OnePlus Pad Tablet

Let me start by saying I love OnePlus. I have been on OnePlus since the 7 pro (which I owned for far too long and still miss that phone) and I have a 10 Pro right now. I love ALMOST everything about the Pad. The screen feels nice and smooth and responsive, as well as the high refresh rate on apps that support it is a very nice thing I feel like is missing from a lot of smaller devices. The speakers are best in class. TBH I have never heard a tablet sound this full. I at one point not too long ago working with repairing electronics and I have seen almost every device on the market and had to do testing on it. From Ipads to Samsung and Fire tablets, I can tell you none sound as good as the Pad.

Now to the bad. I have 2 MAJOR complaints about this device. First being the “Multi Screen Connect” features leave a lot to be desired. First issue I ran into is connecting to the OnePlus Nord Buds. They refused to quick connect until I unpaired them from my phone. Thankfully I only really will be using my buds with my Pad now that I have it so I wont be swapping back and forth. The second part of that is the “Connection Sharing”. It claims that it will send my calls and messages to my Pad from my 10Pro. This just simply doesn’t work. I have all features enabled and it doesn’t work at all. There is no connection being shared, no messages or calls being synced or passed. Don’t get me wrong, I am glad someone is finally taking a stab at the Apple ecosystem by trying full integration. However, the most basic features should be working, not the one that is completely unusable (app sync, which for some reason works fine).

Will update my review should these software issues be resolved finally.

As a long time user of Apple ipads from original 9.7 (several) to 12.9 inch versions, I was searching for a tablet in between. I considered the newer iPad 11 series, but took a chance on an Android OS and unknown brand, to me, that offered the correct ratios and size to easy read financial/investments documents and PDFs. While the 7.5 ratio display may not be the best dimensions for games, it is unquestionably superior to reading technical documents and ebooks/articles that are in horizontal scrolling or page flipping. My 12.9 iPad certainly has a beautiful large display that one can easily read and edit on; however, it’s size, weight and balance is not the best for extensive handholding reading. I actually bought the cheaper, light weight and largest Amazon Fire tablet just for reading Kindle and other digital library books, but now the oneplus11 tablet can do both quite well- without resorting to my high power reading glasses for some technical pdfs. Also the latest Android OS works well with syncing my Laptop’s Windows Office/Outlook email to the OnePlus 11 tablet. I have only had it a few days, and I love it’s response, speed, display (nice video resolution with ideal ratio/size), better Android OS and reasonable price. So, yes the iPad now has worthy competition.
UPDATE: After a couple of weeks of use, I am still impressed and have semi retired my iPad 12.9. Even more, my Amazon Fire tablet and other older iPad 9.7 have not even been booted up. I will still use my larger iPad for ZOOM and working on programs/app only available on IOS. There are extensive documents in my Good Reader app/format – for example -not available in Android. Perhaps some could point out that the latest iPads have slightly better displays and camera plus a much cleaner back panel with more acceptable colors selections, but weighing cost and performance this tablet is superb.