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Xiaomi Redmi Pad SE Unboxing & Hands On
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Sep 19, 2023
Xiaomi Redmi Pad SE on Amazon*: https://geni.us/redmipadse The Xiaomi Redmi Pad SE is a new entry-level tablet that costs under 200 US Dollars. It features an 11-inch full HD screen with 90Hz support that is 400 nits bright. We get a Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 processor, 4GB, 6GB or 8GB RAM and 128GB of internal storage. It is running Android 13 including the Google Play Store out of the box. What do you think of the Xiaomi Redmi Pad SE? Website: https://mynexttablet.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/mynexttablet What I use for my videos: Camera 1*: https://geni.us/sonya7markiii Camera 2*: https://geni.us/sonyal6400 Lens 1*: https://geni.us/sonyfe1635f4 Lens 2*: https://geni.us/tamronfe2875f28 Lens 3*: https://geni.us/sonyfe90 Lens 4*: https://geni.us/sonye1018f4 Microphone 1*: https://geni.us/rodentusbmic Microphone 2*: https://geni.us/rodevideomicromic Light 1*: https://geni.us/aputureh672s
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Hi Angie here for my next tablet.com
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Today with an unboxing of the brand new Xiaomi RedmiPad SE. Alright, let's start the unboxing of the Xiaomi RedmiPad SE that was just announced for the
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European market starting at 199 euros. For that you get a version with 4 gigabyte RAM and 128 gigabyte of storage and it can cost up to
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249 euros and then you can get a version with 6 gigabyte RAM and the 249 euro one has
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8 gigabytes of RAM and the same 128 gigabyte of storage. And by the way, I'm pretty sure that prices will be quite similar in US dollar and then
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convert it elsewhere in the world. So probably it will be around $199 or maybe even a little bit less
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Inside the box we've got the tablet. First of course, I've got a little bit slightly saturated pinkish color here
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It looks quite nice. Then we got the standard paperwork, warranty guide and a quick start guide
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any jack tool. We don't have an LTE or 5G option here, but there's a micro s t cut slot
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That's what the tool is for. Then we get a standard charger and of course also a standard cable USB type A to type C
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And there's no optional keyboard cover and also no optional pen, but I've got the official cover
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for the Redmi pad SE here. It's made of plastic but it looks nice, looks a bit similar to like leather
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It covers the tablet from all sides, so it's protected. and you can fold it up to use as a stand
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And yeah, that's nice when you want to watch some Netflix or YouTube. It looks like a decent cover
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And yeah, like usual, I already spent many hours, actually almost a day with the
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Xiaomi Redmi Pad S.E. Now and I can tell you a bit more about this quite inexpensive entry level tablet
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And we're starting with the design and has an 11 inch display, black screen bezels around
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this screen. We've got a 5 megapixel front facing camera on the top
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And on the back we've got an 8 megapixel main camera. Looks very similar this design to the first show me ret me pad, but this is the redmi pad
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SE, like I said. It has a full metal body. And if you go around a bit, we've got a micro steel cut slot over here, volume rocker power
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button, then we've got two speakers on this side and two speakers on this side
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And by the way, there's no fingerprint scanner, but there's the standard headphone jack and
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also a USBC port. I'm guessing USB C 2.0 because Xiaomi didn't say anything about the USBC port, so it's probably 2.0
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Yeah, so much about the design. It looks very thin, but it looks actually a bit thinner than it is because the transition
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from the body to the screen is not as elegant as an iPad There a little bit of black plastic here In fact it 7 millimeters thin that certainly still fine especially in this price range
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and it weighs 478 grams. And now let's get to the screen
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It looks very nice, it's 11 inches, probably a bit under 11 inches, like 10.6 or something
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like that. And it has a resolution of 1920 by 1200 pixels, so about full HD
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And with this screen size it's fine. It looks sharp enough. Of course they're sharper displays out there but usually not in this price range
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So the sharpness is certainly fine. And actually this for this price range is a really nice display because first of all it's 400
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nits bright which is quite bright and it supports 90 hertz. We can go on the settings to confirm that
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Most screens only support 60 hertz especially at this price. Some like the other retry pads that starts
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at around 300 euros support 90 hertz and this one also 90 hertz
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And let's go to refresh rate and there you can see Xiaomi talking about 90 hertz
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You can also switch to 60 hertz as a standard if you want to save a bit of battery
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life or just go up to 90 hertz and then it just chooses dynamically
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what's appropriate in the use case you're using it at. So the display is quite nice for this price range
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I already watched a bit of Netflix. You can watch Netflix with HD quality or the necessary DM standards are supported
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And I also watch a bit of YouTube. Works fine and looks great as well
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The four speakers are pretty good, so I think this is a quite nice entertainment tablet
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Now let's get to the internal hardware inside the RepmePedad SE sits the Qualcomm
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Snapdragon 680 shipset and we get 4, 6 or 8 gigabyte of RAM and all of those
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versions have 128 gigabyte of storage. So I think the storage options here for 199 euros and under $200 are really nice
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There's no version with 5G or LTE, like I said. Very interesting and keep close attention here is the Gigbench 5 benchmark comparison
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I always run the Gigbench 5 benchmark. You can see here that the MultiCorps performance is a little bit, just a little bit above the standard
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retme pad. But the graphics performance is worse. And actually you can see here that the graphics performance, the compute performance of the
