Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra keyboard is so pricey, even Apple looks affordable

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.