Samsung Galaxy Tab S2: The thinnest tablet I've ever seen.
(29 July 2025) Back in the day, all eyes were often on Apple in the tablet market, as they are to this day. The iPad Air was an extremely thin tablet, as was its successor, and Samsung was quite jealous. They responded with the Galaxy Tab S2, which, for its time, was thinner than the then-recent iPad Air 2, and was one of the thinnest tablets in the world, with Samsung marketing as such. So how does it hold up, 10 years later?
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- Video Editor: DaVinci Resolve 20.0
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Music (in chronological order)
- "Wild Pogo" by Francis Preve
- "Call The Shots" by Slynk
- "So Long Analog" by Noir Et Blanc Vie
- "Synergy" by Geographer (Used for demonstration)
- "Pila Pala Paradise" by Rachel K Collier
- "Leveled Up!" by Bad Snacks
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- IPad_Air.png by Zach Vega, CC BY-SA 3.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 - via Wikimedia Commons
- IPad_Air_2_Wikipedia.png by Netspy, CC BY 3.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 - via Wikimedia Commons
- IPad_Air_2013_002.jpg - Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). CC BY-SA 4.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 - via Wikimedia Commons
- IPod_nano_7G_pink_front.jpg by Katie Chan, CC BY-SA 3.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 - via Wikimedia Commons
- Sony_Xperia_Z4_Tablet_(17110502756).jpg by Maurizio Pesce from Milan, Italia, CC BY 2.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 - via Wikimedia Commons
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