You can hot swap the battery on Samsung’s new rugged tablet

The Tab Active5 Pro S Pen stylus improves the tablet’s usability successful bedewed conditions erstwhile bedewed fingers whitethorn not beryllium recognized by its touchscreen. | Image: Samsung

Samsung has announced caller versions of its rugged tablets and smartphones designed for usage successful environments wherever they’re going to get dirty, wet, and knocked around. Both the Galaxy XCover7 Pro and Galaxy Tab Active5 Pro diagnostic improved artillery life, but the tablet goes 1 measurement further with a “dual hot-swap” diagnostic allowing the artillery to beryllium swapped retired without having to archetypal wholly powerfulness down the device.

The Galaxy XCover7 Pro smartphone volition beryllium disposable starting connected May 8th, 2025, portion the Galaxy Tab Active5 Pro tablet volition motorboat a spot aboriginal sometime successful June 2025. Samsung hasn’t announced pricing for either device.

Powered by a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 mobile processor paired with either 6GB oregon 8GB of RAM and 128GB oregon 256GB of storage, the Galaxy Tab Active5 Pro tablet sports a 10.1-inch 120Hz LCD touchscreen show with accrued sensitivity truthful it tin beryllium utilized with gloves.

The erstwhile mentation of Samsung’s rugged tablet featured a removable artillery and could beryllium alternatively plugged into a USB-C powerfulness root and utilized successful lukewarm environments wherever determination was a hazard of the artillery overheating and expanding. That diagnostic has been carried implicit to the caller Galaxy Tab Active5 Pro but expanded with the dual hot-swap capabilities truthful the tablet tin beryllium powered indefinitely arsenic agelong arsenic afloat charged batteries are available.

But portion the tablet doesn’t person to beryllium wholly powered down to instal a caller battery, Samsung notes that it volition beryllium mostly unusable during a swap. “Battery replacements are constricted to 1 artillery astatine a time. If a artillery is removed portion the instrumentality is turned on, the surface volition beryllium turned off, and definite features whitethorn beryllium limited. After the artillery is replaced, the surface volition crook backmost connected and each features volition beryllium reactivated.”

The Active5 Pro besides sports a robust IP68 particulate and h2o absorption rating. The tablet tin past being submerged successful h2o to a extent of 1.5 meters for up to 30 minutes. It runs Android 15, and includes a 12-megapixel rear camera and an eight-megapixel front-facing camera.

The Galaxy XCover7 Pro smartphone besides runs Android 15 and is powered by the aforesaid Snapdragon processor with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of retention that’s expandable to up to 2TB utilizing a microSD card. Its 6.6-inch, 120 Hz LCD touchscreen show features accrued interaction sensitivity truthful it tin besides beryllium utilized with gloves, portion a “Vision Booster” mode makes the surface easier to spot outdoors successful agleam conditions.

Other features see an upgraded stereo talker strategy with anti-feedback exertion to trim echoes erstwhile utilizing the XCover7 Pro arsenic a speakerphone, a larger 4,350mAh battery, and successful summation to an IP68 h2o and particulate rating, it has been tested for usage with workplace sanitizers making it utile successful environments similar hospitals.