The first Xiaomi tablet that made it to the West this year was the Xiaomi Pad 5 and it was very popular. With the Redmi Pad, the conglomerate subsequently delivered an even cheaper Android tablet, here it can be ordered from Amazon from about 230 euros. Unfortunately, the better equipped Xiaomi Pad 5 Pro did not officially make it to Europe and has to be imported if desired.
Apparently there are no plans to change this strategy. According to Xiaomiui, which had now discovered some hints about the new tablets for 2023 in the MIUI code, only the Xiaomi Pad 6 will be available globally as the successor to the Xiaomi Pad 5, while the Xiaomi Pad 6 Pro will again remain a China exclusive for a potential Redmi Pad 2 is not yet available. The Xiaomi Pad 6 is now based on the Snapdragon 870 (instead of a Snapdragon 860) and is codenamed pipa with model number M82. The display should be 12.4 inches again, but further information has not yet been dug up.
Xiaomi Pad 6 Pro
Xiaomiui provides more information about the Xiaomi Pad 6 Pro with code name liquin or model number M81. A Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 is installed here, together with 4 stereo speakers and a 120 Hz AMOLED display with a resolution of 2,280 x 1,880 pixels. According to Chinese leaker Digital Chat Station the Pro tablet has very thin bezels, he also mentions a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 option, although Xiaomiui hasn’t spotted that in the code yet.
As a tech-enthusiastic youth with an assembling and overclocking past, I worked as a projectionist with the good old 35 mm film before I entered the computer world professionally and worked as a Windows client for 7 years at the Austrian IT service provider Iphos IT Solutions – and server administrator as well as project manager. As a freelancer who travels a lot, I have been writing for Notebookcheck from all corners of the world since 2016 about the latest mobile technologies in smartphones, laptops and gadgets of all kinds.