Look, tablets do not need cameras and they especially don’t need huge camera humps that are always in the way. My biggest gripe is with the unnecessary camera hump in the middle of the back. I don’t necessarily love the green color they chose and would have preferred a black or silver tablet, but it’s fine. This is the most comfortable tablet I’ve held in some time. Where it really shines is in the edges, where OnePlus really rounded everything off to make for a soft-touch feel that you can hold for hours. The OnePlus Pad isn’t that heavy at 555g and feels mostly premium with this aluminum body. It’s not excessively wide like Samsung’s premium tablets, which I find far too wide for heavy use. But this size and shape is so good, because it is a comfortable hold in portrait, yet wide enough in landscape to watch video or run a couple of apps. In fact, it measures in very close to the smallest iPad Pro (247.6 x 178.5 x 5.9mm), only stretching beyond its frame by a few mm (258.03 x 189.41 x 6.54 mm). It’s mostly like my 11″ iPad Pro, with its borderline square aspect ratio. I do really think OnePlus made a tablet that is just about the perfect size and shape. Got it? Here’s a quick OnePlus Pad review.

I simply used it like I like to use a tablet. But to me, a tablet will never do what a computer can do (or that I like to do on a computer), so I didn’t try to turn the OnePlus Pad into one. And if you want to toss in some Twitter, read a story or three in Chrome, and then maybe type out an email reply from time to time, sure, do that. I mostly failed at trying to get the most out of it, because a tablet to me is nothing more than a gaming machine that is also used for watching media. So yeah, I’ve had the OnePlus Pad here and done my best to use it in various settings or to do a variety of tasks. With the two holding it down for all big screens, shouldn’t the focus from OnePlus be elsewhere, like trying to win back the enthusiast crowd or US carriers?īut you know what, after learning all that OnePlus was trying to offer with the OnePlus Pad and then playing with one for the past couple of weeks, I’ll say this – Why not, man?

Sure, Samsung makes nice tablets too, and they basically fill up the rest of the space that isn’t filled with iPads. When I first heard rumors of OnePlus making a tablet, I couldn’t help but wonder, why? I say that because the tablet world seems so dominated by Apple, who essentially makes the default tablet, that I wasn’t sure it was worth it for anyone else to give it a shot.

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