With a starting price of only 1499 yuan, the Redmi Pad Pro offers a decent 12.1-inch screen, a large-capacity battery rarely seen in its price range, and comes pre-loaded with Xiaomi's Mi Pad OS, enhancing its ecosystem connectivity. Instead of solely focusing on performance, the Redmi Pad Pro also prioritizes everyday audiovisual and productivity experiences. Its performance adequately meets daily needs, while its comprehensive eye protection features and educational resources make it a valuable learning tool for children. Let's delve into how the Redmi Pad Pro, as an entry-level Mi Pad OS tablet, performs.
The Redmi Pad Pro impresses with its battery life, thanks to its rare 10000mAh high-capacity battery, a feature seldom found in tablets of its price range. It boasts an impressive 56.7 days of standby time in deep sleep mode.
Battery consumption during 5 hours of web browsing
After a 5-hour web browsing test with the screen brightness set to 70%, only 6% of battery was consumed. When streaming FrameMaster movies on iQIYI (4K) with the screen brightness at maximum and volume at 10%, the battery drained by 90% over 5 hours. This battery life is quite satisfactory considering the ultra-clear picture quality and maximum screen brightness. For daily multimedia, work, and study use, the battery life is reliable. Additionally, the Redmi Pad Pro is stated to maintain 80% of its battery capacity even after 1000 charging cycles according to the official statement.
In terms of fast charging, the Redmi Pad Pro supports 33W wired fast charging. After the tablet's battery is depleted to 1%, it charges up to 24% in just 30 minutes, and it takes 2 hours and 1 minute to fully charge. While the charging speed might be considered slow for a 10,000mAh battery, the starting price of 1499 yuan can provide some consolation.
The Redmi Pad Pro is powered by the same Snapdragon 7s Gen2 chip found in the Note 13 Pro, utilizing Samsung's 4nm process. Its CPU consists of four 2.4GHz big cores and four 1.95GHz small cores, supporting LPDDR4x RAM and UFS 2.2 storage. While this chip may not excel in performance or handle heavy gaming loads, it's sufficient for smooth usage, particularly for tasks like multimedia entertainment, light productivity, and educational purposes. With an AnTuTu benchmark score of 600,543 points, the Redmi Pad Pro handles multiple tasks without experiencing any lag. Additionally, it supports storage expansion up to a whopping 1.5TB, ensuring ample space for storing files, videos, music, and educational materials.
In other aspects, the Redmi Pad Pro delivers commendable performance in audio and video. Equipped with four stereo speakers supporting Dolby Atmos, the experience is notably satisfying when watching content from iQiyi's high-definition library.
The 12.1-inch 2.5K screen marks Xiaomi's debut of an eye-friendly tablet.
To become an excellent multimedia tablet, besides the speakers mentioned earlier, the screen quality must be top-notch. The Redmi Pad Pro features a 12.1-inch 2.5K screen, offering a 33% increase in screen area compared to the previous Redmi Pad. This results in outstanding visual performance, with its classic 16:10 aspect ratio making reading documents and watching movies quite comfortable. Combined with 249 PPI, a 120Hz variable refresh rate, and 600 nits of brightness, the Redmi Pad Pro, as a mid-range tablet, delivers a satisfactory experience. Its screen quality is sufficient for daily use, providing clear and detailed visuals with rich and comfortable colors.
The Redmi Pad Pro is highly suitable for students, partly due to its adherence to Xiaomi's "Medical-Engineering Integration" concept for eye protection, certified by the China Quality Certification Center with an S++ rating for visual health friendliness. Additionally, it holds the Triple Eye Protection Certification from Germany's TüV Rheinland, ensuring extra eye protection. Moreover, with its support for ambient color temperature sensing, the Redmi Pad Pro ensures a more comfortable viewing experience, making it equally suitable for elderly family members and children at home.
The Redmi Pad Pro also brings an even better overall build quality, upgrading to a metal integrated body, elevating both the feel and texture. With a thickness of just 7.52mm, the device feels even lighter and thinner. Moreover, the Redmi Pad Pro has passed over 30 quality tests, ensuring resilience against daily wear and tear as well as minor falls.
Enhanced Educational Hub
It's worth mentioning that the Redmi Pad Pro is particularly suitable for students as a learning tool. In addition to the smooth and eye-friendly large screen mentioned earlier, the Redmi Pad Pro's built-in Xiaomi Education Center has been comprehensively upgraded in terms of resources, parental remote functions, and health reminders. Furthermore, the Redmi Pad Pro has undergone testing and certification for products designed to protect minors, including remote guardianship, visual and auditory protection, app management, duration management, and content management. Its main focus is to make the learning process healthier for children and more reassuring for parents.
The Education Center built into the Redmi Pad Pro features a plethora of early childhood enlightenment materials and learning resources. Children of all ages can find corresponding study materials, forming a more comprehensive learning system. For instance, there are math enlightenment, Chinese picture books, Tang and Song poetry, and other rich educational content available. The enrichment materials are also suitable for parents and children to enjoy together, making leisure time after class more enjoyable. For example, there are abundant classic children's songs, original English-language animations, and much more.
The design of the education center's pages is also more in line with children's preferences, with bright colors, rich patterns, and more childlike charm. Compared to other page designs on tablets, it's more engaging and can attract children's attention.
In terms of parental controls, the educational center is also quite comprehensive. Parents can set usage limits, view usage reports, and manage the content of learning channels, allowing them to work with peace of mind. In time management, parents can even allocate detailed limits for weekdays and holidays, which I find to be a very meticulous feature.
When using the Redmi Pad Pro, in addition to features like screen distance detection, eye protection mode, and shake reminders, the education center now includes a new function to alert users when the ambient light is too dim, ensuring children use the tablet in a healthier manner.
The Redmi Pad Pro, the first tablet to feature Xiaomi's powerful MIUI for Pad OS, offers comprehensive cross-device connectivity within the ecosystem, making it arguably the most cost-effective tablet with the MIUI for Pad OS.
Features like 5G network support for tablet-phone sharing, receiving notifications and calls on tablets, and cross-device file transfers are already familiar to many. These functionalities are now available on the Redmi Pad Pro as well. Additionally, the Redmi Pad Pro can serve as a secondary screen for other Windows computers, enabling keyboard and mouse sharing, significantly boosting productivity. With seamless cross-screen collaboration, it offers convenience and efficiency. For simple work tasks, using the Redmi Pad Pro is more than sufficient.
Summary
The Redmi Pad Pro is the first Redmi tablet to come pre-installed with PadOS, catering to users' cross-device connectivity needs. With a 12.1-inch 2.5K resolution screen, a 10,000mAh battery, and a metallic body, starting at 1499 yuan, it offers good value for money. While its performance may not be the most powerful, it boasts excellent eye protection features and upgraded educational center, making it ideal as a family-friendly educational and entertainment tablet or a movie-watching device. If you're not into heavy gaming, the Redmi Pad Pro is more than capable of meeting your everyday needs, making it one of the best value-for-money all-in-one tablets in the market.
