OnePlus exhibits its first tablet at MWC 2023. We were able to take it in hand.
OnePlus unveiled its first tablet in early February. On the occasion of the Mobile World Congress, the brand allows the press to take the product in hand and get an idea. Unfortunately, the brand still does not communicate prices and is content to announce an estimated release around April.
An excellent Android tablet?
Let’s say it, it is not with this tablet that the manufacturer will offer a revolution in terms of design. We are on a completely classic product. This is good news, the brand is not going to invent a gadget to sell and offers us here a very mastered concept.
We thus have a 550 gram tablet with a very nice 11.6 inch 2800 x 2000 pixel screen at 144 Hz and rather thin borders. OnePlus promises a factory calibration for a DeltaE of less than two, in other words a tablet that should amaze.
On the performance side, we remember the right to a MediaTek Dimensity 9000 chip with 8 GB of LPDDR5 and 128 GB of UFS 3.1 storage
The tablet is presented with the classic accessories: a physical keyboard allowing the tablet to be held in landscape format, and a stylus for note taking.
All in all, no complaints about what was presented. OnePlus knows its subject and offers here a tablet with excellent finishes.
And OxygenOS as conductor
Naturally, OnePlus offers here an Android tablet with the OxygenOS 13.1 interface. We are rather convinced of what the brand offers on smartphones and it essentially uses the same interface here.
Fortunately, there are still some optimizations for the tablet format, including the ability to display several applications side by side. OnePlus also told us about easier synchronization with the brand’s smartphones and accessories.
We do not yet know if it will be able to dethrone the iPad as the default tablet recommendation, but we come out of this first test with the idea of a fairly promising product. It remains to discover the price.
Our journalist Cassim Ketfi is in Barcelona to cover MWC 2023 in its entirety, but he is present there as part of a press trip organized by Qualcomm.