The Mi Pad 5 Pro well here it is this is the chinese model that i did import in
i got this from a company called Giztop and unfortunately you can probably see i don't have
the keyboard or the stylus i am waiting for those so with the Mi Pad 5 Pro here we do have of course
a rom that's just in chinese and english but you can install google play and it does work with this
now this one has a 50 megapixel camera on the rear of it it does support up to 67 watt charging and
it's all powered by the snapdragon 870 this model here that i got has six gigabytes of ram and 128
gigabytes of ufs 3.1 storage the screen on it so this is a 120 hertz 11 inches 25.60 by 1600 is the
resolution it's a great screen and i'll get into that in detail exactly what you can expect out
of the meatpad 5 Pro here so here's the unboxing part it's not a lot to show you the box itself
is black very thin and why is it so thin well it doesn't actually have a charger or anything
you can see here dolby vision atmos so yes it does support that now when you open it up obviously the
tablet would be there and then there's just a little bit of paperwork here that is it so no
charger included with this chinese version according to my scales the tablet does weigh
515 grams you can see right here we've got our camera and there's a dip sensor next to it so this
is 50 megapixels and a 5 megapixel dip sensor dual tone led flash now this camera does protrude out
by approximately two and a half millimeters total thickness of this is really good it's about
seven so all that with the camera yeah that brings it up to almost about 10 millimeters
so lightweight good quality this is a plastic on the back of it i do like the finish it's matte
and you can see a few fingerprints and smudges on it now here you can even see where i removed
the sticker that's on the back there with the serial number and i have intentionally
not cleaned it just to show you that yeah it does pick up smudges and get a little bit dirty so i
would probably go for the white color if you want it to look clean and not show those fingerprints
now looking at it from the side here very slim as you can see so this is our power button that does
have a built-in fingerprint reader now it's not always on it is capacitive but you actually have
to press it in before it reads and then unlocks but it's very quick and i'll show you that shortly
so the dolby vision atmos speakers we've got two on this side on the left and another two on the
right microphone right here some antenna lines this is alloy the frame around the outside now
this part right here you can see is black that's actually plastic that's around the outside of the
screen and here we see we've got a type-c port there now the microphone more antenna lines
and another two of those speakers now this type-c port does support quick charge 4 power
delivery 3 and up to 65 watts with the chinese Mi Pad 5 Pro here it does not support however
video out which is disappointing for a tablet and then up the top of the Mi Pad 5 Pro here we've got
another two microphones volume up and down buttons some more antenna lines right there for the wi-fi
so this does have a really good build to it feels very very premium power buttons as well they don't
feel cheap down the bottom there is a pogo port pin connector three there that is for the keyboard
which sadly as i mentioned i don't have yet all the stylus and another two antenna lines so the
screen does run at a 120 hertz by default you can change it to 60 if you want to i'll get into the
settings shortly but let's just talk a little bit about what the screen looks like here and exactly
how bright it is so very bright under the current settings that i have and the touch response is
excellent so you will notice that because it's an ips panel that the blacks won't be as deep as an
oled but for ips they're not too bad at all now when you have a look at white for example you'll
see that right on the corners that the pixels are sometimes a little bit dimmer right at the very
edges but it's not too bad at all the resolution means the screen looks very sharp these are the
black colors right now and they look deep okay for an ips not bad there's still okay not going
to mention oled but i think for an ips panel they do look very good here is our whites even though
it's stating green colors for some reason and the touch response triggering those gestures really
not a problem there so i'll show you some of the advanced settings here that i do like with this
particular tablet there's a lot you see with miui 12.5 that it's laid out correctly for a tablet
under display dark mode you can schedule it brightness level is where you will find the
sunlight mode so when it is in direct sunlight and this is enabled even without it enabled the screen
brightness tops out at over 600 nits it can be made out in direct sunlight because it's fully
laminated as well there's no screen protector on it i do find the display does look quite clear
out in direct sunlight and the ambient light sensor with this one does work particularly well
so refresh rate you can toggle that so there's no 90 hertz setting unfortunately which i would have
liked which is the sweet spot between the battery saving and the fluidity but i keep it on 120 hertz
i'm seeing absolutely no flicker coming through with this screen too which is great
so you can change it the color balance okay you got vivid saturated white balance down there and
adaptive colors there's a lot of things you can do with this you can see here the options we've got
enhanced original p3 srgb and this is really good i love to see all these settings so you
can just tweak that display to where you love to have it now this tablet does have the fingerprint
unlocking face unlocking the camera's right here and it works okay the fingerprint reader
you do need to if you just press it like now you see nothing happens with my thumb but if i press
in it then unlocks and it is fast okay it's fast it's accurate it's just a shame that this
fingerprint reader is not the always on type like some of xiaomi's phones while most of
