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Samsung is back at it again, trying to convince the world that your laptop is about as relevant as a fax machine, thanks to the newly announced Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra and Tab S12+—a pair of slates packing 3nm muscle, AI parlor tricks, and a waistline so impossibly slim it makes a supermodel on a cleanse look positively bloated.
Let’s be honest for a moment. In a tech landscape where we often praise devices that require their own gravitational pull, Samsung’s engineering team decided to perform a magic trick. The Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra measures a staggering 5.1mm in thickness. That is correct: it is thinner than your existential dread on a Monday morning. It’s so paper-thin that you’ll probably find yourself checking the couch cushions just to make sure you didn’t accidentally fold it in half.
Under the Hood: 3nm Muscle Meets MediaTek
While Apple’s iPads usually hog the conversation—and yes, I admit the iPad Pro is a masterpiece, despite sitting in my drawer right next to my trusty collection of iPhones—Samsung isn’t playing around this year. Both the Tab S12 Ultra and the Tab S12+ are powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 9500 processor built on a snappy 3nm architecture.
Samsung promises a 61 percent boost in NPU processing and a respectable bump in CPU and GPU performance compared to the previous generation. To keep things from melting in your lap when you’re actually trying to do some heavy lifting, they’ve slapped in a newly designed 3D Vapor Chamber. Plus, with a jaw-dropping 23 hours of claimed battery life on the Ultra’s 11,600mAh cell (and 21 hours on the S12+), you might actually outlast your local coffee shop’s Wi-Fi router.
- Display: 14.6-inch Dynamic AMOLED 2X on the Ultra; 12.6-inch on the S12+, both boasting a buttery 120Hz refresh rate and a blinding 1,600 nits of peak brightness.
- Durability: IP68 water and dust resistance, because spilling your cold brew on a high-end tablet shouldn’t require a prayer circle.
- Longevity: Samsung is promising a ridiculous seven generations of OS upgrades and security updates. Your current car might not last that long.
AI Overload and Pre-Loaded Creative Gear
Running on Android 17 with One UI 9, these tablets are practically vibrating with AI features. Multi Window lets you split the screen three ways, because staring at a YouTube video, a note-taking app, and an AI assistant all at once is apparently the peak of human productivity.
For the creative crowd, Samsung has pulled a rabbit out of its hat: Adobe Photoshop comes pre-loaded. That’s right, an actual desktop-grade editing suite natively sitting on an Android tablet, paired seamlessly with the trusty S12 series S Pen and a four-month free Photoshop mobile plan. Google AI Pro and Gemini Notebook are also thrown into the mix, ready to summarize your chaotic scribbles into neat little podcasts and quizzes.
Starting October 7 in Gray and Silver, the Galaxy Tab S12 series is clearly gunning for anyone who wants a portable powerhouse. Just try not to lose it between the couch cushions.
Source reference: abplive
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