Samsung has refreshed its premium pill lineup for 2024. The brand new Galaxy Tab S10 collection is stuffed with surprises, and here’s a nice one you in all probability did not anticipate: The Galaxy Tab S10+ and the Galaxy Tab S10 Extremely are suitable with Galaxy Tab S9 equipment and vice versa.
Such wasn’t the case for the earlier high-end pill fashions. As some may recall, Galaxy Tab S8 equipment like Ebook Covers and Ebook Cowl Keyboards had been incompatible with the Galaxy Tab S9 collection.
Though they technically ought to have labored, the digicam cutouts and S Pen holder location had been barely completely different throughout the 2022 and 2023 pill generations and their equipment.
It meant that Galaxy Tab S8 customers who upgraded to the Galaxy Tab S9 collection could not reuse their Covers and Keyboard Cowl equipment. They needed to spend additional on new attachments in the event that they wished to deck out their Tab S9 tablets.
Samsung instructed us it has lastly addressed this drawback via the brand new Galaxy Tab S10 collection, and we could not be happier that it did.
A most welcomed change for Galaxy Tab S followers
Save for some paint job and negligible dimension variations, the brand new Galaxy Tab S10+ and Galaxy Tab S10 Extremely do not look all that completely different from their 2023 predecessors. Though this may sound boring to some, utilizing related dimensions has one large benefit: cross-generation accent compatibility.
Galaxy Tab S9+ and Galaxy Tab S9 Extremely customers can repurpose their equipment for the newer Galaxy Tab S10+ and Galaxy Tab S10 Extremely with no fuss. Likewise, the brand new Galaxy Tab S10+ and Tab S10 Extremely equipment are backward suitable with the Tab S9 collection.
Evidently, none of this is applicable to equipment for the bottom Galaxy Tab S9. There may be no base Galaxy Tab S10 this yr, and base Tab S9 equipment are too small to suit the bigger Galaxy Tab S10+ and Tab S10 Extremely.
If you wish to see the Galaxy Tab S9 Extremely Ebook Cowl Keyboard in motion alongside the Galaxy Tab S10 Extremely, we check this mix in our hands-on video beneath. Be a part of us after the break for extra particulars.
There may be one different caveat to all this glorious cross-compatibility between the 2023 and 2024 flagship pill generations, and it has to do with the Galaxy AI key on the most recent Ebook Cowl Keyboards.
Particularly, the 2024 Keyboard Covers characteristic a brand new Galaxy AI button that replaces the previous ‘lang’ key. When pressed, it brings up Google Gemini or Samsung Bixby. So, in case you use a Galaxy Tab S9 keyboard with the Galaxy Tab S10 collection, you’ll miss out on that performance and will not have the ability to summon your AI assistant as conveniently.
Likewise, in case you use Galaxy Tab S10 keyboards with the Galaxy Tab S9, the Galaxy AI button will not work. Samsung may deal with this concern via a firmware replace for Tab S9 customers. Not less than, that is the speculation. Whether or not Samsung will put it into follow stays to be seen.