them that have the side fingerprint readers it's always on so just press that again so that's off
tapping it nothing happens and if i press in and tap it then scans unlocks and that is very quick
so i'm on the latest miui 12.5 patch here which of course is for the chinese rom so this rom only
has english and chinese so that's why i would say it's probably best to wait for the global version
of this particular tablet which is rumored to be coming out everyone says it's coming out
so i will wait off and hold off for that and then of course you've got google play support
built in now it is here i've installed it the apk file for google play store and all you need to do
is just get that you can side load it or download it install it google play works fine give it its
permissions and away you go so bloatware there is a little bit of chinese bloat with some certain
applications i uninstalled and cleaned all of those up there are about seven or eight of them
and some notifications came through in chinese but you simply need to block that the internal storage
on this 128 gigabyte model ufs 3.1 speeds very very good look at those random reads and rides
they are wow so quick getting up to almost 300 megabytes per second there is excellent to see
wildlife score here so this is 3d mark average of just over 25 frames per second a score over 4 000
that's good for this chipset just like the antutu score here really good now this score here is
beating some snapdragon triple eight phones it just shows you how good the snapdragon 870 is in
fact it is my favorite chip the thermals on this one are so much better than the triple eight while
still offering very good performance as you can see from that and this here too which is geekbench
5 a decent score there and our wireless so for some reason i can't get on to wireless 6 here
with my router it just it doesn't want to see it for some reason i think it's a rom issue i think
in china they use a slightly different frequency there for wi-fi six that's probably what's causing
it but even so on wireless five so wireless ac very good speeds and the wireless here i have to
comment on the range is excellent it is really really good i mean i can go outside my house
and still be able to get decent speeds and coverage where other tablets like the cheaper
ones i review would simply fail so when i tested that out i was using the dual band
mode okay so that's connecting up to a wi-fi ac and wi-fi in at the same time there so battery
life runtime this is our fixed benchmark okay so 200 nits of brightness it just runs until it gets
to 20 from being fully charged 14 hours very good this means in real life you're looking around 10
to 11 hours this is at 120 hertz so i did another test too with that battery life and just used
it by myself what i would normally do without having that benchmark running okay so i ran like
netflix i was watching that i was in chrome all sorts of things like that i managed to get here
you can see almost nine hours and i still had some battery lift on this so it's definitely possible
because i was using quite a high brightness possible to get 10 11 maybe even more out of this
out of the 8 600 milliamp hour battery it is very very good charge times so there's no
charger included but i used the 67 watt charger i have for the mi 11 ultra and to go from 20 to 100
was 49 minutes which is so good for a tablet that's really quick 12 on this other charge to 100
and only 55 minutes again for a tablet that is so fast so really quick to charge just under one hour
to fully charge quite a large battery capacity is excellent and here we do have camera two api
support for the 50 megapixel camera the front one level three so that's maximum support that is good
and yes wide vine level one security cert however netflix does show this okay standard definition
wide vine level three it according to this one drm is yvonne level three so yeah not good amazon
prime video is also only just standard definition so i think again with the global model the global
rom that should not be a problem we should have then full hd because such a nice screen
you really don't want to be watching movies and tv series in standard definition gps hardware
compass signal strength is good and for a tablet i think this would be quite a good one for those
that need it for navigation for gps if you're a boaty whatever it does work well with this tablet
now ebooks pdf files like this one here this is in google books it does look really good okay on the
screen it's sharp and you will not get tired eyes the screen is sharp enough for that it's bright
enough for that too but you can also filter out the blue light you can change this invert the
colors to black and white with google books and it is ideal for this of course i'm just using
it in landscape mode but you can use it too in portrait so for ebooks pdf files and the weight
of this tablet do make it comfortable i mean it's only just over 500 grams so that is perfect
for holding for long periods it's not a heavy tablet it won't tire your arm out onto audio
so sadly there is no 3.5 millimeter headphone jack so you need to use the type c adapter to 3.5 which
actually is not included okay so you need to buy one of those separately i've tested it out
it sounds really good and what else sounds good is the loudspeakers on this so they are dolby atmos
ones so four speakers in total two either side they are loud they've got base to them they're
rich they've even got a little bit of treble good mids here's a sample of them now at 100 volume
and this is the video from the front facing eight megapixel camera with an f 2.0 aperture
looks quite good the audio is good and you'll notice as i move about a little bit here that
i'm actually holding this this is not in the tripod we have electronic image stabilization
with this front-facing camera so it is very similar to what we get on xiaomi phones
they use electronic image stabilization now with their front-facing cameras at 1080p
