I loved using the xiaomi pad 6 with the software I like the xiaomi pad 6 more than the OnePlus pad well I also love using the new xiaomi pad 7 as well by the way the script is in front of me on this tablet itself now what I felt about the xiaomi pad 7 is that there are some very smart and useful upgrades that most of you guys will actually appreciate but you know what I’m getting ahead of myself.

It feels a little more premium compared to the xiaomi pad 6

The first upgrade that you will notice is of course in the design of the pat 7 so it’s basically still the same all aluminium build whether it’s the frame or the back and the camera module also is very xiaomi 14 inspired including the fact that there is only a single camera inside that module which looks like, it has four cameras but you know, when you hold the pad 7 in your hand, it feels a little more premium compared to the xiaomi pad 6.

I really like the color that we’re testing it’s called Mirage purple but it doesn’t look purple from any angle it looks like a very light blue like the Sierra blue color of the iPhone 13 Pro Max which is by the way one of my favorite iPhone colors so that on the pad 7 is damn nice another design change that shiai has done is a slight

The 11.2 in display on the pad 7 is a square ish resolution and the resolution has been up to 3.2 k

It’s taller now so instead of 16 is to 10 it’s 3 is to2 now so it’s more squarish I’ll talk more about the display in a bit the pat 7 is also perceptibly thinner compared to the pat 6 but it’s a that bit heavier it’s overall a nip and Tuck job that xiaomi has done with it and I feel like the design has evolved over the pad six to make it feel more premium and look more premium. or a physical fingerprint scanner you still have to rely on your face to unlock the tablet.

The 11.2 in display on the pad 7 is a square ish resolution, now like I mentioned and it’s the same IPS LCD panel as well but the resolution has been up to 3.2 k . Now along with 68 billion colors as well so the colors uh space has also increased including the fact that you get support for display P3 now plus you’ve got 144 HZ refresh rate with adap sync technology which switches between different refresh rates depending on the content that’s playing on the screen and the screen can also reach a peak brightness of 800 nits in high brightness mode.

The xiaomi pad 7 is also available with an anti-reflective anti-glare coating which is very important to talk about but the only thing is that our review on it didn’t have it so we couldn’t test it out but, it is the most expensive variant uh with that coating and that’s definitely awesome primarily because only the iPad has it. Now the xiaomi pad 7 also has it which which is pretty cool. The tablet displays color tuning is actually done very well, especially in that original Pro color mode. What I noticed is that the Delta e is really low and if you’re going to be using the tablet for Content creation and if you want it for specifically looking at colors and ensuring that the colors are accurate.

The type-c port at the bottom is the same USB gen 3 type-c Port but for somewhat reason xiaomi has gone ahead and nerfed it so with the pad 6 we had video out but with the pad 7 we don’t which is a bit of a let down of the things that you should not expect with the pad are a Micro SD card slot there’s no 4G 5G Sim support there should have been a variant with that slightly more they could have charged for it. It would have been a nice option to have and of course you don’t have a 3.5 m headphone jack.

You get quad speakers with Dolby Atmos support

That the tablet does a pretty good job of it plus since this is a xiaomi pad there is of course going to be support for Dolby Vision on Netflix and the HDR tuning has been done exceptionally well so much so that sometimes. I forgot that I was using an IPS LCD display it is very very good the black not as deep as OLED but that I’ve used in a long time the touch response is a very good 360 HZ and you also get something called Hydro touch which is essentially if you have wet hands or wet fingers then even then you can operate the display one interesting certification that.

I noticed was duv rinin flicker free certification which indicates that this could have a very high pwm dimming rating but unfortunately I don’t have the numbers but yeah the flicker seems to be low and of course you get quad speakers with Dolby Atmos support. So you get a really spatial sound and it sounds good but I felt like there could have been a little bit more depth and a little bit more base but anyway listen to it for yourself.

We got an Antutu score of over 1.3 million

Now performance is where xiaomi has made a huge jump it’s like double the performance compared to the previous pad 6 now what you get now is a Snapdragon 7 plus gen 3 and we are all aware that it’s a fantastic performer apart from that you also have two variants you got the 8 128 GB and the 12 256 GB the 128 GB variant has ufs 3.1 storage whereas the 256 GB variant as ufs 4.0 and you get LPDDR 5X Ram type as well. So the performance and benchmarks is fantastic. We got an Antutu score of over 1.3 million.

Most importantly this Android tablet is going to be an affordable gaming Beast. I played genion impact on this at highest Graphics at 60 frames per second and I got an average of 59 frames per second which is better than any Snapdragon 7 plus gen 3 phone that I’ve tested till date that’s not it bgmi runs at Extreme Plus graphics and grid Legends also runs on this tablet there are phones that I have right now with the demens 9400 which cannot run grid Legends and this one can which is awesome now while the performance is good.

