Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 (2018) gets Wi-Fi certification with Android 8.1 Oreo onboard

Last updated: June 4th, 2018 at 14:31 UTC+01:00

A couple of days back, we came across what appears to exist a successor to the Galaxy Tab A 10.ane on the Bluetooth SIG website. The same device has now been spotted at the Wi-Fi Brotherhood undergoing Wi-Fi certification. Though not much is known about this device, the series of certifications confirm that the official launch is effectually the corner.

Comes with Android Oreo 8.1 onboard

Going past the documentation on the Wi-Fi Brotherhood website, the Galaxy Tab A x.ane (2018) volition come with Android Oreo viii.1 onboard. If the launch indeed happens in the nearly future, then information technology may be the beginning Milky way device to run Android 8.1 out of the box. Strangely, no concrete information is available about the specifications of the device yet. Even so, since the previous model was a mid-range tablet, the same may be true for the 2018 version also.

To clarify, we are calling this a successor to the original Galaxy Tab A x.1 based on its model number SM-T595. The 2016 version launched with the model numbers SM-T580 and SM-T585 for the Wi-Fi and LTE variants respectively. If Samsung is sticking to the design, and then the SM-T595 is an LTE variant of the 2018 model.

Interestingly, the Bluetooth listing mentions the production proper noun for SM-T595 equally the Milky way Tab A2 Twoscore. Whether it is but an expanded codename for gta2xl used as a placeholder or a new moniker will be known at the time of the announcement.