Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Samsung Tab S9 Ultra Review: Is the iPad Killer Real?”.
Okay, so I’ve made a short on this and I’ve made videos about these Monster tablets in the past and every single time people get really into them and I’m really into them. But the question that always keeps coming up every time is: are these actually iPad Killers? Like is an iPad killer, a real thing, so, let’s talk about it. This is the newest highest end, Android Tablet from Samsung the Galaxy Tab, S9 Ultra and it’s even more ridiculous than the previous year’s already crazy Ultra and I love it. So I’ve already made a video on the tab, S7 plus and then last year the tab S8 Ultra. If you haven’t already seen that I’ll link it below that was last year’s version, and so now, just like the rest of Samsung’s recent announcements, this new one mostly looks the same as last year’s version, but all the changes they’ve made are in the same direction. Just making it even more capable so you’ve got this gigantic 14.6 inch tablet that I mean it feels like I’m holding a small TV in my hands. It somehow also razor thin with a huge battery inside and it actually doesn’t snap in half, despite looking like it.
Probably should be susceptible to that, but hey watch The X video for yourself. If you don’t believe me, it survives better than a lot of other devices. Have this year, though, a new Snapdragon, 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy inside plus a new Vapor chamber, cooling system under the hood, so there’s going to be an even higher ceiling for performance for everything. It’S already good.
At we’ve seen this thing: do multitasking well for years and be quick to scroll around and open and close apps with normal usage and now it’ll do better at gaming and video editing and potentially also last a bit longer on that same 11, 200 milliamp hour battery. That’S bigger than any battery. That’S ever been in an iPad this year. The quad speaker setup is also now made up of 20 larger speakers, which is a pretty big jump, and I’m not ready to call these the best sounding speakers in any tablet. Quite yet, that’s still that goes to the iPad Pro still, but these sure do get really loud with very little Distortion and you can flip on Dolby Atmos audio. If you want some pretty impressive, surround sound effects for music or videos or games, and then this entire tablet is now ip68 water and dust resistant for the first time, which means it’s safe to not just splash it with water but literally completely submerge.
The whole thing underwater and it’ll be totally fine, which is crazy. I don’t know any situation where you would end up with a tablet underwater, maybe you’re recklessly watching Netflix next to a pool or something and then you drop it in. I don’t know that, but if you did, it will still be fine, but then, on top of that, this S Pen also comes in the Box again, and this thing also now has an ip68 rating of its own, and it also now supports bi-directional charging, but not The bi-directional charging you’re, probably thinking of when you can accept charge from the tablet, but also charge other things. No, I just mean whatever Direction the pen faces when you magnetize it to the back of the tablet. It will work and charge perfectly fine, which is better than last year. What I’m surprised doesn’t come in the box is any charging brick. I mean for a tablet that does everything this thing is actually capable of 45 watt charging, which is really solid, but the only way to get that is to buy a charger. Something like this anchor Prime desktop charger, which I would totally get over any Samsung. First party charger because it’s gallium nitride it’s smaller and then it also has multi-port charging up to 240 Watts Max output. So you could literally charge a laptop full speed and the tablet full speed at the same time.
But then of course, they also make a really convenient battery Bank option. So this this is the anchor Prime 250 watt battery bank with two USBC ports and one USB a port. It has a built-in inductive wireless charging pad, so that can charge the battery Bank up to 100 watts and then there’s an app connected to it. That lets you configure the display and optimize charging or even play a sound to find it. It’S way more advanced than any charger. That’S ever come in any Samsung bucks, so shout out to anchor for sponsoring this video and I’ll put a link in the description for you to check this one out right below that like button.
