XIAOMI should find a solution with you. You are a few of RU-vidrs reviewing fair and square their products and of course all we know how much Americans love Apple and give them free pass and throwing shade on anything outside of US. I bought Poco F3, Lenovo Tab and Samsung Note after your reviews. I don't agree all the times but you are consistent and methodical. A family guy and not an overzealous kid wanting to make quick money leaking the balls of big companies.
Thanks for the comment. I don't know it happened before they tried to "send me a message" by pulling review units delaying them and messing about with me. It happened again and I'm not playing their games with them trying to manipulate my reviews. This doesn't mean I cannot buy Xiaomi tech that interests me like this Pad 6 Pro and 13 Ultra which is coming maybe next week the review. 99% sure I will buy the Xiaomi 14 series and review it (Chinese ROM) and also the Mix Fold 3 when out if it's interesting.
@@Techtablets look forward to your videos buddy. I'm still thinking whether buy or not the 13 ultra. I'm currently rocking Xiaomi 13 Pro & magic vs as daily drivers.
00:00 - Intro & unboxing and charge time 01:06 - Design and features 03:43 - Screen, MIUI Pad 14, refresh rates, split screen, and UI performance 07:51 - Firmware version, bloatware, and DRM cert level 09:10 - Battery life, throttling stress test, storage speeds, and Antutu 11:11 - Large PDF files and eBooks 12:19 - Genshin Impat max settings performance 13:06 - Audio, RU-vid max res support, and loudspeaker sample 14:27 - Camera samples 15:16 - Final words with Pros and Cons
Took Xiaomi long enough to finally put USB3.2 on their products. Am surprised at the fluidity of MIUI 14 for pad and how you commended it! Android tablets have really came a long way.
One of the possible reasons, is inventory. They might have many lower version USB ports lying around. To keep the price low, they order or manufacture in bulk to save cost.
nice and i wonder how about split screen on vertical mode is they can use split screen on top and bottom now ? on previos pad 5 they cant split top and bottom on vertical mode it suck that why most of people go with galaxy tab s instead
i bought Poco F3 after watching your review. and never regret it. your detailed reviews never seems to disappoint. always helps us to buy when other channels always seems to be biased to certain products. keep it up,Chris!
@@potroshutelincognito250Maybe it just Thailand's banks but I can use custom ROM just fine. I use helluvaOS. It doesn't root so I guess it works fine. But you need to disable developer options before use. After using it though you don't NEED custom rom, normal will work absolutely fine.
Keep up your great work ! You do help me to understand xiaomi products more with your detailed review. i am from Indonesia and every xiaomi products released in here, i am making sure to watch your review and your honest opinion. I totally agree with you that even xiaomi has a variety of products, still, there are several flaws including usb still 2.0 speed, mediocre selfie camera, and etc. Hope you are doing well mate! Thank you.
Thanks for the review as always Chris. Tablet looks good, I like the 11" size and the 8+ gen1 is a great choice from Xiaomi. Bezels are fine, we still need something to grab into. Still disappointed in the IPS screen, hopefully if the Galaxy Tab S9 comes back with an AMOLED the Chinese manufacturers will follow suit. Glad you finally got your USB video out lol I wonder what it will retail here in Europe, Lenovo recently always has their P11 Pro gen2 8/256 mediatek model (currently typing from one!) For sale at 349€ from their website and a bunch of etailers and that's a lot of value to go against. Cheers
The P11 Pro gen 2 is a great tablet. I would have loved to have seen this with OLED or AMOLED that was a mistake I think and the removal of MicroSD support.
@@megajatt123 Ive been using amoled screen since 2011 with many device and brand before but naver had any problem with degrade screen, I dont know how did you use your device and make them degrade within 2 or 3 years of usage
@@pudinichigo91 my friend, old amoleds weren't as bright as they are getting nowadays, and now more and more high brightness media is coming out in the form of hdr content.
