When you hear Android tablets, you might
feel an emotion that is kind of like
So, it's nice when a company like OnePlus or Samsung, but in this case,
OnePlus, comes out with a tablet that makes you maybe maybe gets rid of that
emotion a little bit, makes you feel a little bit more at ease. It goes, okay.
And in this case, this specific product that's uh causing that effect in your
body is the OnePlus Pad Goto. Now, I
looked at the OnePlus pad nongo any
number a while back and I remember
thinking this is pretty nice. Although a lot of it was made me think of the iPad.
Then OnePlus released the pad go and now we have the goto which is sort of like a
more budget friendly version of that. So we'll have to see whether they retained
some of those uh Apple influences but we can also look at it through any any kind
of lens other than that as well. It's a tablet. It's its own thing. Ooh, that's
a tight sleeve. Ooh,
I have thoughts immediately. But before I go deep on that, what else is in the
box here? An envelope with a secret
letter from OnePlus saying, "Do you like me?" Circle yes or no. I will do that
later. A power adapter with a USBA port
on it. 45 watts superv apparently. a red
cable that is I'm going to guess it's 3 and 1/2 ft long. What do you guys think?
What do we think? Huh? But guess what? There's also accessories
that go with the OnePlus pad Goto Pro.
No, without the drop the last one. The OnePlus Pad Goto Stylo. I think there's
been some other products that are called the Stylo and it just rubs me the wrong
way. I want to say Stilo because that's French or but then Stylo makes me think
of the gorilla song. Don't play it. copyright, but you can imagine it.
That's allowed. There's a USBC port here for charging, and this uh Stylo uh can
apparently be used for some interesting features that we'll get into later, but
the uh overall feel of it is pretty nice. It's got like a pencil about a
thick pencil size. Got an extra tip there. That is a thick Look at this.
Look at that. That's a thick manual in there.
and the OnePlus pad goto folio case. I'm
a little disappointed because apparently
uh OnePlus wanted this thing to be really good for productivity.
Yet here we have a folio case. How is this going to help productivity? It
looks kind of cool though. I like the see-through design. Maybe we'll see.
Okay. It's giving me half like transparent
tech like cool vibes and half like
kitchen utensil. Like it feels like a slap chop. Like ooh it's a snug fit. How
do we feel about that? You see someone walking around with that? Are you like
whoa that guy's serious? That's not a toy. Or if it is a toy I want to play
with it. I kind of like the shininess it lends to the edges. Tablets are about
fashion. A big part of them are about fashion. Let's be serious. You can kind
of prop it up, I'm guessing. Like that.
Oh, and there's a clip for the pen up there for the stylo.
Okay, nice. That's some that's somewhat
functional. I could do some work with that. Now, it's time to actually take a
look at the tablet itself. So, we got a
12.1 in display, which is slightly
bigger than the previous Pad Go, and it's got a 2800 by 1980 resolution for a
PPI of 284 and an interesting 7x5
aspect ratio. I don't think I've ever heard of that before, but they're coming
up with all sorts of wacky things these days. Also 120 Hz refresh rate, which is
an improvement as well, but we'll get into that when we actually use the
device. On this side, we've got the volume up and volume down, as well as
maybe a mic. On the bottom/right side,
we got a USBC port, two speaker grills, another mic maybe. On the other long
side, absolutely nothing. And on the top slash left side, uh, we've got two more
speaker grills and a power button that I'm guessing is not a fingerprint reader
because it's quite thin, but we'll find out later. I also forgot to mention on
the front there, we've got the front-facing camera, which is 8
megapixels. And on the back, we've got the OnePlus logo and another 8 megapixel
camera facing backwards this time. Very,
very smooth. Do we know anything about the materials? They say anything fancy
about that? They say it channels pure confidence and classic cool.
>> It it Well, it does channels confidence and pure classic cool, which is true. It
doesn't seem that bad for fingerprints. Nice and matte. I mean, like you can see
there's a little bit on there, but overall pretty good. And I also like that the it's got this kind of like flat
iPad, you know, flat edge design, but
it's like a little bowed out, which feels pleasant to the touch. It pleases
me. Wow. I'll better move on from that by
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let's turn this thing on and see what we're dealing with. Ooh. Ooh, smooth. I
feel like I can see that 120 Hz. So, you can't though. Loser. I'm sorry. Even
though this is like a more of a budget tablet, um I'm I'm feeling like this is
already sort of a premium experience. Ah, no. Meta right in my face. Please.
Oh, and I didn't mention before, there's a little button on the bottom of the
styo that I just found. Features. Please tell me about the features. Tap to
switch tools. Take a partial screenshot.
Okay. Swipe from the upper right corner to take notes. I like all these. Okay.
