14 DAY TRIAL // Ever since this December, Samsung has been said to be working on AMOLED display tablets. Countless reports coming out of Asia specifically indicated that the Korean giant would release a set of tablets bundling the screen technology; yet, so far we have failed to spot any of them online.
In 2013, Samsung claimed it was looking to take a step back from smartphone production and concentrate more on tablets, but it’s certainly not what we’re seeing at the moment, as Sammy has been furiously spurting all kinds of smartphones onto several markets across the world, since January.
However, in the tablet department things are tamer. Back at CES 2014, Sammy pulled the veil off four new tablets, but none of them had the rumored 10.5-inch/ 8-inch AMOLED display. Following in close proximity, the budget Galaxy Tab 3 Lite also made an appearance, but no one expected the tablet to ship with an impressive display.
Recently, a triad of new tablets has been spotted making rounds on the Internet (one was said to be a 10-incher, while the others were 8-inchers), but it turned out they were actually different variants of the Galaxy Tab 4 (10.1) Matisse tablet, a refresh of the Galaxy Tab 3 (10.1).
To our disappointment, Matisse doesn’t come with AMOLED display, not for a long shot. Recent leaks showed Sammy was also planning to refresh the Galaxy Tab 3 (7.0) and (8.0) line, mostly in the processor department and keeping the average screen we saw with the previous generation, so we can scratch them off the list, as well.
The majority of leaks suggested Samsung would release 8-inch and 10-inch AMOLED tablets by January, but the month has passed and we haven’t seen anything.
Towards the end of January, the Asian media claimed Samsung would start mass production of its AMOLED panels somewhere in February/March. Even so we are yet to spot any trace of such of tablet online, so it appears things are being dragged along.
With the next-gen Nexus 10 tipped to have been sold to HTC, we could hypothesize Samsung should be working on brand new models altogether. But this is taking a lot longer than expected.