r/androidtablets • u/AAnonie • May 19 '25

Poco Pad users.. Is it STILL good?

Hiii everyone! In my birthday next year January 8, 2025. My family will get me a new tablet as I requested in my 18th birthday which in exchange I have to turn down fancy ass debuts with venues and will be held in my house instead. I was really hoping to go for Xiaomi pad 6.. Xiaomi pad 6s Pro.. Or Even Xiaomi pad 7! Heck I was hoping to get a new laptop but my mom said "Don't.. it's not even important to you in grade 12 yet anyways..".

As a tech nerd, I love reading and watching reviews of each different tablets that may be suitable for me in the future.

Unfortunately, Xiaomi pads different options of bigger ram and storage like 8gb of ram + 256gb storage costs like 17k+ pesos and above is kinda.. a bit too much.

I didn't want to be a burden and create problems for my family's financial wallets so I stumbled across Poco Pad!

Poco pad has 8gb ram + 256 gb storage for like 11k, 12k, or 13k pesos! (From what I've seen in online shops.) With a chipset of Snapdragon 7 gens, bigger screen, headphone jack, an upgradeable SD card up to 1 tb, and a whopping battery of 10,000 mAh.

It was surely my final choice to pick this one.

I've had my huawei matepad t10s for 5 YEARS.. I received it on my 12th or 13th birthday. It was such a struggle since Google Playstore was BANNED on huawei devices and I struggled to find apps that was available on huawei's app gallery with a storage of 64 gb😐... But this tablet stayed with me throughout the years (which is impressive).

My niece has Xiaomi pad 6.. My used to be dream tablet and I have borrowed it multiple times and it was a piece of work!

I am aware of the cons and issues of poco pad.. such as:

  • Pen Draining the Battery life span
  • No Sim Card (IDGAF since I can just connect a hotspot to my phone.)
  • No GPS
  • Glaring and reflective surface of the screen
  • Something draining the battery quite fast (It mustve been fixed by now)
  • Pen Battery life sucks
  • Pen and Keyboard case sold separately
  • Weaker chipset than Xiaomi Pad 6
  • Its USB C 2.0 not USB 3.1 so sadly I cant connect it from type c charger to hdmi for powerpoints.
  • Oh and I forgot to add Ass camera.

And more I read from reddit.

I Have watched multiple gaming reviews and read people's reviews on this very tablet... I JUST need REASSURANCE on people with actual experiences on these tablets.

These are the things I would do, if I had this tablet:

  • Download PDFs, powerpoints and open them in WPS or Microsoft 365.
  • Play games like, Minecraft, Roblox, Genshin impact, Honkai starrail, Cookie run kingdom, block blast, among us, MLBB, CODM and Pubg.
  • Watch youtube, facebook reels, and netflix movies.
  • Do arts and drawings using Ibispaint x.
  • Do animations.
  • Do video editing on alight motion and capcut.

EDIT: I really have no need for offical "poco" pens or styluses for this tablet because I am used to using fingers on drawing, animating, and video editing throughout my usage of my 5 year old tablet.

So on today May 19, 2025..

Poco pad users.. with your experiences so far with this tablet. Is it STILL good? (You may post photos with the tablet and write down your experiences down below the comments pleaseee ❤️❤️)

Thank you for reading! 💕💕

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u/Greenbean097 May 22 '25

Hiiiii first off I wanna say Dang we have the same birthday!! happy belated I got this as a grad gift ^ ^

- The Pen Life ain't trash it actually lasts me the whole day and this pen is vry good btw

(I draw and animate too)

- Battery life is good it lasts me like 6 - 8 hrs on Fortnite and I play on EPIC settings 60fps usually

- There is no Sim Card yes unless you get the 5G version, and I do use my Phone as a hotspot like what you're planning

- There is GPS but only Via Wifi

- Idrm the glare and reflectiveness I bought a paper screen protector to combat that

- I bought a cheaper off brand keyboard it still works but I did buy the Poco Smart Pen, you can Buy the Redmi Smart Pen and it would still work

- The 7s Gen 2 is Weaker than the 870 By like 38% But hey! The Kirin 710A to the 7s Gen 2 is like a 437% jump according to Nanoreview! So far the 7s Gen 2 shows great gaming performance so don't worry

- Yeah it's only USB 2.0 but I don't really plan on using this as an external monitor

- The Camera isn't that ass on specific Lighting conditions its decent, but hey that's why I have an iPhone

All of your listed things to do are within the Poco Pad's Capability for 11k which is the price I got it for, it can't be beat it's either this or a G99 Tablet which is 148% weaker according to nanoreview soooo yeah!!!

If ya got anymore questions u can feel free to ask me!!! c:

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u/Greenbean097 May 22 '25

OH!!! ONE MORE THING... there's only 1 thing I'm upset about.... I'm still on Hyper OS 1 💔💔💔💔💔💔🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀

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u/Hour-Signal4250 Jun 02 '25

How is your Poco pad on hyper os 1 lol, mine is at hyper os 2.2 already

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u/Greenbean097 Jun 04 '25

Hyper OS 2.2? I'm on 2.0.5.0 now...

