![]() Despite the bezel around the screen being fairly chunky by today’s standards, the hardware remains excellent. This in many ways isn’t a bad thing, however. ![]() Honestly, if you did a blind guess which is which, even the tech savviest buyer would struggle to tell the difference. The familiarity isn’t helped by the fact that they’re almost identical in size, both featuring 12.4-inch AMOLED displays. Both are charged using USB C and feature micro SD slots, which makes it quick and easy to upgrade their internal storage. Visually, there’s not much to differentiate between the two tablets. Over the last year we’ve used the Tab S7 Plus as a functioning laptop frequently, with its keyboard cover one of the best around, offering well spread out keys with a wonderfully tactile feel. The only downside is you have to pay extra for a keyboard cover on both devices, which is a pain as they retail for over £100/$100 on Samsung’s store, and if you want to make the most of the tablet you really need one. Normally Samsung devices’ value plummets fairly quickly once a new version comes out, or it gets a little long in the tooth. It’s impressive as it shows how little the device’s value has depreciated over the years. We’re expecting the price to drop even further now that the new tablet is out, but at the time of publishing the Galaxy Tab S7 Plus price was still at £776.52 on Amazon. The price puts the tablet above the Galaxy Tab S7 Plus, which carried a cheaper £799 starting price when it launched in 2020. We’ve contacted Samsung for US and Euro pricing, but at the time of publishing hadn’t received a reply. This gets you the tablet with a USB C cable and S Pen Stylus. Galaxy Tab S8 Plus with 256GB storage (5G and Wi-Fi) – £1049.Galaxy Tab S8 Plus with 256GB storage (Wi-Fi only) – £899.Galaxy Tab S8 Plus with 128GB storage (5G and Wi-Fi) – £999.Galaxy Tab S8 Plus with 128GB storage (Wi-Fi only) – £849.You can see a breakdown of the Tab S8’s various prices below. Specific pricing depends on storage and connectivity options. The Galaxy Tab S8 Plus is an unashamedly premium tablet, which is why it’s fairly expensive, despite not being the top option in Samsung’s current line-up. We’ll update this article with our final thoughts on how the two compare once we’ve spent more time with Samsung’s latest tablet. These are our early opinions as, while we’ve reviewed and used the Galaxy Tab S7 Plus for over a year, we’ve only had a few hours with the new Galaxy Tab S8 Plus. ![]() Here to help out both types of buyer, we’ve created this early guide to compare the two tablets at a hardware and practical level. Or, if you already own a Galaxy Tab S7 Plus or aging iPad, you’ll want to know if it’s time to upgrade to the Tab S8 Plus. Which is why, with the Tab S7 Plus now set to get a hefty discount you may justifiably wonder if it’s worth going for the older tablet, especially as by all accounts it’s still a pretty advanced bit of hardware.įeaturing a top end variable refresh rate screen that during testing we found remains one of the best around for streaming movies in HDR, it matches key rivals including the Surface Pro 8 and iPad Pro for colour accuracy and sharpness. Outside of Samsung’s older Galaxy Tab S7 Plus, there aren’t that many top end Android powered tablets doing the rounds. ![]() Some things could have been better, the battery especially could have benefited from pull tabs to simplify removal.The Galaxy Tab S8 Plus is the middle child in Samsung’s latest flagship tablet line, sitting between the cheaper Galaxy Tab S8 and uber-expensive Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra and that’s a big deal for one key reason. PBK gives the Galaxy Tab S8 an average repairability score of 5.5/10. Of course, the large screen on tablets offers a lot of room for passive cooling, much more than phones have. The cooling system is surprisingly simple – there’s thermal paste over the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset and the RAM, then several layers of copper tape and graphite film, including on the back of the screen. There is adhesive used in several places, but not too much – nothing some heat and a bit of isopropyl alcohol can’t handle. However, the device is not configured to access 5G networks, so a free upgrade from a Wi-Fi only to a 5G slate is unlikely.Īnyway, Samsung mostly relied on standard Phillips head screws to hold the tablet together. Interestingly, the tablet in the video – a Wi-Fi only model – uses the same card slot as the 5G-enabled versions. How is it put together and how easy is it to repair if something breaks? PBKreviews has the answers to that in the video below. The Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 is the smallest model in the company’s latest flagship line-up.
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