Samsung Galaxy Tab S11 Series and Galaxy S25 FE: Specs, Features, Price

Google whitethorn have given up connected making Android tablets, but Samsung is putting along. Last week, Samsung announced a fund slate—the Galaxy Tab S10 Lite—but now it's clip for flagship tablets. At IFA 2025, nan tech accumulation successful Berlin, nan institution announced nan next-gen Galaxy Tab S11 series, comprising nan Tab S11 and nan Tab S11 Ultra. Also successful tow is nan Galaxy S25 FE (Fan Edition), a midrange Android phone that marks nan 5th introduction successful nan Galaxy S25 series.

The Galaxy Tab S11 costs $800, while nan Tab S11 Ultra is $1,200, and nan Galaxy S25 FE starts astatine $650. All of these devices are disposable for acquisition today. Here's what you request to know.

Android’s iPad Pro

Samsung's Galaxy Tab S11 and Tab S11 Ultra are nan iPad Pro of nan Android world, boasting flagship specs crossed nan board. They tin moreover lucifer Apple's latest slate successful 1 cardinal metric: thickness. Apple highlighted nan singular thinness of nan M4-powered iPad Pro erstwhile it launched successful 2024, and now nan Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra matches it—both Apple’s and Samsung's top-tier tablets are a specified 0.20 inches heavy (5.1 mm). The cheaper Tab S11 is 0.22 inches, which is simply a hairsbreadth thicker than nan 11-inch iPad Pro. Samsung's tablets are somewhat heavier, though.

Unlike nan anterior procreation Tab S10 series, there's nary mediate “Plus” exemplary anymore. You person nan 11-inch Tab S11 and nan gargantuan 14.6-inch Tab S11 Ultra. Both tally Android 16 retired of nan box, person 120-Hz AMOLED displays, and tin deed a highest brightness of 1,600 nits. Samsung's S Pen stylus is bundled arsenic usual, but it has been redesigned for nan first clip successful years, pinch a hexagonal creation for amended grip and a cone-shaped extremity for accrued tilt angles and finer control. It magnetically sticks to nan apical separator of nan slate for retention and charging.

Once again, Samsung employs a MediaTek processor, nan Dimensity 9400+, which is competitory pinch Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite. They commencement pinch 12 GB of RAM, but nan Ultra's 1-terabyte exemplary bumps that up to 16 GB. (Storage is expandable via microSD.) The tablets are IP68-rated, person in-display fingerprint sensors, and support 45-watt charging speeds to capable nan 8,400- and 11,600-mAh batteries, respectively.

Samsung is playing up nan AI features connected these tablets, which support Google's Gemini Live multimodal capabilities, truthful you tin chat successful existent clip pinch nan adjunct and moreover show it what you're seeing pinch nan tablet's cameras. Then there's Galaxy AI features from Samsung's phones, for illustration Drawing Assist, which turns your sketches into AI-generated art, and Writing Assist, which tin rephrase your words into a different tone.

None of this is new, but location are immoderate upgrades to Samsung's DeX platform, which converts nan tablet OS into a accepted desktop-like personification interface, pinch windowed apps and a dock. A caller Extended Mode lets you person nan Tab S11 tablets into an outer monitor, moving DeX crossed nan tablet and a paired show for dual-screen multitasking. You tin moreover resistance and driblet apps and contented betwixt nan 2 screens. DeX besides now supports up to 4 workspaces, truthful you tin create 4 desktops catered to circumstantial tasks and rhythm betwixt them. These tablets support Samsung's Book Cover Keyboard Slim, a keyboard screen that brings them person successful creation to a 2-in-1 detachable laptop.

Outside of nan surface and artillery sizes, nan Tab S11 Ultra has a fewer other perks complete nan Tab S11. It has Wi-Fi 7 support versus Wi-Fi 6E, making it a small much future-proof (you request a Wi-Fi 7 router to return advantage). It has an other 8-MP ultrawide camera connected nan rear, and nan guidelines exemplary starts pinch 256 GB alternatively of 128.

The Ultra is simply a uncommon beast—one of nan only Android tablets you tin find astatine this size. But erstwhile you adhd nan Book Cover Keyboard Slim, you're looking astatine a $1,410 package. You tin bargain a MacBook Air for under $1,000 these days, and anterior acquisition pinch older Tab Ultra models has proven that it's difficult to wield arsenic a tablet owed to its monolithic size.

It's a bully point these slates will beryllium supported for 7 years; they'll proceed getting caller features and information patches complete that time, giving you much bang for your buck.

The Fifth Galaxy S25

The twelvemonth began pinch nan Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25+, and Galaxy S25 Ultra smartphones—Samsung's flagship trio. Then successful nan spring, Samsung debuted nan first-ever Galaxy S25 Edge, an ultra-thin and lightweight type of nan Galaxy S25 phones, pinch a operation of features betwixt nan S25+ and S25 Ultra (plus lackluster artillery life). Now, nan last instrumentality to information retired nan bid is nan Galaxy S25 FE, which stands for Fan Edition. It's what nan institution typically uses to denote midrange aliases fund versions of its products.

The Galaxy S25 FE offers a very akin acquisition to nan Galaxy S25+ but pinch lesser specs. It retains nan 6.7-inch surface size, for example, but pinch an adaptive refresh rate that switches from 60 to 120 Hz depending connected what's connected nan screen. (The S25+ tin driblet arsenic debased arsenic 1 Hz for much artillery savings.) The surface besides doesn't get arsenic bright.

It's powered by Samsung's Exynos 2400 chipset, nan aforesaid chipset wrong nan Galaxy Z Fold7 FE, pinch 8 GB of RAM. This is simply a astir identical chipset utilized successful past year's Galaxy S24 FE, but pinch somewhat faster timepiece speeds, truthful you tin expect a marginal capacity boost. You get 128 GB of storage, pinch nan action to upgrade to 256 GB. (No microSD paper slot here.)

Compared to nan S24 FE, Samsung says it has upped nan size of nan vapor enclosure cooling strategy by 10 percent. Better cooling intends amended sustained capacity during intensive tasks, for illustration gaming. It manages this contempt being 8 percent slimmer, measuring conscionable 7.4 mm.

It boasts nan aforesaid 4,900-mAh artillery capacity, and nan FE supports 45-watt fast-charging. If you usage nan correct charging adapter, that'll nett you up to 65 percent successful 30 minutes. There's wireless charging too, and it's nan Qi2 Ready flavor for illustration nan remainder of nan Galaxy S25 series. That means, dissimilar nan latest Google Pixel 10 phones, location are nary autochthonal magnets inside; you'll person to usage a magnetic Qi2 lawsuit to execute Qi2 wireless charging speeds and efficiency.

You still get a triple-camera system, pinch a 50-MP main sensor, 8-MP telephoto (3X zoom), and 12-MP ultrawide, positive a 12-MP selfie camera. Many of nan aforesaid AI features from nan flagships are disposable here, for illustration Instant Slow-Mo, which lets you adhd slow-motion to existing videoclips, and Audio Eraser, which tin trim circumstantial sounds from your footage, for illustration upwind noise, crowd, aliases music.

The recently announced Galaxy S25 FE and Galaxy Tab S11 bid are disposable today, but it's besides nan motorboat time for nan antecedently announced Galaxy Tab S10 Lite ($350) and Galaxy Buds3 FE earbuds ($150). Stay tuned for our reviews.