If you’re looking for a decent Android tablet, you’re spoiled for choice at the moment. In Issue 700, we reviewed the 12.3in Honor MagicPad2 (£400 from www.snipca.com/53150) and hailed it as our new favourite Android tablet. Here, we look at a subtly different alternative, the OnePlus Pad 2, which has a slightly smaller 12.1in screen but otherwise rivals the MagicPad 2 in most areas.
They have similar components. The Pad 2 is built around the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor, while the MagicPad has a Snapdragon 8s Gen 3. The cheaper 8s is newer, but it lacks some of its predecessor’s features. For one thing it has a less powerful graphics chip and one fewer performance core, opting instead for one extra efficiency coreRAM (three in total). This slows overall performance but boosts battery life. Both devices have 12GB of and 256GB of storage.