The Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra’s new Pro Keyboard is, by most accounts, exactly what heavy tablet users have been asking for. Whether they were asking for it at $338 is a different conversation entirely.
Revealed at MWC 2026 and now quietly available on Samsung’s Korean store, the Pro Keyboard snaps onto the Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra’s 14.6-inch AMOLED display and does a convincing impression of a laptop.
A tablet that wants to be a laptop
The hinge lets you prop the screen at a comfortable angle, the whole thing folds shut for carrying, and power transfers through metal pins on the back of the tablet — so there’s no separate charging cable to lose within three days of owning it.
The Pro Keyboard steps up significantly from the older Book Cover Keyboard, which notably didn’t have a trackpad at all. This one does, 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 button for flipping into Samsung’s desktop mode — think freely movable windows, very much like Windows — and an AI shortcut key for whichever chatbot you’ve been arguing with lately. The F1, F2, and F3 keys can be mapped to launch apps of your choice, which is a genuinely useful touch.
Pricing, however, is a different story
The keyboard adds 636g to the setup, pushing the combined weight to 1.33kg — heavier than plenty of 14-inch laptops, which rather undermines the whole exercise.
The price: ₩495,000. That’s what Samsung Korea is currently listing it for, which works out to 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 goes with the 11-inch iPad Pro and $349 for the 13-inch iPad Pro.
Samsung has looked at that number, the one people already complain about, and decided to go $39 further. No U.S. release date yet, and no pricing confirmation for international markets, which at this point feels less like an announcement to look forward to and more like one to prepare for.
