A 12-inch 4K tablet prototype from Samsung has been spotted

You might not be able to walk into a store and buy a 4K tablet just yet (well apart from Panasonic’s crazy 20-inch offering), but we’ve spotted a 12-inch Samsung prototype. It was being used as part of a LTE Broadcast demonstration during the French Open at Roland Garros. The video stream it was receiving was only 720p, but the operator was able to pull up additional windows over the top, giving us a glimpse at its true clarity. This is purely a reference device for operators to perform tests with, but the slate in question was sporting Samsung’s unmistakable design complete with the physical home key below the 12-inch UltraHD display. Specs for the prototype tablet weren’t available, but TechRadar was told it housed a Snapdragon 801 processor. The hope is that when such a tablet arrives for the consumer market it’ll be sporting the newer Snapdragon 805 chip which comes with many added 4K benefits including video upscaling to make 720p and 1080p clips look much better and a new video format (HEVC) which is less bandwidth heavy.