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| Xiaomi Pad 5 Tablet | Unboxing & Full Tour |
If your choice in exactly mind blown outside of those super
budget amazon fire tabs you've basically got a whole heap of Samsung and not
much else but Chinese manufacturer xiaomi is here to offer an alternative
option namely the xiaomi pad 5. a fresh new 11-inch tablet boasts in a 120
hertz display some snapdragon 860 grunt and full stylus support so is the
xiaomi pad 5 any good well let's whip it on out of the box take you on a
full-on tour of that hardware and software and for more on the latest and
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All righty so what the lights lurk inside besides of course
the xiaomi pad 5. got the usual manual gubbins and got a proper chubby charger
got a usb cable even says usb just in case you got a bit confused and that's it
that's absolutely everything in the box nice and straightforward so perhaps
unsurprisingly the xiaomi pad 5 does look very much like a tablet it is an 11
inch whopper so certainly a bit of a sizeable one despite the fact that that's
reasonably sort of narrow bezels surrounding that display i can just about wrap
my hand around the back end of it
But it's not exactly super comfortable the zombie pad 5's
frame is entirely constructed from aluminium weighs about 500 grams in total
it's about the same as the standard apple ipad certainly feels solidly built
there's no obvious flex or weak points on this thing and it's a reasonably
slender effort too not much in the way of frills or flare to speak of it's a
very plain design around back and as you can see there it's already quite
clearly picking up a lot of finger grease as well so definitely keep a cleaning
cloth handy
If you want to keep it looking pristine and this right here
is the cosmic gray model not sure exactly what's cosmic about it but it looks
quite neat you can also grab the xiaomi pad 5 in pearl white okay so the xiaomi
pad 5 is all set up and what you've got on here is a bit of android 11 action
complete with all the google services support and everything as well we've also
got xiaomi's miui launches slatted on top which just changes up the general
look and vibe so you've still got you know good old android store what's like
that apps tree and of course the notifications bar
But then you've also got additional miui bits like the control
center which has been completely lifted from apple if you dive on into the
settings menu you'll see plenty of extra bonus bits in here as well so for instance
the game turbo mode which is great news for mobile and gaming fans more on that
in a bit because miui is quite a heavy launcher and xiaomi doesn't exactly
offer much reassurance when it comes to future updates for both the android os
and also the security patches as well so he even knows
If the xiaomi pad 5 is going to get updated to android 12
android 13 or indeed beyond as for storage where you've got a choice with the
xiaomi mi pad 5 you can either have 128 or 256 gigs of onboard storage uh but
use wisely though because there's no micro sd memory card support to expand
that now that screen as I mentioned before an 11 inches is certainly plenty
spacious for kicking back with a bit of netflix but youtube whatever you fancy
doing it's an ips panel but still so reasonably punchy those colors certainly
aren't dull or saturated or anything you do a full customization over the
output as usual here in the display settings though as you can see they're set
to vivid by default although you can scale it back ever so slightly uh if you
like got to admit you'll have to have better eyes than mine to see what the difference between
vivid and saturated is though pretty neutral color temperature by default but
again you can play around with that if
you like the tablets 2560 by 1600 pixel resolution keeps visuals nice and crisp
so definitely good for you know editing four tours kicking back with the film
although of course you do get some pretty thick letter boxing
When you're watching a movie that's shot in 21 by nine a
problem which you get with all tablets including the ipad but movie lovers are
certainly in for a treat because the xiaomi pad 5 has full support for dolby
vision hdr so nice natural looking visuals very lifelike nice strong contrast
and you've got a refresh rate topping off at 120 hertz as well which is great
news again if you're into your gaming likes vainglory and stuff like that that
supports that 120 frames per second and your movies tv shows and whatnot will
also sound as good as they look thanks to the quad speaker output pumping out
that dolby tuned audio you got full support for dolby atmos content as well and
you can choose between various presets including music and video otherwise you
can do a good bit of fine tuning of your own
I've been absolutely hammering this thing with a good bit of
netflix streaming disney plus a gaming
