OnePlus Pad 3 Shoves a Large Battery Into Its Trem...

OnePlus just isn’t taking part in round this 12 months. Similar 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 large 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 learn 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 prime.

Function-wise, the OnePlus Pad 3 sounds stable on paper. The display is a bigger 13.2-inch display with a 3.4K decision and 144Hz refresh price versus the 12.1-inch show on the OnePlus Pad 2. Beneath 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 helps 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 referred to 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 embrace the standard generative AI options different tech corporations have already launched in their very own gadgets, similar to AI Summarize (textual content message and notification summaries), AI Author (helps write textual content primarily based on a immediate), AI Translations, and AI Communicate (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 a couple of productivity-focused options, together with higher multitasking that takes benefit of the bigger display, “O+ Join,” which helps you to share recordsdata 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.

In case you’re searching for a pill that’s not referred to as an iPad or Galaxy, the OnePlus Pad 3 might be different. Pre-orders start as we speak, 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 in the event you’re the notetaking or doodling type.