A few months ago, Samsung announced the Galaxy Tab S5e – an upper midrange tablet. Following its launch, we presumed the main flagship tablet for the year would arrive as the Galaxy Tab S5 – a direct successor to last year’s Galaxy Tab S4. That was the belief we held until a few weeks ago when it was revealed that rather than launch as the Galaxy Tab S5, it will launch as the Galaxy Tab S6.
Live photos and specifications of the upcoming tablet surfaced a little over a week ago. It has now been followed by press renders of the tablet which is expected to launch in August.
The renders which were first made public by Android Headlines, show the Galaxy Tab S6 will come in three colors – Blue, Gray, and Rose Gold. The tablet will have equal-sized bezels around its Super AMOLED display.
When held in portrait mode, the Tab S6 has two speakers and a USB Type-C port on the bottom and two speakers at the top for a quad-speaker system. The speakers are of course “Tuned by AKG”. On the right side of the frame are the power volume rocker and a MicroSD card tray and or SIM tray. The left side is home to a set of connector pins for an external keyboard.
The tablet will have a groove on the back where the redesigned S Pen will attach to magnetically when not in use and also to charge. This groove sist directly below vertically arranged dual cameras. Surprisingly, there is no LED flash this time around.
There are reports that the flagship tablet will feature an in-display fingerprint scanner but none of the renders show that there is a sensor under the display. The bezels also do not seem to house an Iris Face Unlock system like its predecessor but they also do not show the front-facing camera too and we know Samsung won’t skip that. So there is likely an Iris Scanner but the renders just aren’t showing it.
The Galaxy Tab S6 will have a Snapdragon 855 processor and should come in multiple configurations. The display is said to be 10.5 inches just like its predecessor’s. It has also been reported to have an 8MP selfie camera and 13MP + 5MP dual rear cameras. It should run Android Pie out of the box and support Samsung DeX. Its price is unknown at the moment. There is also no evidence it will be announced alongside the Galaxy Note10 series. The Tab S4 launched before the Galaxy Note9, so the same may happen again this year.
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