Since the Redmi brand independence in 2019, the two brands of Xiaomi and Redmi have formed different brand positioning: Xiaomi is gradually focusing on the high-end market, and Redmi takes over Xiaomi's original intention of ultimate cost-effectiveness.
Over the past few years, Redmi's product line has become increasingly rich, including mobile phones, smart wearables, audio products, smart homes, TVs, routers, mobile phone accessories...
Most of the products have performed outstandingly under the guidance of Lu Weibing . It once made netizens jokingly say that Lu Weibing wanted to use Redmi to "return to the rice and gold".
In August 2021, more than three years after the release of the previous generation of Xiaomi tablet 4, the Xiaomi tablet 5 series officially returned to release.
In the past three years, the tablet market, especially the Android tablet market, has undergone major changes.
As the epidemic, the demand for online classes at home has increased significantly, and the intelligent ecology of various manufacturers has gradually improved, which has promoted a significant increase in tablet sales. The market rejuvenation has prompted Internet manufacturers that were originally in bad shape to pay attention to the adaptation of the HD version on the Pad side. Google Android bottom layer provides more complete support, and more mobile phone manufacturers have also joined the market competition for tablet products, forming a whole virtuous cycle.
I originally thought that Xiaomi, which had missed the first wave of market opportunities in 2020, would first simply pile up hardware and quickly take out a "usable" Redmi Pad cost-effective, with a thousand-yuan Redmi Pad. As a result, Xiaomi calmed down and practiced internal skills. After more than a year of silence, she chose high-end first.
Therefore, the market positioning of Xiaomi Tablet 5 series is different from that of previous generations: the price of the previous generation starts at 1,099 yuan, while Xiaomi Tablet 5 starts at 1,999 yuan.
So, when one of the latest players to enter the market - OPPO, has taken out the entry-level OPPO Pad Air, is Xiaomi going to give up the fat piece of the entry-level tablet for a thousand yuan?
of course not, you never fear late for a good meal.
Brothers, Redmi Pad is here to guard the door.
unboxing accessories
Redmi Pad packaging box is designed in white overall. The main visual image of the front product is slightly smaller than the real machine. The product name Redmi Pad is printed in the middle, and Dolby Atmos certified logo is below. The right side of the box is marked with product details, as well as Hi-Res Audio and Hi-Res Audio Wireless dual gold standard certification.
pulls up and down to open the box. In addition to the host, the lower layer also contains the 22.5W power adapter , 3A USB Type-A to Type-C data cable, card pin, and manual containing three-pack credentials.
data line Type-A end has marked maximum current of 3A. The model of the white two-pin power adapter is MDY-11-EM, with a maximum output power of 22.5W. The power of
22.5W is not very high today, so there are relatively few compatible protocols. Fortunately, it supports QuickCharge 3.0+ in 5V/9V/12V gears, as well as its own 10V private protocol.
appearance design
Redmi Pad adopts a full-screen design with four sides equal width, with a border width of 7.9mm.
black screen state is quite good, it is fully fitted with the screen and continues to whip the corpse iPad 10. The front camera is located in the center of the long side of one side, and the camera is in the middle when the tablet is placed horizontally.
border and back panel are Unibody integrated metal body, which is larger than the plastic buffer layer between the screen and the frame of most straight screen mobile phones, and has a matte treatment with a "flattening" feel. Right-angle border design with chamfering treatment.
body thickness is 7.05mm, and the long side of the front camera is the top. When you turn to the side of the frame on the short side of the right side of the body, you can see that it is horizontally symmetrical with the USB Type-C interface in the middle, and there are 12 speaker holes on both sides.
speaker opening is protected by dust net.
left side frame, and there is a Dolby Atmos certified logo in the center. Like the right side, 12 speaker holes are distributed on both sides, and 4 speakers are formed on the right side. The power button is placed on the top of the long side.
is close to the long side of the front camera, and is distributed with microSD (TF) card slot, microphone opening, and volume increase and subtraction keys connected together.
flips to the back, Redmi Logo in the upper left corner, and a single camera lens module in the upper right corner. The two-stage cloud-level design looks more familiar as you look, especially the smoke green color combination.
