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Samsung Galaxy Tab S8

series of Android-based tablets by Samsung Electronics

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ110875035
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The Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 is a series of Android-based tablet computers developed and marketed by Samsung Electronics, as part of its flagship Galaxy Tab S series. Unveiled at Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event on 9 February 2022, alongside the Galaxy S22 series, they serve as the successor to the Galaxy Tab S7 series, and were succeeded by the Galaxy Tab S9 series, which was announced on July 26, 2023.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 series are notable for its introduction of the Ultra variant, the third and largest variant, with a 14.6 inch display with the same 16:10 aspect ratio as other models, and the slimmest bezels of the series, and also has a 2.8ms touch response time for its included S Pen and includes 2 front-facing cameras in the small notch on its display.

History

The Samsung Galaxy Tab S8, the S8+ and the S8 Ultra were announced on 9 February 2022 and released on 25 February 2022.

Design

Colors

Tab S8 and S8+

Tab S8 Ultra

Specifications

Hardware

Chipset

All tablets feature a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 system on a chip. The SoC is based on the 4 nm processing technology node. The tablets also feature an Adreno 730 GPU.

Storage

The Galaxy Tab S8 and Tab S8+ are available in 128, and 256 GB options, and the Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra is available in 128, 256, and 512 options, not all capacity variants are available. 1 TB of expansion can be added using a microSD card. The base amount of RAM is 8 GB, and is upgradeable to 16 GB.

Camera

The Tab S8 and Tab S8+ have a 12 MP front camera with an f/2.4 lens. The rear has a 13 MP camera with an f/2.0 wide-angle lens, and a 6 MP camera with a f/2.2 ultra wide angle lens.

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This entry incorporates text from Samsung Galaxy Tab S8” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.