OnePlus launched the Pad 4 on Thursday, the latest iteration of the company’s Pad series, a tablet with a good screen size, a big battery and a fast processor — all thinner than a pencil.
The Pad 4 has a 13.2-inch screen, a 13,380-mAh battery and a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor, the fastest available for Android systems. Snapdragon is a system-on-a-chip processor made by Qualcomm and is found in smartphones, tablets and laptops.
CNET liked the OnePlus Pad 3, and early indications are its successor may build on its strengths. Our review called the Pad 3 the “best new high-performance Android tablet” among our best picks for 2026, and longtime CNET reviewer David Carnoy said it was “powerful and elegant,” if a bit pricey.
The Pad 4 is available only in India for now, and the company did not say when the device would be coming to the US market. A representative for OnePlus did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Pad 4 is even more powerful than its predecessor. OnePlus said that, according to AnTuTu Benchmark testing, the tablet has 42% higher performance than the Pad 3. AnTuTu is a widely used performance testing platform that evaluates elements such as CPU, GPU, RAM, and the user experience of smartphones, tablets, and other devices.
The 13.2-inch screen has a 7:5 aspect ratio with a 144Hz refresh rate, 315 ppi clarity, Dolby Vision support, 12-bit color depth and up to 1,000 nits HBM brightness. And it’s all just 5.94mm thick. For reference, a No. 2 pencil is 7-10mm thick.
Despite its slim profile, the Pad 4 weighs in at 672 grams, which is more than the 13-inch iPad Pro.
OnePlus said the Pad 4’s 13,380-mAh battery will allow users to watch videos for up to 20 hours, and that a single full charge can provide up to seven hours of gaming and 54 days of standby. Juicing it all back up is done via 80-watt fast charging.
The new Pad 4 has a 13MP rear camera and an 8MP front camera, plus eight speakers and dual microphones. OnePlus has also added built-in AI tools, according to the company: AI Writer, AI Translate and AI Summary. As well, AI Painter creates visuals from sketches and uses data to produce charts and diagrams, and AI Recorder transcribes and summarizes recordings and can convert handwriting to text.
Currently, the Pad 4 is available in two colors — dune glow and sage mist — and is priced in India at about $630 for 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, or $685 for the 12GB/512GB option.
Rumors about the future of OnePlus
A swirl of reports and rumors has surrounded OnePlus’ future in the past few months. Chinese tech insider Digital Chat Station posted on Weibo on Wednesday that OnePlus had merged with Chinese device-maker Realme. Both companies are sub-brands of OPPO, a major Chinese consumer electronics company.
Digital Chat Station said the merged entity would share product development, software planning and launch roadmaps. There have also been reports from various news outlets that OnePlus might exit the US, UK and EU markets and focus solely on India and China.
Tech analyst Paulo Pescatore told CNET that, “There appears to be a string of departures that suggests a major restructuring of its European operations.”
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