Go Big Or Go Home? Samsung To Launch 10.5-Inch Galaxy Tablet With AMOLED Display
Samsung plans to launch its second-ever Galaxy tablet with AMOLED display next month. The tablet will reportedly carry a screen-size of 10.5-inch.
By Sadho Ram — 20 Dec 2013, 05:02 PM — Updated almost 11 years ago
According to South Korean tech site ETNews, Samsung is planning to release its 10.5 inch tablet
The site reports the launch date could be as early as January next year! If the rumors are to be believed, Samsung is set to release as many as four tablets in the coming year, all but one packed with an AMOLED display.
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Samsung hasn’t released an AMOLED display touting tablet for quite some time now. Actually the last tablet to come with a AMOLED display from Samsung was the Galaxy Tab 7.7 which was released back in 2011.
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The Korean media got hold of a shipping manifest describing the tablet, which at the moment is only known as the SM-T331
Theories suggest it could be a larger variant of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 and both could be high-end devices meant to compete with the iPad Air and iPad mini 2 with Retina display.
There weren't any specs or a screen resolution attached to the report. However, at 10.5-inches this tablet could turn heads simply by having a bigger (but not biggest) screen around compared to the 9.7-inch iPad Air and 10.1-inch Surface Pro 2.
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This would not be Samsung's first tablet to feature an AMOLED display
The Galaxy Tab 7.7, introduced in late 2011, offered the screen technology.
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Other reports have also hinted that Samsung is planning to launch two AMOLED tablets in early 2014 – an 8-inch and a 10-inch model.
androidos.inSo what is AMOLED display?
AMOLED (active-matrix organic light-emitting diode) displays provide higher refresh rates than their passive-matrix OLED counterparts, improving response time often to under a millisecond.
They also consume significantly less power.
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Samsung also uses 'Super AMOLED' technology in many of its products, meaning it reflects 5 times less sunlight compared to the first generation AMOLED displays.
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