Xiaomi Mi Pad Review - Tablet-News.com By Tablet-News.com

Hi, that's a beautiful woman I'm here with the tablet called Co me PAP. This one is a 7.9 in Slate with the Terra k1 processor inside it was launched in stores on July, 1st 2014, and it managed to sell 50,000 units in less than four minutes. Well, the price tag in China for the co me pad is 240 dollars. We got this tablet from the co me shot it from Italy. That distributes is product all over Europe. It arrived to us in 8 days, and we spent about 300 euros for it to the 16 gigabyte version, plus an extra 14 euros for the delivery, as I said all over Europe.

You can also find this product at shop. Calm for 339 dollars by the way at the time were referring this review. The 64 gigabyte version has been available for the day or two now, let's discuss the design of the knee pad so without the typical iPad Mini format. Here, however, this time we have a case that reminds me more of the iPhone 5c, it's polycarbonate it's glossy and a bit slippery, but you can use a special case to not let it slip from your hand, as you can see we're playing with the white version here. But the tablet also comes in blue, green, yellow, pink and gray.

The thickness is eight point, five millimeters for this slide, and it weighs 360 grams, which means it's about 30 grams, heavier than the iPad Mini retina and the rest of the sizes are similar and talking about light and talking about width. So it's pretty much the same as the iPad Mini in terms of size. It feels so pretty solid. It has a good build. Furthermore, it also sits well.

In the users hand, we also have some pretty big results by current standards, but they don't bother me up front. As you can see, you got the three capacitive buttons below the display. We also have a front camera right here. The logo here at the top, this yummy typical logo right here in the corner, and we also have a notification light here in this area by the way the capacitive buttons are more stylish than other ones. Seen on other Android devices.

Now moving on at the back, we got the main camera perform for underneath it another microphone pole here and yet again, a bunch of Logos plus the two speakers of the bottom. At the top. We find the audio jack and that's it while at the bottom we have the microUSB port used to charge up the device on the right side, we find the on/off button in the volume buttons they're comfy. There have good feedback when you're, pressing them and now, on the left side, we have the micro SD card slot with a special tray that can be removed with a small metal key okay. Now the back is treated with an anti fingerprint coating.

As far as I know the front. Well, it may draw some fingerprints I'll, give you that much overall, the design is OK. It doesn't quite stand out of the crowd of the many iPad Mini clones, but I wouldn't exactly call it a clone, because it's so stylish. Now, on the hardware side, where we have a 7.9 screen, 7.9-inch screen, it's an IPS LCD with a pretty big resolution: 2048 /, 1536 pixels, which means 326 PPI, which is a very good density. We also have one glass solution here integrated, and you can use the tablet screen with gloves the CPU inside this model.

This one is the NVIDIA Terra k1, it's a quad-core 2.2 gigahertz chipset, and we also have the Kepler GPU with 192 cores ready to do some gaming. As far as the ROM is concerned, we have 2 gigabytes of VRAM lpddr3 and the tablet comes into storage versions, 16, gigabytes of storage or 64 gigabytes of storage, plus, you can add up to 120 gigabytes more via the micro SD card slot. Other specs include an 8, megapixel Sony sensor camera at the back here and up front. We have a 5 megapixel shooter, that's actually quite good for selfies. While on the connectivity side, you should know that this tablet comes with Wi-Fi direct Bluetooth, 4.0, there's no GPS, and there is no LTE or 3G version of the slate. For now.

In the section we like to call and others we can find the gyroscope, we have a light sensor, proximity sensor and a compass. The battery we are dealing with here is my own unit. Be careful some sites claim its lithium-polymer, so it's either lithium-ion or lithium polymer 6700 million per hour on paper. It should provide us with 86 hours of music and, let's see how it did in our test. We usually test batteries by looping video sample, HD video sample with brightness of 50% and Wi-Fi own, and we achieved a pretty impressive 10 hours of HD video playback time, which is very good compared to the iPad Mini retina.

