New iPad Pro Killer from Samsung Set to Launch at IFA Next Week

Highlights

• Event Timing: The Samsung virtual Unpacked event will take place on September 4 at 5:30 a.m. ET.
• Product Launch: New Galaxy Tab models are expected to be announced, potentially named Galaxy Tab S11+ and Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra.
• Reservation Offer: Users can receive $50 in Samsung Credit and up to $800 for trade-ins by reserving before September 3.
• IFA Presence: The Unpacked event coincides with IFA 2025, which runs from September 5 to September 9.

September, which starts *checks calendar* next week, is going to be a jam-packed month for new gadget announcements. In case you thought Apple’s “Awe Dropping” event on Sept. 9 where it’ll announce the iPhone 17 family of phones, new Apple Watches, and possibly AirPods Pro 3, was the only big tech extravaganza, let me remind you that IFA is happening right after Labor Day next week. IFA is like CES, but smaller and in Berlin instead of Las Vegas. Coinciding with IFA, Samsung is doing yet another virtual Unpacked event to announce a new tablet.

Live streaming on Sept. 4 at 5:30 a.m. ET (a dead giveaway that it’s IFA-related, since it’ll be 1:30 a.m. Berlin time) on Samsung.com, Samsung’s YouTube channel, and Samsung’s Newsroom, the virtual Unpacked will take the wraps off the “next evolution of Galaxy Tab.” In typical Samsung fashion, the company has already put up a reservation page with a limited time offer to receive $50 “Samsung Credit” for use toward other Samsung products, as well as up to $800 toward the next Android tablet with an eligible device trade-in. The reservation needs to be made by Sept. 3 and the Galaxy Tab has to be purchased between Sept. 4 and Oct. 5 in order to get the $50 credit.

Samsung sent Gizmodo the above event “invite.” Do you guys see anything in there? If I were a betting man, I’d say those stars inside the box hint at Galaxy AI stuffed into the new Samsung Galaxy Tab.

What to Expect from the Galaxy Tab S11?

As for the Galaxy Tab itself, we’ll likely see successors to the Galaxy S10+ and S10 Ultra that were released last year. Do tablets—including iPad Pros—need to be on an annual refresh? No, but that’s not how capitalism works. Like any consumer tech maker, Samsung’s looking at its portfolio and wondering how to sell new versions of existing things to boost its quarterly earnings. The new tablets would presumably follow the same naming convention, so it wouldn’t surprise us if Samsung calls them the Galaxy Tab S11+ and Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra.

What I’ll be watching out for next week is whether any tablet(s) will feature the Tab S10 Ultra’s gargantuan 14.6-inch screen or potentially an even larger one. How big a display is too big for a tablet? These things are friggin’ dinner trays at this point, stupidly thin dinner trays—sorry, tablets—that you could comfortably eat off.

Samsung’s next Unpacked is a virtual one, so we won’t be live-blogging it like we did at the event for the Galaxy Z Fold 7, Z Flip 7, and Galaxy Watch 8/8 Classic in July. But stay tuned; Gizmodo will be covering all the news that’s worth checking out from IFA 2025, which officially starts on Sept. 5 and runs through Sept. 9. Press days fall on Sept. 3 and 4, so expect a torrent of product announcements to drop then.