I know what you’re thinking. Nubia has been around for ages—it should have a range of tablets already, right? That’s what I thought, too. I assumed I just missed reporting them, but in reality, the Chinese smartphone maker behind Nubia and Redmagic never had a tablet—until now. Folks, meet the Nubia Pad Pro, the brand’s first-ever Android tablet.
This being its first, the brand decided to give everyone else a run for their money. Powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mobile Platform, this new kid on the Android tablet block is rocking a glorious, eye-popping 10.9-inch 2.8K 144 Hz “full-spectrum” ultra display and a whopping 10,100 mAh 66 W battery—all while maintaining a super-thin 7.3 mm profile and tipping the scales at a mere 523g.
The Gen 3 SoC is, of course, the magical result of the 4 nm process. It features a 3.3 GHz big-core CPU, up to 903 MHz GPU frequency, and is bolstered by LPDDR5X RAM and UFS 4.0 storage.
You’d think Nubia would lean heavily on productivity with this device, but no—it wants you to know that this big guy is capable of smooth, high-frame-rate gaming, thanks to the Nebula Performance Scheduling Engine. It promises to handle all kinds of “large-scale games, awakens combat power, maintains stable frame rates,” while reducing power consumption.
There’s no need to talk productivity—if it can handle games smoothly, it can do (or handle) just about anything.
Because this device is large, it gives Nubia the liberty to up the game in cooling. It touts a six-layer cooling system featuring 9,268 mm² of superconducting copper foil and graphene, and 29,400 mm² of under-display cooling alloy.
Other notables include a 13 MP rear camera, 20 MP front-facing camera, Wi-Fi 6, BT 5.4, quad speakers, DTS:X Ultra, NFC, gravity sensor, gyroscope, SGS Low Blue Light certification, and a Type-C interface that isn’t a 2.0—it’s a 3.2.
However, this is not a flagship; it still has a TFT display, and it doesn’t appear to support in-display fingerprint scanning, nor does it have face unlock—at least, we didn’t see those features listed.
Anyhoo, it’s offered in a choice of black and silver colorways—depending on the configuration, which includes 8+256, 12+256, and 16+512. The Nubia Pad Pro is available now with a starting price of US$419.
Images: Nubia.
Story via Hardwarezone.