In fact, there is still a difference in the color matching of K50.
camera module is marked "8.0MP SUPER CAMERA", and the font is the same as on K50.
The metal process of the whole machine is still very delicate.
Compared with the OPPO Pad Air splicing design, the Redmi Pad is more calm and low-key, and the design of the hidden antenna makes the border simpler.
445g weight, holding it with one hand slightly weight, but it is not tiring to pick it up alone. The
screen shows
Redmi Pad on the front is a 10.6-inch LCD screen with a resolution of 2000x1200 and a screen ratio of 15:9, 219 ppi. You can still detect pixels when you are closer, but fortunately it is an LCD. HDR is not supported.
screen refresh rate is up to 90Hz, and the default dynamic selection resolution or customize 60Hz/90Hz two levels.
90Hz screen, unique to the thousand-yuan tablet? I am used to looking at 120Hz high-brush phones, and using a 60Hz tablet really makes me feel obviously stuck, but the 90Hz Redmi Pad does not feel any obvious gap.
screen supports 10 bit color depth, and the color mode can be selected from three modes: vivid/vibrant/standard.
screen has passed SGS low visual fatigue certification and Rheinland TÜV hardware low blue light certification. The eye protection mode provides paper eye protection effects, and can customize color temperature, paper texture depth and paper colors.
officially claims that the brightness reaches 400 nits, and the measured maximum brightness 37.06 nits, which performs better than OPPO Pad Air. Supports automatic brightness adjustment. Under the standard mode of
, the average ΔE reaches 1.17, and the maximum ΔE reaches 2.47. It performs very well as a 1,000-yuan tablet.
bright mode test, sRGB color gamut 97.9%, color gamut volume 100.5%; DCI P3 color gamut 71.1%.
supports lock screen lifting and lighting up the screen, double-clicking the screen to light up the screen. As an LCD model, the automatic lock screen can be set to "Never Stop Screen" and supports protection case locking/unlocking.
Performance heating
At present, most tablets of 1,000 yuan use Snapdragon 680 SoC, such as Lenovo Xiaoxin Pad 2022, Honor Tablet 8, and the OPPO Pad Air next to it that I have tested before. My evaluation is that it is barely enough, and there are still often lags under acceptable limits.
As Xiaomi, which has always focused on performance, it is also a sub-brand of Redmi that implements the ultimate cost-effectiveness. The Redmi Pad is equipped with MediaTek Helio G99, which refreshes the performance limit of a thousand-yuan tablet.
MediaTek Helio G99 adopts the ARMv8 architecture, based on TSMC 6nm process, 2 x 2.2 GHz Cortex-A76 + 6 x 2.0 GHz Cortex-A55 octa-core, and the GPU is Mali-G57 MC2.
Geekbench 5 single-core running score 552, multi-core running score 1907. (The Snapdragon 680 model is 383/1586, but it still has a significant improvement)
GPU part, 3D Mark Wild Life running score 1248, Sling Shot running score 3482. (Snapdragon 680 model is 447/2110)
GFXBench test is shown in the figure.
My memory specification is 6 GB LPDDR4x + 128 GB UFS 2.2, both of which are the highest specifications supported by Helio G99. Supports 2 GB memory expansion.
Androbench reads 986.61 MB/s in sequence, writes 907.14 MB/s in sequence, reads 248.86 MB/s in random, writes 248.86 MB/s in random.
RaptorMark reads 1750 MB/s in sequence, writes 1344 MB/s in sequence, reads 438 MB/s in random, and writes 169 MB/s in random.
Antutu comprehensive running score 352295 points, or is there a 1,000-yuan flat ceiling level performance?
baking machines, the average power consumption is 0.7W at no-load, CPU is about 5W at full load, and GPU is about 3W at full load.
Specifically for the user experience, let’s warm up a few "small games" first, but it’s just an entry-level SoC, for reference only.
