The Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra’s new Pro Keyboard is, by most reports, exactly what demanding tablet users have been wanting. Whether they charged the price at $338 is a whole other question.
Unveiled at MWC 2026 and now quietly available in Samsung’s Korean store, the Pro Keyboard snaps onto the Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra’s 14.6-inch AMOLED display and leaves a convincing impression of a laptop.
A tablet that wants to be a laptop
The hinge lets you prop the screen up at a comfortable angle, the whole thing folds up for portability, and power is transferred via metal pins on the back of the tablet – so you won’t lose a separate charging cable within three days of ownership.
The Pro Keyboard is a significant improvement over the older Book Cover Keyboard, which notably had no trackpad at all. This is the case, and it’s 14.6% larger than the trackpad on the Tab S10 Ultra’s keyboard.
The surface is aluminum, there’s a dedicated DeX key for switching to Samsung’s desktop mode – think floating windows, much like Windows – and an AI keyboard shortcut for that chatbot you’ve been arguing with lately. The F1, F2 and F3 keys can be mapped to launch apps of your choice, which is really useful.
Pricing, however, is a different story
The keyboard adds 636g to the overall weight, bringing the total weight to 1.33kg – heavier than many 14-inch laptops, which rather undermines the whole exercise.
The price: ₩495,000. This is the price at which Samsung Korea is currently offering it, which comes to a price of around $338. To put that in perspective, Apple, a company not exactly known for leaving money on the table, charges $299 for the Magic Keyboard that comes with the 11-inch iPad Pro and $349 for the 13-inch iPad Pro.
Samsung looked at that number that people are already complaining about and decided to pay $39 more. There’s no US release date or pricing confirmation for international markets yet, which at this point feels less like an announcement to look forward to and more like an announcement to prepare for.