of course on call of duty mobile and so forth let me trickle down a few percent
and yeah on that top volume the xiaomi pad 5 speakers certainly pack a hell of
a punch should be absolutely perfect for you know watching a bit of youtube or whatever
uh while you're busy in a you know a really noisy kitchen whipping up a chip
butty or whatever and of course a lot of modern tablets support a stylus in
case you want to get all sketchy and creative we just want to you know annotate
documents or what have you and the xiaomi pad 5 is no different that you can
get a bit of xiaomi smartpen action on the go though this will cost you extra unfortunately
I'm not very creative myself all of my artistic talent could
probably fit into a spider's jock strap to be perfectly honest but let's give
this a go this very much looks like your standard traditional bluetooth stylus
complete with dual button support and to get these two pairing up and also to
charge the status all you need to do is bang it
On the bottom as you can see there's a magnetic connection
between the two and then you can get them paired up in the bluetooth menu and
there's even a nifty little tutorial if you don't know how to use it and
thankfully that magnetic connection seems pretty decent as well so uh you know
you'll have to give it a proper full-on nudge for it to go flying off that's a
nice responsive stylus as well so good for as i say your sketching uh abilities
which i have absolutely none of i did warn you and by pressing down that second
button on xiaomi's stylish you can also take a screenshot of a set section you
can even get a uh squiggly shape one on the go
I've always hated how
tablets always have cameras bolted to them like their bloody smartphones as
well because let's face it we've all been to a gig or a show where some in
front of us has held up their ipad the entire time recording the whole bloody
thing so you can't see diddly but of course these days with all of us zooming and
Microsoft teaming until we basically want to put a shock on our mouse and end
it all i can kind of sort of see the point of putting cameras on tablets now
and you do have an eight megapixel selfie shooter here on the xiaomi pad five
should be absolutely fine for all of that shenanigans and there's also a 13 megapixel
camera around back as well but i still don't really see the point in whatsoever
but it's there if you need it no problems when it comes to performance because
it's a qualcomm snapdragon 860 chipset backed by six gigs of ram running the
show here that means that of course all the apps will run absolutely fine and
yes gamers will be able to get stuck into their favorite titles including the
likes of gentian impact on the sort of medium detail settings with a nice fluid
frame rate and of course if you do have any games that support 120 frames per
second well you'll be able to enjoy those super smooth visuals here on the pad
5 as well when gaming on gunship impact i certainly didn't notice any issues
with the xiaomi pad 5 heating up either so you should be able to get gaming all
afternoon long no worries whatsoever and of course a nice wide spacious panel
and the touchscreen controls in perfectly responsive as well so no issues and
when you're getting your game on you've also got a game turbo menu which you
can pull out at any point which allows you to boost the performance
If you need to that just calls any apps running in the
background making sure that they are not hogging your resources you can also
record the action you can change your voice if you're doing a bit of commentary
and fear not benchmarking fans i haven't forgotten you guys either this is the kind
of score you can expect geek bench to spaff out on your xiaomi pad 5. And no worries
on the battery tech either you've got 8720 milliamps are crammed into the
xiaomi pad 5. I’ve been using this thing for about three hours on and off now
streaming a bit of uh Netflix and Disney plus playing a bit gentian impact
testing out all the various features and that battery has only gone down not
even quite a quarter yet so as long as you don't absolutely hammer the thing
you should be able to get all day play on a single charge but when it does come
time to juice it back up again well
It only supports 22.5 watt charge and not exactly super
nippy so it's going to take a while to fill it back up again and there you have
it that in a nutshell is the fresh new xiaomi pad 5 android tablet with a good
bit of miui slatted on top certainly one for any media lovers out there with
its full support for dolby vision dolby atmos and some respectable specs across
the board and hopefully the uk pricing for the xiaomi pad 5 will be very
respectable indeed although sadly don't know it at the time i shot this video
because i've shot it a couple of weeks ahead of the official launch when i do
find Out in this Blog.
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