Samsung releasing yet another tablet, may come with an AMOLED screen and Fingerprint scanner

Samsung is continuing its trend of flooding the market with tablets and smartphones. There’s a rumor that Samsung will becoming out with a Galaxy S tablet line known as the Galaxy Tab S. The Tab S will come in an 8.4-inch and 10.5-inch variety. Unlike the company’s other tablets, the Tab S will feature a WQXGA (2560×1600) AMOLED display.

This isn’t Samsung’s first tablet with an AMOLED screen, however. The company first unveiled an AMOLED screen on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 in 2011 but the primary focus was in testing the technology itself. For those that don’t know, AMOLED displays are known for their low power consumptions and their high contrast levels. Samsung has been using these displays in most of their smartphones and cameras, most notably in the Galaxy S series.

The tablet is also said to feature a fingerprint scanner — much like the Galaxy S 5 — and will be embedded in the home button. Fingerprint sensor features that are prominent on the Galaxy S 5 will make the move to the Tab S series as well. This includes, PayPal payments, fingerprint unlocking, Samsung app login, and private folder access. A feature that will be exclusive to the Tab S series will be a Multi-User login in. Basically the company will take the multi-user functionality that’s built into Android and build upon it by allowing users to log into their respective profiles with a swipe of a finger.

As far as specs are concerned the tablets are rumored to have Octa-core Exynos 5 SoC with ARM’s big.LITTLE tech. That means they will have four 1.9GHz Cortex-A15 cores and four 1.3GHz Cortex-A7 cores and a six-core ARM Mali-T628 GPU clocked at 533MHz. They will have 3GB 0f RAM, an 8.0MP rear camera with a 2.1MP front camera. The line will come with the standard connectivity options with WiFi, DLNA, Bluetooth 4.0 and will come with an IR blaster. There is an LTE variant in the works as well.

The tablets will look similar to the newly announced Galaxy Tab 4 buty with slimmer edges. They will come with the perforated pattern that the Galaxy S 5 has and Samsung is said to be working on newly designed flip covers for the tablet. The Tab S will come in either Shimmer White or Titanium Grey. They will have Android 4.4.2 onboard but we’re not sure if Samsung’s new magazine UI found on the Galaxy tabPRO series will be on top or if the tablet will have Samsung’s standard KitKat UI it uses on its tablets.

At the time of writing there was no word on pricing or availability and we’ll update you as soon as we find out. Does the idea of an AMOLED tablet entice you? Let us know below!

source: SamMobile

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