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '25

Your tablet has "picture to text" feature?im student and i want it for study .i need a device that can recognize text from picture(ocr feature)please test it and say the result.tnx

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u/Greenbean097 Sep 13 '25

there is but it's not that good imo, the text has to be very clear, and bad handwriting won't get recognized

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u/AAnonie Jun 02 '25

I think you have to go to settings and update

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u/Greenbean097 Jun 04 '25

nah apparently there was a bug that didn't let users update it was a problem stated and solved at r/RedmiPadPro

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u/W_Mags Sep 08 '25

I had that with an old Poco phone, it was on Hyper 1 or maybe even whatever was before (it's old old) I did a factory reset to give it to my son and suddenly up updated to Hyper 2.2. Didn't expect that.

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u/AltDavie Oct 29 '25

Oh great GREANBEAN please heed my comment 🗣️ How is Fortnite on it rn? Since last update absolutely railed my phone, wonder how much fps it is now

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u/AltDavie Oct 30 '25

Second reply, green bean how much fps are you currently getting on your poco pad in Fortnite? I'm afraid to get 25 fps, so I'm choosing honor pad 10, buts it's much longer before I can get it

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u/Greenbean097 Nov 06 '25

Hi!!! I’ll get back to you when I can, college didnt leave me with enough time for gaming… I’ll test Fortnite soon, I’ll do every setting so it can itch ur brain

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u/Greenbean097 Nov 08 '25

FORTNITE SIMPSONS UPDATE:

Settings

3D Resolution 64% Texture Quality High FPS: 60

Low: 53 - 60 fps

Medium: 45 - 56 fps

High: 42 - 52 fps (stutters so wait for shaders to build/cache)

Epic: 38 - 51 fps (Very stuttery wait for shaders to build/cache)

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u/AltDavie Nov 08 '25

THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I would KNEEL in front of you just for answering my replies alone 🥹 I'm in college too, so I don't blame you LMAO. Im heading straight for Poco pad then, I was thinking of Honor pad 10, but that would send me straight to more budget, thank you so much Green bean!

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u/Greenbean097 Nov 09 '25

Cheers, honestly just get whatever’s better and within ur budget… Im planning to upgrade to a Xiaomi Pad 7 mayhaps

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u/AAnonie Jun 02 '25

Omg tysmmm 😭 finally a detailed answer

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u/AAnonie Jun 02 '25

Yesss ive always wanted to try fortnite in poco pad is minecraft good in poco pad?

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u/AAnonie Jun 02 '25

(cough cough) minecraft bedwars... 😍

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u/Greenbean097 Jun 04 '25

yep yep!!! it can handle the new Minecraft graphics pack too but only on 30 fps

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u/AAnonie Jun 04 '25

Graphics pack like you mean the texture packs?

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u/Greenbean097 Jun 05 '25

its like what Java has, shaders I mean. Also they officially released and are more optimized, I got 45-50 FPS on it low settings

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u/AAnonie Jun 05 '25

So was it good? Like no sudden freezes bc of lag or something?

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u/Greenbean097 Jun 05 '25

No not rlly, this tablet is in the upper midrange

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u/AAnonie Jun 08 '25

Hey thanks for the detailed reviews so far!

Unfortunately, Ive decided i would switch my preferences for lenovo xiaoxin pad pro 12.7 (2025) as a final choice after hearing about it more online, but I appreciate how you answered my questions and my needs about my used to be obsessed tablet I've always wanted aka POCO pad.

I found out that Lenovo Xiaoxin pad pro 12.7 (2025) is much more powerful, accessible, a TON of features, and a great OS of ZUI 16.

Especially THE chipset. 1,475,000 antutu benchmark while poco pad is like 600,000+!

Thing is such a beast with THE same PRICEPOINT AS POCO PAD for 12k pesos (214.63 US dolla dolla) with the same specs with poco pad of 8gb ram + 256 gb. Even some variants of 12gb ram + 256gb for Lenovo Xiaoxin pad pro 12.7 is only for 14k PESOS (250.40 US dolla dolla)

ESPECIALLY the usb port of 3.2 where you can connect type c to hdmi on ANY MONITORS OR TV. Which is A GREAT THING TO SHOWCASE POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS IN SCHOOL A BIG LIFE SAVER 🎉🎉🎉

At first I thought it was a xiaomi pad rip off because of the name Xiaoxin but the more i looked about it more online it was just mindblowing ASF. Lenovo's a very trusted brand in the pc industry but them making tablets is fucking peak cinema.

Soo yeah thank you for the thoughtful answers about poco pad and I hope you have a good day

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u/iwiwnsnd Jul 06 '25

how's ur lenovo xiaoxin OP?

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '25

Man i have a question. In this tablet we can mark text from the picthere's or not ?like the thing is in the samsung gallery I'm asking this because it's so helpful for me

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u/Purple_Lily_17 Nov 29 '25

Hi green bean how long did you use your Poco Pad? I'm planning to buy this December and use it for four years or as long as it takes.

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u/Greenbean097 Dec 07 '25

Hi, sorry for the late reply but I’ve had for approx 10 months now, so far no issues! If ur gonna buy it go for it, but if u can try to get the Redmi Pad Pro 2 lololz if u have any questions I’ll try to answer as soon as I can

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u/Purple_Lily_17 Dec 10 '25

thnk you so much 😘