- Hey, what's up guys here, this is the best Android tablet out right now and it looks like it's from the future or something. Like, if you showed this to someone 15 years ago, they would think it's impossible. Like, it's this impossibly thin 1.6-pound powerful media machine with speakers that somehow fill a room, a massive battery, and an entire desktop computer interface inside. I mean, it's so thin you'd swear you could just snap it in half super easily, which I'm not gonna try it, So this is the Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra So yes, there is a Galaxy Tab S8 and a Tab S8+. Both of them far more reasonable, far less expensive, and, most importantly, smaller. But you know what, there's a real interest in huge tablets like this, mega tablets, because there is an actual benefit to tablets that are this big. I would know 'cause I've been using this one. And the benefits of this massive, nearly 15-inch screen are for media watching, gaming, multitasking, and, of course, the huge canvas for the stylus. They're all very real, But the screen is just awesome, and there's a bunch of things that combine to make it probably the most impressive I've ever seen in a tablet. Number one is just of course the sheer size of it. 14.6 inches diagonally, which definitely suits the Ultra name. And it's got these thin symmetrical bezels all the way around, aside from the dual cameras. Now, we're working with a 16:10 aspect ratio at 2960 by 1848 resolution, which sounds really high. In person, it's not the sharpest thing I've ever seen just because it's so huge. So it checks out to about 240 PPI. And if you get close enough with this pixel arrangement, you can actually start to see the soft edges of some text and icons and things like that. But it's definitely not a problem at all for normal viewing distances. And then it's OLED. So I think this is the largest OLED touchscreen I have ever used. We all know about the mini LED displays in some laptops and even the iPad pro with their tons of local dimming zones, but this is a full-sized, basically laptop-sized, screen where every individual pixel lights itself. So you're getting those pitch black inky blacks, you're getting an incredible contrast ratio, and watching videos that take advantage of it are very impressive. There's also an optical fingerprint reader underneath the display on the right-hand side. And the only thing, really, that's not world-class about this display honestly is that it's not LTPO, it's just 120 hertz all the time, and the max brightness, it maxes out at 380 nits, which is actually totally reasonable inside but it's not actually doing much if you go out in the sun, if you're the type of person to use a tablet near a window. So that's just something to keep in mind. Just for context, the M1 iPad Pro gets up to 600 nits and the S22 Ultra, the phone I just reviewed, gets up to 1,750 nits, but, you know, that's a phone you use outside. So let's talk about the notch then, right? So huge display. Up at the top in the middle, there's this little tiny notch with two cameras in it. That's two 12-megapixel 4K webcams, one regular and one ultra wide. There're both too big to fit in the thin bezels that they fitted all the way around the tablet, so it punches in a little bit. They've put this little notch up here. It's tiny. It's way smaller than the iPhone's notch and in a display that's way bigger. And it also has the cameras horizontally in the right place and in much better quality than the iPad. So for video calls or recording videos with the front-facing cameras, these cameras are actually really good. The ultra wide camera even has Auto Framing. Although, it's not nearly as responsive or smooth as the iPad Pro and it cuts down to 1080p in this mode. But at least it looks like you're looking at the person you're talking to on a Zoom call. And then last but not least, drawing stuff. Now, I'm not even gonna pretend to be an artist who can take advantage of the differences between this and the Apple Pencil versus others, but here are some things that I definitely did notice. So number one, this pen still charges on the back of the tablet here in only this specific orientation, which is kind of easy to scrape off and get knocked off if you move around too much, which is unfortunate. But, you know, it's really good at just drawing and sketching and things like that. The palm rejection with these tiny bezels is good enough that I don't have to think about it. And it has lightning quick, basically real-time, 2.8-millisecond response times that make it feel like real paper. Remote controlled Air Actions are still here. Samsung Notes is as powerful as ever with the handwriting recognition and PENUP is also included for, you know, more digital drawing type stuff. And it's good.