We are starting a new course and it is inevitable to fall into the temptation to look ahead and start thinking about what it may bring us. Yesterday we were reviewing some releases that are still pending for 2017, but the most interesting are probably already presented as the best tablets of 2018. What can we expect to see in the iPad Pro 2, the Galaxy Tab S4, the Surface Pro 5, and their future rivals?
iPad Pro 2
Although the launch of the iPad Pro 10.5 is so recent, there are always so many analyzes and leaks on the devices of Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), that by taking a look at the things we know are being worked on in Cupertino that didn't make it to their latest tablet, it's easy to get an idea of some of the things we can expect to see on the iPad Pro 2such as OLED panels, higher resolutions, even more powerful processors, or a new Apple Pencil. It is difficult, however, to forecast when it could be launched, because if the renewal cycles of the iPhone go like clockwork and are fairly easy to predict, the same is not the case with those of the iPad.
iPad 9.7 2018?
We have a hard time imagining how it could call Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), to the model that comes to succeed the iPad 9.7It is also difficult to make a bet on when it would be launched, because in a "more affordable" tablet it seems feasible to extend the renewal cycle even more. The normal thing would be for it to arrive with a more powerful processor (perhaps inheriting the A9X from the iPhone 6s now), but what we certainly have on our wish list, and surely we are not the only ones, is a fully laminated screen, which not only It will leave us with a better feeling when using it, but incidentally it would allow us to recover the dimensions of the iPad Air 2.
Galaxy Tab S4
The rumor machine has already been turned on with regard to the Galaxy S9, which it is said could arrive earlier than expected, but the same has not happened yet with the Galaxy Tab S4, and it is possible that the opposite will happen with it and you will have to wait a little longer. However, if we think about the history of competition between Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), y Samsung, it is easy to already find some good clues of what we can expect from her simply by taking a look at the iPad Pro 10.5: in the multimedia section the Galaxy Tab S3 for the moment it is still leading the way and it is sure that they will achieve more stylized lines and refine their accessories, so the only real challenge you will have is to improve productivity.
Galaxy Book 2
In the case of the Galaxy Book 2 the rival is the Surface Pro and it really seems to us that Samsung he's very close to hunting him down, if he hasn't already. Posts to talk about pending subjects, yes, in our experience with the Galaxy Book 12 Yes, we wanted to see some small improvements to finish rounding it in the design section, not for reasons of finishes or aesthetics, which in this section is outstanding, but for the convenience perhaps of adding a conventional USB port or getting polished plus the support system to give it even more stability when we use it with a keyboard. All this, of course, while Microsoft don't raise the bar with the future Surface Pro 5.
Surface Pro 5
And precisely speaking of the new Surface Pro Before its official presentation, Panay warned us that it was not going to be a Surface Pro 5, because they would only release this one when there was an evolution deep enough to deserve the name. With this in mind, it is inevitable to have high hopes for the next tablet of Microsoft and remember the leaks that pointed out that in Redmond they were working on a Ultra HD display, although we must also remember the most modest claim of many that a USB type C port be included at last. It is the one that we have the most doubts of all, in any case, that it will arrive during the next course, although all it's possible.
And the rest of the class?
If we already look at what has happened in the market as a whole in the past year, there are a few good marks to give, with very interesting and varied proposals in the field of the basic and medium range, even among Windows tablets and without being limited exclusively at chinese tablets, but there is an obvious unfinished business in the high-end Android, where the lack of renovation is already beginning to give food for thought and has Samsung as a solo champion against the iPad: it is not very clear that we can count on Huawei to compete in this field, Lenovo at the moment it begins to seem that he could have abandoned him, as he already did a few years ago Amazon y Sony still shows no signs of wanting to give a successor to the Xperia Z4 Tablet. With this outlook, we can practically only pin our hopes on Google, either with a successor to the Pixel C or with a new proposal in the form of a tablet with Chrome OS.