I expected the battery life to be slightly better so I’m barely touching about 7 hours of screen on time it should have been at least 7 to 8 hours of screen on time because it’s got a 8,850 m battery but, I believe that if there was a 10,000 MH battery. Then we could have gotten better battery life but the charging speeds with the upgraded 45 W charger that you get inside the box is very good this massive battery took only about 1 hour. You know 40 odd minutes for a full charge which is not too bad.

You can capture some photos of documents and to make some video calls

The pad 7 doesn’t make any such compromises all the sensors that you need are available there is a compass sensor as well. If you’re somebody who likes to use a tablet for Google Maps. When you’re driving around then the pat 7 would be the right one for you. Now there are two cameras on the tablet one on the rear 13 MP and one on the front 8 MP see you shouldn’t be expecting these cameras to be like wow, because they’re just there. So that you can capture some photos of documents and to make some video calls.

I like that the front camera has a very wide angle. So a lot of you including what is there in the background, Can be filled in the video talking about videos you get 1080p 30 FPS video recording option from the front from. The rear camera you can shoot 4K 30 FPS videos.

You get a Focus keyboard and focus pen

Now let me tell you about the new accessories. There are two new accessories both are attached to the tablet right. you get a Focus keyboard and focus pen. The focus keyboard is Apple Smart Keyboard look alike and it sort of mimics what the Apple Smart Keyboard does but, I really like the keyboard on this one you get excellent key travel with nice and clicky keys in fact. I wrote the entire script on this keyboard and my typing speed didn’t reduce at all. It is actually very good plus the Keys have back lighting. If you’re using it in the night that shouldn’t be a problem either, So this is a very well done keyboard setup.

Trackpad has gesture support which is kind of nice but it’s kind of tiny for my big hands. I felt like there was very little surface area for me to work around with and I was tapping on the outside of the trackpad or sometimes on the keys unintentionally also the click on the trackpad feels a little unrefined. So whenever I was pressing it, I felt like, I might break the trackpad, I felt the same thing with the backspace key on the keyboard for some odd reason as well. it sounds a little odd, I do like the magnetic attachment on the pad itself. So basically it’s very easy to like sort of remove it.

I don’t know for sure if these new accessories will work with the pad 6 though by the way this keyboard has a tilt angle of 0 to 124°. I feel like 124° is kind of low. It should have been slightly high to say about 140°, because nobody’s going to use it under 90°. I mean nobody’s going to use it like, this like who wants to use it at 0 degrees. So I think that it should have been slightly higher.

Now the focus pen has you know 81 92 levels of pressure sensitivity and you’ve got two buttons with three functions and when you’re using the pen you get 240 HZ of touch sampling rate on the display. Itself it’s a nice stylist but not as natural feeling as the more expensive ones. That I’ve used, it doesn’t have that pen to paper feel. We all crave for that’s not there it legit felt like, I was touching the stylus on glass. Now between the two accessories.

I would say that you can skip out on the focus pen but this Focus keyboard, I feel like it’s a must-have accessory. Now one thing I’m really glad about is the fact that the pad 7 comes with hypos 2.0 based on Android 15 and xiaomi. didn’t make the same blunder that it did with the redmi note 14 series, which we all know has hyper 1.0 based on Android 14. Anyway hyper 2.0 for tablets is awesome.

Performance and multitasking of the tablet

It’s really good it turns the pad 7 into a workhouse tablet so you can actually use it for work like I replaced it with my laptop and I didn’t feel too much of an issue with it let me break down some of the features for you firstly what you get are these gorgeous lock screen wallpapers and clock styles that kind of look fetching you also get a persistent dock that you can invoke within any app.

For multitasking, you can have two apps in split screen and you can have two more additional floating windows. The performance of the tablet is so good. That it doesn’t break a sweat and to put an app, in floating mode is also easy. There are multiple ways to do it. You can just drag and drop it from the dock or you can just long press it and put it in loading mode. So there are a lot of options. There’s also a new workstation mode which turns your tablet into a desktop. You know scenario where you can have multiple windows at the same time and you can use it, like you would use a PC.

Interconnectivity on hyper OS 2.0 is the bomb

AI you now get Gemini integration but there are a few others like AI writing life subtitles and xiaomi creation which is like the image playground version of xiaomi all of that is coming a little later in an OD update but with the gallery app. I noticed that you get AI eraser and AI Sky replacement, which can come in handy. I noticed is that in my testing it all works very seamlessly. Hyper 2.0 is a killer experience on the pad 7.

Talking about coming in handy they will generally come in handy when you connect your xiaomi phone with the interconnectivity features to this tablet because interconnectivity on hyper OS 2.0 is the bomb. You can use NFC to tap on the tablet itself to share images or to mirror your phone screen on the tablet.