That also got 10 hours in our test, and we actually beat a popular Android model from last year. The LG G pad 8.3 then got on in 7 hours and 40 minutes. So we're doing very well for an Android tablet, with a pretty good price of about 300 euros. The charging time is two hours and a half which is also ok and charging time of the iPad. Mini retina was three hours and 40 minutes, so I would say we're doing very fine.

Now in the settings area they probably expect himself power saving. You won't exactly get that. So, let's find the battery here. We go battery better use showing you what usage pattern is better indicator with three options and finally or settings with a high performance mode balance mode and battery saving mode. The later one is probably more useful when you're running out of battery okay.

This is it LS it very good battery 10 hours of HD, video, playback and pleased with that, and now, let's have a listen for the speakers here at the bottom and prepare to be pretty impressed. So we have the music app from me. We start off with a bit of a store. It has an online section recommending the latest tools, some China and my music. That features a collection of tunes that we have available on our device.

Okay, so let's listen to one of them. Okay. Now, let's draw some conclusions. First, I like the interface of the movie, player', very minimalistic, and if you thought that HTC Sense was minimalistic well, this is even more minimalistic. I find the speakers to be loud very loud actually for a small tablet to be clear, and I mean the sound and very good pace.

It's totally louder than iPad Mini I. Give you that much and louder an iPad, Mini retina, it's possibly the best speaker on a small screen tablet right now we don't have an equalizer, we have very good audio. The sound is Chris is warm, and we also have some decibel measurements for you. This is our vegetable meter and when the tablet is facing us with the speaker, we got eighty-four point: two decibels when the tablet isn't facing us, or rather facing the table, 83.3 decibels, which is very okay. For example, a flagship like the LG g3 gets 87 decibels, so I would say we're sitting pretty well.

The tablet is loud and these were the tests would perform here a table news. com not on the video set of things. We have a 7.9, you screen IPS LCD, 2048, / 1536, and we have some video samples to show you. Just like the music player. You have shown some Asian content, stuff online movies, videos and all that, and now, let's play the test video that we rely on during our usual reviews.

Ok, so let's go back a bit also a minimalistic experience here. So this video player looks pretty nice and the screen offers vivid, colors wide viewing angles as usual for an IPS without degradation, and it was a pretty bright screen. The image is crisp, we get glove use, so we have glove. We can use the screen with no problem one day, a solution and RGB striped pixels. We also appreciated the high resolution of the screen, and I was surprised to see that it actually behaves pretty nicely when exposed to full sunlight, and we also have some other measurement related to the screen.

As I said: RGB striped pixels. This is the microscope used on a tablet, and we achieved a well of 310 Lux units which may seem impressive at first, but when you compare it to other tablets, it's not so impressive. The Nexus 7 from 2013, for example, got 500 Lux the iPad Mini retina 412 Lux, but at least we beat the LG G pad 8.3, and it's 260 Lux units overall, the screen could be a little brighter. I would advise you not to use the screen with anything less than maximum brightness, because it will seem a bit dark. You won't feel the lack of brightness shown by the lux level from earlier.

Luckily, and as I said, a very good display could have been a bit brighter and now, let's discuss the camera, so we have a CMOS Shawnee, eight megapixel sensor at the back and the front filmmaker pixel camera has an earth 2.0 aperture, as expected, probably just like the rest of the multimedia apps. We have a very minimalistic interface in the camera, even more minimalistic than the latest iPad interface in iOS 7, soon to be iOS, 8, okay, so the zoom is not very fast and the touch focus and the picture-taking is actually pretty fast. Now, let's discuss this interface on the left side, we have shortcut to the phone camera. We also have these options like audio, often skin. So if you're taking a picture of a person, you can eliminate its piece of her wrinkles and other imperfections.

By using that option, then a bunch of filters, a lot of them. Actually we have Sketch. We have yesteryear, we have vivid mono normal. We have bird fish eye and mosaic, we have dawn 1970s, Japanese export autumn, integral mirror, and those are all of them, but I will stick to normal. For now, as I said earlier, picture-taking is fast.