@@megajatt123 I mean I also use latest model with amoled screen like Galaxy S20 & Galaxy S22 (currently my daily driver) and I don't think this phone use old amoled and it also can reach over 1k nit peak brightness
Wow... The first RU-vid on RU-vid who shows Ebook performance rather than only games and movies performance... You are awesome 🙏🙌🙌🙌 Not everyone is gamer, we are hard working college students, we want to know more about ebbok performances... Thanks 🙏
I have the Xiaomi Mipad 5 and it’s still really good. I prefer smaller tablets but I can’t argue with Xiaomi’s quality. I just wish Netflix would allow the best video quality on them
@@aaronjgeorge Hi mate, i was actually hesitating on buying the pad 6 pro because of the HD video quality vis-a-vis of Netflix. I saw there and there that because it is in Chinese version, there is chances of not having widevine L1. In the end meaning streaming Netflix in HD isn't possible, even tho the screen is more than capable of... Are you telling me it's ok with the 6pro ?
@@luxlivatthana158 I'm saying the widevine issue was fixable on the mipad 5, I'm not sure about the 6 tho I'm certain if it worked on the 5 it should definitely work on the 6
@@Techtablets owner of a mi pad 5. bought it almost 2 years back and i think it was and still is quite one of the best value / money tablet (now a bit more in the budget friendly area). and i am saying this not because it the most powerful... but more like for the small price for a decent all rounder (great battery life, bright display with dolby vision 120Hz (even though not oled - that's it's only small downside that i see), very good speakers, and snapdragon 860 which is still a great chipset even now - powerful enough to run most things smoothly and also battery efficient and no issues). the price i got it then on offer was like 290euro and now you can find it easily at around 260 euro -> very hard to deny it's value for money. But yes it's time for the new gen to show it's prowess. the pad 6 with the sd 870 - it's also a very hard to ignore offer... and this pro version with that 8+gen one... even though a bit higher prices i still think it's more than a decent price at 430-450$. As much as xiaomi seems to be struggling a bit with the competition in the mobile phone area, I think they nailed it with their tablet offers
Lenovo tablets are great, this has better performance and 144hz but I would take the MicroSD card slot over being forced to get this with at least 256GB of storage.
Hello my friend, I am one of your Arab followers and I am from Iraq 🇮🇶, but how much is this device and when will it be available in the Middle East? With all due respect and appreciation to you I hope you will respond to my comment ❤😊🎉🎉
Good specs but frame looks bit thick for "pro"device in my opinion. I'm still in love with my first generation Huawei Matepad Pro. If I need a new tablet I would probably prefer an oled screen. Thanks for the review Chris.
The Matepad Pro's are awesome tablets, I have my Matepad 11 still works great and really nice type cover keyboard. 6.5mm isn't bad Vs 5.5mm 1mm doesn't make too much of a difference.
No MicroSD on a tablet is dead on arrival. How do you consume your content when you're out and don't have wifi (airplane). Overpaying for internal storage is a scam when there's so much space to add a microsd slot.
Great specs until I heard there's no headphone jack. A tablet with no headphone jack? Really? I prefer a wired headset while watching movies and youtube and when making videocalls or meetings. So... nah.. 😁
Looks like a great tablet. I have the mi pad 5 and it held up pretty well. Still great with all the tasks I through at it. I guess maybe I will upgrade to this new version
Hi! Coming from a Huawei matepad t10s user. What are much more better? Xiaomi pad5 or xiaomi pad 6 pro? Because I want to find an amazing tablet for schoolwork, gaming, and videocalls. Unfortunately Huawei Matepad t10s lacks alot of features when I first got it in my birthday, not that I'm dissappointed but just want better specs for a budget price.
Xiaomi marketing guy: Chris, we want you to review our products again. Thank you for the nice tablet review! Moments later... Chris: This Xiaomi product is poor quality. Xiaomi marketing guy: You are out man! Don't review our products ever again!
The reason they do it is to upsell their higher storage models. The margins for the base models are small, so they have to make money from selling the higher spec. Most people would buy the base and use an SD card if they had SD. It would then become very hard for Xiaomi to make a reasonable profit. This way, they can keep base models competitive. OEMs have the data and know what consumers do, so they understand that providing SD card slots equals lower profits. They also know that it feeds the Samsung monster, as Samsung are the main supplier of SD cards. Adding to Samsung's profits, a company actively trying to wipe you out is bad business. So Xiaomi is moving away from anything Samsung. Using the SD8+G1, a TSMC chip, and not using OLED means they can continue to dump Samsung out of their supply chain.
