OnePlus is just not enjoying round this 12 months. Identical to its well-received OnePlus 13 flagship Android phone launched earlier this 12 months, the primary promoting level for the brand new OnePlus Pad 3 pill is its enormous battery. The 5.97mm-thick OnePlus Pad 3 has a 12,140mAh battery—up from 9,510mAh within the previous OnePlus Pad 2. I don’t find out about you, however I like that OnePlus is packing in bigger batteries whereas slimming down its gadgets, not the other way around. Oh, and an 80W fast-charging brick is included within the field, which is only a cherry on high.
Function-wise, the OnePlus Pad 3 sounds strong on paper. The display is a bigger 13.2-inch display with a 3.4K decision and 144Hz refresh charge versus the 12.1-inch show on the OnePlus Pad 2. Below the hood, the pill is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite chip and comes with 256GB of storage and 12GB of RAM. OnePlus additionally elevated the six audio system on the OnePlus Pad 2 to eight on the OnePlus Pad 3; a brand new “Holo Audio” characteristic permits you to fiddle with spatial audio for numerous apps like alarms.
As with all of OnePlus’s gadgets, the pill runs a personalized model of Android 15 known as Oxygen OS 15. It’s a reasonably clear model of Android—although the similarities to iOS are extra apparent than ever—and, naturally, it’s pushing a boatload of AI options. These embody the same old generative AI options different tech corporations have already launched in their very own gadgets, resembling AI Summarize (textual content message and notification summaries), AI Author (helps write textual content primarily based on a immediate), AI Translations, and AI Converse (AI reads articles out loud). There’s additionally built-in Google Gemini assist; the Sensible Keyboard (offered individually) even has a Gemini key for fast entry to the chatbot.
Past AI, Oxygen OS has just a few productivity-focused options, together with higher multitasking that takes benefit of the bigger display, “O+ Join,” which helps you to share information between the pill and PCs, and a “distant management” characteristic that permits you to management your Mac via the OnePlus Pad 3. All of those ought to assist make the OnePlus Pad 3 (with Sensible Keyboard) extra laptop-like.
If you happen to’re in search of a pill that’s not known as an iPad or Galaxy, the OnePlus Pad 3 may very well be different. Pre-orders start at the moment, June 5, on OnePlus’s website with a launch date on July 8 at OnePlus.com, Amazon, and Greatest Purchase. The pill prices $699.99 and the Sensible Keyboard is $199.99. A Folio Case is $49.99. Whereas there’s no new stylus, the earlier $99.99 Stylo 2 pen does work with the OnePlus Pad 3 if you happen to’re the notetaking or doodling sort.
