HAPPRUN H1

Summer is the perfect season to go out camping with friends, and if we have a big screen for outdoor entertainment, we can even play video games and share more fun with our friends. Luckily we recently got a very affordable portable projector from HappRun, the HappRun H1. So let’s see if it can really be a portable entertainment station with such a compact body and affordable price.

Unboxing & Design

Open the package we got the H1 projector body, a manual, a service card, and surprisingly, a 100-inch simple projection screen. And a remote control is of course included. In terms of cables, the brand provides us with a power cable, an HDMI video cable, and an extra component cable (CVBS) that allows you to connect the projector to some of the more old-fashioned multimedia devices, such as a Wii console.

The Happrun H1 projector has a very compact and sleek body made of black and white plastic that you can carry in your backpack wherever you want to travel. The surface of the projector body is matt and frosted, and it’s pretty good at scratch resistance since we took it around and it did withstand those trials. The shield has no visible damage, so you don’t have to worry about any scratches after a period of use.

The H1 is an LED projector with a huge lens located on the right side of the front that stands out like a big shining eye. The brand claims that the H1 can project images up to 200 inches. But I think no matter when you go camping or stay in a living room/bedroom, a 50-100 inch screen is already more than enough for a good private theater.

On the left side of the top, we can see all the control buttons and the wheels used to adjust the focus and keystone respectively. There are many mid-range to high-end projectors today that do away with physical buttons, but I think these buttons are still a great bonus for a good user experience. At least if you forget to take the remote control with you when you go out, you can still use the buttons on the machine for various operations.

In terms of connectivity, in addition to audio&video inputs, we have two USB ports to access and play multimedia files from external storage.

Another detail here is that we can see an IR receiver on both the front and back of the H1, so whether you have the projector in front of you or behind you, you can easily control it with the remote control.

At the bottom of the projector we can see a 1/4″ screw hole that allows you to mount the machine to a tripod or any compatible stand device. And there is a little stand for height adjustment, so if you find the image position is too low on a flat surface, you can use it to easily adjust the elevation angle of the projector.

Image Quality & Sound

Before talking about image quality, I would tell the fact is that the H1 does not have fancy or intelligent setups, but when you place it in the right place and turn on the power, it is not difficult to get a clear and accurate picture through manual adjustments. This was my first time using this type of product, but I was able to manually complete the focus adjustment and keystone correction in less than a minute. I certainly hope it has auto-adjust, but if not, such a convenient solution would also be good.

Happrun H1 is a native 1080P resolution LED projector and it can reach a brightness of 9500 LUX (240 ANSI Lumen). To be honest for a less than $100 projector, I was surprised by its image quality, especially in terms of clarity. Now we can even get a Full-HD model for less than $100.

I’ve experienced some 4K high-end projectors, but at the right viewing distance, I hardly have complaints about the 1080P resolution, which is really clear and sharp enough for individual uses. I tried to use it to play some short films with vivid colors and it also performed slightly beyond my expectations about a $100 projector. The only problem is that like most LED projectors, its brightness is really not good for daytime. After all, the maximum power of the projector is only 75W. Since the problem of brightness is shared by almost all the budget projectors, we couldn’t have picked another projector with significant improvement in brightness.

But if you like to watch TV shows in your bedroom at night or want to bring fun to your friends who go camping together, this is a more convenient and practical option than any TV. If you have a compact PC or gaming console, you can also turn the projector into a powerful entertainment huge display, and enjoy your favorite games on it.

The projector has a set of built-in speakers to provide you with good enough stereo sound. Or if you’re playing games late at night and don’t want to disturb your neighbors, you can also connect it to your wireless headset via Bluetooth.

User Interface

The Happrun H1 has an easy-to-use UI. If you have external storage connected via the USB port, you can quickly access your movies, music, and photos from the home screen. The video source switch is also on the left side of the home screen so you don’t need to go through a secondary menu to get it.

