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Just as with the Apple Pencil, it’s very easy to knock the S Pen off of the back of the tablet, but if you get one of Samsung’s option folio or keyboard cases, the stylus is kept in place by a flap.

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To charge the pen, you attach it to the back of the tablet via magnets, and it will charge wirelessly, much like how the iPad Pro charges the Apple Pencil. It’s a bit thicker and doesn’t have a little storage silo like the phones offer, but it has the same features and capabilities of the phone version. Samsung includes an S Pen in the box with the Tab S6, and it’s very similar to the S Pen that comes with the Galaxy Note line of smartphones. It has poor standby time, though: on more than one occasion, I left the tablet for a couple of days without using it, and it was dead when I picked it back up. I’ve been using the base level 6GB RAM / 128GB storage model and have not had any issues with performance, even while multitasking heavily and switching between apps frequently.įor battery life, the Tab S6 is able to last all day while in use, even if I’m hammering it with productivity apps and playing video all day long.

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It has up to 256GB of storage, plus support for microSD cards for expansion. Inside the Tab S6 is a Snapdragon 855 processor and either 6GB or 8GB of RAM.

Cameras: 8-megapixel front, 13-megapixel standard rear, 8-megapixel ultrawide rear.

Storage: 128GB or 256GB, with microSD expansion.

Display: 10.5-inch WQXGA 16:10 HDR OLED.

Strangely, there’s no LED flash, which is something that comes in handy when using a tablet to scan documents. There are cameras on the front and back, including a dual-camera setup on the rear with a standard camera and an ultrawide option.

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Unfortunately, the Tab S6 lacks a headphone jack, so you’ll need to use Bluetooth headphones or a USB-C dongle for private listening. Surrounding the screen are four Dolby Atmos-enabled speakers that sound great and even give Apple’s more expensive iPad Pro a run for its money. These faults might not matter to you specifically, but when you’re paying $650 for a tablet, you should expect everything about it to work without these kinds of issues - especially when the competition has no such problems. Though the screen has the same size screen as an iPad Air on paper, the differences in aspect ratio (the iPad uses a 4:3 screen) mean Samsung’s screen is considerably smaller in practice.įinally, there’s a noticeable jelly effect when scrolling in portrait orientation, which is disappointing to see in a tablet this expensive. But it’s quite cramped for productivity work when using the attached keyboard or browsing the web in landscape. The screen’s 16:10 aspect ratio is great for watching video, and it doesn’t feel terribly awkward when holding the tablet in portrait orientation for reading. Other manufacturers that use similar optical scanners on their phones, such as OnePlus, force the screen to disable the blue light filter for the second it takes to scan the fingerprint, but Samsung hasn’t enabled that on the Tab S6. On top of being slow and unreliable, the scanner just doesn’t work at all when the blue light filter activates in the evening. Samsung is using an optical scanner here, as opposed to the ultrasonic one found in its phones. Like the Galaxy S10, the Tab S6 has a fingerprint scanner embedded in the screen. It’s basically the same pixel density as the iPad Air or iPad Pro. It’s an excellent screen for watching movies or YouTube videos, and it has enough resolution for text to look sharp at a comfortable viewing distance. This screen is really a treat to look at: colors pop, blacks are inky deep, and it gets bright enough to use outdoors. The star of the show is the 10.5-inch OLED HDR (HDR10 and HDR10+, but not Dolby Vision) display.

It’s a thin metal-and-glass slab that weighs less than a pound, and it’s easy and comfortable to hold for long periods of time.

Samsung makes excellent hardware, and, as the company’s flagship tablet, the Tab S6 is no exception. Buy for $647.99 from Walmart Buy for $649.99 from Best Buy Buy for $649.99 from Amazon

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