Today Poco unveiled the F6 and F6 Pro, but the brand had a surprise in store – its first-ever tablet. Its name is the Poco Pad, of course, and it has been designed for both work and play. It’s not an entirely unique device, though. In fact, the tablet has more than a passing resemblance to the Redmi Pad Pro. The Pad has a 12.1” display and most of the budget was probably spent on it. It’s a 120Hz LCD with 2.5K resolution and 68 billion colors (12-bit). The peak brightness is 600 nits and at lower levels users can enjoy a flicker-free experience with DC dimming.
Poco says this tablet is optimized for
both entertainment and work, so it picked a 16:10 aspect ratio, which strikes a
good balance between the two. On the entertainment side of things there are
four speakers with Dolby Atmos, also the display supports Dolby Vision for
higher quality image when streaming video.
Speaking of, the 10,000mAh battery inside
the tablet should last 16 hours of non-stop video streaming. Charging is done
at 33W and Poco says that 15 minutes of charging are enough for 26 hours of
music playback (who uses their tablet to listen to music, Poco?). The Poco Pad
is powered by the Snapdragon 7s Gen 2, which is also used on the Poco X6. Here
it is connected to 8GB of RAM and 256GB storage, but people with massive
digital collections will be pleased to hear that the tablet supports microSD
cards up to 1.5TB.
This being a Xiaomi product, it runs
HyperOS, which offers some cool features with a companion HyperOS phone. You
can cast your phone’s screen to the tablet, for example. This feature lets you
drag and drop things between the tablet and the phone (text, files, images),
but you can also use the shared clipboard for that. Another neat thing is that
the tablet can be tethered to your phone with a quick tap. The Poco Pad has a
sleek metal unibody that measures 7.52mm thick and weighs 571g. It comes in
Gray and Blue.
Poco has created a Poco Pad Cover for
extra protection on the go, but if you do plan to use the tablet for work, you
can also get the Poco Pad Keyboard. And there is a Poco Smart Pen too, for note
taking and sketching. The Poco Pad is available today with an early bird price
of US$ 300 (there is only the one version, 8/256GB, so you just have to pick which
color you like) After the launch promo is over, the Pad will sell at a regular
price of US$ 330. And if you want to pick up one of the accessories, the Keyboard
is $80, the Pen is US$ 60 and the basic cover is just US$ 20.
