Samsung announces thinnest tablet devices

PanARMENIAN.Net - Samsung announced its thinnest smartphone to date last week — that’s the Galaxy A8 — and now the Korean firm took the wraps off its thinnest tablet devices so far: the Galaxy Tab S2, TechCrunch reports.

Like last year’s Galaxy Tab S, design is a big focus for these two devices. And, at just 5.6mm, they are more slender than Apple’s sleekest iPad Air (6.1mm). They are available in two new sizes — 8 inch and 9.7 inch — which weigh in at just 265g and 389g respectively. That combination of thinness and weight could make them pretty portable devices, TechCrunch says.

The Galaxy Tab S2 runs Android 5.0 Lollipop, and under the hood it is powered by an octo-core processor — which pairs four 1.9GHz cores with four 1.3GHz cores — with 3GB RAM and 32 or 64GB of internal memory. The latter is expandable to 128GB via microSD cards.

Media-wise, the tablets sport an eight megapixel rear camera and 2.1 megapixel front camera.

Samsung said the Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 will go on sale across the world in August. The models will be presumably available in white and black, but Samsung hasn’t said how much they will cost.