A new Samsung device is here, but it’s not a phone. Rather, it’s a new tablet, as the Galaxy range turns to mid-range tablets under $600.
Android tablets may not have the same app ecosystem of the iPad, but they’re still giving the category of tablets a good bash, and providing for more price points. There are plenty of budget options, but most aren’t great beyond watching movies and surfing the web, and then there’s everything else, usually focused on price points about the $800 mark.
Once you get close to the thousand dollar price point, you’re looking at premium tablets, such as those from Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S10 Plus and Ultra range, or even just below it with the Tab FE, a slightly less expensive take on Samsung’s tablets.
Samsung is looking to give another price point a bit of a stab, though, launching a “lite” version of its Tab models in the S10 Lite. Not quite a more economically priced “fan edition”, the Galaxy Tab S10 Lite will get a Samsung-made Exynos processor before a 10.9 inch screen, and arrives with support for AI on Android and a Pen.
Yes, much like the S25 Ultra, the Tab S10 Lite comes with the S-Pen, and even supports an optional keyboard, should you want to bring one of those across.
The S10 Lite is relatively budget focused, forgoing WiFi 6E and WiFi 7 for the older WiFi 6 standard, while also keeping memory to a maximum of 8GB and storage to 256GB (though you’ll get 6GB RAM on the 128GB model).
It is built to be fairly slim, though, fitting in under the Galaxy Fold 7’s 8.9mm thickness by two whole millimetres, measuring 6.6mm thick. That’s a slim tablet, and one that’s only marginally thicker than the 5.8mm Galaxy S25 Edge.
Australians can expect to find it in stores by the end of September, priced from $599 for the 6GB RAM/128GB storage edition, coming in three colours. Given that price point, it’s pretty clear Samsung is focusing this effort on the standard iPad, including the S-Pen as a bit of differentiation.
