Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 will be available in South Korea starting August 11
The Galaxy Tab S2 was announced a couple of weeks ago, and as promised, the company will roll out the high-end tablet in its homeland next week. The Galaxy Tab S2 8.0 and the Galaxy Tab S2 9.7 will be available in South Korea starting August 11 for KRW 599,000 ($513) and KRW 719,000 ($617) respectively. The company will also sell the Galaxy Tab S2 9.7 with a keyboard case for KRW 799,000 ($685) in the country.
The Galaxy Tab S2 is the company’s most high-end and thinnest tablet till date, and features a pixel-dense Super AMOLED display (2048 x 1536), an octa-core Exynos 5433 processor, 3GB RAM, 32GB internal storage, Android 5.0.2 Lollipop, a fingerprint sensor, an 8-megapixel primary camera, 2.1-megapixel secondary camera, and LTE Cat. 6 connectivity. The 9.7-inch variant of the tablet packs in a 5,870 mAh battery, while the 8.0-inch variant features a 4,000 mAh battery.
The company is betting big on the tablet’s metal frame, a fingerprint sensor and its Super AMOLED display for offering a high-end experience to the users. Samsung says that the display on the Galaxy Tab S2 delivers 94 percent of the Adobe RGB color standard. Samsung claims that the display’s 4:3 aspect ratio coupled with Reading Mode offers pleasing experience for prolonged reading sessions.
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The Tab S2 9.7″ 4G + WiFi is already up on Samsung’s South Korean website for 719,000 Won. On the South Korean website, of the original Tab S models, only the 8.4″ WiFi (599,000 Won), the 10.5 WiFi (630,00 Won), and, the one I want, (Bronze only) Exynos 5433 LTE-A 10.5″ (KT and LG U+ network versions) (880,000 Won) are available. At 880,000 Won (685 Euro/US$753), the Tab S 10.5″ LTE-A, with similar specs other than its roughly 10% bigger screen area (including Exynos 5433, 3GB RAM, 32GB, LTE-A, Bluetooth 4.1, etc), seems very expensive compared to 719,000 Won for… Read more »
a huge downgrade from tab S.
LOL. You may not like the new format and that’s fair enough, but that assertion is simply ridiculous.
It seems Tab S2 will be launched earlier in Singapore on Aug 7th. As per Samsung Mobile Singapore Facebook page: “The Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 devices will be available from August 7 in black. The gold versions will be available at a later date.”
Check the comments here: https://www.facebook.com/SamsungMobileSingapore/photos/a.210572252624.156398.201671497624/10153603474862625/?type=1&theater
really disappointed about the 4×3 aspect ratio, I won’t be buying any 4×3 aspect anything really
Each to his own, I like it a lot.