So, what if I press this button right here? Double click. Nope. Swipe from the
None of that is working. Okay. Okay. Well, it lied to me. Maybe none of those
were turned on. It showed me that I could do them, but none of them were actually turned on. Annotate.
Screen off. Note on. Yes, please.
Annotate. There it is. See, I just I
love features like this where I'm like, "Oh, I just got a cool idea for an
elephant drawing. I'm going to send that to my lovely wife."
>> That's an elephant. >> What? It's an Look, there's a head in
the trunk. save as image and that I'll
cherish that forever. I like that. I like features like this. This is fun.
And then the other one that I thought was cool that I reminded me of the
Surface Pro something. I don't know back in the NCX days. I feel like I talked
about there was a there was a Surface that you could doubleclick on the pen
and it would open up OneNote right away. And I'm sure there are other devices
with stuff like that, but doubletapping the screen while it's locked just brings
up the notes and you can draw uh you
know like an elephant to send to someone. When I did the OnePlus pad, not
go or two, I made a lot of comparisons
to iPad. Now you look at this and tell me that this isn't inspired by the iPad
notes app. Okay, you tell you you have the gall to leave a comment. I respect
you. Some other things about the Stylo. It's got 4,96 levels of pressure
sensitivity, which is kind of your standard that you that you get with these things. I mean, you can see the
responsiveness. It's pretty good. Like, I don't feel like there's any sort of
delay there. Overall, I'd say that I don't even know what I'm doing, but it
seems very responsive. I mean, you can kind of get a better ch better look at
like the latency there where it's dragging behind the the pen tool a
little bit, but overall, I don't This doesn't feel sluggish at all. It feels
like a more premium device than it appears to be. Apparently, the OnePlus
notes app has the ability to calculate stuff like this with handwriting, just
like the iPad calculator app, which I thought was pretty cool and I wanted to
check out, but we can't figure out how to get it to work, but they claim that they have it. So, let us know in the
comments if you got it working on your OnePlus device. Try out your stylus.
This is interesting. I feel like I haven't seen a a focus on this for quite
some time. I actually do want to try it. Right.
Yeah, I got it. Scratch out text to delete.
Delete. I feel like I missed this. Not that I would ever use it. And I like
this is actually Wait, I take it back. I don't know if this is nice. It's weird.
Who writes with pens and like makes a big deal about making like writing with
pens now in 2025? Maybe this is a reaction to all the remarkables and the
e-paper tablets of the world. Like, okay, so you like pens, you like paper,
like pretend you're writing on paper, even though it feels very much like you're writing on a tablet. There's no
texture to this screen or anything. Anyway, there are kind of cool ways for
you to uh use a tablet that uh, you
know, imitates the efficiency of typing on a keyboard, but can't quite get you
there. It's nice to see when companies are thinking about ways to optimize your
experience and make things a little nicer. to to make it nice to them. I'm
going to try and use this and see what it's like. Ltttore.com.
It worked. I might use that instead of
using the like finger typing on the keyboard. Overall, I haven't seen I
haven't had any kind of complaints about performance with this thing. So far, it
seems to be like extremely responsive. The chip seems to be keeping up. It's a
Demensity MediaTek Demensity 7300 Ultra,
which you know is not the craziest thing
in the world. Labs ran it through our standard testing suite for Android
tablets. Uh we do not have Labs results for the predecessor to this, the OnePlus
Pad Go. We found some online so you can kind of compare those. We do have Labs
results for the Tab S11 Ultra and the iPad Pro M5 from when we did those
videos. They didn't retest them for this video, but I just wanted to show it to
give you guys a ballpark of like where this thing sits kind of in the
landscape. According to that, it seems like a pretty weak processor. So, I
don't I don't know if you're going to be able to do be doing like professional
work on this thing, but I don't think that's the kind of device that this is. I feel like for what you're going to be
doing with a tablet like this, maybe this is fine. It hasn't caused me issues
so far. While I'm here, I'll also mention it's got 8 gigabytes of RAM, and it only comes with 128 gigs of onboard
storage in the US. Uh elsewhere in the world, you can get a 256 gig uh option,
but not in America as punishment. All
right, I think it's about time to play some crabs on this thing. Don't look at
the ad. I've got big expectations here. Okay, I think the OnePlus pad, previous
one, had good speakers. I think. I don't remember.
Dang, that's loud. While we're here, I'll also say that uh this display has
98% DCIP3 color coverage. So maybe
that's why these colors are looking kind of poppy.
That's nice. Things look sharp. Let me
tell you right now, I'm not missing an iPad at all. This does not seem like a
cheap Android tablet experience right now.
Those speakers are pretty good. Let's max it out. It will sound worse.
It's just a bit too sharp. It's like very loud.
So, like if you're worried about volume, don't be, cuz it's very loud. Hold on.