Wow this surprised me, was expecting the rom performance to be much worse. It seems this really will be the best reasonably priced gaming pad out there given the fact that unless you are willing to pay crazy Samsung prices there is nothing else with a Snapdragon Gen 1 available. Would love to see how this compares to the Oneplus pad / Oppo Pad 2 / Vivo pad 2. Will you be reviewing any of those? I love the aspect ratio and look of those new BBK pads but they won't be able to compete on performance with Dimensity 9000. I think the vivo is also the only one with video out over USB 3.2 as well. I do wonder though what we can expect in terms of android updates as a lot of these Chinese manufacturer pads tend to get neglected, my mipad 4 didn't get a single update.
Mi Pad 4 had terrible updates and yes I also expected to see some performance issues with the rom but nope it runs so well! Not sure if I will review the OnePlus Pad has they said there are no review units. If I buy one it's delivered in June. Far too late by then no interest or views.
@@Techtablets Yeah hopefully nowadays xiaomi is a little better with tablet updates. The OP pad seems to have gained some pretty positive reviews already. I think giztop and ali are both selling the vivo pad 2 and oppo pad 2 currently.
I bought Vivo Pad 2 with its pencil 2 and been using it 1week now. It is 80$ cheaper than Oneplus and Oppo pad 2 and with USB 3.2 while Oneplus and Oppo offer only 2.0 version. I hope you can review it soon Chris.
Thanks for watching! If you're new to my review videos I always have a Pros and Cons in there. From tablets, mobiles to eBikes it's in there the good and bad :)
*Now, there's a new candidate for testing GPU performance: Honkai: Star Rail* It's insane that the GPU of my 8+G1 is already maxing out in their latest map 😐
This tablet doesnt look very intrigued comparing to the cheapest Tab S9 coming out soon with 8g2, 5G, Oled, card slot, dex, IP67, global rom with far better support...
As always, and consistently, one of the best reviewers out there. If you are in the hunt to buy any device and you want a thorough review and opinion TechTablets is the goto man. I have bought a whole ecosystem of Huawei devices thanks to his reviews. Love from Argentina.
@@Techtablets Thanks for your reply, and yes, although Huawei has been hit by the sanctions it is quite livable using HarmonyOS in my Watch (Fit 2), Phone (Mate 50 Pro), and Tablet (MatePad Pro 11), 99.9% of Apps are available and work well. I also have a MatebookD16, super laptop. Happy with Huawei. All the hardware is phenomenal.
They probably were originally planning on adding a sim tray but backed out at the last second due to having to cut costs I wish companies made it more normal to use external storage like a SD card
There are a lot of impressive full size tablets coming out, but I prefer small tablets that have decent performance. That leaves me with 3 options total, Apple iPad Mini 6, Lenovo Legion Y700 and Realme Pad Mini (I have all 3). All of these tablets have some annoying problems with them, but the Y700 is the best of the bunch. I would love to see Xiaomi, Lenovo or Google make a good global market small tablet again.
Hi im considering to buy y700 but waiting for the 2023 version to come out.what would you say the cons for the y700 that you have experienced so far compared to the others?
@@maharah93 The typical overly customized Chinese ROM issues. Over aggressive battery saving, background data restrictions, you have to enable a setting to allow Google Play to work. Just weird stuff that should not be in Android and really provides no value. Also, for some reason I can't play Wild Rift anymore. Works fine on my Xiaoxin Pad Pro 2021 which seems to have the same OS.
Best size for gaming but not many are aware of it, especially when many (of the few existing) 7-9" tablets have underwhelming performance for gaming.. 🥴🫣
Problem with Xiaomi is there miui which gets laggy overtime and has lot of bugs slow updates there only USP is giving good hardware at low price than flagship device competition but If I will have to choose between this pro and tab s8+ I will without a doubt will go for samsung tab s8+ there timely updates and one UI for tablet has way more function and is stable. Xiaomi's Miui is just streched version of mobile for table
For sure if you want the best software for Android tablets. OneUI it is. I use a S8 Ultra and it's so good, updates like big ones are slow but we get them. MIUI is sure to slow down as it does and sometimes new patches introduce bugs.
As I said in the video I have the Xiaomi 13 Ultra I bought and Pad 6 Pro. But no more review units coming from them now, anything you see is what I decided to buy that thought was worth covering. None of the constant rebranded Poco and Redmi midrange and low end phones I'm done with all them.
@@joelconolly5574 The problem is with Xiaomi. They're refusing to send review units because his opinions are too honest. He gives both the positives and negatives and Xiaomi don't like that.
