In context: Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra has acquired principally glorious opinions, with many hailing it as the most effective Android pill obtainable immediately. But does its huge 14.6-inch show and ~0.24-inch thickness make it prone to breaking in half?
The glorious JerryRigEverything YouTube channel carried out certainly one of its well-known sturdiness assessments on the Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra. For one thing that seems fairly fragile, it took the abuse very properly.
Samsung has positioned the Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra because the Android rival to the present prime pill, the iPad Pro. The Tab S8 Ultra has a bigger show than its Apple competitor, a thinner display screen, and is just very barely heavier.
JerryRigEverything’s Zack Nelson begins by noting the scale distinction between the S Pen that ships with the Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra and the one which is available in some Samsung telephones, noting that it is the similar {hardware} packed inside a bigger housing.
Following a sequence of scratch and burn assessments, after which the in-display fingerprint reader continues to work, Nelson strikes on to the bending section. It’s an space the place earlier generations of iPad Pros failed miserably, cracking in two with ease. That modified with the M1-powered pill (under), however would the larger, thinner Tab S8 Ultra additionally survive?
While Samsung’s slate does bend, it doesn’t break, defying Nelson’s perception that it will crack in two—he places it right down to “physics-defining black magic” by Samsung. The Tab S8 Ultra nonetheless works even after being put underneath what seems to be like a considerable amount of power. It additionally seems to carry up higher than the M1 iPad Pro, which noticed its display screen transfer away from the body extra noticeably throughout the check, and it retained the bent form extra prominently.
