Junaid Malik

Aug 16, 2022

Realme pad mini which is priced even lower at just 11k

So here's the realme pad mini and it looks like a smaller version of the realme pad which is not a bad thing there's the same aluminum finish with the realme logo at the bottom although these lines which are probably antenna bands are horizontal on the top and the bottom as for the weight and size this is pretty sleek at 7.6 millimeters thickness and it's 372 grams in weight.

Difference Now one of the big differences between this and the bigger realme pad is obviously the size here are both the tablets and you can see that the mini is much smaller in fact holding the mini pad meaning the hands feel like holding a slightly bigger phone I mean this size is just much easier to use as for the functionality there's the power button and the volume buttons on the side the headphone jack is here and there's a dual sim plus micro sd hybrid slot yeah this is the LTE variant and there is a phone app here so you can make calls on it.

Display The screen is an 8.7 inch IPS LCD which is close to hd and to be honest the display is an area where it does feel like a low-end tablet see I would have liked the same high resolution as the redmi pad screen but this is a lower price device so really hard to cut corners in the display now this display has its positives for example the bezels are not too big.

The colors look decent and there's an option in display settings called video display enhancement which works in apps like youtube and this does make the display a bit more vivid when playing videos which is good the tablet also has the wide wine l1 license and movies and shows and apps like netflix run it hd so no problems here about home days the blacks are good too as far as lcd panels go and i noticed that even though.

This is not the brightest display it's still brighter than the bigger real me pad as you can see from this comparison and as for the negatives of the display the viewing angles are kind of average and the low resolution is also noticeable sometimes if you ask me these aren't exactly deal breakers at this price point now the display does not have stylus support and there's no keyboard case just like the bigger really bad

Design & Looks the Xiaomi pack design is kind of inspired by the modern ipads with the square edges aluminum frame the narrow bezels on the front the back has this glass-like a polished finish that is actually plastic as for the in-hand feel this looks and feels like a premium tablet but this is an 11-inch tablet so you have to use it with two hands the size and weight is on par with that tablets.

Speaker when it comes to speakers there are dual speakers in a top and bottom config and they are direct audio certified and there's also adaptive surround sound the speakers here are fairly loud not as loud as quad speakers obviously but it's good for the quality it does get a little flat at max volumes but other than that it's fairly crisp and nice

Performance Now what I really liked about the realme pad mini is that realme hasn't compromised the performance on this tablet these are the specs and the uni soc t616 is basically the same chipset as the t610 we also saw in the Nokia t20 tablet and that means it's almost on par with the MediaTek g80 on the bigger enemy pad I mean here are the benchmarks and like i said the pad mini scores are very close to the og really bad beating android 2 or geek bench which is really good.

I also checked for CPU throttling and the performance was very good as you can see the real-world performance of this tablet is pretty good too the usual apps like chrome facebook Instagram youtube all work without any lag or stutter and there is some lag when the battery goes low but other than that the performance is good moving on to the gaming performance it's oakish asphalt and its default graphics settings was a little inconsistent laggy at times but lowering the graphics mostly fixes that same with cod and is the same with BGMI, BGMI supports hd and high settings are smooth and high and at hd the game was not very smooth but at smooth graphics the performance is a lot better and much more playable this is also because the software

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Software Here is very minimal there's realme of a pad based on android 11 and it's the same experience as the big really bad i mean it's not the usual feature which really ui it's fairly bare bones but it was the same with the redmi pad so i guess it's okay plus this ui has its advantages there's no bloatware apps no ads no weird lock screen features it's all clean and nice now there are useful things like the kit space from google and the youtube kids app if you plan on buying this tablet for your kid.

Apart from that it's pretty much the phone ui expanded for a tablet you can put apps into split screen from the recent screen but there's no docker gesture the navigation gestures from android are here but like on the realme pad you can't switch between app by swiping on the bottom i mean this should have been fixed right what do you think plus there's no promise of updates i mean you asked realme and they said that they'll be pushing out security updates frequently which basically means no major android updates i mean i know that this is a budget android tablet but at least it deserves android 12. so the software remains kind of simple

Camera coming to the cameras there's an 8 megapixel camera on the rear and a 5 megapixel camera on the front honestly it's high time companies prioritize the front cameras and tablets because that's going to be used a lot more anyway the front camera only shoots 720p video and the front 5 megapixel camera of the realme pad mini and i know the quality looks kind of oakish

Battery Thee battery is a 6400 MAH and there is this 80 watt charger in the box which is really good for this price range now we did a couple of tests on the battery we played a youtube video at 1080p with the screen set to match brightness and volume at 60 for an hour and the battery drain was 14% which i think is pretty good we also played cod mobile at the max settings established supports for an hour and the battery drain was 21% so the battery performance seems fairly good so far on the realme pad mini and one thing to note the device does not ever get too hard when it comes to general usage or even gaming

Connectivity

lastly talking about the connectivity the realme pad mini has dual band wi-fi 5 bluetooth 5.0 gps at least in the cellular version

Pricing the realme pad mini has launched india rupees 10,999 for the wi-fi only variant and the wi-fi plus lte variant starts at rupees 12,999

Final Verdict now if i'm being honest with you if you are okay with bigger 10 inch tablets and if you have a slightly higher budget i'd still recommend you the realme pad the bigger one it's still a better device but if you want a smaller tablet and your budget is slightly lower this still is a very good option i also say this because if you compare the realme pad mini to the galaxy tab a7 lite and the moto tab g20.

The realme pad mini looks better the moto tablet is the lightest the realme pad mini is the slimmest but very importantly the real me pad mini's uni soc t616 is more powerful than the helio p22t it also has faster ufs 2.1 storage compared to emc storage on the samsung and the moto tab it also has the better front camera a bigger battery and a faster charger in the box sure the software on the tab a7 lite will probably be better because it's samsung but i will take better performance so overall the realme pad mini is good value for money although i still think they'll be should give at least one major android update for this