XIAOMI MI PAD IN VIJAYAWADA ONLY RS./ ONLY. IN INDIA

Xiaomi Mi Pad in Vijayawada only Rs./- only. Key Features of Mi Pad cm IPS (x) Display 2 GB RAM 8 MP Primary Camera 5 MP Secondary Camera Android v4.4.4 (KitKat) OS 2.2 GHz NVIDIA Tegra K1 ARM Cortex-A15 Quad Core Processor Expandable Storage Capacity of 128 GB The Mi Pad is the best tablet in its price range but it is not completely without flaws. Saying that, the flaws are not that intrusive and can be overlooked thanks to its affordable price. So, if you want a tablet just for entertainment purposes and don’t want to spend a fortune getting one, buy the Mi Pad. Xiaomi recently launched its Mi Pad in the Indian market at a very reasonable price of Rs../- At that price, it tries to offer the performance of a Google Nexus 9 and the design of an iPad. To say the least, it does get away in both performance and looks. However, there are some rough areas which could have been avoided or just fixed in the nine months it took to come to India. Build and Design Starting with the design, the Mi Pad bears striking similarities with the Apple iPad Mini. The button placement on the right edge, USB port at the bottom and the speaker grill at the lower back have the same placement as on the iPad Mini. No wonder, Xiaomi is called the Apple of China. The story changes as we move to the build quality. While the iPad Mini has a brushed aluminium finish, the Mi Pad is all plastic. The back is made up of glossy plastic which is quite slippery. The tablet is slightly bulky, weighing 360 grams. Hence, one handed use is not recommended as the slippery back combined with the weight will lead to accidental drops. The display however does come with Gorilla Glass 3 protection. Display and UI The Mi Pad features a gorgeous 7.9-inch IPS display with a resolution of x pixels and very un-Android like 4:3 aspect ratio. Even though the display has good colour saturation and exceptional viewing angles, we felt it is a bit dim. Saying that, this might be the best display you can get at this price but certainly not comparable to the likes of an iPad Mini 3. Coming back to the 4:3 aspect ratio, it does affect almost all games with scaling issues. While Marvel: Contest of Champions looks okay even with scaling, Asphalt 8 does look out of place and almost all videos we tested played with letterboxing. The tablet runs on Android 4.4 Kitkat with the usual MIUI on top of it. The latest MIUI 6 does bring a flatter design to Xiaomi devices which looks better than MIUI 5. Speaking of the UI, Xiaomi has skipped some of the MIUI features on the tablet. It doesn't get themes, security app, recorder, QR scanner, compass and the bug reporting tool. Overall, the MIUI still looks much more refined and far more usable than other UIs in the market. The lack of a theme manager and security app does reduce the charm but at the end of the day it doesn't hinder the core functionality. Performance Taking a look at the performance, we found that the tablet could handle anything and everything we threw at it. The tablet had no issues opening multiple apps, playing Full HD content or just playing games like “The Walking Dead”. This is all because of Nvidia's Tegra K1 chip and its ULP GeForce Kepler (192 cores) GPU. The Nvidia Tegra K1 is a beast when it come to performance. The Tegra K1 is the same chip Google uses in its Nexus 9 tablet but whereas the Nexus 9 uses a 64-bit version of the chip, the Mi Pad comes with a 32-bit version of the same. Now, even though the hardware is almost a year old, and the Mi Pad uses only the 32-bit version of Tegra K1, it definitely raises the performance standards in the budget category. In the synthetic benchmarks the Mi Pad was able to score some outstanding scores. Take a look: