Samsung is carving out a niche for its tablets
The hardware differences betweenWi-Fi 6E supportThe standard Tab S8 is only available in Wi-Fi configurations; the Tab S8 Plus can be purchased with 5G cellular connectivity. It’s odd that this isn’t uniform across the line.
The Tab S8 has the same fingerprint scanner built into its sleep / wake button as the Tab S7; similarly, the Tab S8 Plus has the same under-screen fingerprint scanner as the Tab S7 Plus. Both worked fine in my testing, though neither are as fluid or quick to use as facial recognition logins. Neither tablet has a 3.5mm headphone jack and relies on just one USB-C port for all of its I/O.
The S Pen magnetically attaches to a strip on the back of the tablet for charging and storage . The pen will work as an input device without any charge — charging it up allows you to connect it to the tablet via Bluetooth and use extra functions like air gesture controls that I’ve never really gotten the hang of. The magnets on the back of the tablet holding the S Pen in place aren’t especially strong, and since the pen sticks out off the back, it’s easy to knock it off in your bag.
Samsung can’t really fix the perennial Android problem of poorly optimized apps that either don’t format well to larger screens, don’t support keyboard shortcuts, or don’t work well with Samsung’s desktop-style Dex software mode. So Samsung has spent its time on optimizing its own apps and making the Tab S8 and S8 Plus play nicely with Samsung phones.
The Tab S8 models can use Android’s standard split-screen multitasking or switch to Samsung’s windowed DeX mode.
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