Doesn't sound bad. IT SOUNDS OKAY.
NOW, I don't This is not an objective benchmark. It's just the Riley what
Riley remembers benchmark. But I emotionally I feel like that might even
be better than the the OnePlus pad not
go speakers. Now the only question is is it are there actual speakers in all four
of these speaker grills or did they pull an Apple and only have one of these
speaker grills populated with uh with speakers?
Oh my gosh, those are all they have four speakers. Nice job, OnePlus. Overall,
wow. I feel like I feel like that's one of the most satisfying crab rave uh
tests I've uh experienced in a while. And how long could this tablet play a
video like that? Labs found out. In our standard battery discharge test, the
OnePlus Pad Goto got a 14 hours and 36
minutes, which is pretty close to the
company's claim of 15 hours of uh video
playback. So, pretty good job there. That's fully discharging. It's 10,050
MIA battery, which is a pretty decent size for a tablet. OnePlus says that
using their included SuperV charger, 0
to 100 should take 2 hours and 9 minutes. However, our Labs team weren't
able to get anywhere under 2 hours and 38 minutes after multiple tests.
Meanwhile, our standard Anker Nano2 third party charger did it in 2 hours
and 24 minutes. So, just be aware those are the kind of numbers you're looking
at for charging. Now, as for brightness, actually, I didn't talk about this at
all, but their rated max brightness is 600 nits, but then they say that you can
get to 900 using the high brightness mode, which I'm not sure exactly how to
activate that, but apparently it's part of just this like auto brightness
situation. I don't know, maybe when you go outside and it recognizes that
there's like so much light, it'll like super boost up to 900. Although, Labs
did not see it get up to 900 in their test. They got it up to 876, which is
pretty close. Okay, one thing I forgot to test is multitasking. It's a come a
long way with tablets in general in recent years. Android's added a bunch
and iPad has definitely added a bunch to make it more like a desktop situation.
And apparently OnePlus has their own multitasking software here where swiping
down with two fingers like I just did parts the Red Sea so you can uh see
through to the other side. It's Google apps and then you can pick. All right,
let's say maps. I'm going to have YouTube on one side, maps on the other
side, and just swiping down with two fingers brought that up. And then you
can have it in a standard split screen mode. And then if you want one of those
to be a floating window, four-finger pinch brings it to a floating window.
Can we pin that to one side? Oh, we can pin it to the sidebar. Anyway, it's nice
to see OnePlus kind of having an option
there. Although, I don't know how this is much different from like the default
Android one. It seems like it's kind of just that. But maybe, hey, I don't want
to slander. And I'm not buying this tablet for your mom, but just, you know,
for any of the other moms out there, we're going to check out the camera. This doesn't give me supreme confidence
in how this photo is going to look. There's that one. That was That's what the rear cam going to do a front H. I
hope that there's some there better be some good software going on here. Okay,
that definitely looks better than the than the preview image, but it's not
it's not a great camera by any stretch of the imagination. Colors are pretty
muted. The sharpness is there. It's sharpened it up a little bit compared to
the preview, but you know, it's
serviceable. I'd like to see a little bit more color in my face, but maybe
that's a mess issue. And then the rear cameras. Ooh, this one is blurry. This
one couldn't really figure out some of the details over there. Wasn't sure what
to focus on. But in the kitchen photo, everything looks pretty sharp. Okay,
video real quick. Hey, I'm just out here with the crew. We're fil We're filming
on location. Can't wait to get home though and have some hot drinks. Okay,
ready? What do you guys think about what Riley just said, though?
>> Honestly, we can't put that in the video. >> Oh, no. Interestingly, the rear camera
just looks kind of worse than the than the front-facing one. What does that
look like? Does this look different? It should be like the same. Wow. Oh, wow.
Yeah, it looks like more green. It looks worse. Interesting. Actually, that makes
a lot of sense. Most of the time, you're not going to be filming stuff with your iPad out like that that you're using
this for Zoom calls or whatever. You're going to look nice on those. Just don't
try to show your grandma what you're looking at. She will not like it. So,
that's the OnePlus Pad Goto in its
entirety. I covered absolutely everything you could possibly want to
know about this thing, but the most important thing is the price. It's $400,
which is not bad. Overall, I had a good experience with it. I didn't experience
any kind of slowdowns. Some of the settings and I wanted to use some
features and they were a little confusing in this sort of like fast-paced scenario, but I feel like if
I had time to kind of dive into the settings and look at the tutorials, it would make sense. So, 400 bucks for a
pretty midbudget, pretty premium
feeling, ironically, uh, Android tablet,
I'd say. Oh, and the speakers. Do you guys remember the speakers? And the
display, it's pretty good. I'm not recommending it or anything, but that
was fun. OnePlus, pretty good job. And
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