It’s called Pad and it’s the first tablet that arrives in Europe from the Realme family. It will not be the last nor the only one, but this entry into the tablet market can be considered decidedly more torturous than the one in the smartphone market of more than a year ago. Android tablets are behind in the competition against the Apple iPad, and each producer must carve out a specific space in the minds of consumers. The question therefore is: Can Realme (and does it want to) carve out a space for itself? For now the answer is decidedly confused, starting with the design.
The tablet has an unusual aspect ratio (5: 3), for one 10.5 ”surface with 2000 x 1200 pixel resolution. The camera is on the right side if you put it vertically, or on the top if you put it horizontally. It would also be a great idea, because it is always inconvenient to hold the tablet vertically during a video call, while it is easier to hold it horizontally, especially with a stand on a desk. And in general a 10.5-inch tablet makes sense used horizontally, but the power key does not reflect this concept, because it is placed in the right corner of the top side holding it vertically, and therefore It is unclear how Realme wants this tablet to be used: is it better to keep it horizontally, so as an alternative to a laptop, or vertically, so as a great smartphone for reading?
Also because, with 400 grams of weight, it is quite light and easy to use even with one hand to view content, and it has no special attachments for keyboard cases, so it would seem just perfect for vertical use.
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The system is not very smooth and responsive, and also shows some slowdown in scrolling between pages. The vertical scroll is instead fluid, but the colors are too bright when they are in shades of white and instead a little off when they should be on, that is, when there are red, green or blue tones on the screen. It’s good for reading, a little less for watching videos.
The Realme Ui for Pad, as the pre-installed OS version is called, definitely looks an unsuccessful adaptation of Android to smartphones: during the initial configuration, the indications have always referred to a smartphone (for inserting the Sim, restoring from backup and so on) and not to a tablet.
The camera is decent, acceptable for making calls on Zoom or Meet without having too many pretensions: to focus on the subject, the sensors and the image correction software leave a lot of noise on the sides, badly saturating the surrounding scene. The result is an image that is not cohesive and useful only for showing the face. There is also a rear camera, which struggles to find immediate focus and does not reduce noise.
The Realme Pad is available starting from 259 euros on the official website for the configuration with 4 Gb of Ram memory and 64 of internal memory, but it reaches up to 289 euros for the 6-128 version. In the same price range they exist much more viable and cheaper alternatives, such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 (for less than 200 euros), while with a hundred euros more you can buy a basic iPad, which represents the top that the market can offer in the medium-low range. Realme will have to convince with a new tablet, to earn a place in the market.
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