Oppo Pad Air review 2024: next-level portability and performance

It is obvious that Oppo has given a great deal of care and consideration into the matter of how to launch its tablet in this part of the world. The Oppo Pad Air is a competitor to the Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 that comes in at a far lower price point than its main competitor, the Samsung Galaxy Tab A8. This is despite the fact that the Oppo Pad Air is definitely capable of releasing an all-singing, all-dancing premium tablet.

As a result of the dominance of Apple’s iPad line at the high end of the tablet industry, the most exciting competition for the throne of tablets costing approximately $200 or less may be found at the lower end of the price spectrum. Is there a chance for the Oppo Pad Air to compete? It undoubtedly leaves a favourable first impression because to its well-executed design, respectable display, and adequate performance. Let’s take a look at how everything fits together to form the whole.

Oppo Pad Air Specifications

Oppo is a Chinese firm that solely made smartphones until very recently and is mostly known only in China and India. Outside of those two countries, the company is not very well known.

Oppo Pad Air: Design and Build

The marketing gimmick for the Oppo Pad Air focuses mostly on the tablet’s back, despite the fact that the device’s front is unremarkable. It’s hard to think that you spend more time looking at the back of your electronics than the front, but that’s the reality considering how many people carelessly place their devices screen-down on any surface.

Although it may be a stretch to call the backside a “shimmering expanse of possibility,” the “Dune 3D Texture” proves to be more than just marketing speak. The majority of the Oppo Pad Air’s rear panel is a sleek gunmetal shell with subtle speckles, but the final 20 percent, extending out from the solitary camera bump, has a design that’s reminiscent of a sand dune shimmering in the moonlight.

Display and Speakers

The screen is large, bright, and contrasty, making it ideal for watching videos on YouTube and Netflix both at home and on the road. The panel’s brightness of 360 nits means it won’t perform well in direct sunlight but is more than adequate for indoor use. As may be expected of a device in this price range, it doesn’t support HDR.

Swiping across the home screen is more difficult than normal due to the 60Hz monitor display. It functions as intended, but the screen is noticeably less fluid than those seen on most modern smartphones (which typically run at 120 Hz). This has never been an issue in terms of obtaining content. There is some wiggle room in the way colors are shown. Color temperature can be adjusted to be either cooler, normal, or warmer. While convenient, it won’t satisfy the most discerning customers.

Oppo Pad Air: Camera

Tablets typically underperform in the realm of photography. When compared to even mid-range smartphones, even the market leaders gloss over the specifics with their sensor arrays. The Oppo Pad Air is similarly priced. Very nearly unusable.

Neither the tablet’s front nor back camera are mentioned anywhere on the product page, not even in the obscured specs section. Embedded in the same “dune” finish that Oppo loves is a single 8MP camera on the rear. At sunset, in the garden, it took me right back to my senior year in high school. The presentation as a whole was unclear and excessively noisy, with colorless images. Even though they’ll have a high resolution, they’ll be completely devoid of detail.

Oppo Pad Air: Performance

It provides adequate performance for a generally trouble-free operating experience, but you shouldn’t count on it for intensive tasks, and, depending on the software, multitasking may also be a problem. The Redmi Pad from Xiaomi is much more powerful.

The 120 Hz display may not be enough to entice demanding gamers, as the SoC lacks the processing ability to run many mobile games at their recommended settings. Oppo has a memory advantage over Huawei and Samsung tablets thanks to the use of UFS 2.2 flash in place of the slower eMMC. This expedites downloads and other forms of data transport.

Oppo Pad Air: Battery Life

The lightweight tablet’s very high-capacity battery, which enabled it to achieve a battery life of 13:43 hours in our WLAN test, is what really sells the device in terms of its life expectancy. The Xiaomi Redmi Pad can still do one better, but the Oppo Pad Air is, all things considered, very suitable for everyday usage and will most certainly survive a day of intensive use without needing to be plugged in. In the event that you do need to charge it, you can use up to 18 watts to do so. The battery will require around three hours to get its full charge again.

Final Words

At around £180, the Oppo Pad Air is a better buy than the Lenovo M10 2nd Gen, the Honour Pad 8, and even the Samsung Galaxy Tab A8. It’s cheap enough to give to kids or a tech-savvy grandparent, but the way it handles multiple tasks isn’t great, so there’s always a chance you’ll get annoyed with it.

For some people, it’s a light browsing and entertainment device, and for others, it might be a cheap smart home hub, but it’s not much more than that. At £240, it’s too close to the price of a refurbished iPad from 2021 to suggest.

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