Xiaomi Pad 6 was recently launched in India as a successor to Xiaomi Pad 5 which made its debut in 2022. Like last year’s model, Xiaomi has tried to equip its latest tablet with a range of features and a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset while keeping the device price under Rs. 30,000. The Xiaomi Pad 6 has an 11-inch LCD screen, runs Android 13 out of the box, and Xiaomi claims it can offer up to two days of battery backup. It is equipped with a 13-megapixel main camera and an 8-megapixel selfie camera.
This week on Orbital’s Gadgets 360 podcast, resident gadget expert Pranav Hegde, who has spent some time with Xiaomi’s latest tablet, talks to guest host Sheldon Pinto about the device. Pinto reviewed the Xiaomi Pad 5 last year, and the duo takes a look at some of the changes and updates that have been made to this year’s model and how it fares against the competition.
The Xiaomi Pad 6 isn’t exactly a new device: it launched in China earlier this year and only arrived in India last week. It runs on an Android 13 based MIUI 14 for Pad. The tablet has an 11-inch LCD display with Dolby Vision with up to 144Hz refresh rate and supports up to 550 nits of maximum brightness.
Equipped with a slightly older Snapdragon 870 chip that’s paired with 8GB of RAM, the Xiaomi Pad 6 should be more than capable of handling daily tasks and a few games; you can read more details about the performance of the tablet in our review. The processor is a slight improvement over last year’s Snapdragon 860 chip, which was an improvement over Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855+ SoC.
You can also choose some accessories that are compatible with the tablet which the company announced when it launched the Xiaomi Pad 6 in India last week. This includes the Xiaomi Pad 6 keyboard, cover, and Xiaomi Smart Pen (2nd Gen). Hopefully, Xiaomi will be able to ensure that these accessories remain available for as long as the product can be purchased in the country.
Xiaomi’s latest tablet sports a 13-megapixel rear camera and an 8-megapixel selfie camera, and like most tablets, one may find themselves using the camera to click pictures of documents and similar materials, while relying on the smartphone camera for normal photography. You can see the camera samples and details of how it performs in different scenarios in our review.
The recently released Xiaomi Pad 6 packs a large 8840mAh battery with support for 33W wired charging. At that charging rate, Xiaomi says that going from an empty battery to a full charge will take around 100 minutes. The tablet is also claimed to last up to two days on a single charge, according to Xiaomi.