17 minutes Honor of Kings, ultra high resolution + high frame rate + ultimate picture quality, except for occasional small fluctuations, basically stable down a straight line, average frame rate 9.53, and 50% brightness average power consumption of the whole machine is 2.6W.
30 minutes Peace Elite, with a high frame rate of balanced image quality, an average frame rate of 39.95, still as stable as a dog, with an average power consumption of 2.5W.
In addition, it can turn on high-definition image quality + high frame rate. Both combinations are higher than the image quality frame rate combination natively supported by the Snapdragon 680 model.
QQ Speed 3 is over 10 minutes long, with ultra-high image quality, ultra-clear resolution, ultra-high frame rate and high special effect level. The last one is an average frame rate of 80.73. After all, it is a 90Hz model, so it is good to play at 80.
is OK, let’s go to Genshin Impact.
Genshin Impact full height 60 frames off dynamic blur, with an average frame rate of 20 minutes of 28.46, almost double the 680 model.
opens 60 frames according to the extremely low combination recommended by the system, and is still locked at 30 frames. It seems that Xiaomi is giving "special treatment", but in this case it is stable and will fluctuate occasionally in two or three minutes. The function of the
game toolbox is not much different from that of Redmi phones with Dimensity SoCs such as Redmi K50. It has castrated the screen display style adjustment and game sound quality optimization, and the GPU adjustment is completely preserved.
As for heating, in high-load gaming and running score scenarios, there will be obvious warming under the rear camera on the back (to the middle direction), but it is only limited to warming. Moreover, the good tablet is that it is rarely felt by holding it in your hands. The heat generated for daily use is relatively small. In terms of fluency of
, I have to say that compared to the Snapdragon 680 + 60Hz OPPO Pad Air, the Redmi Pad is more fluid with the naked eye. Although
is inferior to its own Xiaomi tablet 5, once the core configuration of Helio G99 + 90Hz high-refresh is improved, the Redmi Pad experience will not be much worse.
network connection
Like most players at this price, it does not support Wi-Fi 6, but Xiaomi will not castrate 5 GHz Wi-Fi!
Like most players at this price, it does not have a built-in positioning module and does not support positioning services such as GPS/Beidou . It can only rely on network assisted positioning. The location information setting interface marked "This machine does not support satellite positioning ". It can be said that Xiaomi's operation is very honest and conscientious.
supports personal hotspots and supports connecting to Wi-Fi and turning on hotspots at the same time. It is still necessary to change the phone, transfer files and other scenarios.
supports Xiaomi mutual transmission of files with other mainstream manufacturers such as Xiaomi Redmi mobile phones, OPPO, vivo, , Samsung , etc.
Bluetooth is the latest 5.3 standard. Although it has not been mentioned by the official, the actual Bluetooth audio transmission protocol is compatible with the aptX standard, but is not compatible with "upgraded versions" such as aptX Adaptive. The audio device compatible with aptX will automatically fall back to aptX after connecting to . The first factory version of
system does not have MIUI+, Xiaomi Mibo, Xiaomi Mixiang and other interconnect functions. This part is to be tested and there will be OTA update support in the future.
video and video
Redmi Pad is an 8-megapixel single camera from GC08A3, with no flash.
camera supports AI, automatic HDR, and movie mode. In addition to taking photos and recording, there are also practical document mode, night view mode and short video mode on the tablet. Tablets at this price of
are basically scan the code and can be compared in a simple set.
It can be seen that compared with OPPO Pad Air, Redmi Pad sharpens a lot more, but it also makes text and other content clearer, the overall picture brightness is slightly lower, the saturation is higher, and the color is closer to the visual feeling. The front camera of
uses the same 8-megapixel Hynix HI846, the same model as the OPPO Pad, the FOV field of view angle reaches 105°, and the smart portrait centering function is added, which is more practical in scenes such as video conference calls.