However, the focus sometimes takes a pretty long, while, if you zoom in you could go for about 4x and the image remains pretty crisp, even at this type of zoom. So that's actually pretty nifty and let's see what else when you're filming you can film in 1080p a36 per second with both the front and the back camera cannot, let's actually take a picture of this castle very fast picture. Taking as I said now, let's see the two samples. Once again, we have a Swanee 8, megapixel camera I would say it looks pretty nice good level of detail decent brightness there we go again to be good picture especially for tablets. Camera now, I want to show you the gallery, so you can actually see more pictures taken with this tablet.

We have a lot of them as usual about 90 of them. Ok, so let's see this one, some of them are out of focus as you see, because the camera simply could not focus fast enough like this one rather blurry it was. It couldn't manage to focus on time. The colors are good. Images are crisp, the colors are realistic.

Pictures are bright. We have good white balance, it has a very fast phase detection in case you need that, and that was a pretty nice sample of a flower shot almost tomorrow. Colors are realistic, as I said. Sometimes you look for loose focus, and it's about on the same level as the camera on the iPad, Mini I, wouldn't say it's better I wouldn't say it's worse, at least in the compartment of photo taking. As you can see, all the details are there.

The part is realistic, and the brightness is good. Well, the filming is the weak point here. In spite of the fact we film in mp4 it's very easy to lose focus. Sadly, but at least the colors are ok, and certainly you will lose a lot of quality when zooming in and the image doesn't exactly seem very crisp, especially compared to the photos. There's focus, loss and I would say that the video capture is below the iPads, the iPad Mini and also below the Nexus 7 from last year.

Overall, the quality of the picture and video taking is okay for a tablet, but I was expecting a bit more from the filming, especially consider how will the photo taking these? At least the white balance changes nicely and let's try one more sample before you go? Maybe this one? Obviously, you can also see them on YouTube once or even will be done, and we also tried a bit of a selfie or two this one here, taken with the front camera. Everything is crisp. It's okay, it's nice! It's bright! We do some effects on other shots. I would say, I'm also happy with the selfie camera. It detected my face immediately and there's even some notification options and speaking of editing and things like that, if you want to edit a picture, you just have to tap this button here, and we got usual options like rotate flip straight and fish eye.

You can even do the run it if you want and then come the other options, the bigger ones sharpen highlights contrast, saturation hue, then some filters and then a bunch of frames to save your photo. This is it, as I said, pretty good picture taking on par with iPad minis. However, when it comes to video taking for some reason, it loses focus, it's not very crisp and not very impressive. Well at least it films in NP, 4 and not 3 dB. Now another piece of bad news: the fact that the temperature may get a bit of fight when playing with this tablet and adamantine in some more intensive games with high-end graphics, you can achieve 45 point seven degrees Celsius, which means the tablet tends to overheat just a little and all let's get to other aspects of this tablet.

Let's discuss, for example, the web browser. So this is the web browser that comes pre-installed on the tablet, and this is the virtual keyboard that actually pretty comfy the web browser is fast. The screen looks magnificent with this high resolution. You don't even need to zoom in to read the text of our website and there is a pretty cute way of displaying tabs like this. That's a pretty nice fast scrolling, fast pinch to zoom and top it all a very comfy virtual keyboard, very easy to use and type on.

Ok, we move further to the very important area of the benchmarks, you're, probably expecting a lot from this tablet, seeing how it has one of the most powerful processors in the world on a mobile device. As you probably know, from an article on tab, the news calm, we did a slight Rick of the benchmarks and quadrant wasn't compatible with this model. As you know, the Terra processors are picky, and they don't like all the apps in the Play Store. So heaven total here I decided to compare this tablet with the best tablets and processors around I, compared it to the iPad Mini retina and the Samsung Galaxy Note pro 12.2 I know it's not been the same screen category, but it has important Enos, 5, OCTA, CPU and Apple tablet has the 64-bit a7 CPU. So, let's start we have one to two.

