CES 2014: Samsung announces 4 new Galaxy tablets with some pretty impressive specs

CES 2014 is happening. That means people in suits are pacing around stages unveiling the cutting-edge technology we're all going to be obsessing over in 2014.

Samsung has taken this opportunity to send its men in suits out to announce four new high-end tablets. One of them has a pen. Imagine that.

The tablets in question are the Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 (which has the pen) and the Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2, 10.1, and 8.4 (which don't have pens).

All four of these new tablets boast roughly similar specs. All of the wi-fi and 3G versions, for example, are powered by Exynos 5 Octa processors with 1.9 GHz quad-core and 1.3 GHz quad-core chipsets, while all of the LTE versions boast Snapdragon 800 2.3 GHz quad-core chips.

They all have a screen resolution of 2560x1600, and they all feature microSD card slots.

The big differences are to be found in the larger-sized tablets, with both the 12.2-inch tabs packing 3GB of RAM (compared to the 2G of RAM in the smaller tabs) and available in 32GB or 64GB flavours (compared to the 16GB or 32GB versions of the 10.1 and 8.4 tabs).

All of the tablets run Android 4.4 KitKat, all of them have Samsung's TouchWiz UI overlay, all of them have the new Magazine UX interface, and all of them have a bunch of free pre-installed stuff.

Gaming-wise, the shiny high-resolution screens and impressive specs of this range of new Galaxy slates should mean the tablets are pretty solid, although it'll be interesting to see how they compare to devices running Nvidia's newly announced Tegra K1 chips.

We don't have pricing or availability details for Sammy's new tablets, but they should be hitting the shops sometime in the not-too-distant future.