The OnePlus Pad 2 Wants to Be the iPad Air of Android Tablets

The archetypal OnePlus Pad was a decent all-around Android tablet, but it was not astonishing successful immoderate 1 area. Now, OnePlus is backmost with a caller tablet instrumentality that packs much power, has a amended screen, much speakers, and a higher starting price. OnePlus offers an Android tablet alternate that costs little than the latest iPad Airs, though it seems similar it’s hewing precise adjacent to the rendition from 2023. 

The OnePlus Pad 2 is simply a one-size-fits-all 12.1-inch 3K tablet. At $550 for 12 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage, it’s $70 much than the archetypal OnePlus Pad, though it starts with much representation and doubly arsenic overmuch interior retention arsenic the archetypal spell around’s paltry 128 GB. It’s bigger than the 11.6 LCD connected past year’s Pad, though present it’s beefed its solution to 3K (3000 x 2120) with a stated 600 nits emblematic and 900 nits highest brightness. It has a adaptable refresh complaint betwixt 30 and 144 Hz, though it’s inactive an LCD screen, the aforesaid arsenic the 2023 OnePlus Pad.

Just similar past year’s version, the caller Pad supports Dolby Atmos, but it boasts a six-stereo talker configuration connected either broadside of the device. It whitethorn not beryllium arsenic specifically sound-tailored arsenic the Lenovo Tab Plus, but what’s promised is simply a coagulated mediate ground. 

Last year’s tablet utilized MediaTek Dimensity 9000 CPU, which was bully capable for astir applications but not precisely apical of its class. The Pad 2 is present powered with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 mobile chip. Gizmodo has already experienced immoderate of the chip’s capabilities successful Samsung’s latest foldables, and already it’s precise promising. We haven’t yet had the accidental to comparison a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 tablet to Apple’s latest iPad Air with M2, though connected the whole, M2 usually performs amended than Qualcomm’s mobile chips successful bare benchmark tests. How overmuch that matters depends connected what programs you expect to usage connected your tablet. 

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Every instrumentality shaper thinks they request AI to compete, and OnePlus isn’t an outlier here. There are promised “AI Toolbox” features similar AI text-to-speech and signaling summaries. The AI Eraser 2.0 volition besides enactment similar Google’s Magic Eraser to region unwanted photograph elements. 

There’s a caller $99 OnePlus Stylo 2 and a $150 Oneplus Smart Keyboard to travel the caller tablet. Despite the size and terms difference, determination volition beryllium galore similarities betwixt past year’s and the 2024 model. The Pad 2 has the aforesaid 9,510 mAh artillery arsenic past year’s, positive the 67W “SUPERVOOC” accelerated charging. It promises 43 days of standby time, though successful our experience, the archetypal Pad’s lifespan and promised “one-month standby life” was acold much humble successful practice, lasting astir of the time earlier needing a recharge. 

With a bigger screen, the upcoming Pad 2 is somewhat heavier than past year’s rendition. It weighs astir 1.3 pounds, truthful it’s precisely betwixt the 11- and 13-inch iPad Airs oregon somewhat much than the basal 11-inch Galaxy Tab S9 (and acold little than the humongous Tab S9 Ultra). It volition beryllium comparatively bladed astatine 6.49 mm, but it’s not beating the iPad Air’s 6.1 mm oregon the iPad Pro 13-inch’s beatified grail 5.1 mm.

The archetypal OnePlus Pad didn’t precisely interruption caller crushed successful immoderate 1 category, though it did amusement Android tablets had legs. We’ve seen attempts from Goole and its Pixel Tablet, though that, too, wasn’t the pioneer of Android tablets. A amended spot and much speakers bash look promising, though, successful its effort to beryllium everything to everyone, we’ll request to spot if it manages to basal retired successful immoderate area.

The OnePlus Pad 2 is present disposable for preorder. It should beryllium disposable connected the OnePlus website starting July 30 and connected Amazon starting August.