In the settings menu, we can adjust the projected image with many detailed options, and we can also adjust the reverb of treble and bass in the sound options. In an additional menu, we can view some information about the projector and change some system settings or connect other compatible devices via Bluetooth.

Verdict

I pretty much enjoyed using the Happrun H1, a portable projector with an incredibly affordable price tag that surprises with its image quality and ease of use. While it may be a night-only model, I think it’s definitely one of the best options if you’re planning to bring some extra fun to your friends on your next camping trip, or Late Night Movie Special but with a limited budget.

Where to buy

Happrun H1 is now available for $67.99 on Amazon.

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HHOLOVE O Sitter

I’ve always believed that products that blend technology with human emotions are truly great creations. Like most of you, we have pets at our studio and the time I spend with my cats are some of the best times of my life. Truly thanks to their companionship and joy, it’s proud that we could have them and take good care of our furry friends. But raising them is really not an easy task as it really took quite a lot of time and energy. So we are always looking for ways to give them an easier life and, of course, to give us as well.

Today I want to share with you a very smart and useful multi-functional cat robot, which is also the world’s first smart companion AI robot for cats, the O Sitter from HHO-LOVE. Let’s check out how it works and how it offers accompaniment for cats all the time.

Lovely Packaging & stylish Design

The lively and cute packaging is pretty impressive at the very first glance. We can see some basic information about it as well as its main functions.

Inside the package, we have the robot body, a manual, a desiccant, two anti-collapse brackets, two sets of snap and a power adapter.

What’s really interesting is that the package itself is also part of the accessories, based on the eco-friendly design, the package is not only for shipping.

Installation & Setup

Following the tutorial, you can spend just a few minutes turning it into a fun amusement park for your fur friends. As you can see, no cat can refuse a magical hut they can get into. This is really one of the most creative packaging for pet products I’ve ever seen.

Well now let’s start the setup of the O Sitter, it won’t be a complicated process, first we should attach the anti-crash bracket to the bottom sides of the robot and then pull out the food bowl from the front.

This bowl is made of good stainless steel, very durable and easy to clean. You don’t need to beware of the increasing amount of feed residue left on the surface of the bowl after a long period of use. And the bowl inside is well-designed in a smooth round shape, which is great for cats of any size to easily enjoy the food inside.

Now we can plug it in, and then we should open the top cover and place the desiccant inside of it.

Before we pour in the pet food, we need to make sure its size is compatible and won’t be stuck inside. Actually, it fits most of the common solid cat food sizes we see in the market. A thoughtful detail here is that the O Sitter offers a label on the top cover to let you test if the food is oversized.

HHOLOVE App

Next, we can search and download the HHOLOVE APP at AppStore or Google Play store.

After registering and logging into your account, you can click Add Device to find the O Sitter that is waiting to be paired and then enter your home WIFI password to complete the connection.

How to feed our furry friends is a lesson every owner will learn because diet can greatly affect the health of your cats, but now we have the O Sitter. Things could be much easier.

AI Camera & Flexible feeding plans

After building your cats’ basic profiles, the APP will scientifically generate a set of flexible feeding plans based on the breed, sex, and age of your cats, and put the right amount of food for your cat regularly.

In order to ensure that the diet program is carried out smoothly, effective monitoring and recording is necessary. As you can see, the O Sitter has a head with a built-in AI camera that records every time a cat comes to the O Sitter and starts to eat.

You may worry that if you left the house for a few days and there’s a power outage, the robot would stop working. But fortunately, that worry is redundant and the O sitter will still perform its duty, as the HHO-Love designer has considered this situation for us.

This is one of the most basic automated features of the AI camera, and thanks to this flexible head with big eyes, the O Sitter can achieve 360° horizontal and 110° vertical camera control. In addition to monitoring the cat’s feeding, any time the cat enters O Sitter’s field of view it will automatically follow and record the cat’s behavior.

