Xiaomi Mi Pad 5 Pro Review - Powerful 120hz Android 11 Tablet

 Xiaomi Mi Pad 5 Pro


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 room 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 us 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 mi pad 5 Pro.      


1. what's inside the box of Xiaomi Mi Pad 5 Pro



 Here so here's the unboxing  part it's not a lot to show you the box itself  is black is 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.






2. Build and design

 

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 the 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 nowhere 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 a 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 the 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 Therefore 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.




3.120 Hz Screen

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.

4. Fingerprint and face unlocking


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 the 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 motion it nothing happens and if I press in and  tap it then scans unlocks and that is very quick 


5. all specifications of Xiaomi Mi Pad 5 Pro


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 4000  

 

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 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  pub 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 an other 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 table 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 i do hope to get the keyboard and the stylus push the notifications so you don't miss out our daily updates

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