A pro tablet surfaces: the Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 has quad speakers, S Pen, keyboard

The tablet market hasn't been going super-strong lately. It was a lucrative niche some years ago, but it was very quickly cornered by the growing smartphone screen sizes, and the shrinking of ultrabooks (very slim notebooks). So, a lot of developers have pulled away from building tabs, and others have minimized their portfolio and spread out their product refresh schedules while continuing to poke at R&D to come up with a new breakthrough feature that would make tablets hip again.

The trend now is to transform tablets into ultra-portable productivity machines. ...