Although we all now have convenient video recording devices, the fun and surprises of living with pets always pass in a flash that we couldn’t capture. But now O Sitter will help you save all your precious shared memories with your furry friend, and you can view, download or share these video clips with your friends in the app. And I have to say that the video quality is really great that we haven’t seen so good images before over similar products with AI tracking cameras.

When you are away from home, you can also rest assured that O Sitter could be your cat’s most trusted guardian and companion. All cats have a strong curiosity and sometimes when left unattended, the desire to explore may drive the kitten to some dangerous places or even leave the house through windows if you forgot to close them, which I believe would be the most disturbing situation.

The O Sitter has a built-in speaker and microphone, so you can call your cat via a real-time two-way voice call to make sure he’s still safely in the house.

As an intelligent companion AI robot, O Sitter can also play with your cat for you. There is a laser emitter on O Sitter’s head, so when the cat is bored lying next to the robot, we can activate the laser teasing remotely through the app, and even if we are thousands of miles away from home, we can still play with the cat anytime as well as increase its activity time to stay healthy.

Verdict

So this is the O Sitter, a highly creative and thoughtful cat companion robot that doesn’t just provide security and convenience for feeding your pet, but more importantly, with the help of a flexible head and many AI-powered automation features, your connection with your furry friend will never be offline again.

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vivo X Fold 2

Statistics from a market research firm, iResearch, indicate that shipments of foldable phones in China are expected to grow 154 percent year-over-year in 2022, with shipments expected to reach 5.5 million units in 2023. Given the overall downturn in the smartphone market, we believe that foldable phones are emerging as a new growth area and they are actually becoming more and more practical.

Update: vivo X Fold 2 is available on Giztop.

The Vivo X Fold series is one of my favorite foldable lines since we did see interesting features exclusive for foldable models on them. Well, the latest flagship, Vivo X Fold 2, still has unique advantages over the competition.

Design

We got the red variant, thankfully, which is my favorite color variant in the series. On this Vivo X Fold 2, the dark red is pretty charming, and the design here even makes the classical favor even stronger.

This time the back cover is made of two different materials, the right quarter is made of glass with a pattern similar to traditional Chinese ink painting, and also looks like a burning flame. This not only makes the back cover more beautiful and elegant but also allows the camera DECO on the left to be visually centered, which is quite a brilliant design.

But as a foldable model, its rear camera module really protrudes a lot. To visually not ruin the unity of the back, Vivo gives the module a stepped design, and the base ring is also given a texture sculpted to resemble a camera lens. But the little Zeiss logo stands out a bit.

There’re triple lenses equipped on the X Fold 2. The 5x telephoto lens we saw on the previous X Fold Plus has been removed and replaced by a ring-shaped fill light.

Here are the exact figures of the dimensions of the Vivo X Fold 2. We don’t really feel the difference in the thickness, which claims a 1mm reduction here. So as a phone, it’s still a bit bulky when folded in hand.

Compared to its predecessor, its weight has been drastically reduced while its width and height remain unchanged, which is the most effective way to make a foldable phone more practical.

The volume and power buttons are solid and there’s another mute trigger learned from iPhone. It’s not often seen on Android models, but I really like it.

Screen & Dispaly

The vivo X Fold 2’s display consists of an 8.03-inch inner screen and a 6.53-inch outer screen, both of which are made of E6 panels from Samsung with 2K+ resolution, supporting HDR, Dolby vision and up to 120Hz refresh rate. Apart from the gap in size and resolution, the only difference is that the inner display’s brightness can be boosted up to 1800nit for a partial area, which is slightly higher than the outer one.

A great point is that both of them have a hole-punch selfie camera on the top. Users can take selfies regardless of the folding states.

Thanks to the new hinge, the crease in the middle of the inner screen looks not perceivable, but you can still spot it when viewing it from the side. Thankfully, we wouldn’t use the phone in that way. But I can still feel it with my fingers across the screen.