and that is exactly what we have here with this particular Mi Pad 5 Pro front facing camera
and over to our cameras now so we do have a reasonably good sensor on the back of this so
it is 50 megapixels can take a decent photo for a tablet and now the video quality so this is 4k 30
frames per second maximum with electronic image stabilization so that's very similar on what we
get on some of the phones from xiaomi it's great to see in a tablet i know a lot of people won't
be using the cameras on a tablet for these kind of purposes but at least we do have that option it's
not quite as good as a phone but still again for a tablet i find this quality is pleasing on to our
gaming performance so a game like gen chin impact here this is on the absolute top settings so 60
frames per second highest visuals it is running really well and most of the time it is running at
60 frames per second so if you swipe here from the top left hand side you see 60 at the moment
so that's great and this is using the game turbo you can also clear out the ram take screenshots
screen capture video and do not disturb and things like that i've gone over that in previous videos
still with the software been around for a while for this performance excellent very very good on
the maximum settings and because it's a tablet and not a phone it doesn't get anywhere near as hot as
some of those phones i've been testing this game out so i'm going to move over now and test out
pubg we'll see how that performs on the Mi Pad 5 Pro so pub g does let us play on the extreme frame
rate option if you use smooth balance or hd let's jump into some gameplay and see just how it feels
and absolutely no surprises here it's handling pubg with absolute ease it's a constant 60 frames
per second the tablet's barely getting even warm with this game because it's really not
demanding at all for it so locked at 60 frames per second it is if i take a look here at our
game turbo constant 60 frames per second and when you look down the sights there's no lag there's
no problems with that which is good to see and you did expect this with this kind of chipset
and then with the six gigabytes of ram yeah it is running flawlessly so hopefully they're going to
add support for 90 frames per second or 120 frames per second with this tablet would be
great it's super immersive with the speakers and playing on an 11-inch tablet is really good for
this type of game and the style of game and one last thing here with the tablet so it's very light
it's only just over 500 grams it's nice and thin around about seven millimeters and here in chrome
very very fast that scrolling speed really good performance as expected now when you
do bring up the on-screen keyboard this is google's g board i do find typing on it is
fine especially in portrait here it's quite easy just to use my thumbs and i'm not really
having any issues with it so hopefully later on i will be able to get hold of the keyboard and the
stylus and also cover that in a separate video and i do apologize that i don't have it but as
i mentioned it just simply seems to have sold out and very hard to get hold of at the moment
all right so let's go over the good things and the bad things about the Mi Pad 5 Pro care what i do
like about it so build quality excellent really good weight this is nice and light just over 500
grams very very thin it feels premium metal frame around the outside really good speakers very good
screen even though it's ips i would have preferred it to be oled it's still a very good screen so
600 nits maximum brightness 2560 by 1600 resolution looks sharp it's fully laminated
very responsive to touch the ui performance is great it feels fast and fluid thanks to that 120
hertz refresh rate we've got with this screen now with my six gigabytes of ram i find performance
is adequate you can multitask quite well with this sadly as i mentioned no keyboard no stylus that's
a big part of this particular tablet here which currently i don't have but that'll be coming in
another video i will try to cover that for all of you out there so the things that aren't so
good about this tablet well sadly there's no micro sd card support no 3.5 millimeter headphone jack
no video out of the type-c port that's a shame so competitors like lenovo's tablets that i've
covered in the channel samsung's they support display out so you can get a clone display
video out which is very good to have or even a desktop mode sadly xiaomi is lacking in that area
the fingerprint reader it's a shame that it's not always on you have to press it in but
it does work well we have also face unlocking with this which is another great feature there
65 watt fast charging too is a positive that is so quick in fact this is the fastest tablet
i have reviewed in the channel that with this charge rates under one hour for an 8
600 milliamp hour battery that is really good most of the tablets i review the cheaper ones will take
three hours even over three hours to fully charge because they only support
about 15 watts or 18 watts maximum charge rates and that of course at 67 is just so much quicker
now this is of course a chinese import version there is a possible Mi Pad 5 Pro that's coming
out on Mi Pad 5 for a global version and i would probably hold off and wait for that why
a big one for a lot of people and for me personally too is while it does have a wide
vine level one cert with this netflix amazon prime video as i showed you they are in sadly standard
definition okay so we're missing out on full hd with such a lovely screen and great speakers
i really want to see my tv series and movies and everything in full hd so i think the global rom
version the global version when that's released locally here in europe hopefully it's coming
fingers crossed that should fix that problem so that's a reason i would just definitely hold off
i think wait and see what is going to happen so thank you so much for watching my review here
well partial review because it's just the tablet of the Mi Pad 5 Pro the chinese rom of course
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