Regarding the vivo tablet, netizens are not discussing "whether there is or not", but "when there is". In today's world where major manufacturers are looking at all categories and striving to achieve all-scenario interconnection, vivo will produce a tablet, which has long been a nail in the coffin.
Android tablets should have, vivo Pads all have
"True Fragrance" processor Snapdragon 870, 120Hz refresh rate, 1 billion color true color display of 11-inch LCD screen, coupled with four-channel ultra-linear speakers, vivo Pad hardware configuration and domestic mainstream Android tablet is no different, but the details are better.
The first is the appearance, the vivo Pad adopts an integrated metal body, and hides the antenna under the fuselage, leaving us with a frame without breaks. and a thickness of 6.55mm that is thin enough.
The thin and light body does not affect the battery capacity of vivo Pad, the large battery of 8040mAh with the rapid flash charge of 44W, the measured 2 hours of 1080P streaming video playback, the battery is still 73%.
Today, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 processor has almost become the standard of Android tablets, excellent power consumption with the heat dissipation of large tablets, daily use almost no stuttering, games can also run at full frame.
Vivo adapts to the 90/120 frame mode of games such as Glory of Kings and Crossfire, while vivo Pad is also equipped with Multi-Turbo technology and has a variety of "Turbo" acceleration. In the actual game experience, vivo Pad is indeed stable enough. The main heat is in the middle of the horizontal screen grip, which does not affect the experience too much.
However, the high frame rate mode of the Peace Elite and League of Legends mobile game is still being adapted and needs to be updated.
▲ Basically, it can run the glory of the king stably at 120 frames, and the team battle occasionally drops frames
In terms of audio and video, 2.5K, 1 billion color true color display, 120Hz LCD screen, with Dolby Vision and four-channel speakers, if you want to buy a tablet to chase the drama brush Weibo, then vivo Pad can be counted as the first echelon of today's domestic Android tablets.
At the same time, the screen of vivo Pad has also passed the RWE global anti-blue light certification 2.0, and supports adaptive color temperature adjustment, and it is also good to read books with it.
▲ Use the Atomic Reading app
OriginOS, which has amazed countless mobile gamers with its intuitive design and practical features, has finally come to the tablet. OriginOS HD gives me two feelings: stability and personalization.
The first is stability, although this is Vivo's first tablet product, but the OriginOS HD experience is stable and comprehensive. Full-screen gestures, the animation of app switching and the system UI adaptation are in place, both the shadow of OriginOS on the mobile phone, but also only the rough ratio of the system app.
The second is personalization, when I first got the vivo Pad, the OriginOS HD setting made me play for a long time. In addition to regular wallpapers, icon adjustments, charging, notifications, opening apps, turning off the screen, touching pointers... Almost every effect associated with Pad operation can be customized. While some of the special effects are a little fancy, it's fun enough and young enough.
Came a little later and the experience was really better
At the press conference, Vivo said that although the Vivo Pad came late, the experience would be much better. When it comes to Android tablets, what comes to mind is the split screen, small windows, and the experience of keyboards and stylus. In a word, vivo Pad has indeed achieved eclecticism and has come to the top.
First of all, the split screen and small window, vivo in the bottom layer of the system for more than 3200 apps for the "application multi-window" function adaptation, so that vertical screen app can be displayed in the horizontal screen in the form of dual windows, some mainstream apps can also adjust the screen ratio size. Today's headlines, Taobao and other apps have adapted to this feature.
In addition to the three fingers on the sliding screen of two apps, vivo Pad has a small function of split screen I like, that is, in the split screen mode click the middle of the split screen line, the two apps together, in the form of icons resident desktop, the next time you use it, you can step through, very convenient.
In addition, sliding up obliquely from the lower left corner of the app can enter the small window mode, slide up to bring up the bottom application bar, and you can also quickly open the small window and split the screen.
▲ Vivo Pad's trackpad area is larger than the Magic Keyboard
Overall, the operations of vivo Pad are quite intuitive, and the functions are rich and practical enough, but many functions (such as sliding out the bottom application bar on the app interface) are turned off by default, remember to turn it on in the settings.
Vivo Pad is also equipped with a keyboard and trackpad, but compared to the multi-window like, I just want to say "love and hate" about these peripherals.
First of all, the keyboard, 1.3mm of the key range is decent, long time typing will not feel tired, independent ESC keys with a wealth of shortcut keys, writing on the tablet has no problem at all.
The most attractive thing about this keyboard is its trackpad that can be said to be "huge".
▲ Vivo Pad's trackpad area is larger than the Magic Keyboard
The all-glass trackpad supports global pressing, and the experience is even better than many Windows notebooks. In terms of software, app switching, exit, selecting text and other operations can be directly completed with the trackpad, vivo also adapts to the adaptive cursor, when the touch point is close to the icon, the button will be intelligently adsorbed, very intuitive.
The vivo Pad's keyboard is the most full-featured Android tablet keyboard I've used in nearly a year, but it's not perfect either. First of all, in order to give the trackpad a larger space, vivo Pad adopts the design of the rear bracket, but it is not the same as the Surface, but it is bent from the top of the unfolding way.