The ultrasonic fingerprint reader has always been one of the most unique selling points of Vivo’s flagship models, and on the Vivo X Fold 2, we could double pleasure of the best unlocking experience, both on the inner and outer screens. It removes the dilemma we had with foldable models. Now you can easily unlock the phone regardless of the folded state.

Camera

How to bring the best camera to a foldable phone is probably the biggest challenge for all brands, as there isn’t enough space here for them to cram in a super sensor like the imx989 or a periscopic telephoto lens, but sensor size doesn’t dictate everything about photography. In most scenarios the coating on the lenses and the camera system is more important for post-processing of photos.

From these samples we can see that X Fold 2 photos have very nice colors and excellent dynamic range, although it can’t get a more impressive bokeh effect and photos have unpleasant noise in low light.

 I still prefer to use it to capture what’s happening around me on the street because you can expand the preview window on such a big screen, and the size and the edges make it look like a photo frame. So I can’t help but try to use it to frame the people in front of me or the clouds in the sky. A lot of fun here.

Origin OS

The new Dock is one of my favorite features. You can call out any app by long pressing the bottom of the screen. With this Dock, you can switch between different apps as fast as using a tablet, and you can also drag these icons to create a split-window Multitasking or a floating window.

I think their next step should be to break down the barriers to exchanging resources between apps. For example, I could be browsing social networks and chatting with my friends via split-window multitasking, and I should be able to drag text, images, or even videos from one window to a text box in another, but unfortunately, we haven’t been able to do that on a foldable phone, at least until now.

Here’s another commendable improvement for Vivo, they’ve brought us a very powerful cross-platform office suite that allows users to connect phone and tablet to your PC, so you can control your phone and share files directly from your PC.

You can even share the keyboard and mouse on all connected devices as if having multi-screen work on a united working station. It’s really crazy. If you remember, Apple had worked very hard to bring Universal Control to the Mac and iPad after several announced delays, but now Vivo allows you to do the same on any PC that supports Bluetooth and WiFi.

What’s even more incredible is that Office Suite also supports reverse control. You can use your phone or tablet to control a connected PC. You can even use the touch screen, though remote desktops are nothing new. Vivo Office Suite is a completely free piece of software, which I think is still a great value considering the quality of its graphic interface and the low latency.

Specs & Performance

As for performance, the Vivo X Fold 2 is powered by the Snapdragon 8 gen2 chipset. As the other 8Gen-2 foldable models will only get available in a month’s time at the earliest, the X Fold 2 probably is the most powerful foldable phone for now.

But perhaps because the compact body get heated up easily, the X Fold 2’s peak performance is somewhat limited, both in daily use and in gaming, the main cores will only run at a lower frequency, which for most people doesn’t pose a problem. But if you are a Genshin Impact gamer, an average frame rate of 55 at the highest graphics setting is a worrying performance.

So I would recommend the iQOO series for gaming, and I hope Vivo can further unlock the performance of the X Fold 2 via OTA, as I found that the heavy graphic loading with the phone unfolded didn’t make the body get very hot.

Battery & Charging

The Vivo X Fold 2 has a 4,800mAh dual-cell battery, and in our 5-hour typical use test, it only had 2% power left, so if we exclude the power consumed by playing Genshin Impact for an hour, it still has enough battery life for a full-day use.

The 120-watt wired charge still has a significant lead over the competition, as you can charge it over 50% in just ten minutes, and a full charge takes less than 30 minutes. Another surprise is that it also supports up to 50W wireless charge.

Verdict

So that’s the Vivo X Fold 2. Maybe its hardware and performance improvements aren’t as huge as expected, but I think Vivo made the right choice because for a foldable phone, a thin and light enough body is the most important thing, followed by super fast wired and wireless charging and the software.

Compared to other brands, Vivo has put the most effort into the software. So I’d still put it at the top of my list of foldable phone recommendations for now.

