If you haven’t been able to pick up the Android tablet of your dreams this holiday shopping season for some reason, Best Buy is incredibly selling Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra at a lower price than ever right now. Yes, that’s lower than around a month ago, when the retailer kicked off its extended Black Friday 2024 promotion on this 14.6-inch colossus, and lower than just last week as well.
If you hurry, the Tab S9 Ultra‘s 256GB storage variant can be yours for $699.99 instead of its $1,199.99 list price by Christmas, with nationwide delivery currently scheduled for Wednesday, December 18. That might suggest you still have plenty of time to order the super-premium slate and receive it before December 25, but shipping estimates can massively fluctuate this period of the year, not to mention that Best Buy could run out of inventory altogether in the very near future.
The Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra, mind you, no longer seems to be sold by its manufacturer in the US at any price and in any storage configuration, which is yet another clear reason why you should probably look to take advantage of Best Buy’s totally unprecedented deal while you can.
This 2023-released Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 powerhouse is of course not quite as zippy as the newer Tab S10 Ultra powered by a newer MediaTek Dimensity 9300+ processor. But the two gigantic tablets are otherwise far too similar for their current price difference to feel justified in any way.
The Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra starts at a whopping $999.99 at the time of this writing, and even the “vanilla” Tab S9 costs $719.99 through Samsung‘s official US website as part of the company’s end-of-the-year sales event.
It pretty much goes without saying that the Tab S9 Ultra is a better product than its little brother, sporting not only a significantly larger but also higher-quality Dynamic AMOLED 2X screen (with a notch), as well as two front-facing cameras instead of one, two rear-facing cameras instead of one, and an outstandingly thin 5.5mm profile.
At $699.99, I would argue that you’re looking at probably the best tablet available this Christmas in terms of its bang for your buck, an assertion you’ll find corroborated and strengthened by our comprehensive and completely ageless Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra review from last year.
