Xiaomi Pad 6 First Impressions: iPad Killer?

Xiaomi Pad 6 has been launched in India as a brand new Android pill below Rs. 30,000. It’s a successor to final yr’s Xiaomi Pad 5 (Assessment), which packed some value-for-money {hardware}. The Pad 6 tries to one-up its predecessor by that includes one of the crucial well-liked Qualcomm SoCs, whereas additionally sporting a barely larger and smoother show than earlier than. Whereas we work on the total assessment, here is our fast first impressions of the Xiaomi Pad 6.

The Xiaomi Pad 6 comes packed in a fairly large field, which features a 33W quick charging adapter and a USB Sort-A to Sort-C cable. Xiaomi has additionally launched its second-generation good stylus (Rs. 5,999) and a keyboard case accent (Rs. 4,999) in India, each of which might be bought individually. The bottom mannequin of the Pad 6 with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage is priced at Rs. 26,999, whereas our assessment unit packs 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, and is priced at Rs. 28,999.

Xiaomi Pad 6’s 11-inch IPS LCD provides as much as 144Hz refresh charge assist

The pill continues to rock a steel unibody design with a flat body. We’ve got the Graphite Gray color choice, which has a matte end and does a reasonably respectable job at hiding fingerprints and smudges. If you would like one thing a bit extra vibrant, there may be the Misty Blue color as effectively. The Pad 6 weighs about 490g and is 6.51mm skinny. The tall type issue means you usually want to carry the pill with each your palms for a cushty expertise.

The display screen is 0.5 inches bigger than the Xiaomi Pad 5 and in addition provides a barely larger decision. The Xiaomi Pad 6 options an 11-inch IPS LCD with a 2.8K decision (1,800×2,880 pixels) and assist for a 144Hz adaptive refresh charge. The pill has a quad-speaker setup, which may get pretty loud to fill a small room. To make the multimedia expertise higher, the Xiaomi Pad 6 is alleged to assist HDR10+, Dolby Atmos, and Dolby Imaginative and prescient HDR video playback.

The pill has sizeable bezels across the show which is critical so as to maintain it comfortably with out by chance touching the show. When held vertically, you’ll discover the ability button on the appropriate facet, beneath which there’s area for magnetically charging the stylus. On the top-right nook is the ability button, which sadly doesn’t embrace a fingerprint scanner.

The Xiaomi Pad 6 includes a Snapdragon 870 SoC, which we now have seen in a number of smartphones below and round Rs. 30,000 in India. The pill additionally packs an 8,840mAh battery, which claims to supply as much as two days price of runtime on a single cost. There’s assist for 33W quick charging through a USB 3.2 Sort-C port.

Xiaomi Pad 6 continues to supply a single digicam sensor on the again

The Xiaomi Pad 6’s rear digicam module design appears to have been impressed by the corporate’s flagship smartphone in India, the Xiaomi 13 Professional (Assessment). The pill has a square-shaped module on the again for the one 13-megapixel digicam sensor and an LED flash. The rear digicam can report as much as 4K 30fps movies. For video calls and selfies, there may be an 8-megapixel entrance digicam on the size of the bezel, which may report movies as much as 1080p 30fps.

The Xiaomi Pad 6 takes on the iPad Ninth-generation (Assessment), which is a few years outdated however nonetheless fairly performer. Whereas the Pad 6 seems fairly promising on paper, the software program expertise is one thing which might determine if it has an edge over Apple’s iPadOS. The Pad 6 boots MIUI 14 for Pad primarily based on Android 13. The customized pores and skin comes with a number of multi-tasking, productivity-focused options, which we are going to speak about intimately within the full assessment, coming quickly.