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On Sunday, Samsung is slated to release its latest tablet, the 12.2-inch Galaxy Tab Pro.听

The device, which the Wall Street Journal has 聽in terms of size to a "school cafeteria lunch tray,"聽is closely related to the 12.2-inch Samsung Galaxy Note, a sister device that ships with a stylus, and comes slapped with a聽$749.99 price tag. By comparison, the Galaxy Tab Pro has no stylus, and will sell for a more budget-friendly聽$649.99.听

Otherwise, the devices are very similar, from the Android 4.4 KitKat operating system to the 8-megapixel camera and quad-core processor. Meanwhile, there is the 12.2-inch screen, a display that Samsung claims has more than 4 million pixels.听

Although Samsung is positioning the Galaxy Note Pro as a machine for "enterprise" 鈥� i.e. professional 鈥� users, the Tab Pro seems more in line with an iPad Air: A high-end machine with a lot of firepower and a big, colorful screen. That's on paper, anyway. How does the device measure up in real life? Well, Darrell Etherington of TechCrunch took both the Note Pro and the Tab Pro for a spin in January, and he likes what he saw.听

"[T]he really impressive thing about these new tablets aren鈥檛 found on a specs sheet; instead, it鈥檚 the new Magazine UX, which reimagines the basic home screen of an Android tablet with a design that has more in common with Windows Phone or even individual apps like Flipboard," he . "There鈥檚 also a Multi Window mode that allows users to play with up to four different windows of separate active content on the same screen."聽

In related news, a new report from Gartner indicates that the iPad, long the king of the global tablet market, may finally be taking a back seat to Android tablets such as the Tab Pro. Approximately聽195 million tablets were sold in 2013, a full 62 percent 鈥� or 121 million 鈥� of which were running a version of Google's Android operating system.

Apple, on the other hand, snagged聽36 percent of the market last year.听