Xiaomi Pad 5 – Best Review [Updated]

January 10, 2023

Hello, Friends welcome back to our website we are back with a new review of the Xiaomi Pad 5. Which will help you to decide.

The Xiaomi Pad 5 is a new entrant in the mid–range tablet segment in India and is priced competitively starting at Rs. 26,999. It packs a powerful processor and a high refresh rate display, two hardware features not commonly found on a tablet around this segment. This makes it a very competitive product, especially considering that it is also compatible with a stylus and keyboard cover accessories, which can be purchased separately.

Is Xiaomi’s Pad 5 good enough mid–range Android tablet? More importantly, does it have anything special in the software department that could help it be more than just a media consumption device? Let’s find out in this review.

The Xiaomi Pad 5 is available in two variants and both of them have 6GB of RAM. The base variant comes with 128GB of storage and is available for Rs. 26,999, while the other offers 256GB of storage and is priced at Rs. 28,999. The tablet is available in a single color called Cosmic Gray and comes with a charger in the box, along with a USB Type-A to Type-C charging cable.

Xiaomi Pad 5 design

The Xiaomi Pad 5 has a metal frame with flat sides, sandwiched between a glass screen on the front and a polycarbonate sheet at the back. The Gorilla Glass 3 cover over the display does not attract fingerprints easily, but the smooth matte-finished rear panel is a smudge magnet and is quite hard to keep clean. If you buy the cover case, this should cover the back and offer some protection against dust and grime.

The Xiaomi Pad 5 feels quite premium and weighs about 511g, which I found to be a bit heavy. Indeed, it’s not ideal for one-handed use. Attaching the keyboard accessory adds quite a bit of weight and makes the whole package nearly as heavy as an ultra-thin laptop, so I preferred to remove it when doing things such as gaming. The standard foldable cover (without the keyboard) is said to be a lot lighter and it also works as a foldable stand for the tablet.

The Xiaomi Pad 5 tablet is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 SoC, which was announced in 2021. This is basically an upgraded version of the Snapdragon 855+ SoC, which was announced in 2019. It’s built using the 7nm process.

But was designed for use in premium smartphones, so performance should not be much of an issue. What does seem a bit questionable is the 6GB of RAM, especially keeping in mind Xiaomi’s heavy MIUI skin, but we’ll see how that works out in the following section.

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The Xiaomi Pad 5 runs ‘MIUI for Pad’, which is a customized version of MIUI 13.0.5 based on Android 11. While it looks similar to what Xiaomi typically offers on its mobile devices with similar-looking iconography and UI elements, the brand seems to have cut down on preinstalled first-party apps, which is a very good thing if you ask me. In fact, there is just one preinstalled third-party app, which is Netflix. There’s also a Notes app, which looks very similar to iOS and iPadOS but works well with the Smart Pen.

The 8,720mAh battery lasted for a day and a half when performing my work duties, with the display set to sleep after five minutes, which meant that it was almost continuously on during that time. With casual use, which mainly included playing games and watching videos (along with Slack and two email accounts on sync in the background), the tablet easily ran for over two days of real-world use on a single charge.

Overall it will the best tablet for your all works as well as editing also.

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