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Legion Y900 Tablet

I’ve been skeptical of manufacturers using “productivity” as one of the selling points of a tablet since we all know that the mobile platform lacks those professional applications and effective features. You can only do simple text work or video editing on a tablet.

But I recently got a tablet that turns itself into a great companion to a PC and really met my needs about productivity in a different way. The Legion Y900, a super tablet with a large 14.5-inch screen, is powered by the Dimensity 9000 and supports a DP-IN feature, which means that apart from being a tablet, it can also work as a mobile monitor. Today let’s see how it reconstructs people’s imagination of a tablet with a large screen.

Uboxing

When I first saw the packaging of the Y900 tablet, I wondered if they were shipping the wrong product, as it looked very similar to the Legion laptops of recent years, both in terms of style and size.

I had used the 12.9-inch iPad Pro and was really impressed by that screen, but at this moment, my perception of a tablet was once more shattered. When I picked up the Legion Y900 wrapped in paper, I felt like I was holding not a tablet but a laptop with a missing keyboard.

Fortunately, the accessories at the bottom of the package reminded me that what I had was indeed a tablet, and as you can see there isn’t a huge laptop power adapter. We got a manual, a warranty card, a full-featured USB-C cable, and a 68-watt charger. All these accessories are pretty common in other regular tablets.

Design

It is not simple to make a product refined in a larger size, Lenovo is very clever by splicing different materials to split the back cover into two parts. It looks pretty good with a very slim body. Although as an Android tablet, the size is unnaturally large, it is surprisingly lighter than a 12.9-inch iPad Pro.

I think 12 inches should be a dividing line. The screen size of devices larger than 12 inches is no longer comfortable for holding in hands, I tried to play games with this tablet in my fingers. After ten minutes my hands were starting to hold out, although it provides a very good visual experience. The pleasure of my eyes obviously couldn’t stop me from putting it down.

In terms of connectivity, the Legion Y900 has one more USB-C port compared to other Android tablets. Lenovo claims it supports a DP-in feature, which means the Y900 can be used as an external display for peripherals such as notebooks and smartphones via this additional video-in port.

Screen & Speaker

Apart from the Samsung Galaxy Tab, this is the first time I’ve seen a brand use such a large OLED panel on a tablet, and its color and contrast ratio is way ahead of those of LCD panels. And more importantly, it also supports high-frequency PWM Dimming.

In terms of audio system, this tablet has eight built-in speaker units, and its sound quality is the best I’ve ever had in a tablet. It reminds me of some high-end laptops like the Macbook Pro. Other than that, I don’t know of any other tablet that compares to it.

Performance

The Legion Y900 is powered by the Dimensity 9000 platform, a platform with great potential, but it also requires the brand to invest more effort in optimization compared to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon series.

From these Benchmarks we see that although there’s a little gap when comparing it with Snapdragon 8+ Gen1, but the good news is that, it’s much ahead of Snapdragon 870, so it’s easy to get a very smooth experience both in daily use and gaming on the Y900.

I really enjoy playing Genshin Impact on my tablet. By far Mihoyo hasn’t offered gamepad support for the Android version. Fortunately, this tablet has an additional peripheral mode that allows you to enable this feature in the Game Assistant and create your own key mapping when you connect it to a keyboard, mouse, or gamepad.

Compared with touch control, using a gamepad definitely brings better gameplay. The only problem is that the game itself still doesn’t support custom buttons, so you can’t change the transparency of the virtual buttons on the screen to hide them.

ZUI

To take full advantage of the chipset, Lenovo brings to it a very powerful multitasking feature. You can place up to not two fixed windows on the screen but four, and on top of that, you can continue to open up to 10 floating windows.

Lenovo seems to really treat this tablet as a PC, but unfortunately, the Dimensity chipset doesn’t support Windows on ARM, otherwise, we may see a 2-in-1 super tablet.

