Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 goes side-by-side with Note 2, S Pen and all

The Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 has yet to make its official debut, but that hasn't stopped it from showing up in leak after leak.

The mid-sized tablet's latest appearance comes from the French site FrAndroid, which posted photos on Friday alleging to show the Galaxy Note 8.0 alongside its little sibling, the Galaxy Note 2.

Besides the obvious opportunity for comparison here, there's one important thing to note (pun intended): while some have been calling this rumored device the Galaxy Note 8.0, others, including FrAndroid, refer to it as the Galaxy Tab 8.0.

Of course, that doesn't make a whole lot of sense, since there's already a Galaxy Tab 2 7.0; but the point is that the name might be up in the air.

Side-by-side

Besides, the Galaxy Note 8.0 looks more like the Galaxy S3 than it does the Galaxy Tab series (like the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1) or the Note 2.

That's aside from its signature S Pen, which appears to be fully photographed for the first time here.

It's difficult to tell, but the white Galaxy Note 8.0 stylus looks like it could be slightly thicker than the Note 2's pen.

Regardless, it's interesting to see the two devices side-by-side, especially considering that the Note 8.0, based on what's been leaked so far, appears to share its smaller brethren's portrait orientation rather than the landscape mode of the larger Galaxy Note 10.1.

Debut at MWC

The Galaxy Note 8 is rumored to pack an 8-inch, 1280 x 800 display, a quad-core processor, 2GB of memory, a 5-megapixel rear camera, and Android Jelly Bean.

Purported photos of the medium-sized Note tablet appeared on Tuesday, then again on Thursday, when it apparently popped up on public transportation.

Of course, these could all be fake, but the Note 8.0 does seem pretty real - Samsung even confirmed it.

Samsung Mobile Communications president J.K. Shin confirmed on Monday that the Galaxy Note 8.0 would make its debut at Mobile World Congress in February.

TechRadar will be on site in Barcelona to bring you that and more news from the event.

Via TechCrunch