Samsung has announced new versions of its rugged tablets and smartphones designed to be used in environments the place they’re going to get soiled, moist, and knocked round. Each the Galaxy XCover7 Professional and Galaxy Tab Active5 Professional function improved battery life, however the pill goes one step additional with a “twin hot-swap” function permitting the battery to be swapped out with out having to first utterly energy down the machine.
The Galaxy XCover7 Professional smartphone will likely be accessible beginning on Might eighth, 2025, whereas the Galaxy Tab Active5 Professional pill will launch a bit later someday in June 2025. Samsung hasn’t introduced pricing for both machine.
Powered by a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 cell processor paired with both 6GB or 8GB of RAM and 128GB or 256GB of storage, the Galaxy Tab Active5 Professional pill sports activities a ten.1-inch 120Hz LCD touchscreen show with elevated sensitivity so it may be used with gloves.
The earlier model of Samsung’s rugged pill featured a detachable battery and might be as an alternative plugged right into a USB-C energy supply and utilized in heat environments the place there was a danger of the battery overheating and increasing. That function has been carried over to the brand new Galaxy Tab Active5 Professional however expanded with the twin hot-swap capabilities so the pill will be powered indefinitely so long as totally charged batteries can be found.
However whereas the pill doesn’t should be utterly powered down to put in a contemporary battery, Samsung notes that will probably be largely unusable throughout a swap. “Battery replacements are restricted to 1 battery at a time. If a battery is eliminated whereas the machine is turned on, the display will likely be turned off, and sure options could also be restricted. After the battery is changed, the display will flip again on and all options will likely be reactivated.”
The Active5 Professional additionally sports activities a sturdy IP68 mud and water resistance score. The pill can survive being submerged in water to a depth of 1.5 meters for as much as half-hour. It runs Android 15, and features a 12-megapixel rear digital camera and an eight-megapixel front-facing digital camera.
The Galaxy XCover7 Professional smartphone additionally runs Android 15 and is powered by the identical Snapdragon processor with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage that’s expandable to as much as 2TB utilizing a microSD card. Its 6.6-inch, 120 Hz LCD touchscreen show options elevated contact sensitivity so it can be used with gloves, whereas a “Imaginative and prescient Booster” mode makes the display simpler to see open air in vivid situations.
Different options embody an upgraded stereo speaker system with anti-feedback expertise to scale back echoes when utilizing the XCover7 Professional as a speakerphone, a bigger 4,350mAh battery, and along with an IP68 water and mud score, it has been examined to be used with office sanitizers making it helpful in environments like hospitals.