Thirty, nine thousand three hundred fifty-three points, while beating the Galaxy Note pro 12.2. By about five thousand points in NATO mark with called fifty-nine point. Six frames per second got beaten by the Galaxy Note pro 12.2 by about 0.3 frames per second. So it's about the same score. In the latest llama with court 2977, we beat the Galaxy Note pro 12.2 by about 1200 points in the multi-core test. We got 2,300 points, it's a new test in beta, and it's looking hot as you can see, with even beat on the galaxy s5, but about 1000 points or should I say let the motors and put about 700 points.

Ok in metal, we got 1665 we've been further, and we go to the enormous score of 3d mark 25,321, probably the highest score. I've ever reached in this match. Mark the iPad Mini retina scores 14k points here, so we almost doubled eight points and Galaxy Note pro 12.2 scores, twenty twelve thousand seven hundred and eighty-four points, so we beat all of them very easily. Geek bench 3 did no work, but at least GTX did and in the T. rex test in the off-screen test.

We achieved forty-seven point: seven frames per second, while the iPad Mini retina achieves twenty-six and the Galaxy Note pro 12.2 achieves twenty-two point: nine, so we beat them by a huge margin. Speed test did not work as usual and neither did browser mark 2.0. So we tried speed checker that gave us twenty-two mega per second in download and six mega per second in upload and a pretty huge, pink I. Don't rely on this app very I'm used to speeding test rather than this one for comparison?s sake, the iPad, Mini retina scores 19 minute per second in download, so we beat it while the Galaxy Note pro scores 20 for mega per second download, so it beat us finally, Consider 590 4.2 m/s, the lower, the better we got beaten by that and Mini retina, who is in the 400 mark, so it beat us by quite a bit. We even got bad bitten by the Galaxy Note pro 12.2, and it's 531 points. Overall.

If you draw a line, you see that this model fits the iPad Mini retina and the Galaxy Note pro 12.2 in more benchmarks. Then it gets bitten. So I would say that we're doing pretty well in the test. Of course, aside from those that don't work as I said, Terra k1 is picky and not all the apps and games work on it. The time it takes for you to shut down the tablet when it's 15 seconds and the boot time for the meat pad it's 29 seconds, it's a bit higher than the iPad Mini retinas 20 seconds.

The operating system here is Android 4.4.2 with me. We on top. As far as I know, it's mew version.5 should be an update soon, so android 4.4.2 with my UI. On top, it's a very clear and clean interface. We don't have a separate app zone in case you're, wondering all the apps are on the home screens and in order to unlock the tablet, you have to swipe up.

That's only one of the aspects of its functioning. Ok, the widgets are placed on separate home screen, so we have apps here, which is here and widgets. Here you can place them like this and if you pinch, you'll see the widget options that you can place here. Some of them have sub options like this one with various sizes, block sizes, gallery sizes and some of them said it won't work. As you can see the task manager which it doesn't seem to work, it seems pending and neither does the general so some of them don't work.

If you also pinch the app home screen area, you see, options like move, apps, add widget and here by widget it means actually toggles and setting shortcuts, plus a cleaner and contacts so set the home screens for widgets, simple things for apps. We can also change wallpaper from this section, and you can also change the effects cross state, tumbled, page cascade rotating cube, okay. Now in the dock area, as if you have four point four main apps' gallery: video, music and browser, of course, you can change any font. You can add another one here. We can move one from here and if you drag and drop one item to the next, it will create a folder.

If you go to the drop-down area, we find the notification area in the main screen. We swipe to the right, and we find the toggles. We got airplane, Bluetooth, screenshot rotation, vibrate ring Wi-Fi, auto brightness, disable, lock, reboot and more. If you tap the screenshot button, you'll take the solution and that's the only way you can do it. I tried usual combo with the owner button and the volume button guess what it didn't work.

This area, just like the entire interface, is very minimalistic, and it's very easy to use, and it gives us quick access to the settings area. Yet again, minimalistic is very clean, is very iPad like I have to say it. It's filled with options, but not so many as on iOS, where you can easily get lost among them. So, let's see what options we have here, we have options for the notification area. You can change its layout from bar or to page you can also show the collection speed, which I find to be an interesting feature and a new one.

