![]() There’s also little reason to use the stylus as the main nav method in Android. You’ll accidentally press the pen’s button all the time while drawing, which brings up the stylus nav bar. Just like an iPad, the Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 doesn’t have access to the industry-standard apps in the form pro designers actually use, and Android has fewer great drawing apps than iOS (there are still plenty, mind). But does it seem like a pro-grade one? No. The stylus is pressure sensitive (4096 levels), and when you add that to the surprising depth of Sketchbook Pro, you end up with quite an engaging and useful drawing tool. The Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 stylus seems made for this software, and taking some time out to draw with it has been some of the most fun I’ve had on a tablet in ages. Install Sketchbook Pro or something similar, though, and you are in for a good time. ![]() That’s fine for an app made to be accessible, but its performance is also bizarrely bad, with frequent lag as Pen Up tries to work out how your brush strokes should react to the existing “digital paint”. Pen Up lacks most of that programme’s advanced features. It has plenty of the right tools, a friendly front end and some fluffy colouring-in exercises for kids, but next to something like Autodesk Sketchbook Pro it’s trash. This is the pre-installed Samsung drawing software. I do think Samsung gets closer to the Apple Pencil-like quality feel here than some previous stylus tabs. I spent a few hours aimlessly drawing on the tablet to see if it’s much better than the competition. Drawing on the Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 feels natural: there’s only minor input lag, and doodling is fun. It’s a fairly chunky plastic pen with a great nib that mostly zaps the stuttery feel of most tablet styluses as they glide along the glass surface of a screen. But putting a hole for it in the case, like the Note 10, would likely mean losing a significant chunk of battery. I have already spent several small chunks of time looking for the thing. The groove in no way stops you losing the stylus. Why a battery? Like the Note 10+, you can use the S-Pen button to fire off commands remotely, like pausing your music or taking a photo in the camera app. There’s even a little wireless charge panel that replenishes the pen’s battery. A shallow groove is cut into the back and the stylus nuzzles into it, held in place lightly by magnets. The Samsung Galaxy Tab S6’s stylus mechanism is the only part that makes the tablet stand out visually. This is arguably less convenient than the Tab S5e’s side scanner, as it’s a two-step unlock, but the scanner itself is quick and reliable. Press the power button and you’ll see the scanner position on screen. The main design annoyance is the same as the Galaxy Tab S5e’s – there’s no headphone jack, which seems an even more brazen way to push people into buying wireless headphones than jack-less phones.Īn in-screen fingerprint scanner is a neat “invisible” extra. It’s extremely thin (5.7mm) and fairly light at 420g. Some of its stats are very iPad like, too. It’s big, but not a monster like the 12.5-inch iPad Pro. Thanks to a trimming down of screen borders the Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 is a similar size to classic 10.1-inch tablets. The anodised finish has a pleasant texture and it simply feels less fragile in your hands. In phones, aluminium has somehow turned into a mid-range design choice, but I find it more desirable than glass in a tablet. Its back is aluminium, like an iPad’s, not glass like last year’s Galaxy Tab S4. The Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 has a similar style to the Galaxy Tab S5e. In-display fingerprint sensor inside the OLED display.It costs a lot less and still performs all the usual tablet jobs perfectly well. ![]() This is the best Android tablet around, but if the stylus isn’t a big factor, consider the Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e. A 128GB iPad plus Pencil costs £498 – that’s £120 less. Of course, nowadays even the basic iPad supports the Pencil. If this sounds like too much, don’t forget the 11-inch iPad Pro with half the amount of storage ends up £269 more when you add the Apple Pencil. You’ll pay £619 for the wi-fi version, and £689 for the 4G one. It has a large display, high-end specs, a great sketching stylus, and it costs quite a lot. The Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 is the best tablet alternative to an iPad Pro.
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