After testing the Honor Pad very appreciable quality with 12.1 inches and a suitably adapted interface to easily navigate apps, multitask, games and more. The best, its great autonomy and its sound.
The HONOR Pad 9 can be purchased in Europe for 309 dollars. A single 8 + 256 GB variant that stands out for its giant screen and sound which will even avoid the need to pair it with a Bluetooth speaker. An interesting detail to make it the entertainment center of the house.
MagicOS 7.2 based on Android 13 In conjunction with the Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 chip (launched September 2022), they work in excellent partnership to make performance and interface control very simple and intuitive. Whether it’s switching to the home screen from an app open in full screen or floating an app, there are a series of gestures that make using this tablet easier.
It’s essential that a device with a 12.1-inch screen has enough interaction tools to manage it easily, even if Missing the double tap on the screen to activate it and so you don’t even need to press the power button to unlock.
Premium specs
A tablet of this size has a few important things to look at and review before purchasing it. Especially since the bigger it is, the more it will weigh and the larger its dimensions will be. There HONOR Pad 9 has a weight of 555 g and dimensions of 278.27 x 180.11 x 6.9 mm. Which becomes a thin and light tablet with fair edges on the screen and in harmony with the entire facade.
Moving on to the screen already, it’s a TFT LCD (IPS) display with 2.5K (2560 x 1600) resolution and the ability to reproduce 1.07 billion colors. Inside it houses the Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 chip, which stands out for its energy efficiency and excellent performance.
In fact, HONOR wanted to take advantage of its excellence in autonomy to include an 8,300 mAh battery, which suggests that it is more than enough to spend hours and hours consuming multimedia content in all its forms.
Following the flow of multimedia content c onsumption, it has 8 speakers, HONOR Histen audio and two microphones
Design and photography
The HONOR Pad 9 plays with a sober style with metallic body, without highlighting almost anything in the design, and imbues the back with its brand and a camera module in which we can read AI Camera. Now that a thin tablet is getting more attention thanks to Apple and its 5.1mm iPad Pro, this tablet is 6.9mm thick, while the new Redmi Pad Pro is 7.52mm.
In the the rear camera appears to be a 13 Mpx with f/2.0 and autofocus and on the front one of 8 Mpx with f/2.2 aperture. The different modes can be used to enhance portrait photography with beauty mode, HDR mode or go to a professional to specify capture settings.
Consumption of multimedia content
With the specifications in hand, it is easier to understand one of the purposes of this tablet, namely the consumption of multimedia content at all levels. A high-quality 12.1-inch screen provides an exceptional experience for enjoy streaming platforms such as Netflix, Max or YouTube itself as well as others dedicated to gaming like Twitch.
We can say that it is a pleasure to watch movies or series as well as play a few good games on any video game. In our case, we tested one of the notable arrivals of recent weeks on Android, Loop Hero which of course looks scary and all the more so since it is a game that, although it can be enjoyed on the typical screen of any current smartphone (between 6.5 or 6.7 inches), all details of it appear on the Honor Pad 9 roguelike (Infinite RPG) which gives the possibility of building a medieval town and more.
The sound is excellent and it’s a very pleasant surprise how good the bass sounds with the Spotify volume turned up or the movie soundtrack on Filmin. With this tablet, you You can avoid buying a Bluetooth speakersince even with the volume at maximum it sounds very good thanks to the four grilles placed, two on each side so that the sound comes out.
Productivity and multitasking
Although at first glance it may seem like a tablet intelligently designed for entertainment, HONOR continues to work tirelessly on the development of the interface focused on the use of a mobile device like the screen of the Pad 9. It You need an interface that allows the user to manage it. correctly without having to stretch your arm from time to time to access one application or another or go to the beginning.
MagicOS 7.2 based on Android 13 is an example of the aforementioned work, although there is one point that we didn’t like at all: the large number of Google apps it recommends installing when setting up the tablet for the first time; which may be good for some users, but the setup becomes cumbersome by rejecting Google Files, Google News, Google Messages and others.
After this point, there are a few details of the interface that we really liked: one of them is a very intuitive gesture because when you are in a game or watching a movie, from the bottom of the screen, swipe up to go to the home screen.
Interaction with a tablet of this size is v ital and the gestures that will be used the most, besides the saying, are the one dedicated to displaying the control panel by doing it at the top right and the notification panel on the left; and the lateral gesture from left to right or vice versa to switch between the two. Yes, the double tap on the screen to activate the screen is missed, because it still requires using the power button.
These are the gestures that will be used the most on a daily basis on this tablet. For multitasking, it comes with some nice features: you go into preview mode and each app will show if it can be used for multitasking with a window icon located just at the top right.
There HONOR Pad 9 lets you drop a game or app as if it were floating (always depending on whether the game or application allows it to be expanded as if it were a Windows window), and access the split screen: from the application preview, click on the button of the window mentioned previously then on the top bar of the screen. app window to choose floating mode or split screen, or simply drag it to the top right corner to make it a mini window.
Everything is very intuitive and the performance is excellent to perform any action, even if you want to minimize the app and leave it with the floating button to open it at any time.
Finally, MagicOS 7.2 contains AI-based details such as extract text from an imagea tap to access associated services or apps (such as Google Maps if the text is an address) or the ability to select and hold text to drag and drop it into the HONOR Notes app to paste it immediately .
The software lacks nothing and has a good list of its own applications, as well as the Safe Box experience to imitate Secure Folder or the private one that will arrive in Android 15.
Your autonomy
They are the battery is 8,300 mAh and it allowed us to enjoy hours and hours of a game like Loop Hero. HONOR is missing offering details on the use of applications, they practically no longer exist and everything focuses on displaying the remaining usage hours and percentage.
Its charge capacity allows you to go from 10% to 24% in 30 minutes. Speed isn’t one of its strong points, although MagicOS does a good job at efficiency, so that an hour of video consumes 14% of your battery.
Should I buy it?
Going from the HONOR Pad x9 in price means almost doubling it for very important improvements such as a very powerful sound with incredible bassthe 12.1-inch screen with a refresh rate of 120 Hz and a resolution of 2.5K, and significant capabilities in terms of performance and autonomy: best chip with Snapdragon 6 Gen 1, 16 GB of RAM , 256 GB internal and a battery life of 8,300 mAh with 35 W Fast Charge.
It’s a thin tablet in thickness, just like the Pad X9 and its photography has been improved on both the front and back. This may not be the most important aspect of a tablet usually dedicated to media consumption, but it adds value to the overall package.
The Spanish market now offers eye-catching tablets in this price range like the Xiaomi Pad 6 (launched in summer 2023), which has a Snapdragon 870 chip that loses efficiency in terms of energy efficiency, but demonstrates great power in performanceand the one fresh out of the oven, the Redmi Pad Pro. The stamp of honor
And of course, HONOR continues to invest in scary specs at a great price with great interest in becoming one of the benchmark brands in mobile devices in the years to come. One of them is this HONOR Pad 9 tablet.
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