OnePlus just announced its latest tablet, and it’s a serious one. The OnePlus Pad 3 continues where its predecessor left off, with a laptop-sized screen, an all-day battery life, a flagship chipset, stellar multimedia cred, and the ability to transform to an actual laptop (and free of charge as of its pre-order window).
The OnePlus Pad 3 comes in a single Storm Blue color. It’s configurable in either 12/256 GB or 16/512 GB, and OnePlus gives early birds the upper tier for the same price in Europe – €599. There are other goodies which we’ll talk about at the end of this article.
The new tablet is slightly bigger and a lot better than its predecessor. It bumps things up to the Snapdragon 8 Elite and supports it with improved cooling – a new heat dissipation area of up to 34,857mm² that’s said to be 14% better than the previous gen.
Depending on the configuration, you will either receive LPDDR5x 4,266MHz (12 GB) or LPDDR5T 4,800MHz (16 GB) RAM.
The display is bigger too, at 13.2 inches. It’s still an IPS LCD, but it’s a 12-bit panel with Dolby Vision HDR, 900 nits of peak brightness, 2400x3392px resolution (OnePlus calls it 3.4k), and stylus support.
There are 8 speakers all around the tablet (up from 6 on the OnePlus Pad 2).
Keeping up with the bigger and better theme, the OnePlus P
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