@@Techtablets I hope u get more subscribers and likes to earn enough money to buy more Xiaomi unit to give 100% honest reviews. Let them feel the itch in the butt
Well they wont like me reviewing this :) Since it's the Chinese ROM and not global. But yes I will try and buy some of the interesting releases if I can. But no more midrange Poco rubbish or Redmi rubbish unless it really is something special again for the price.
Its abt screen size and aspect ratio Oneplus pad 11.6 in (7:5) Xiaomi pad 6s pro 12.4 in (3:2) Ipad 11in , pro 12.9 in (4:3) Samsung tab plus 12.4 in or ultra 14.6 in (16:10) If u got money just go ipad regular or pro for snappier isntant pdf loading (even heavy size pdfs are loaded instant, no waiting to load pdf pages)
Hi Chris, again a great review, thanks! @Techtablets A question: I want to purchase a future proof tablet mostly for remote work with zoom. Would you, in terms of selfie video & mics, rather recommend this Xiaomi 6 Pro, or the Xiaoxin Pad Pro which you also highly recommended? 💙
Unfortunately, the old pen is not compatible to Pad 6 and Pad 6 Pro, so you need to buy the new one. Xiaomi channeling its inner Apple on that one. ;-)
Great review, I like this tablet maybe it will be available globally. I already have the the pad 5 and it still perform very well. Battery life is excellent. The camera is actually decent for a tablet but no fingerprint senzor. But I am not going to upgrade with this one. I don't know if there is a big difference.
Which models? I really stopped buy those Xiaomi laptops because I lost a lot of money covering them, inflated prices from retailers on Aliexpress, import charges and then poor resale. Every one I lost 300-400 euros after taxes. And Xiaomi never wanted to end them to me.
@@Techtablets I liked your RedmiBook 15 Pro review last year, but you unfortunately did not cover the XiaomiBook Pro 14/16, and there are no english reviews of it on RU-vid, even though I believe that it's a great machine. Maybe TradingShenzhen could provide you with a review unit?
As the owner of the Xiaomi Pad 5, I think, that there is absolutely no reason to buy the Xiaomi Pad 6/Pro. In my opinion, the only obvious difference is the more powerful processor. SD 860 is still great. If you do not play heavy games, then this processor is enough for all tasks, including browsing, reading, watching videos, etc. The rest of the changes are minor. I don't need a USB 3.2 with a VideoOut. However, I would buy this tablet if it had an AMOLED screen. But for now I'll stay on the Xiaomi Pad 5. Although I will probably buy a Galaxy Tab S9 (S9+) as soon as it will be available. I want to own a tablet with an AMOLED screen again. And, yes. 3:20 - it's the place to charge the stylus. Will you compare this tablet with the new tablets from BBK? On paper, Xiaomi looks preferable. But how will it be in reality? It would be interesting. Thanks for this video!
Yes no huge reason to upgrade unless you really need the extra power. Good for gamers this model i fine. As for the BBK tablets I've asked OnePlus and no review.units. not sure I'll buy them maybe. But shipping is in June by then there interest is gone.
Another honest tablet review. BTW, I seriously think companies should invest more on putting a dedicated 'Reading mode' on tablets like these, which will not strain the eyes. Focusing on camera tech in a tablet of this size doesn't seem all that necessary.
4:36 We need more tablets with AMOLED screens. Today I feel like I'm stuck with Samsung as my only option. I hate OneUI 💀 but I use it because the high quality screen is my priority.
@@Techtablets yeah it is, but with ar glasses on the horizon tablets are gonna become a waste of money soon I just need a Samsung phone with a headphone jack guess I'll stick with a Galaxy s10
Nice review. Thanks. Interesting product. Regarding HDR support in Netflix: I had the same issue with my Poco F3 I think. In my case, I went to the apps menu in the settings, flushed the cache and deleted the storage, maybe also restarted the phone (can't recall) and then opened Netflix again. Obviously your user profile and login info will be reset to default, so you'll have to log in again, but when you do, you should have HDR if it's the same issue I had.
Hi, thanks for the tip. I did try that as it was a method to sometimes get from L3 SD to L1 FHD. But still no HDR, I think it must be Netflix isn't reading the widevine correctly or doesn't want to enable HDR10 and Dolby vision support? Hopefully this will change as I've been enjoying Netflix on it some much due to the size and weight. (Coming from my huge S8 Ultra)
Great video as always! And nothing from Xiaomi bringing a desktop mode in MIUI. Google needs to do this soon so that everyone can enjoy apps with advanced functions, work mode and games.
