WTF Samsung Tab S4

For the first part of smartphone membership, I was a Windows Phone user.

The 1520 to be exact and had Microsoft not lost their mind more than a few times I would still be a Windows Phone user. I can see myself with a Lumia 950XL or Elite X2. My end point came with Windows Phone came when Microsoft decided to charge flagship prices for a product that was nearing its end.

Which brings me to Samsung the place I now dwell end on the smartphone spectrum. That S8+ is a beauty although I am a Note 8 owner now.

Yet Samsung has recreated the Microsoft snafu with the released of the Samsung Tab S4.  

For the longest Samsung has produced the best Android tablets on the market. However, the problem is the Android tablet market is dead at best. Even if you set aside iOS and their dominance the Android tablet game is over with the advent of Acer releasing the Chromebook Tab 10 the first tablet to run the Chrome OS.

Chrome OS still has a way to go before it is tablet really but in all honesty, so does Android. One is the future, and one right now is barely alive. That aside Samsung cranked out probably the best Android tablet of all time with the Tab S4, but instead of sending the Tab S4 out in a blaze of tablet glory Samsung decided to let it fade out in misery.

Again when it comes to specs, I try to set them aside with tech talk on this blog. The Tab S4 is a beauty

like most things Samsung does, and that beauty comes with a price, and, the Tab S4 is carrying a premium price tag. But why, if there's any company that understands Chrome OS continued ascent it's Samsung who manufacturer two of the best Chromebooks on the planet.

Don't get me wrong the Tab S4 is worth the $650 that its entry price has if this was 2016, but it's not. If it was $650 for $750 model with the keyboard included and the entry price check in at $550 with the keyboard included. Yet Samsung's stubbornness brings the entry level at $650 + $150 for the keyboard which you will need if you want to use Dex which is included as software in the Tab S4. Yet that $800 price tag is more than an iPad, puts you in the iPad Pro range, Pixelbook and a lot more than Microsoft Surface Go which is sure to be the tablet darling of the year.