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It looks like the releases are never N-ding from OPPO! Hot off the announcement of the Find N3 and the Find N3 Flip, the company is now announcing another device that seems to be swerving left when the market is swerving right – the OPPO Pad 2. The new tablet touts an industry-first – a 7:5 aspect ratio display.

The OPPO Pad 2 marks a paradigm shift in tablet displays by adopting a remarkable 7:5 aspect ratio, mirroring the proportions of everyday tools like PCs, A4 paper, and books. This aspect ratio provides a comfortable and familiar reading experience for users. In comparison to conventional 16:10 Android tablets, the OPPO Pad 2 offers almost 10% more viewing area while maintaining a consistent aspect ratio across different modes.

The tablet’s 11.61-inch screen boasts flagship-level specifications, including an impressive 2800×2000 resolution promising exceptional clarity and detail. With a 144Hz ultra-high refresh rate and adaptable refresh rate settings, the display guarantees smooth visuals while conserving power. It achieves colour accuracy comparable to professional displays, offering 1.07 billion colours for lifelike visuals. Plus, it’s certified by TÜV Rheinland for Low Blue Light, ensuring a comfortable viewing experience even during extended use.

At the heart of the OPPO Pad 2 is the MediaTek Dimensity 9000 platform, one of the world’s fastest. This advanced platform, built on 4nm process technology, boasts ultra-core clocking at up to 3.05GHz. Paired with LPDDR5 high-speed memory and UFS3.1 flash memory, it delivers outstanding performance with efficient power consumption, making multitasking and resource-intensive apps a breeze.

The OPPO Pad 2 is designed to last with its robust 9510mAh battery. It’s able to support up to 12.4 hours of continuous video playback on a single charge. Additionally, the tablet features 67W SUPERVOOC flash charge and is capable of fully charging the battery in just 81 minutes.

Multi-Screen Connect 2.0 allows automatic pairing between the OPPO Pad 2 and any smartphone using the same OPPO account with Bluetooth enabled. When near your phone, the OPPO Pad 2 gains full access to your phone’s communication features, enabling users to make calls, send messages, and use mobile data directly from the tablet, enhancing productivity.

This tablet also supports real-time viewing, editing, and saving of videos, photos, and files across devices, making multi-device interaction more convenient and efficient. Notifications and apps from your phone can be displayed and operated on the OPPO Pad 2 in real-time through Screen Mirroring, providing more flexibility in multi-device workflows.

Despite its feature-packed capabilities, the OPPO Pad 2 remains slim and lightweight, with a thickness of only 6.54mm and a weight of 552g. This makes it effortlessly portable and suitable for various situations. The tablet’s metal unibody design is both visually appealing and durable, offering a premium aesthetic and a comfortable grip.

You’ll even be able to turn the tablet into a productivity machine with a selection of accessories for the OPPO Pad 2. The OPPO Pad 2 Smart Touchpad Keyboard, OPPO Pencil, and OPPO Pad 2 Leather Casing offer advanced functionality and versatility to the tablet. The OPPO Pad 2 Smart Touchpad Keyboard easily connects to the tablet through magnetic pairing, offering a comfortable viewing angle and intuitive interactions. The OPPO Pencil, with reduced latency and pressure sensitivity, enhances the tablet’s usability for tasks like note-taking.

Pricing & Availability

The OPPO Pad 2 is available in Grey with 8GB + 256GB storage for MYR2,599. Additionally, customers purchasing the OPPO Pad 2 will receive a leather casing, six months of 100GB Google One Cloud storage, and three months of YouTube Premium on a first-come, first-served basis.

During the launch, customers can enjoy up to 25% off on the OPPO Pad 2 Smart Touchpad Keyboard and OPPO Pencil from 19th October to 30th November 2023, saving up to RM100.

The absolute king of the hill right now when it comes to raw processing power on a smartphone platform is the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 system on a chip (SoC). It is also what everybody, at least in the Android world, wants in their flagship smartphones currently. It is the most powerful SoC your smartphone can get today with only the Samsung Exynos as a distant challenger. They are introducing a new one too, very soon.

The second-generation Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC is not coming until the end of the year, as far as we know. In the meantime, there is MediaTek making their steps in high-end smartphone chips.

MediaTek APU 590 copy 3 — Source: MediaTek

To be fair, the name MediaTek does not bring a lot of confidence in terms of high-end SoC for mobile applications. They are mostly known for their budget friendly SoCs in entry-level and mid-range smartphones. In that regards though, MediaTek’s SoCs have been solid performers in their class, in some cases probably better than what you can expect from price equivalent Qualcomm devices.

The new Dimensity 9000+ from MediaTek is their hope that the “budget king” perception ends. It is also MediaTek’s most powerful SoC to date with 5G in tow. The new Dimensity, in this case, goes head-to-head with Qualcomm’s current best.

At its core is the ARM Cortex-X2 architecture, the same one the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 boasts in their Kryo CPUs. The single ARM Cortex-X2 core works with three powerful Cortex-A710 cores and low-power high-efficiency Cortex-A510 cores. The 4nm octa-core CPU arrangement makes ARM’s v9 architecture.

Besides the obvious CPU and GPU improvements, and 5G capabilities the SoC comes with a slew of compelling upgrades. One of which is LPDDR5X support with 8MB L3 CPU cache and 6MB system cache support for new-generation smartphones with ultra-fast memory. Instead of a Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that is widely boasted by its competitors, MediaTek opted for something a little more practical in a dedicated Application Processor Unit (APU 5.0) for all its A.I. purposes.

MediaTek also packs a powerful imaging processor withing the Dimensity 9000+. They call it the MediaTek Imagiq 790. Rivaling the Qualcomm’s own image processor, the new processor supports up to 18-bit HDR-ISP at up to 320-Megapixel. Of course, you there is no camera sensor in the world currently that packs that many pixels into an area less than an inch. It is good to know that you can super sample your photos to up to 320-Megapixel though.

The Imagiq 790 also allows the MediaTek Dimensity 9000+ equipped devices to record three videos simultaneously at up to 18-bit HDR formats. It even does 4K HDR with AI noise reduction, especially useful in low-light conditions.

The new MediaTek Dimensity 9000+ can support up to 144Hz WQHD+ or even 180Hz Full HD+ displays thanks to the new MiraVision 790 engine. The new display engine also has something called Intelligent Display Sync 2.0 technology that optimizes the power efficiency of the display. Thanks to the engine, the Wi-Fi display now supports up to 4K resolution at 60fps with HDR10+ streaming.

Of course, the latest and greatest SoC cannot be the latest and greatest if it does not pack the latest connectivity and networking technology. For that the 3GPP Release-16 5G modem can hit downlink speeds of up to 7Gbps. The new SoC also supports the latest WiFi 6E standards, new Bluetooth 5.3 standards, and even a new more accurate GNSS.

MediaTek is expecting their new Dimensity 9000+ to make its way to flagship devices starting Q3 2022. As mentioned, the Dimensity 9000+ is meant to be a direct competitor to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. At the same time, the second-generation Snapdragon 8 is meant to be announced by Q4 2022. How the Dimensity 9000+ will fare against the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 remains to be seen. We think you might have to wait for the first Dimensity 9000+ devices to roll out. There are no confirmed devices sporting the new Mediatek flagship SoC currently too.

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