Samsung making Android tablets relevant again: LumaFusion partnership announced!

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Samsung just announced its latest and greatest tablet — the Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra. A long-awaited update for the Samsung flagship tablet line, because… well, not a lot of Android manufacturers dare to rival the iPad with a super-powered slate.

And there’s plenty of reasons for that — the iPad gets a lot of love from developers and there are plenty of creative apps there, which is why creatives usually gravitate towards that tablet instead.

LumaFusion is one of the most popular video editors for mobile and is regarded as a replacement for the Final Cut for iPad that was rumored but never arrived. And yes, the one bad thing about LumaFusion is that it’s exclusive to iOS and iPadOS. Well, not anymore it seems!

This is pretty huge — Android really lacks powerful video editing apps currently. The kinds of apps that allow you to layer multiple clips, set keyframes, filters, and add plenty of text effects. And that is a shame, since we have really powerful cameras on our phones now — it’s just so intuitive to take a video on your phone, beam it to your tablet, and edit a trailer there.

This is not the first time that Samsung has showed it cares for creatives. Back in the days when Android audio was super laggy, it was Samsung that introduced a Professional Audio driver to its systems, allowing musicians to use real-time audio apps (like guitar processors or synthesizers) with Samsung devices.

Furthermore, users can enjoy device cross-talk between Samsung mobile devices — a new feature for the Galaxy Tab S8 and an S Pen-capable Galaxy phone shows that you can use the phone as a palette that you can “dip” your S Pen in while drawing. Pretty cool! And, as Samsung has a stable partnership with Microsoft, it uses OneDrive to to sync your files across devices and PCs and has extended Mobile Connect functionality.

All in all, the Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra has chops and it definitely has the potential to pull customers away from the iPad Pro now. Of course, we can’t wait to test that performance!