Samsung Is Saying a New iPad Pro Killer at IFA Subsequent Week

September, which begins *checks calendar* subsequent week, goes to be a jam-packed month for brand new gadget bulletins. In case you thought Apple’s “Awe Dropping” occasion on Sept. 9 the place it’ll announce the iPhone 17 household of telephones, new Apple Watches, and presumably AirPods Pro 3, was the one huge tech extravaganza, let me remind you that IFA is going on proper after Labor Day subsequent week. IFA is like CES, however smaller and in Berlin as a substitute of Las Vegas. Coinciding with IFA, Samsung is doing yet one more digital Unpacked occasion to announce a brand new pill.

Live streaming on Sept. 4 at 5:30 a.m. ET (a lifeless giveaway that it’s IFA-related, because it’ll be 11:30 a.m. Berlin time) on Samsung.com, Samsung’s YouTube channel, and Samsung’s Newsroom, the digital Unpacked will take the wraps off the “next evolution of Galaxy Tab.” In typical Samsung style, the corporate has already put up a reservation page with a limited time offer to obtain $50 “Samsung Credit” to be used towards different Samsung merchandise, in addition to as much as $800 towards the following Android pill with an eligible system trade-in. The reservation must be made by Sept. 3 and the Galaxy Tab needs to be bought between Sept. 4 and Oct. 5 as a way to get the $50 credit score.

Samsung despatched Gizmodo the above occasion “invite.” Do you guys see something in there? If I have been a betting man, I’d say these stars contained in the field trace at Galaxy AI stuffed into the brand new Samsung Galaxy Tab.

Galaxy Tab S11?

As for the Galaxy Tab itself, we’ll probably see successors to the Galaxy S10+ and S10 Ultra that have been launched final yr. Do tablets—together with iPad Pros—have to be on an annual refresh? No, however that’s not how capitalism works. Like any client tech maker, Samsung’s its portfolio and questioning the way to promote new variations of current issues to spice up its quarterly earnings. The new tablets would presumably comply with the identical naming conference, so it wouldn’t shock us if Samsung calls them the Galaxy Tab S11+ and Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra.

What I’ll be watching out for subsequent week is whether or not any pill(s) will function the Tab S10 Ultra’s gargantuan 14.6-inch display screen or probably a fair bigger one. How huge a show is just too huge for a pill? These issues are friggin’ dinner trays at this level, stupidly skinny dinner trays—sorry, tablets—that you would comfortably eat off.

Samsung’s subsequent Unpacked is a digital one, so we gained’t be live-blogging it like we did on the occasion for the Galaxy Z Fold 7, Z Flip 7, and Galaxy Watch 8/8 Classic in July. But keep tuned; Gizmodo will likely be protecting all of the information that’s price testing from IFA 2025, which formally begins on Sept. 5 and runs via Sept. 9. Press days fall on Sept. 3 and 4, so count on a torrent of product bulletins to drop then.