Thanks alot for the review on this TechTablets! you are probably the first few to review this. So far Im using my new Doogee T20 Tab, Id love to get a Xiaomi Tab once I decide. Tho the Lenovo Tab Extreme has just released
The title fits perfect , it truly is much better than expected. Makes me wonder if I should buy Xiaomi devices that are using the Chinese Rom instead of the global one. If this gets a global release, then it's going to replace my 2020 Huawei Mate Pad Pro. BTW Chris, what smart watches do you recommend for android? I'm not a person who does sports or get out too much sadly. I was looking at Garmin Fenyx 6 Pro or 7 Pro. I'm sick of Samsungs 1 day battery life and very, very slow charging speeds. What are you using? Thank you for the video.
Title does suit as it was a pleasant surprise I thought it might have bad throttling and thermals but not at all. As for the watches I use myself the Huawei Watch 3 GT Pro and it's fantastic up to 10 days battery life. It just goes so long. I hate the 1-2 day battery life watches.
@TechTablets me too. It's totally useless. To be honest, I'm not a fan of Huawei Watches at all. They don't work too well with Samsung phones. Maybe the newer ones do, I stopped buying them since I last used GT2. I've heard that Garmin is very good. But I've never used any. I'm surprised at how good the tablet is. A bit disappointing with the screen
as a person who likes to mess with my devices, you can do a lot of workarounds in chinese ROM to have for example multi language support and nearby share. It becomes the same experience as the global ROM but with 5x its smoothness (currently doing it with my pad 5 and it's game changer)
Hmmm, I don't really see why anyone would go for these when the Mi Pad 5 itself is already available with half its original price for some decent used units, unless they need the video out...
Xiaomi can make pretty good value with their slave labour and goverment support. Still the way they approach things make me avoid their products. Had their phone, and it just seemed in so many ways opposite to what I want, ads poping out often within many apps, software deciding what is "good enough for you" like you can't zoom in a photo in a gallery above certain aspect (on samsung I can go like 10 times that), selfie cams being much worse, and other crappy communist shit like that...and they aren't even that cheaper than Samsung or iPhone anymore. You can buy something more affordable like Note 13 Pro but so you can an A55 and they would both be close to flagship level and great value for money, give a decent main cam and kinda passable other cams, Ok performance etc, so it's not like they are giving something so amazing. And if you want a real flagship a Xiaomi 14 Ultra will cost you as much as any iPhone or Samsung S24 Ultra, so it's not even gettting a cheaper communist phone, but just spending a bunch of money for a communist phone.
For long term use since not everyone is upgrading every year.. we all actually prefer a great IPS screen instead of an OLED.. we dont have to worry about burn in.. screen flicker.. yellow light siber.. etc..
We are going USB-C for all IO, and jacks are in their final encore. The EU is pressing for one-IO-for-all, so it is a done deal, just when. OEMs may need a second USB-C port, though I have been using a splitter for years and still wonder why people complain about the inevitable loss of headphone jacks.
@@andyH_EnglandThe very reason that you have to use a splitter is why the 3.5 port should still be included. Removing it doesn't solve a problem, it creates one. You shouldn't have to be walking around with dongles and splitters to get such basic functionality. Most people who use wired headsets don't use the usb-c type. Most high quality headphones rely on the 3.5 jack. Furthermore, not all type-c ports and cables are made equal, so while I agree that type-c is the future, it doesn't solve the portability and compatibility (convenience) issues of mobile devices. The 3.5 port should co-exist with type-c. I share the same sentiment regarding expandable storage.
90 Hz and 144 Hz don't make sense in most of the cases. One should go for 120 Hz since it's 24x5 and 30x4 which gives you best video both for movies and YT. And don't forget SVPlayer which makes things even better 😉
your Xiaomi reviews are very truthful and non bias and yet Xiaomi Marketing Team is still butthurt with facts like 1080p front camera on 13 Ultra. Xiaomi better get things together with you.
Not sure but they have messed about with me since the 10T Pro. And this isn't the first time they delayed or pulled review units. I'll see what happens but after my video from yesterday that's the end of it I would think.
