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Realme Pad X review: Should you buy this tablet instead of Xiaomi Pad 5 or iPad Air?


The Realme Pad X was launched in India earlier this year as the company’s first tablet to offer 5G connectivity. It has an 11-inch screen and has a four-speaker setup. This tablet is powered by Snapdragon 695 SoC and packs an 8,340mAh battery. You also get support for accessories like the Realme Smart Keyboard and the Realme Pencil. This tablet is available in Wi-Fi and cellular configurations, and the latter competes with the Xiaomi Pad 5, has a more powerful processor and a Dolby Vision certified display.

In this week’s episode of Gadgets 360 podcast trajectoryguest Siddhartha Suvarna talk to reviewers Pranav Hegde and Premium Reviewers Sheldon Pinto to understand what Realme Pad X must provide.

With Apple having no competitors in the affordable tablet segment, Android tablet makers like Xiaomi, Realme, Oppo, and Motorola offer several options across different price segments. If you are looking for a tablet with an 11-inch display, then you can pick up the Realme Pad X which starts at Rs. 19,999, or Xiaomi Pad 5, currently priced at Rs. 26,999 or you can even buy iPad Air (2022) model is priced at Rs. 44,900.

Unlike Xiaomi Pad 5, which is equipped with Snapdragon 870 SoC, Realme Pad X comes with Snapdragon 695 SoC under the hood. The former offers better performance, although both tablets pale in comparison to the iPad Air (2022), which is of course also a lot more expensive.

The Realme Pad X has a plastic frame and plastic back, and comes in two color options: Glacier Blue and Glow Gray. Pranav says that the rear panel is well designed, and you’ll definitely have to turn your head if you use this tablet in public.

Realme Pad X review: iPad Air-inspired Android tablet but half the price //

The tablet also supports a stylus, with the company’s Realme Pencil, which Pranav and Sheldon consider a bit too expensive at Rs. 5,500. It’s also not very reliable and sometimes stops working suddenly while you’re using it, says Pranav. He added that Samsung charges a lot more for their stylus, but it performs much better than the Realme Pencil. The keyboard accessory, on the other hand, provides excellent key travel.

You get a 10.95-inch display on the Realme Pad X, with a WUXGA+ resolution (1,200×2,000 pixels). It’s an LCD screen and isn’t Dolby Vision certified, unlike the Xiaomi Pad 5. However, Pranav says that the display is right for the price you’re paying. There’s no HDR support and it has a 60Hz refresh rate, but you do get Widevine L1 support for Netflix HD content, which should be more than enough, as Sheldon points out.

Can you play games on the Realme Pad X? Pranav has played Call of Duty and Asphalt and says it’s much easier to play the latter because you just need to tilt the rather large tablet. Sheldon points out that you’re holding a tablet that weighs about 0.5kg. Pranav says it might be worth looking into a game controller if you want to play games on this tablet.

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According to Pranav, the battery life on the Realme Pad X is quite impressive. Realme says you get 19 hours, but we got about 17 hours in our test. This is much better than the non-portable variant of the iPad, which is said to offer 10 hours of playback.

Pranav says that the camera on the Realme Pad X can let you down. The company has properly arranged the position of the front camera, but the adjustment is far from desirable. He said that the images were very soft, with a lot of noise. Realme has a feature called Limelight that focuses on people in the video and keeps them in the center of the frame, but this only works with Google Meet and Zoom. There’s a bit of lag and lag, but it works, he said.

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