OnePlus Pad 3 Redefines the Tablet with Snapdragon 8 Elite and 3.4K 144 Hz Display

OnePlus Pad 3 Redefines the Tablet with Snapdragon 8 Elite and 3.4K 144 Hz Display You know that moment when you unwrap something and instantly feel you’re holding the future? That’s the exact feeling I got when I first picked up the OnePlus Pad 3. It’s slimmer than most smartphones and made from a single piece of metal. It feels impossibly light yet surprisingly solid in your hand.

First Impres­sions: Beau­ty in Sim­plic­i­ty

It’s rare for me to stop and appre­ci­ate how a device looks before turn­ing it on, but the One­Plus Pad 3 demands that moment of awe. Avail­able in a calm Storm Blue or a frost­ed sil­ver fin­ish, the tablet’s uni­body design glides eas­i­ly across your palm. At just under six mil­lime­ters thin, it makes you won­der how they packed so much pow­er into some­thing that dis­ap­pears in your bag.

Pow­er You Can Feel

Inside, it has Qualcomm’s brand-new Snap­drag­on 8 Elite chipset, and let me tell you, it doesn’t just look good on paper it feels amaz­ing in every­day use. From the moment I swiped through the home screen, ani­ma­tions were smooth, and apps launched quick­ly. It felt more like a gam­ing PC than a tablet. One­Plus has clear­ly pushed the lim­its here: whether you’re jug­gling emails, video calls, and a brows­er with sev­er­al tabs open, or div­ing into a graph­ics-heavy game, the per­for­mance nev­er fal­ters.

Real­i­ty on the Screen

Switch­ing to the dis­play, the Pad 3’s 13.2‑inch pan­el is a visu­al treat. With a 3.4K res­o­lu­tion and a fast 144 Hz refresh rate, scrolling through social feeds or flip­ping through a dig­i­tal sketch­book feels as nat­ur­al as turn­ing pages in a book. Col­ors are vibrant with­out being over­sat­u­rat­ed, and thanks to 12‑bit col­or depth, even sub­tle gra­di­ents are live­ly. On a sun­ny day at the park, the peak bright­ness of 900 nits ensures you can see your favorite show with­out squint­ing.

All-Day Bat­tery with­out the Anx­i­ety

You know the drill: you leave home for a long day, only to real­ize by lunchtime that your tablet is run­ning low on bat­tery. With its huge 12,140 mAh bat­tery, the Pad 3 takes bat­tery anx­i­ety out of the equa­tion. I streamed videos, ran tests, hopped into video calls, and still had enough pow­er left to sketch ideas well into the evening. And when you final­ly need a charge, the 80 W SUPERVOOC charg­er fills the tablet from emp­ty to half-full in about the time it takes to brew cof­fee.

Seam­less Mul­ti­task­ing No Headaches Required

Instead of strug­gling with clunky split-screen modes, One­Plus has cre­at­ed a smooth mul­ti­task­ing expe­ri­ence. You can place mes­sages in float­ing win­dows, resize a doc­u­ment edi­tor with a pinch, or drag and drop images between apps with­out miss­ing a beat. Pair it with the option­al Smart Key­board and Pro‑grade Sty­lo 2, and the Pad 3 becomes as ver­sa­tile as a laptop—and way more fun to use on the couch.

AI That Actu­al­ly Helps

Arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence often feels like a gim­mick, but One­Plus AI, pow­ered by Google’s Gem­i­ni, actu­al­ly serves as a help­ful pro­duc­tiv­i­ty tool. With a tap of the ded­i­cat­ed AI key, you can sum­ma­rize a long arti­cle or trans­late web pages instant­ly. It can even read text aloud if you pre­fer lis­ten­ing over read­ing great when you’re cook­ing or out for a walk. The AI’s sug­ges­tions are smart with­out being pushy, which is a bal­anc­ing act that many com­pa­nies strug­gle to achieve.

Sound That Sur­rounds You

Let’s not over­look the audio. Eight speak­ers yes, eight are posi­tioned to cre­ate true stereo immer­sion. Watch­ing a movie felt like being in a mini-the­ater, with deep bass and clear dia­logue. When I switched to music, the rich­ness of the sound made me redis­cov­er songs in a whole new way.

Stays Cool under Pres­sure

Extend­ed gam­ing ses­sions can turn tablets into hot bricks, but the Pad 3’s cool­ing sys­tem, which includes a vapor cham­ber and graphite lay­ers, keeps tem­per­a­tures down. Even after an hour of intense gam­ing, the tablet stayed com­fort­able to hold and main­tained steady frame rates.

Your Phone’s Per­fect Part­ner

Don’t have a 5G tablet? No prob­lem. The Pad 3 smart­ly con­nects to your One­Plus phone’s data, avoid­ing com­pli­cat­ed hotspot setups. You can mir­ror noti­fi­ca­tions, clip­board text, and even open phone apps seam­less­ly so you nev­er miss a thing.

Who Is This For?

If you’re a dig­i­tal artist need­ing a respon­sive can­vas, a busy pro­fes­sion­al switch­ing between pre­sen­ta­tions and video calls, or just some­one look­ing for pre­mi­um enter­tain­ment on the go, the One­Plus Pad 3 has you cov­ered. Its mix of design, raw pow­er, and thought­ful soft­ware fea­tures makes it an excel­lent choice in a crowd­ed mar­ket.

One­Plus Pad 3 – Sum­ma­ry https://www.oneplus.in/buy-oneplus-pad‑3

Fea­ture	Details
Proces­sor	Snap­drag­on 8 Elite Mobile Plat­form (up to 4.32 GHz Ory­on CPU)
Dis­play	13.2″ 3.4K LTPS LCD, 144 Hz refresh rate, 12-bit col­or, Dol­by Vision
Bat­tery	12,140 mAh with 80W SUPERVOOC fast charg­ing
RAM & Stor­age	12 GB + 256 GB / 16 GB + 512 GB (LPDDR5x / LPDDR5T, UFS 4.0)
Build & Design	5.97 mm met­al uni­body, Storm Blue & Frost­ed Sil­ver col­ors
Audio	8 speak­ers (4 woofers + 4 tweet­ers), Dol­by Atmos
Cam­era	Rear: 13MP
Soft­ware & AI	Android 15 with Oxy­gen OS 15, One­Plus AI pow­ered by Google Gem­i­ni
Acces­sories (Option­al)	One­Plus Smart Key­board, Pro-grade Sty­lo 2 with 16,000 pres­sure lev­els
Con­nec­tiv­i­ty	Wi-Fi 7, Blue­tooth 5.4, USB‑C 3.2 Gen 1, One­Plus phone Instant Share sup­port
Price (India)	₹42,999 (12GB+256GB) / ₹48,999 (16GB+512GB)

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Final Thoughts

One­Plus aimed to change what an Android tablet can be, and with the Pad 3, they’ve not only suc­ceed­ed but they’ve raised the bar for every­one else. The com­bi­na­tion of the Snap­drag­on 8 Elite’s speed and a top-notch 3.4K, 144 Hz dis­play cre­ates an expe­ri­ence that feels less like using a tablet and more like peek­ing into the future of mobile com­put­ing.

Avail­able now in two con­fig­u­ra­tions 12 GB/256 GB at ₹42,999 and 16 GB/512 GB at ₹48,999—the One­Plus Pad 3 ships from July 20. Trust me, once you feel that pow­er in your hand, you’ll ques­tion how you ever man­aged with any­thing else.