We know there are people out there who want to swap a flat or dead battery in their smartphone out for a new, fully charged one. Samsung knows it too, and it’s one of the top features on its new Galaxy XCover7 Pro rugged smartphone. But have you ever thought about doing the same thing on your tablet? Amazingly, Samsung’s offering the same feature on its new rugged Galaxy Tab Active5 Pro tablet too.
The Galaxy Tab Active5 Pro has a massive 10,100mAh battery inside, and Samsung will sell you a replacement so you can change it on the go, plus it has an unusual Dual Hot-Swap feature, where you can change the batteries without the tablet powering down in the process. It can even operate without a battery at all, and just run on a mains power supply. If you’re wondering why you’d need such functionality, you may not. The Galaxy Tab Active5 Pro and Galaxy XCover7 Pro are primarily designed for use by businesses and out in the field, where constant up-time may be essential.
The rugged credentials include an IP68 dust and water resistance rating, plus both devices meet the MIL-STD-810H military toughness requirements, and have Corning Gorilla Glass Victus+ over the screens. We really like the look of the extra-tough S Pen stylus that comes with the Galaxy Tab Active5 Pro, which adds an IP68 rating for the ability to operate in the wet to go with its new, chunky rough-and-tumble style.
What about the rest of the specs? The Galaxy Cover7 Pro has a 6.6-inch, 120Hz LCD screen, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 processor, and 6GB of RAM, plus a microSD card slot to increase the 128GB of internal storage space by up to 2TB. There’s a 50-megapixel main and 8MP wide-angle camera on the back, a 13MP selfie camera, and a 4,350mAh replaceable battery too. It runs on Android 15, has Samsung’s Knox security, and is compatible with Samsung’s DeX desktop system.
The Galaxy Tab Active5 Pro has a 10.1-inch, 120Hz LCD screen and the same processor as the smartphone, but with the option to choose either a 6GB/128GB or 8GB/256GB RAM and storage space configuration. There’s a 12MP main camera on the back and an 8MP camera on the front, plus there’s stereo speakers and a 3.5mm headphone jack. It also has 5G connectivity, Android 15, Samsung Knox, and DeX compatibility.
Both rugged Samsung devices will be available from April 2025, but no prices have been announced. It’s also possible Samsung may sell the Galaxy Cover7 Pro and Galaxy Tab Active5 Pro to the general public in addition to its business partners in the future.
Affinity’s new all-in-one creative app is finally coming to the iPad, nearly a year after Canva launched the redesigned desktop version for Mac and Windows. Creatives have been asking for the iPad release ever since, especially because files created in the new Affinity app cannot be opened in the older V2 iPad apps.
Affinity already has Photo, Designer, and Publisher apps on iPad, but the new release combines those tools into the same unified app that Canva launched on desktop last year.
Touchscreen laptops have been around for years. You can get them in all sizes and shapes. Just not from Apple. For years, the Cupertino giant has treated the idea of a touchscreen MacBook the way I treat a meeting that could have been an email: with open contempt. However, Wednesday looks like the day the company could finally change its mind.
The latest Apple invite puts the “Pro and Tell” showcase in Los Angeles at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) on October 28, 2026. Instead of a regular live-streamed keynote, it is an invitation-only, hands-on event for a handful of press and creators (similar to what the company did for the MacBook Neo earlier this year).
Apple has just launched its latest iPad mini with a notable set of upgrades, including an OLED screen, improved speakers, and a more resilient build. It also gets a new chip, and the whole package costs $200 more than its predecessor. But if you look closely at Apple’s online store, you’ll realize that $699 isn’t enough to get you the most powerful version of the A20 Pro chip inside this tablet. In fact, even if you pay $800 for the 256GB model, you still won’t get the beefiest variant. Only when you jump to the 512GB trim, which costs an absurd $999, do you get the most powerful flavor of the A20 Pro.
The $999 model gets more than extra storage