An inexpensive pill with leisure at its coronary heart

Alongside the European launch of the Honor 90, Honor additionally introduced the Pad X9, an inexpensive Android pill with some spectacular leisure specs.

In case your finances cannot fairly stretch to a costlier pill, then this could possibly be a terrific possibility for watching video on the go, costing simply £179.99/€249. Might it’s one of many best tablets we have seen this yr? I acquired my palms on it for a more in-depth look.

Design

The very first thing you discover whenever you decide up the Honor Pad X9 is its display. At 11.5 inches, it is fairly sizeable, which suggests it’s a little bigger within the hand in contrast with one thing like the ten.8-inch iPad Air, for instance.

Nonetheless, Honor has performed its utmost to pack that large display into as compact a design as attainable, with an 86 per cent screen-to-body ratio and slim bezels flanking the display on all sides. That is one thing that may slip on a extra inexpensive pill, however the Pad X9 appears very good certainly.

As you’d count on at this worth, it does not fairly have the super-premium end of one thing just like the iPad, however the textured aluminium again feels stable sufficient, and appears good too, measuring simply 6.9mm thick.

Contemplating its measurement, it is usually actually mild at 495g, bringing it in only a contact heavier than the smaller iPad Air (462g). It might simply be held with one hand, although the bigger display in all probability lends itself extra to two-handed holding anyway. Y

Show and sound

The 11.5-inch show on the Pad X9 appears brilliant and crisp, with an IPS LCD show that gives a better-than-HD decision of 2000 x 1200.

It gives 100 per cent sRGB protection for good color dealing with and as much as 120Hz refresh fee for an excellent easy efficiency.

I am unsure precisely how brilliant it goes, however I did get likelihood to play with it outdoors briefly and located it did a very good job at preventing off reflections, although might not be fairly brilliant sufficient for having fun with a film outside with out shedding a few of the influence and element.

Colors regarded good although – maybe veering just a little into the extra saturated than is totally pure, however swiping across the menus and loading up apps regarded very good certainly.

Supporting this can be a fairly spectacular six-speaker setup, which goals to supply extra quantity, deeper bass and a 360-degree sound, because of some intelligent positioning of its drivers.

Specifically, the pill’s backside two audio system fireplace downwards, with the concept it should bounce off of surfaces to present listeners a extra cinematic sound. As soon as once more, we would want extra time with this earlier than we are able to choose how good it performs, nevertheless it’s an consideration to element that you must applaud Honor for at this worth level.

{Hardware} and software program

The Honor Pad X9 has 128GB of storage and 4GB RAM, powered by the Snapdragon 685. That is a chipset that was launched this yr, however is a couple of rungs down from flagship territory, as its worth would warrant.

I could not actually put the pill by way of its paces to any nice extent, however discovered no points whereas I used to be swiping across the Android 13-based MagicOS 7.1, loading a webpage and the few apps that had been pre-installed – nevertheless, this wants larger consideration in a full overview earlier than we may give any definitive opinion.

As a dad or mum, the help for Google Children House is a superb addition, and at its worth, might make this a competitor for the ever-popular Hearth Pill Children by Amazon. This enables youngsters to take pleasure in a alternative of content material in a secure approach, giving dad and mom full management to resolve what that’s and the flexibility to set display cut-off dates by way of the Household Hyperlink App for full peace of thoughts. All we’d like now’s a child-proof case…

Across the again, there’s a most important digicam on board with a dual-ring digicam bump, in addition to a selfie digicam, although specs for the pair of them are but to be confirmed. Rumours on-line have them at round 5MP every, however the chances are, they will not be nice. As with all pill, you may need to stick with video calling solely and solely snap photos in a bind – your cellphone will ship infinitely higher photographs with out the noise and and softness that you will discover added right here.

Honor hasn’t given any exhausting battery specs however we do know that the Pad X9 will pack a 7250mAh battery, which ought to give a good exhibiting for watching loads of films on that large display – I am going to make sure to see simply how effectively it performs in our full overview.

First impressions

My time with the Pad X9 was temporary and restricted, nevertheless it’s all the time good to see a brand new addition to the inexpensive pill market – and this one is an intriguing one to say the least.

Identical to with its telephones, Honor has managed to stuff in some severe options, specs and performance that depart us very excited certainly to attempt it out correctly. We’ll make sure to carry you our full overview as quickly as we’ve. Like what you’ve got seen already? It will be out there straight from Honor’s website from tenth July, with Amazon and different solely retailers to comply with from July nineteenth.