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RedmiPad SE is a major weak point of this tablet. The graphics performance is worse than on the Samsung Galaxy tab 8, which is a much older and
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nowadays a little bit cheaper tablet. However you can see that the CPU performance of the Redmi Pad SE is better So the CPU performance for this price is actually pretty good Just the graphics performance is not And you can also see of course that higher tablets like the Samsung Galaxy Type S6
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Live 2022 or of course the Xiaomi Redmi-Rat 6 and so on are much more powerful
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This is still an entry-level tablet. And that GeekBenzh compute performance is also reflected in my Publishing Mobile gaming test
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This tablet plays Pubggy Mobile very well. I enjoyed playing with it, I won, I killed a lot of people, it's really nice playable
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but the graphics can only be set to balanced, which is only the second highest
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It cannot be set to HD. Now sometimes there are updates and then you can set the graphics a little bit higher, but
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based on the low benchmark, the graphics performance that had in Deep Bench 5, I'm guessing
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that this won't be the case here. So this is not an amazing gaming tablet
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Many games will run, many you will have to play at lower graphics settings, but I just wouldn't
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get it specifically for gaming because then I would get other tablets with a better graphics performance
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For everything else, by the way, the performance is really good. That's because we've got a lot of RAM here, even higher RAM options, I only have the 4
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gigabyte run, and the CPU performance is fine. So you can open two apps side by side, it works fine, and also watch YouTube on one side
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serves the web and the other side, that all works fine as you would expect from a $199
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your tablet. It's not like a Galaxy Tabass 9 of course, but it all runs fine
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Just the graphics performance is not amazing. And then let's take a look at the software
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The Xiaomi Redmi Pad S is running Android 13. So up to date Android right now
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Let's go to about tablet and Android version 13 here. Let's activate this little Easter egg
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We have it. And on top of it runs the Mi'I in version 14
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And at the moment it's been pretty much the same software as on the ShowMe Pad 6, Pad 5 and
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Redmi Pad because Xiaomi has been pretty good with updates in the last couple of years
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All the predecessor tablets have been updated quite nicely recently. Like I'm surprised by Xiaomi
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So I hope that the RedmiPad SE will also be updated for maybe one, two, hopefully three years
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But I don't have any official info about that at the moment, but in the past
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Xiaomi has been getting better and better. Well, and on Android, like I said, runs MiUI, which customizes the interface quite a lot
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There are also a lot of apps pre-installed from Xiaomi and nodes apps
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They even have their own browser, a weather app, a recorder. There are some other tools here and some other apps like WPS officer preinstalled I installed only Gatebench 5 and Publishing Mobile Netflix is also pre Of course we do get the Google Play Store and also all of the Google apps because the Webme
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Pet is a tablet that will be and is being released internationally, not just in China
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like some Xiaomi devices, but you will be able to get it pretty much everywhere, so including
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your local warranty and so on, so that's quite nice. So overall the interface here is nothing special
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It's a little bit customized Android 13, so nothing bad to say it, but it looks fine
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And yeah, so much about the show me, RedmiPad, SE so far. I'm very excited to start my proper review now
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My first impressions are good because we get a lot of RAM, quite a lot of storage with 128
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gigabytes that can be expanded with a micro SD card slot. I also like that at the $199 euros we get a 90-hirt screen that's also quite bright with
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400 nits. It's really nice. There's a metal body here. We're getting pretty much up-to-date software at the moment
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And word 13, the four speakers are fine. We get a headphone jack
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And it's not an amazing gaming tablet like the benchmarks showed, but for other tasks, it's
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pretty nice. It seems to be a good multimedia tablet, like for watching movies, listening to music, watching
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YouTube and browsing the web at the same time, doing some light gaming maybe
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And yeah, for all of that it's fine. The big downside, like I said already is the graphics performance that certainly could be better
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Now the price of 199 euros is good of course, but the standard Xiaomi reddened pad that was
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released about a year ago often also costs about the same now since prices have dropped
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Originally it was 100 euros more. So because that one has a better graphics performance, if you can still get the standard
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me Redmi pad. I would still prefer that one, especially at a discounted price just because the graphics
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performance is a bit better. And in all other aspects, based on my first impressions, they are basically the same, mostly
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the same in other aspects. So yeah, decent tablet, but I think the standard Xiaomi redmi pad is a little bit better
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Now I'm guessing that show me will stop producing the standard Redmi pad
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will sell this one in the lower entry price point instead. And probably there will be a Xiaomi Redmi Pad 2, that then will again be about 100 euros
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and dollars more expensive and have some better features, probably a better processor
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All right, so much about the Xiaomi Redmi Pad SE. If you're interested in a better tablet, a more premium tablet, then check out my review
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of the Xiaomi Pad 6. It's more expensive but not crazy expensive
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However, it can keep up with really high and premium tablets
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