You can manage notifications from here for each app additional settings as well and let's see what other options we have here: security options, including strange security screen, lock with an unlock pattern owner info and other things like that. We also have special options for the buttons you can also trigger special features for them. So, for example, if you do a long press on one of these navigation buttons, you can either show menu close an app. Each of them has these options. We can define long press time, and you can also set them up for the functions in the lock screen.

So if you're in the lock screen- and you do a long press of the back button- you trigger the camera, for example, notification, light options available as well with policies and all that and now, let's get to the apps section, I'll give you a short tour of the little amount of apps that we have pre-installed on this me. We tablet. So it comes with its own calendar, obviously very minimalistic allowing to have an event like this, and it comes with an email, app or not taking application. Some parts of it are in Chinese. You can actually make a pretty ample or not.

You can add short street images. Furthermore, you can add a date and a time change the background color. If you want and even more options available here, add a note, deletes and place on home screen and create multimedia notes. We also have a game section: I'm, guessing those are the same games. You can find out the Play Store, nothing exactly different, but it's also in Chinese.

We have the movie market where we actually got our Google installer, as you saw in the tutorial, and this tablet, as I said, does not come with Google Play Store installed prince lemon and Google Apps, but you can install them easily. With our tutorial. We have my cloud service, a calculator, something called the meet credits. We also have a clock, download and an explorer to access your file as a file manager and then count the apps we installed ourselves. Play, Store, Maps, Gmail play games, play music and all that, as I said installed by us.

Ok, there's no Play Store and Google Apps. When you buy the tablet, keep in mind, we have a lot earlier on our channel, be sure to check it out. Then now some last mentions this tablet. I have to say that, although the interface between English some areas of it will be shown in Chinese for some reason, the tablet has no lag, but it loses. The occasional frame were swiping between Windows.

We can also customize it the way you want it, I added the normal launcher that recently got an update, allowing it to look just like Android L display the cool and text to the nova launcher. As you can see, we have the abyssal and widgets area back, and it actually seems to be a bit snappier with the mobile launcher. So if you don't like me, we can switch to nova easily or any other options, which is something you cannot do the iPads and now the verdict for the tablet pros and cons on the pro side. Obviously, the price, very good price, 300 euros for this model, or if you're in China, 240 bucks I, would say it's pretty good, very good battery 10 hours of HD video playback. The camera is also very good when taking pictures.

The speakers are very loud, very crisp. Excellent. The hardware is very powerful, as I said, the most powerful processor on Android devices right now and with the attack Rocky one. The screen was good in our tests. It was satisfying.

We have a very good selfie camera here, and this is where the pro aspect ends and the cons begin. I was disappointed by the video capture I'll be disappointed by the slippery case, but you can use a special case for that, and I would say that me we's not my cup of tea, but you can customize it there's a slight bit of overheating, which may be another drawback. And finally, the screen is a fingerprint magnet. As you can see, the cons are not that big, but the pros are very big. I'm talking about battery price camera hardware, displaying selfie cam, all of them, leading us to a high grade and giving this model or nine point one out of ten for design I'm, also giving it 10 out of 10 for hardware because, let's face it, what can you object here? You get the best CPU best speakers very good screen and a very good camera, so 10 out of 10 for hardware, a 9 for operating system and user interface and finally, an extra great, a 10 for the price.

The final grade, 9.50 2 out of 10. For me, this is the tablet of the year, the tablet of 2014 for now with Android on board and what can I say: I'm an iPad man myself, but I wouldn't mind changing by iPad, meaning for this tablet, although, frankly speaking, I would rather buy the iPad Mini retina because it gives the game earlier, and it doesn't have compatibility problems with the Terra k1. So keep that in mind before you purchase this go mini pad. It's still a very good tablet, probably the best tablet with Android and a small screen. As I said, 9.50 2 out of 10 here at table, news. com bye, bye,.

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