocious handwriting that neither Samsung nor Apple tin comprehend my words. 

Both tablets are running Android 14. Google’s Android 15 started making its mode to Pixel devices earlier this month. Samsung is adding immoderate other features similar an casual one-click divided screen. The large surface whitethorn adhd immoderate other fidelity erstwhile utilizing Sketch to Image, but it’s not similar sticking a large purple feline successful beforehand of your radical photos is overmuch of a strategy seller. The added hardware, similar the S Pen and the Book Cover Keyboard, adhd other ways of accessing Galaxy AI penning features with a dedicated key.

While capable, they’re not the breathtaking instrumentality of Samsung tablets I hoped for. Big surface tablets tin beryllium fun, but lone for those with plus-sized hands oregon connected a coagulated desktop stand. The Tab S10 Ultra and S10+ are up for preorder starting Thursday, and they’ll beryllium disposable Oct. 3.