With LG’s launch of the G3, it finally feels safe to say that the 2K display has “made it.” While the G3 isn’t the first smartphone to employ such a stunningly high resolution screen, it’s easily the most high-profile such model, and it’s sure to lead the way for similar 2K devices from other major OEMs. And 2K tablets, certainly, are well established by this point, having crossed that north-of-1080p barrier quite a while back. With the 2K checkpoint reached, attentions are sure to turn to 4K, and while 4K phones are still just the stuff of imagination, 4K tablets are quite a bit more in touch with reality. At a recent event in France, Samsung was just spotted showing off a 4K design of its own.
We don’t have a ton of specs, but this prototype model appears to have a 12-inch 4K display and runs a Snapdragon 801 SoC – though it sounds like Samsung may upgrade that to an 805 should this model make it to commercial availability – for the moment, though, it’s little more than a tech demo. That retail focus could actually occur in the not-too-distant future, as a Qualcomm exec present at the event where this Samsung tablet was being featured claimed that commercial 4K tablets should land before the end of 2014.
And yeah, we know that there’s been the odd giant-sized “tablet” with a 4K resolution, but we’re talking about something more traditionally tablet-sized. Twelve inches is close to our ceiling there, but word of 4K 10.1-inch panels has us hopeful that even more compact models are coming.
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