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 with one in every of Qualcomm's hottest SoCs, whereas additionally sporting a barely bigger and smoother show than earlier than. Whereas we work on the complete evaluation, listed here are our fast first impressions of the Xiaomi Pad 6.
The Xiaomi Pad 6 comes packaged in a reasonably large field, which features a 33W quick charging adapter and a USB Kind-A to Kind-C cable. Xiaomi has additionally launched its second-generation sensible stylus (Rs. 5,999) and a keyboard case accent (Rs. 4,999) in India, each of which will 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 evaluation unit packs 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, and is priced at Rs. 28,999.
Xiaomi Pad 6's 11-inch IPS LCD affords as much as 144 Hz refresh price help
The pill continues to satisfy a steel unibody design with a flat body. We now have the Graphite Grey shade choice, which has a matte end and does a reasonably first rate job of hiding fingerprints and smudges. In order for you one thing a bit extra vibrant, there’s additionally the colour Misty Blue. The Pad 6 weighs round 490g and is 6.51mm skinny. The tall type issue means you often want to carry the pill along with your arms for a snug expertise.
The display screen is 0.5 inches bigger than the Xiaomi Pad 5 and in addition affords a barely increased decision. The Xiaomi Pad 6 options an 11-inch IPS LCD with a 2.8K decision (1,800×2,880 pixels) and help for an adaptive refresh price of 144Hz. The pill has a quad-speaker setup, which will be loud sufficient to fill a small room. To make the multimedia expertise higher, the Xiaomi Pad 6 is alleged to help HDR10+, Dolby Atmos and Dolby Imaginative and prescient HDR video playback.
The pill has massive bezels across the show which is critical to have the ability to maintain it comfortably with out by accident touching the show. When held vertically, you will discover the ability button on the appropriate facet, below which there’s house to magnetically cost the stylus. Within the higher proper nook is the ability button, which sadly doesn’t embody a fingerprint scanner.
The Xiaomi Pad 6 includes a Snapdragon 870 SoC, which now we have seen in lots of smartphones beneath and round Rs. 30,000 in India. The pill additionally packs an 8,840mAh battery, which it claims affords as much as two days of runtime on a single cost. There’s help for 33W quick charging through a USB 3.2 Kind-C port.
Xiaomi Pad 6 continues to supply a single digital camera sensor on the again
The design of the rear digital camera module of Xiaomi Pad 6 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 digital camera sensor and an LED flash. The rear digital camera can file video as much as 4K 30fps. For video calls and selfies, there’s an 8-megapixel entrance digital camera alongside the size of the bezel, which might file video as much as 1080p 30fps.
The Xiaomi Pad 6 takes on the iPad Ninth-generation (Assessment), which is a few years outdated, however remains to be performer. Whereas the Pad 6 appears to be like promising sufficient on paper, the software program expertise is one thing that decides whether or not 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 couple of multi-tasking options, targeted on productiveness, which we are going to speak about intimately within the full evaluation, coming quickly.
