Samsung’s 18.4-inch Galaxy View tablet is basically a portable TV

Samsung’s 18.4-inch Galaxy View tablet is basically a portable TV

Samsung first teased the massive Galaxy View back in September at IFA, and has now finally unveiled the massive 18.4-inch Android tablet in full. The View is built for watching movies and TVs around the home, says Samsung, and has a 1920 x 1080 resolution display, stereo speakers, a 1.6GHz octa-core processor, and up to eight hours of video playback. Oh, and it's definitely still got that weird handle-slash-kickstand on the back.

"The largest Android mobile device on the market."

The South Korean company is billing the View as "the largest Android mobile device on the market," but it's fair to say this is a different sense of the word mobile than we're used to. It doesn't seem to be a tablet you'd want to take on the go (does the kickstand even detach? It's not clear), but it will, at least, be easy to move around the house, taking whatever you're watching with you from the sitting room to the kitchen and so on.

As well as video-centric hardware, Samsung says the View's software is designed with movies and TVs in mind, with a "dedicated home screen" that pulls in content from multiple streaming services. (A promo image shows a screen with content from YouTube, Twitch, Netflix, Hulu, and more.) As well as the massive screen, the View also incorporates a 2.1-megapixel front-facing camera and an LTE-only NanoSIM slot. Although, with a weight of 2.65 kilograms, we're still not sure you'll want to take the View with you.