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Review: Oneplus Pad Lite - A lot of tablet for under 3000 kronor

Oneplus Pad Lite meets most needs a tablet can satisfy, but sometimes with small margins.

Elias Nordling
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A couple of weeks ago, I tested the Xiaomi Redmi Pad 2, which offered a tablet with 4G connectivity for under 3000 kronor. Now it's the turn of the Oneplus Pad Lite, which is an almost identical tablet. The price tag is roughly the same, the screen is the same size, dimensions and weight are similar, and the tablets are powered by the same chipset, Mediatek Helio G100. The Redmi Pad 2 was a good value tablet, and the Oneplus Pad Lite is no worse.

A tablet is in many ways a complement to a mobile phone, a larger screen for the apps and services where you need a bigger screen. So it's of course a plus if it costs like an accessory rather than like another mobile phone.

The Oneplus Pad Lite costs 2790 kronor with 6 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage. If you add 200 kronor, you get 8 GB of RAM instead of 6 GB and space for a SIM card so the tablet can have its own 4G connection.

A large screen is therefore the main reason for a tablet, and here the screen is 11 inches, which is good enough for both gaming and for two people to watch a film together. The screen is flanked by four speakers that provide a proper stereo effect, but with slightly sharp and treble-focused sound.

The screen is not without weaknesses either. An OLED screen is not to be expected in this price range, and the LCD screen shifts a bit in brightness when I hold it at different angles. The screen doesn't have very high resolution (lower than the screen on the Redmi Pad 2) and the refresh rate of 90 Hz doesn't prevent lag in the graphics when I scroll. None of this really affects the user experience much, the most limiting factor is rather the maximum brightness of 500 nits. This makes it difficult to use the tablet in daylight, for example next to a window, but a transflective layer that reflects sunlight and helps illuminate the LCD crystals helps a bit in the sun.

No speedster

The tablet is not particularly fast. The Mediatek chipset that powers the tablet is one of the slower ones we've tested this year, and the tablet's limited performance is noticeable regardless of what you use it for. At the same time, it doesn't really hinder usage. Web pages render fairly quickly, apps take a little longer to start, and animations in games can be a bit sluggish, but nothing is disruptive enough to deter me from using the tablet for any of these tasks. When watching films, I don't notice any performance issues at all.

The tablet runs Android 15 and Oneplus's user interface Oxygen OS 15. It's a clean user interface without many pre-installed apps or its own ideas on how to navigate the tablet. Oneplus promises four years of system updates and six years of security updates for the tablet, which is unusually generous for a tablet in this price range.

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Limited performance and a dim screen can also have advantages; the tablet has really good battery life. Screen time at maximum brightness is almost ten hours, and I find that the tablet can be left idle for a while without being drained when I pick it up again a few days later.

There are many bad tablets for a couple of thousand kronor, so it's better to choose this one. It's not fantastic, but it handles most tasks for a cheap price.

Questions and Answers

Does the tablet have a fingerprint reader? No, for biometric unlocking, simpler facial recognition is used.

Is the tablet plasticky? No, it has an aluminium shell on most of the back and feels robust.

Does it come with a charger? No, but if you buy one, it can charge with up to 33 watts.

An Alternative

It's almost a toss-up between the Oneplus Pad Lite and the Redmi Pad 2. The Redmi Pad 2 has a slightly better screen, but Oneplus keeps its tablet updated for longer and has a less cluttered user interface with fewer bloatware apps.

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