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I Tried the New OnePlus Tablet — And I Think the iPad Pro Has a Problem

The OnePlus Pad 3 is here

9 min readJun 5, 2025

When you’re in the market for a top-of-the-range tablet, the iPad Pro is the no-brainer choice — powerful, polished, premium. Whether you need to sketch, edit video, produce audio or simply write, the iPad Pro has you covered and then some. It’s an incredible device.

But there’s one quite, in fact, very big problem; it’s expensive. At the time of writing, the cheapest model, with the smaller 11-inch display, is $999/£999. So maybe…just maybe…you’re overlooking a tablet that does almost everything for a lot less.

I’m here to investigate whether the OnePlus Pad 3 could be that tablet (spoiler: it is). But I know you need some convincing. I know the feeling, there’s that nagging in the back of your mind telling you that betting against Apple is a bad idea. So I’m going to go through all the usual reasons you’d skip a tablet like this and show you why they no longer apply.

Claim 1: “But the iPad Pro looks and feels more premium“

The OnePlus Pad 3 is just 5.97mm thick, thinner than its predecessor and one of the thinnest tablets out there. It isn’t quite as impossibly-thin as the iPad Pro (5.1mm), but the Pad 3 is still very light, nimble in your…

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Mark Ellis
Mark Ellis

Written by Mark Ellis

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