At the same time, dual microphones are also used to pick up the sound more clearly.
cameras support up to 1080p @ 30fps before and after recording, and support voice subtitles.
supports 2D face unlocking, and is available horizontally and vertically. In terms of
sound experience, there are four 1217 Dolby Atmos speakers that can switch Dolby Atmos in the settings, which is a little thinner than the OPPO Pad Air. Hi-Res Audio and Hi-Res Audio Wireless dual gold standard certifications have been mentioned earlier.
vibration-free motor.
charging battery life
battery capacity is 8000 mAh, and it has been used for more than two days in moderate use.
Although a 22.5W charging head is randomly supplied, the actual fast charging power is 18W.
measured maximum charging power is 17.6W, and those maintained above 15W are relatively long-lasting.
bright screen charging power is about 10W, and it is 30% charged in 40 minutes. It takes about two and a half hours to charge in full, which is nearly half an hour faster than the OPPO Pad Air, which is also 18W but only 7000mAh.
system details
Redmi Pad is equipped with MIUI Pad 13 based on Android 12. This experience is based on the factory version MIUI 13.1.1. Although
is a factory version, it has certain functional shortcomings and requires subsequent OTA, but compared with the product experience at this price, it has passed the test and has received a lot of bonus from Xiaomi Tablet 5.
Of course, as an introductory model of 1,000 yuan, like its competitors at this price, the system's animation effect has been castrated a lot.
For example, the Gaussian blur of the volume bar is directly on a gray background, and it comes again after clicking to expand; the animation of the app launch and closing is traditionally enlarged from the middle, rather than following the position of the App icon.
factory version does not have built-in Google framework service.
small window supports edge hiding; split-screen app combinations can be directly added to the desktop, and you can open the two combined apps with one click next time; Wuji window can adjust the horizontal and vertical ratio of the small window. Although it is not a computer window level height customization, most of them support horizontal and vertical adjustments and different sizes.
partially obsoleted hidden window App supports bubble notifications.
Currently, the factory version is not perfect for the horizontal screen adaptation of third-party apps, but I personally think that the factory version is not equipped with relevant optimizations. There is only one horizontal screen mode. There is no optimization such as parallel windows for the time being. I hope to complete the adaptation when it is launched.
has been mentioned in the previous appearance section that the card slot can be used for TF card storage expansion of up to 1TB. There is no 3.5mm headphone jack, and a Type-C audio conversion cable is required.
summary guide to Bei
Previously, there was a question online, "Student party budget is limited, what are the recommendations for buying a tablet with a cost-effective price of 1,000 yuan?"
I look at it. There is only one big brand of Lenovo Xiaoxin Pad, which meets the requirements of "high cost performance". Realme Tablet X has reached 1,500, and Xiaomi Tablet 5 E-commerce subsidies are almost the same.
For ordinary families, choosing a higher cost-effective one is enough to use. Even if you eat dust, you won’t feel too distressed or wasteful. Since you have chosen a price of 1,000 yuan, every penny has to be spent on the edge, which is the same as a mobile phone.
Today, Redmi Pad finally arrived.
As Redmi's first tablet product, the Redmi Pad has brought us a lot of surprises - especially after knowing the price from 1099, this experience is truly the ultimate cost-effective.
As an introductory product, Redmi has a very accurate grasp of user needs, and the cost is in the blade - processor, screen, and workmanship.
Redmi Pad of course has shortcomings.
For example, stylus and keyboard cover are missing. But this problem is not big. The target users at this price do not need it, not to mention that there are third-party accessories manufacturers that can meet it.
screen does not support HDR10, but there is not much HDR content that can be viewed, but 90Hz high refresh rate is more refreshing daily...
Therefore, students with low budgets can buy iQiyi to read documents, and there is no pressure to play games; parents buy online classes for their children, which is fun; corporate procurement is used as display interactive tablets, and restaurants and hotels are used as ordering machines...
For users who want to purchase products with a thousand yuan, "adding budget" is painful.
Therefore, the new Pad with a price of 100 yuan Snapdragon 680 is also cost-effective, but there is still a certain market space.
is more expensive than Redmi Pad, and it is the OPPO Pad Air and Honor Tablet 8 of Snapdragon 680, so it should be stressed.
