Samsung Galaxy Tab S6

GADGET REVIEW

The Galaxy Tab S6 is a faster, slimmer upgrade with a handier stylus – but its quality-of-life improvements might not be groundbreaking enough to unseat the iPad Pro as the king of professional tablets. Still, if you liked its predecessor, the new device is worth sizing up as a powerful work device. The Tab S6 looks much the same as its predecessor, the Tab S4, but it’s been slimmed from 7.1mm thick down to 5.7mm, putting it just under the iPad Pro 11’s 5.9mm thickness. At 420g, it’s also lighter than the Tab S4 (480g) and iPad Pro 11. A second 5MP rear-facing camera offers the same ultra-wide 123-degree field of view as the wide-angle lens in the Samsung Galaxy S10 phones, in addition to the 18MP main camera. The cameras are located on the rear in a circular camera bump, and below them sits the S Pen. The S Pen can be easily jostled out of its magnetic housing, so we can't see you just stashing your Tab S6 in a bag as-is – you'll likely need a case. Both first-party cases (the simple Book Cover and the Book Cover Keyboard) fold over the S Pen and lock it in place. If you’re a Samsung diehard, or at least locked into the Android ecosystem, the Tab S6 is a solid and powerful tablet with specs to keep it running snappy for years.

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