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 characteristic improved battery life, however the pill goes one step additional with a “twin hot-swap” characteristic permitting the battery to be swapped out with out having to first fully energy down the gadget.
The Galaxy XCover7 Professional smartphone can be obtainable beginning on Could 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 gadget.
Powered by a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 cellular 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 a substitute 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 characteristic has been carried over to the brand new Galaxy Tab Active5 Professional however expanded with the twin hot-swap capabilities so the pill may be powered indefinitely so long as absolutely charged batteries can be found.
However whereas the pill doesn’t need to be fully powered down to put in a recent battery, Samsung notes that it will likely be largely unusable throughout a swap. “Battery replacements are restricted to at least one battery at a time. If a battery is eliminated whereas the gadget is turned on, the display can be turned off, and sure options could also be restricted. After the battery is changed, the display will flip again on and all options can be reactivated.”
The Active5 Professional additionally sports activities a sturdy IP68 mud and water resistance ranking. 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 may also be used with gloves, whereas a “Imaginative and prescient Booster” mode makes the display simpler to see open air in brilliant situations.
Different options embrace an upgraded stereo speaker system with anti-feedback know-how to cut back echoes when utilizing the XCover7 Professional as a speakerphone, a bigger 4,350mAh battery, and along with an IP68 water and dirt ranking, it has been examined to be used with office sanitizers making it helpful in environments like hospitals.