Thanks to the DP-IN function, you can use this tablet as a super sub-screen, You can connect it to any compatible device via Type c To Type C cable or HDMI To Type C cable.

If you have a phone that supports desktop mode, this tablet will be the best partner because it does not only transfer graphics and audio, but also supports touch operations, and if you have a Windows 11 laptop, you can also use the Windows sub-system on Android better with this touch screen.

Battery & Charging

In terms of battery life, the Legion Y900 packs a 12,300 mAh battery, and thanks to the low power consumption of the OLED panel and the Dimensity 9000 platform, the tablet has an incredible working time for a single charge.

With the support of 68 watts of fast charging, a full charge even takes a shorter time than charging an iPhone.

Verdict

You guys probably remember that the release of the Legion Y700 surprised us last year, as few brands were willing to develop small tablets for this niche market. And the Y700 tablet just makes the iPad mini no longer the only option.

This time Lenovo once again brings a surprise, a tablet with totally opposite concepts, I think they must have a very special thinking in tablets. Perhaps not many people need a very large-screen tablet. When all other brands ignore the group, Lenovo chose to be the first adventurer, which is very commendable.

Legion Y900 is not just a tablet, but also a great companion as an expansion screen, I hope Lenovo can stick to this product line because Qualcomm’s next-generation desktop platform is on its way and I want to see an ultimate tablet that supports Android & Windows dual system, and of course, it would be perfect if it still supports a DP-in feature.

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Xiaomi relaunched their tablet line last year. At that time, we did have great expectations for it, while the Xiaomi Pad 5 series doesn’t have any particular strengths compared to other rivals. So actually we had quite a few alternatives such as Lenovo’s Pad series, OPPO Pads and Vivo Pads, but that said, it’s still a good deal as a gaming tablet.

Where to buy

Xiaomi Pad 6 Pro is available for $399 at Giztop.

Today we got the new Xiaomi Pad 6 Pro, which is still as affordable as its predecessor while having many upgrades. I made some complaints about MIUI For Pad in my review last year, so today we will see how this Xiaomi Pad 6 Pro performs and if the system has really got better.

Design

Let’s start with the design as usual. If we put Xiaomi’s three recent Pad models and flagship phones together, we can easily find a pattern that the design of the new generation Pad is basically an enlarged version of the latest flagship phone.

By using a camera Deco similar to the phone, Xiaomi has managed to link the Pad and phone lines together.

The Camera module also looks delicate on the Pad, but I think Xiaomi could move it to the middle of the back cover, because we usually use the Pad to scan documents instead of capturing landscapes, and if the camera is in a corner position, we have to adjust our posture to scan the documents or books in front of us.

In terms of body built, Xiaomi Pad 6 Pro has a great improvement. The tablet’s back cover and frame are both made of integrated aluminum, which provides better cooling effect and makes the Pad more durable.

And of course, it looks much more premium. Its thickness and weight are pretty impressive as they got better controlled compared to its predecessor.

At the $400 price point, you’d be really hard pressed to find a better build quality than the Xiaomi Pad 6 Pro, and the only complaint I can have here is that they still haven’t removed the plastic screen bracket making the tablet look cheap.

Display & Speaker

The Xiaomi Pad 6 Pro has a higher resolution screen of up to 2.8K. And inside the same 11-inch area, images and text are sharper; colors are vivid and now more accurate.

Thanks to professional color management, you can now get an almost identical visual experience on Xiaomi’s latest tablets, phones and TVs.

But here’s also bad news if you like to watch movies or listen to music on the Xiaomi Pad 6 Pro. Compared to its predecessor, it has only half the number of speaker units, but still got 4. And my feeling is that it does sound less detailed, which I don’t know if that’s acceptable to you.