On the one hand, so that the connection between the keyboard and the machine is not as stable as other tablets, on the other hand, the operation is more troublesome, the use will always accidentally turn the tablet upside down, almost every colleague who has just started vivo Pad, will stare at the keyboard for half a day, do not know how to open.
Second, some apps are still problematic, such as when I write with graphite documents, the input method box will run to the bottom. In the WeChat full-screen chat, the carriage return is to send a message, but when the WeChat split-screen chat, the carriage return becomes a line feed, and the third-party app needs to be further optimized.
▲ Full screen carriage return is sent
▲ Split-screen carriage return is a line feed
Compared to the keyboard, the stylus is more suitable for most tablet users, even if it is not used to write and draw, it can help us operate the screen more precisely.
Vivo Pad's stylus supports 4096 levels of pressure and flanking writing, and the aluminum alloy pen body with magnetic design makes it feel good from the hand. OriginOS HD is also optimized for the stylus, handwriting conversion, one stroke forming, screen-off shorthand and other functions are all available, with smart buttons, screenshots, tool switching, text selection, etc. are also very convenient.
The fly in the ointment is that vivo Pad's stylus requires a size 9 battery to drive, and if you've used the old Surface Pen, you'll know you're familiar with this design.
As an old Surface user, I know that a No. 9 battery can make the Surface Pen use for a very long time, vivo official also claims to use two hours a day, can still guarantee more than 2 years of battery life, but in the Surface has turned to magnetic charging today, the No. 9 battery is not advanced after all.
Overall, the functional experience of vivo Pad's keyboard and stylus is absolutely not inferior to that of a number of Android tablets, and the experience on the trackpad can even rank first, but it does have some places that are not extreme enough.
In addition, vivo Pad's camera is also worth mentioning, vivo uses a 13 million main camera and 8 million ultra-wide angle camera, scanning documents, shooting class notes is completely enough, the front in addition to the 8 million pixel camera, but also has a customized ToF distance sensor, when the child is too close to the screen, it will remind the viewing distance and posture, students online classes, games, there is also a guarantee.
Before buying iQiyi, you can try productivity after buying
As a large-screen movie watching tool, vivo Pad has made sufficient efforts in the "iQiyi" part, in addition to excellent audio and video performance, OriginOS HD will also bring the atomic projection hall and the atomic Walkman to the tablet, and you can enter the song you are listening to and the drama you are chasing with one click on the desktop.
However, the ridicule of "pre-buy productivity, post-purchase iQiyi" came to vivo Pad here, and I suggest that even if you "buy pre-iQiyi", try productivity after buying.
Using a tablet is more of a complement to desktop work, so collaboration between different platforms is the top priority of the tablet experience productivity. Vivo Pad has come up with its own solution in terms of productivity: let the tablet act as a transit station, connecting mobile phones and computers.
First of all, if you are using a vivo mobile phone, you can achieve hotspot password-free connection and synchronous verification code between the vivo Pad and the mobile phone, and half of the documents are written on the mobile phone, and there is no problem in relaying to the tablet with one key.
With the self-developed MiraCast screen projection protocol, the screen casting of the vivo mobile phone on the vivo Pad is also very smooth, and it is easy to reply to mobile phone messages and drag and drop files from each other.
Secondly, vivo Pad also built-in NFC in the upper right corner of the horizontal screen, you can realize the mobile phone and Pad a touch each other, and this function can also identify the scene, if you open the note app on the vivo Pad, select the picture on the phone to touch the tablet, it will trigger the "insert picture to document" reminder.
Finally, the interconnection between vivo Pad and desktop systems, as a terminal manufacturer, vivo naturally cannot modify the Windows or macOS system from the bottom, so it has chosen a curve to save the country, :P C "quantum suite".
vivo brings together atomic notes, calendars, atomic reading features, and photos into one app, allowing users to edit notes, read articles, and view photos at any time and simultaneously on different devices. Unfortunately, the Mac side has not yet been officially launched, but fortunately, we can still use the web version of the quantum suite to achieve various synchronization functions.
In terms of interface, vivo Pad uses USB 3.1, supports external 4K 60 Hz display, and the transmission speed is fast enough, and a 4.47 GB movie is measured, and the transmission is completed in only 22 seconds.
Summary: 2499 yuan, this is a new choice for Android tablets
Solid hardware configuration, full system optimization, coupled with the imagination of full-platform productivity, the belated vivo Pad does add some bright colors to the Android tablet ecology with similar configuration and similar functions.
If you are a vivo mobile phone user, from hardware performance to system optimization for vivo mobile phone interconnection, vivo Pad is undoubtedly worth buying. If you are not a vivo user, the experience of using vivo Pad alone, as well as the layout of the full platform quantum suite, will also bring you a good experience.
So far, the top manufacturers of domestic mobile phone sales have their own tablets, watches and headphones, such as Xiaomi, Huawei, etc. are laid out to smart home appliances. When everyone has completed the step of "from scratch to have", how to "from having to excellent" and how to use the ecology to let more users choose is the next step that every manufacturer must consider.
Vivo Pad made a good start in the field of tablets, but as Vivo itself said, it came late, so it was good. And the "from there to excellent" step, I would like to see vivo as a forerunner posture, let us see more interesting products, and more outstanding performance.