But the point is, I mean you’ve, seen all the specs now they’re all huge numbers, it’s a 14 and a half inch screen in my hands. It’S 120 hertz! It’S an 11 200 milliamp hour battery. It’S quad speakers, it’s the minimum 12 gigs of RAM. It’S a terabyte of internal storage with up to another terabyte of micro, SD card storage. All these numbers are great, but it’s actually using this tablet and actually holding it. It’S it’s hard to describe it to you, but it’s even more hilariously fun. So I’m personally partial to like media idea, consumption on devices like this like I would just want to watch YouTube videos on a gigantic screen. Take them with me, download them offline watch them on flights with my free time, like it’s already amazing. For that and honestly, I think that’s what most people do on tablets a lot of the time, but, of course, for all the additional stuff that tablet power users are going to be doing. There is just so much more that this thing is capable of. Basically, it’s at the Forefront of tablets, there’s all of Samsung’s multi-window, multitasking features and pop-up windows. On that 16×10 aspect, ratio display all of the stylus features which, if you want to use a stylus on a tablet, it feels like Samsung and Apple are really the only ones taking it seriously. But you know I’m using it to sign documents every once in a while, but there are some people whose entire workflows go through this thing and then you can’t forget about decks.
There’S a whole clever keyboard, folio case that I didn’t even have here for this one, but I had it for the S8 Ultra and that adds a whole nother Dimension and Dex mode has been super used useful while giving you that desktop experience with independent windows. And you can plug it into an even larger display if you want to it’s more powerful than anything. Apple has even tried to do on the iPad, and all of that isn’t even mentioning that this is probably the biggest camera viewfinder.
Anyone has ever used Plus on the front that little Notch up there. I’Ve mentioned this before, but there’s two selfie cameras, a front-facing, normal camera and an ultra wide that can do auto framing in videos or in video calls similar to what Apple calls Center Stage. Except these cameras are actually in the right place on the long side of the tablet. So all that being said, can this be an iPad killer? That’S the question we keep asking and it’s a good it’s a real question like this is clearly competing against the iPad.
Pro the biggest baddest iPad Pro, but it’s going to have a lot of things, a lot of features, a lot of numbers to one-up the iPad Pro right. It’S got a bigger screen, it’s got bigger speakers. It’S got external expandable storage. It’S got the fingerprint reader that the iPad Pro doesn’t have and all of that costs a hundred dollars more than the equivalent iPad Pro.
This reminds me of the conversation we’ve had about Sony phones like in the world of Android phones. Sony is out here making incredibly well-equipped super high-end phones with a ton of Enthusiast features and expandable memory and manual controls that the competition like just straight up doesn’t offer, and that’s only really at the expense of a little bit of automatic mode. Usability and price, like they just they’re expensive, they cost more. And while it’s really easy to point out all the obvious benefits and advantages to all these extra features and these cool things that it does, it turns out that the number of people who will actually take advantage of these features is Tiny, and I mean they’re everywhere.
On YouTube, but when it comes to actually voting with their wallets, most people end up just going with the sort of more standard one, and I feel like there is a similar phenomenon Happening Here, for whatever reason videos about these tablets do numbers they’re they’re, going crazy. Like people love to see these on video – and I like talking about them, but then when it comes to actually buying them, people uh the the ecosystem effect is way stronger than any uh YouTube. Comments would suggest people love flocking to the iPad for iMessage and FaceTime, and all these other things, but to keep it even more simple. I, like I, have this analogy that I really like even better people like bigger screens as long as it doesn’t sacrifice too much in the other areas of the device so take the MacBook Air, for example, that 13-inch MacBook Air was one of the best selling laptops For years it was Apple’s number one best-selling laptop for a long time, and people wanted a bigger screen, but the only way that they could get a bigger screen and still buy an Apple product was to move all the way up to the 16-inch MacBook Pro, which Was just dramatically more expensive, I mean it was Overkill. Most people did not need that much computer, and so people would actually start to drift away and go buy a different, slightly bigger, screened laptop from some other company, so much so that Apple.
Finally, this year decided to introduce a larger 15-inch MacBook Air, and it turned out that’s exactly what people wanted. They just want. The bigger screen on the other end of this apple tried introducing a mini iPhone for two whole years, which you would think is a brilliant idea.
If you only read YouTube comments, but again it turns out. Most people want the bigger screen, and so that ended up. Not selling enough it got discontinued, and today we have a plus phone instead. So this is a bigger screen tablet than the iPad Pro, which is why it’s so amazing and impressive to hold and look at, but it’s also a very different tablet from the iPad Pro.
It’S 100 bucks more, but it’s an Android tablet. It has a whole different feature set and for a lot of people. That’S too much sacrifice and a lot of people will continue to just get iPads, but for those who are not looped into the ecosystem and who don’t depend on these features, this is a hell of a tablet.
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