Stylus

To enhance the writing and drawing experience, the second-generation Xiaomi stylus was also released as a best partner. As Xiaomi claims, it does have significantly lower latency and better battery life, but unfortunately it’s still not good enough compared to the Apple Pencil and S Pen.

At the moment you can’t write directly on the screen with the stylus while the tablet is locked, which for me is really a big problem, so I hope Xiaomi will provide support for this feature in the future. Lighting-up the tablet and then writing is really a pointless step.

Once you unlock the Pad, the Quick Notes interaction is still strange. You can activate Quick Notes by pressing the button on the stylus, but the note interface will cover the entire screen.

If you want to make some notes while having other activities like browsing web pages or writing documents, you can only swipe up from the bottom of the screen and drag the notes app as a floating window, which is very unreasonable. Most of the time, what I need is just a little sticky note.

Performance

For a Xiaomi product, there’s no need to worry about its performance in the same price range. Powered by the Snapdragon 8+ Gen1 platform, the Xiaomi Pad 6 Pro is perhaps the best Android gaming tablet, or at least, one of the best in the following months.

From these Benchmarks we can see that compared to tablets with Snapdragon 870 and Dimensity 9000, it has an obvious lead. And more importantly, the better power efficiency of Snapdragon 8+ Gen1 brings more stable performance in games and heavy loading.

For example, in Genshin Impact, the Xiaomi Pad 6 Pro achieves an almost flat frame rate, which is even better than many Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 phones thanks to the good cooling. Except for the game loading at the very beginning, you hardly feel any lag, and the perceivable heat during the game is concentrated in a very small area in the upper right corner of the tablet, so you can get a very good gaming experience.

I believe that if Xiaomi could launch a mini pad with an 8-inch screen, it would be a better gaming device than the iPad mini, just like the Lenovo’s Y700 gaming tablet.

MIUI 14 For Pad

MIUI has got upgraded for years to Xiaomi phones, but when it comes to a tablet, the limited user base led to a different story. Unfortunately, MIUI 14 For Pad running on this Xiaomi Pad 6 Pro still requires optimization.

But, first of all, I have to say, its performance has been significantly improved, when you launch apps and switch between multiple apps, it’s much more responsive than its predecessor. But compared to MIUI on phones, its animation is still relatively laggy.

In terms of multitasking, you can now create a set of multitasking windows by swiping three fingers inward from the edge of the screen, which is more efficient than dragging out an app from the Dock. So, I pretty appreciated these enhancements.

But in terms of convenience, Xiaomi’s engineers really haven’t learned how to make better use of a big screen, and I find it hard to believe that in 2023, they still haven’t integrated the notification center and the control center together. When you swipe down from the top of the screen, you’ll be shocked to see that 2/3 of the screen is wasted. So why is that, Xiaomi?

The big folder on the homescreen is also a joke, they could have put a 3X3 folder on a big screen, but they just don’t do it. All you have is this stupid 2X2 folder and what’s even crazier is that you can directly open only three of them.

You want to swipe on the folder to see other apps? sorry, there is no such operation, you can only go to the secondary page and open the app inside. Putting the App folder on the Dock is also not allowed.

Some problems that we experienced on the Xiaomi Pad 5 still remain in the more basic interactions. If you want to go back to the home screen, you can only swipe up from the center area at the bottom of the screen, and the only function of the both sides of the interaction bar is to call out the Dock. It’s really ridiculous that we even have to complain it again in 2023.

And two years later, Xiaomi still doesn’t know how to get their tablets to correctly identify the direction and humanely swap the volume buttons according to the changes of direction.

Verdict

So this is the Xiaomi Pad 6 Pro, no one can deny that it is the best and most affordable Android gaming tablet on the market, but that’s about all it has going for it.

If you want to buy a tablet for efficient activities like study or creativity, I don’t recommend it because Xiaomi really has a lot of room for improvement in terms of software, and I doubt Xiaomi is serious about making a tablet at least until now, so we’ll keep nitpicking it until it really gets good enough.

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