One of Samsung’s Bixby support pages may have just revealed to us the first official look of the company’s upcoming flagship tablet. The page shows a familiar-looking Samsung smartphone and a very unfamiliar-looking tablet with a notch at the top of the screen, an interesting notch that Samsung mocked on social media when the iPhone X first launched.
Previous reports have suggested the new tablet will be called the Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra and could be announced as early as next month. Images on Samsung’s website show a design that matches unofficial renders of the tablet released last October, images leaked in December, and details leaked from WinFuture this month.
If these unofficial details are to be believed, the Android tablet will have a 14.6-inch OLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate and 2960×1848 resolution. The notch is thought to house two 12-megapixel selfie cameras, and it’s not clear what the second sensor will be for.
The Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra is thought to be built with Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 8 processor, with a 11200mAh battery, up to 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. S Pen support is thought to be included, along with an optional 5G/Wi-Fi version and two rear camera modules (a 13-megapixel and a 6-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera).
The Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra will reportedly be at the top end of the three tablet lineup, with the other two including the Tab S8 and Tab S8 Plus. All three tablets are rumored to be powered by the same processor and support the S Pen stylus, but the S8 Plus is said to have a smaller 12.7-inch OLED display and a 10,090mAh battery, while the base S8 may only have an 11-inch LCD and 8000mAh battery.
There’s no official word on when the new tablet lineup will appear, but the Galaxy S22 lineup is said to launch on February 8, and it wouldn’t be surprising if the tablets launch alongside the flagship phones, though the announcement will coincide with the timing of the announcement. Their predecessors are very different, the previous generation of the Galaxy Tab series was released in late 2020.