While Samsung has yet to formally confirm the initial information, speculations are already rife that the latest flagship tablet of the Korean company, the Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 will be launched in June.
Apart from expected to be thinner compared to its predecessor, the Samsung Galaxy Tab S, the
Galaxy Tab S2 is rumored to come with a metallic frame, which has become the norm in Samsung these days following the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S6 and the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge in March, which also featured metal uni-bodies.
There were reports that the Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 will also compete directly with the Apple iPad Air 2 and the iPad mini 3 especially when word came out that the upcoming tablet from the Korean tech giant will sport a 9.7-inch and an 8-inch screens.
The 8-inch version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 will go up against the 7.9-inch Apple iPad mini 3 while the 9.7-inch will compete head on with the 9.7-inch Apple iPad Air 2.
But the latest Samsung tablet’s premium advantage over the thin Apple iPad Air 2 is that it’s actually thinner at only 5.4 millimeters. The iPad Air 2 is 6.1 millimeters slim.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 shall also be powered by a 64-bit Exynos chipset, shall have a 3GB of RAM and a 32GB of built-in storage with an option to expand via a micro-SD slot. But Samsung has yet to make a statement to formally confirm or deny these specifications, notes Bidness ETC.
Based on history however, the features going around the internet are pretty much confirmed since it is likely that the sources of initial information are also involved in Samsung’s production and supply chain.
When the Galaxy Tab S was released last year, it also took on some of the features of its 2014 flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S5. It is possible that when the Galaxy Tab S2 is released next month, it is likely that it shall also have the same features as that of the Galaxy S6 and the metallic frame is just one of them.
Testing and evaluation
In March, a report from a website that monitors imports and exports into and out of India cited that one unit of the Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 has been imported into the country apparently for testing and evaluation.
The website is known as Zauba and accordingly, the unit will be destroyed immediately after Samsung India is through testing and evaluating it.
The site also put a value on the latest tablet from Samsung at $252, which of course, is not the actual value of the product if and when it official rolls out to the market.