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we now have a flagship line of tablets from Samsung a trucks regard from Android Authority what's going on everybody and here is your first look at the Samsung Galaxy Tab s 8.4 if the Tab pro 8.4 was somewhat like a blown-up Galaxy Note 3 than the Tab s 8.4 is trying to be like a blown-up Galaxy s5 quite literally every design element from the galaxy s5 finds its way onto the tab S including the fingerprint scanner integrated into the physical home button that is flanked by a capacitive back key in a recent apps key also making a return is that textured plastic back with a perforated dimpled design after six point six millimeters thick and around two hundred ninety eight grams you're almost so much surprised at the handling when you pick up this device the Tab s 8.4 is actually quite easy to handle not only because of its flat sides and thin profile but also because of how light it is and at this size the Tab s 8.4 offers the perfect balance between Portability and display size without going too far and of course the marquee feature of this tablet is the fact that it comes with a great 8.4 inch AMOLED display coming in at a resolution of 2560 by 1600 it is the standout feature and it is really what Samsung is going for here in terms of creating a color profile that is very pleasing for all those who use their tablets for media consumption which their research pretty much finds is basically the case when it comes to tablets pretty much anything you will do on this display will come out absolutely fantastic if you do like the oversaturated colors of the Super AMOLED screens on your Galaxy S smartphones then you get them blown up here in these tablets and if you wanted a comparison using the 10-inch tablets that were available in a display at this event you were able to see that the Super AMOLED screen was able to have higher contrast and much deeper blacks when compared to a regular TFT LCD display and you can see that difference here and it is pretty obvious all in all you do get a great display here and if it is really something that you wanted out of your tablet a more vibrant display then you got it here in the tab S Series performance should be no issue when it comes to either of these tablets as you will be getting the exceed O's 5 octa processor found inside but there are going to be LTE variants of these particular tablets we want to be surprised if those particular ones came with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 since that is the most updated version of the Snapdragon processing package available as far as the hardware go Samsung again packs as much as possible with all of the full ranges of connectivity available on either device including like I said already the LTE variants after that you get 16 or 32 gigabytes of built-in storage and which can be further expanded by microSD cards of up to 128 gigabytes of capacity so storage should be a no issue and I wasn't able to test the speakers on these but we wouldn't be surprised if they were at least decent performers given that these are media consumption tablets first and foremost the Tab s 8.4 packs a forty nine hundred million power battery which is slightly larger than the one found in the Tab pro 8.4 but it should still offer a comparable and at least equally impressive battery life it seems that all the high-end tablets nowadays are going to come with rear cameras but again in this case it's not particularly a standout feature and I wasn't able to really test it out anyway but we're looking people who use their tablet so the camera won't really be a marquee feature it's not going to be a primary shooter you probably have a better shooter in your pocket already with your smartphone and finally in software the experience is very similar to what you already saw in the Tab pro and no Pro line of tablets again the primary focus in this particular operating system this version of TouchWiz is the magazine UX it's the tiled interface that in a lot of ways is basically just a front end for Flipboard and as such it may add a couple extra steps to get you from the start to finish when it comes to your source but in the end it is a pretty nice looking interface but if it's not ultimately useful for you then that will dictate whether or not you support the magazine UX as part of the TouchWiz operating system aside from that however despite some aesthetic changes TouchWiz remains very much TouchWiz even with the circle centric motif that is found in the notification drop-down in the settings and then after that you still have the uber colorful elements all sort of flattened out in this updated version of the look but there are a couple of enhancements that were put into the software this time around as these tablets are supposed to be integrating with the galaxy s5 smartphone there is a new application called side sync basically which give you a full view of your phone and be able to control it via your tablet you can do everything from controlling the phone to transferring pictures for example from the phone to the tablet to even taking calls when a call comes to your phone it will route all of the audio back and forth using your tablet so you really don't have to touch your phone at all it really makes these tablets a more robust system especially if you like to integrate that the two of them you know obviously you have to have both in order to have this functionality and so there you have it this is the first look at the Samsung Galaxy Tab s 8.4 we do have the Tab s 10.5 available in the video as well so you can go and check that out and keep it tuned to Android authority for further coverage of these new tablets the flagship tablets as Samsung is calling them and you can stay tuned here drop us some lifes subscribe if you haven't already and stay tuned because Android Authority comm is your source for all things Android