Ordered a Samsung Tab S8+ Wifi (SM-X800). It should arrive today.

Technically speaking, it's my first new tablet. When I was young, I got a secondhand iPad gen 1, which already dropped support by apple.

I prepared all things needed to flash the firmware. I don't want CHN firmware (I don't think Samsung does this, but the big brother still might be watching you), I want TGY (Hong Kong) for google things.

And interestingly, the TGY (HK) and BRI (Taiwan) firmware are exactly same, I mean the same binary file. And the phone's CSC code decide which version it will be. So you will get TGY even if you flashed the BRI firmware on a non-BRI phone. And if you change the CSC using the ADB, then reflash the BRI firmware, it will be still TGY. You have to flash it back to CHN and then flash BRI. And some rumors said changing CSC code might lock the phone*.

*: It can be solved by rooting/jailbreaking your device, but the knox will be disabled forever. I don't really into those things, I just want to 1) get google play on my phone, and 2) stop Chinese bloatware from polluting my phone**.

**: Also, you might or might not know the Chinese company Pinduoduo uses several CVEs to obtain system-level permissions on their user's phones and keep gathering info about them. And I will not use Chinese apps on my new and my first tablet.