Chinese language producer Vivo’s 11 April occasion introduced us the corporate’s first foldable, its new Word-branded telephone and its first pill, merely known as the Vivo Pad.
The Vivo Pad was served up as a premium productiveness system, paired with an non-compulsory keyboard cowl, flip cowl and a pressure-sensitive stylus. This is all you must know.
When was Vivo Pad launched?
Vivo confirmed that it could be unveiling the Vivo X Word, Vivo X Fold and Vivo Pad as a part of its 11 April occasion, with the Pad transferring to pre-order on the identical day and native Chinese language availability promised for just a few days later, on 15 April.
This is a teaser video of the Vivo Pad that the corporate launched forward of its unveiling:
How a lot does the Vivo Pad price?
As acknowledged, proper now the Vivo Pad seems to be to be a Chinese language-only launch and as such, we solely have Chinese language pricing, in the interim. The Vivo Pad is available in two storage flavours (each with 8GB of RAM), priced as follows:
128GB mannequin = ¥2,499 (approx. £300/€360/US$390/INR₹29,775/AUD$530)
256GB mannequin = ¥2,999 (approx. £360/€430/US$470/INR₹35,735/AUD$635)
As a tough information, here is how a lot another latest Android tablets price:
As suspected, Vivo has priced its Pad in the identical ballpark as latest Chinese language rivals, the Xiaomi Pad 5 collection (specifically the Pad 5 Professional, based mostly on the spec) and the Oppo Pad line.
Vivo is promoting the Vivo Pad direct from its personal net retailer, however the pill can be going to be made accessible by native retailers like T-Mall.
What in regards to the Vivo Pad specs and options?
Like pricing, the Vivo Pad’s spec sheet falls someplace between the {hardware} discovered throughout the Xiaomi Pad 5 and Pad 5 Professional, with related traits like the previous’s 13Mp fundamental rear digicam and the latter’s Snapdragon 870 chipset, splitting the distinction on charging speeds, with 44W quick charging.
This is the total spec sheet as confirmed by Vivo:
11in (2560×1600) 120Hz 16:10 IPS LCD w/ HDR10+ and Dolby Imaginative and prescient help
Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 processor
8GB RAM (LPDDR4X)
128GB or 256GB UFS 3.1 storage
Rear cameras:
13Mp fundamental sensor
8Mp ultrawide
8Mp front-facing digicam + 3D ToF sensor
Quad stereo audio system
Dolby Atmos help
OriginOS HD (atop Android 12)
WiFi 6
Bluetooth 5.2
NFC
USB-C (USB 3.1)
8040mAh battery
44W quick charging
253.15mm x 164.71mm x 6.55mm
489 grams
The 6.55mm CNC-milled aluminium chassis would not characteristic any seen break strains, because of proprietary Vivo expertise that allowed the corporate to cover the Pad’s antennas behind the show.
Vivo additionally needed to adapt its current Origin OS person expertise for the Vivo Pad’s bigger 11in show dimension and facet ratio, leading to what it is dubbed ‘OriginOS HD’. This variation on Origin OS provides simple split-screen multitasking and may even mirror your smartphone display with fast pairing by way of NFC.
The Pad’s single USB-C port facilitates USB 3.1-certified switch speeds as much as 5Gbps, permitting you to attach exterior storage, whereas the corporate can be promoting a separate Vivo Pad Stylus (¥349), Vivo Pad Sensible Contact Keyboard – full with a multitouch trackpad (¥599) and Vivo Pad Sensible Cowl (¥199) to increase the pill’s productiveness chops.
Whether or not the Vivo Pad makes it to markets elsewhere stays to be seen however in case you’re curious to know what it is up in opposition to, try our information to one of the best tablets and finest Android tablets to see which rival units you must also contemplate.
Additionally, try episode 110 of our weekly podcast Quick Cost, the place we talk about the launch of the Vivo Pad (together with the Vivo X Fold and X Word) in additional depth.
