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Samsung Rumored to One-Up Apple's 'iPad Pro' With 18.4-Inch Android Tablet
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Oh good. I thought I heard the sound of an 18.4" coffee table without legs going over head
Not taking a dig at Samsung, but Panasonic has a very expensive 20" 4K professional tablet. It runs Windows, unfortunately, OSX would be nice.
It would be funny if all the iPad pro talks are false, and Samsung comes out with this enormous tablet for nothing.
Brilliantly said. This is one of the biggest differences between Apple and Samsung. Expanding the ecoverse doesn't occur to Samsung because they've never developed an full-blown OS.
A lot of models have gorgeous faces and bodies but hideous hands and feet. There are some very plain men and women who specialize as hand models or feet models and usually their prettier hands and feet are edited in to replace the less attractive one on the main model.
A lot more professionals will buy if it's much cheaper than the Panasonic even with Android if there's ONE app they can use.
Don't you all see? It hits the perfect sweet spot between a tablet and a monolith. You guys just aren't the target market. Gotta think outside yourselves. I could see sales figures reaching into the positive numbers for this.
explain to me one time Samsung has ever one-upped Apple. They need to just give up already. Stick to TV's Samsung.
i own a Dell 18-inch "tablet" which I will sell when the Apple "Pro" becomes available. I use it to view music PDFs but it's really impractical for many things. (It stays on the stand most of the time.) I don 't see it working well in educational or enterprise environments based on my personal experience. Yawn.
Samsung may be working on an "iPad Pro" style tablet of its own, with a new report from SamMobile suggesting the company is currently in development for the tablet, codenamed "Tahoe," on an Android 5.1 Lollipop-based operating system and with an 18.4-inch screen. Samsung would target the tablet to enterprise and educational environments, with a lesser focus on day-to-day personal usage than the company's current line-up of Galaxy tablets.
The rumored tablet -- with the model number SM-T670 -- will feature a TFT LCD screen with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels. The Lollipop system will be powered by an octa-core 64-bit 1.6GHz Exynos 7580 processor, include 2GB RAM along with 32GB internal storage, with the option to expand thanks to a microSD card slot that supports up to 128GB cards. According to SamMobile, the tablet will also measure 451.8 mm wide by 275.8 mm tall and be 11.9 mm thick.
Apple is rumored to be developing its own larger-screened tablet, the so-called iPad Pro, which is believed to include a 12.9-inch screen. If Samsung's 18.4-inch "Tahoe" device does become available, it'd be one of the biggest tablet on the market, with a screen that's about 10-inches tall by 17-inches wide, far larger than most standard laptops.
Article Link: Samsung Rumored to One-Up Apple's 'iPad Pro' With 18.4-Inch Android Tablet
I'm sure I had a better picture 9 years ago but it was on the old MR forums and no longer available. Here is the best I can manage today for the Dell XPS M2010 on a subway.
I am glad someone else remembers Microsoft's tabletop Surface demo.
Holy cow. I forgot all about that. here are some other shots.
Agreed. And Mom is barely committed to it. She's about 2 milliseconds away from getting up.
I actually bought the 12.2 Note Pro because I thought it would be useful and it was the biggest piece of crap I've ever wasted money on..
While your board game idea sounds fun actually... the idea that an entire product would come out (likely at a HIGHER price point than other tablets we've seen), where that & "four people able to view the same web page without bonking their heads" are the two finest features, seems much much ridiculous to me than anything I said in my post, or possibly ever.
ugh and it will probably get no software updates, maybe one if you are lucky. Samsung is notoriously bad at supporting their tablets
This is exactly what I mean when I say Samsung does not innovate, they literally put together junk and see if anyone fetches it.
So now they want to throw up a 18" tablet with resolution LOWER than their other tablets, not to mention less RAM than their smaller tablets etc.
These are the exact reasons why I cannot go with Samsung and probably many can't either.
I do have to say, since they made the note 5 a lot like an iPhone now, I finally do like that one and will be giving it a try as a "secondary" device because I'm just too comfortable with my OS X / iOS setup.
Samsung might as well make all their TV's touch screen, that way you put them on your lap or lay them flat and double as a tablet. That way the screen size will always be the bigger than anyone else's so they feel like they've "one up'd" everybody and do marketing campaigns touting "next best thing" based on bigger screen size alone. Pretty much like they did their phones.