There's no question about it: this is the best tablet Samsung has yet made and it's arguably the slickest, most effective Android tablet available. There are plenty of innovations, from the fingerprint sensor to the click-in covers to protect your hardware.

Slick; stylish design; Stunningly bright screen; Powerful performer

It's still plastic; Uneven fingerprint sensor; SideSync is unreliable

A premium-priced tablet with an eye-popping display, the Tablet S delivers the most innovation we've seen in several tablet generations. It's the best full-size Android slate to date.

Gorgeous; roomy AMOLED display; Ultra-light for its size class; Nearly chart-topping battery life

Speakers sound tinny and distorted at maximum volume; Smooth back panel lacks tactile grip; Soft navigation buttons flanking home button are oversensitive; No support for NFC

I am not 100% familiar with all of the functions yet but I appreciate a lot the quality of the screen. I did not notice how long the battery lasts but it takes more than overnight to get back to full. This is less convenient. My Ipad is faster to charge, probably doesn't last as long.

The Tab S 10.5 is basically the bigger version of the S 8.4, which is more or less a bigger version of the S5 (minus some features like the heart rate sensor and the Extreme Power Saving mode).

Compact design; superb display and decent camera

The expected price,might be physically big for some and it lags a bit when switching between apps

Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 is the full-size member of the freshly announced tablet family by Samsung. Like its smaller sibling, the Galaxy Tab S 8.4, the newcomer capitalizes on the world's only 10.5-inch Super AMOLED screen panel and aims to capture a spot at the top of the tablet hierarchy,...

10.5" WQXGA Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels, The Wi-Fi-only version comes with Exynos Octa 5420 chipset; quad-core Cortex-A15 CPU plus quad-core Cortex-A7 CPU; Mali-T628 GPU, 3GB RAM, The LTE (Cat.4) version comes with Snapdragon 800, quad-core Krait 400 @ 2.3GHz; Adreno...

The available color schemes might not fit all tastes; Android still lags behind iOS in terms of tablet-optimized apps; GPU performance leaves a lot to be desired; No NFC

Samsung's Galaxy Tab S 10.5 sports a stunning Super AMOLED screen, a fingerprint reader, and top-notch specs. If you want the best Android slate, it should be near the top of your list.

Stunning Super AMOLED screen; Fingerprint scanner; Thinner and lighter than the iPad Air; MicoSD expansion slot; 3GB of RAM

Screen feels almost too bright and vivid; No black model available; Isn't dust/water-resistant like GS5; Fingerprint Scanner isn't ideal for tablet use; Sony's Xperia Z2 tablet is a little thinner and lighter

The Samsung Galaxy S5 was a significant step past the S4, but the step was subtle: It was in the screen and the software. The Galaxy Tab S 10.5 ($499, 16GB) pours the S5 equation into the best Android media tablet we've seen so far. It's slim, well-designed, and beautiful.

Slim and light; Amazing screen

Wi-Fi and GPU performance not quite up to the competition

With a gorgeous screen, super-thin design and long battery life, the Galaxy Tab S earns its place as one of our favorite tablets.

Stunning screen; Long battery life; Thin and light; Some useful software additions; like free magazines

Some minor performance hiccups (on the WiFi-only models; anyway; Samsung's "Magazine UX" interface still feels overbearing; Finicky fingerprint scanner; "Simple Clickers" make it cumbersome to use Samsung's optional cases

Thanks in part to Samsung's own success with big-screen phones, tablets have begun to lose their luster. The Galaxy Tab S 10.5 literally brings it back with a display so vibrant and colorful that it promises to make the iPad look dull.

Samsung's gadget playbook is pretty obvious to anybody who's been watching. It has created a relatively stable (if uninspiring) design language, chosen plastic as its preferred material, and cranked out device after device - each one based on small, iterative technological updates to the previous...

Great display; Thin and light; Multi window software; Great display; Thin and light; Multi window software

Plastic body; Confusing software features; Finicky fingerprint reader; Plastic body; Confusing software features; Finicky fingerprint reader