Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 Hands On and Photo Gallery


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Samsung announced Galaxy Tab S3 at the ongoing MWC. We have got our hands on the successor of last year’s Galaxy Tab S2. Let’s take a look at hardware and specifications of the tablet.

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The Galaxy Tab S3 sports a 9.7-inch (2048×1536 pixel) QXGA Super AMOLED display and is powered by 2.15GHz quad-core Snapdragon 820 64-bit Quad-Core processor. Running Android 7.0 (Nougat), it comes with 4GB RAM, 32GB internal memory, expandable memory up to 256GB with microSD.

It has a beautiful bright display and a great build quality that makes it feel premium.

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A 5MP front-facing camera and Samsung branding is present above the display.

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On the bezel below the display, you have the trademark home button with two capacitive keys on either sides.

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The right side houses the power button, volume rockers, SIM card and micro SD card tray. It measures 237.3 x 169.0 x 6.0mm and weighs 429g.

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On top you have two loudspeaker grills and cut out for antenna bands.  It has quad-stereo speakers tuned by AKG by HARMAN.

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The tablet has a glossy back and there is a 13MP camera with LED flash. Also present is the Samsung branding.

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The tablet comes with a book cover and a keyboard that is connected via the magnetic connector on the bottom of the tablet.

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It comes with an improved S Pen that will allow you to write or doodle on your tablet.

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Connectivity options on the tablet include 4G LTE (optional), Bluetooth 4.2, WiFi 802.11 ac (2.4GHz/5GHz) MIMO, Wi-Fi Direct, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS, GLONASS, USB 3.1 Type-C. It comes with a 6000mAh battery with Fast Charging.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 comes in Black and Silver colors and is priced at  679 Euros (US$ 717 / Rs. 47,785 approx.) for the WiFi variant and the LTE variant costs 769 Euros (US$ 812 / Rs. 54120 approx.) in Europe. It will be released in the coming weeks.

Sneha contributed to this post

Author: Sandeep Sarma

Sandeep Sarma is a blogger and a freelance photographer. Apart from gadgets and phones, he also has a passion for movies and cars. He currently uses the S7 Edge as his main phone. Catch him on twitter at @sandeep9sarma