Pad 9, 12.1-inch Wi-Fi Tablet, 8GB+256GB, 120Hz 2.5K Eye Protection Display, 8 Speakers, Android 13, Space Grey

I bougth this tablet over a year ago to replace my samsung tab5e. Never regretted that. I like the big screen and the Honor interface that allows multiple apps to show simultaneously. Great batterylife, quick, brilliant screen. I like it a lot. The only thing I miss is a fingerprint sensor. It does have a very good face recognition, but not all biometric enabled apps allow a login based only on face recognition. E.g. I always must type in my Keepass pw (or it's last 3 chars). It was a very affordable tablet and I only decided to go for it after reading many enthousiastic reviews. No regrets.

The HONOR Pad 9 really exceeded my expectations. The display is sharp, vibrant, and perfect for streaming, reading, or casual gaming. Performance is smooth — multitasking, browsing, run without any issue. The build quality feels premium and lightweight in design that’s super comfortable to hold for long periods. Battery life is another highlight — I easily get a full day of use with mixed tasks. The speakers are also surprisingly loud and clear for a tablet at this price point. If you’re after a solid Android tablet that feels more expensive than it is, the Pad 9 is a fantastic choice. Great value, great performance, and zero regrets.

I have this tablet with 6 days. The first thing I must get out there is when you boot the tablet there will be about 2 firmware updates a small google security patch and a small performance patch. The tablet will be upgraded to Android OS 14 and the September 1st 2024 android security patch. It has the August 1st 2024 Google Play system update installed. As of Thursday 10 October 2024 the tablet has all the latest google updates running Magic OS 8.0 build version 8.0.0.194(C431E154R2P1). I am very impressed with it. The tablet has really really good sound. Apps launch real fast with it. The picture is really good too. Its not OLED or AMOLED good but it has really good black levels. For an IPS Screen the contrast is really good with deep blacks. Of course it doesn't have inky black blacks but it has very dark blacks without crushing shadow details. The colours are good too but the picture is a very slight bit over saturated. I havent tested the tablet with games. I don't know what gaming is like with the tablet. I didn't buy the tablet for gaming. I bought a 12.1" tablet for media consumption like Netflix , Prime video , Disney+ , youtube , Videos I have converted from DVD and blu ray etc. I have 10.1" samsung tablets but I wanted a bigger screen tablet (I really wanted a 13"+ screen but this is a good compromise) for media consumption. I have all of my Christmas movies that I have on DVD , Blu Ray and 4K Blu ray converted to file format. At first I was disappointed because the built in video player on the tablet wouldn't play the videos saying it was an unsupported format. But I downloaded a different video player on the google play store and to my surprise I discovered something that isn't mentioned by Honor about the tablet. Nowhere will you find in their advertising and the specifications that this tablet supports 4K HDR10 and 4K HDR10+ video playback. Seven of my Christmas movies are on 4K Blu Ray with HDR. I played the converted videos and there it was 4K HDR10+ on some videos and 4KHDR10 on others playing smoothly without any stuttering. It plays the videos perfectly smooth and theres no lag in the system when its playing the 4K Video files. Plus the screen does get bright. Watching videos or doing anything on the screen looks good with a decently sharp image with its 2560 x 1600 screen resolution. I would have been happy with a 16:9 2560 x 1440 screen resolution though. In my opinion you don't need 4K or super high resolutions in a screen smaller than 32". This being a 12.1" screen unless you have super eyesight you really won't see a big difference between the 2560 x 1600 screen resolution and 3840 x 2160 on such a small screen format. Its a really really good screen for the money you pay for the tablet. Plus when they say theres 8 speakers in the tablet I'm not sure about that but there's definitely 6 speakers. When I played a Dolby 5.1 video on the tablet I could actually hear the individual channels. For instance with the front left sound I could hear the sound on the top left speaker. If sound played on the front right sound I heard it on the top right speaker. If sound played on rear right I could hear it play on the lower left side speaker and the same goes for the opposite side rear sound. When sound panned left to right or right to left I could hear the sound pan left to right or right to left. Theres really good clarity in the sound too. In the movies I played I could hear background sounds as well as foreground sounds perfectly. Don't expect a lot of bass. The speakers are really small after all. But compared to any phone I've had and any tablet I've had before this tablet is very very impressive. I have two Samsung tablets here. One with four speakers and compared to the Honor PAD 9 the samsung tablets have rubbish sound. Theres good highs , Good mids and a small bit of bass. The bass is present but theres very little bass. Its nothing to write home about in the bass department. Another thing I found after spending a while in the settings was that you canforce any app to be landscape mode. If you have any apps that force ortrait mode on tablets then you go into settings > Large screen features > force device orientation. In there click on the app you want to lock into prtrtait mode and a popout will appear giving you 4 different options and the bottom option in that popout box is Full-screen landscape orientation. I absolutely love this and all tablets should have this feature because theres a few apps I use that lock itself to portrait mode (Phone screen / tik tok style). With them locked into landscape mode works very good. It isn't flawless but it works much better than I expected. Now after all mu gloating and praise of the tablet I have a few cons. First of all it takes a long time to charge. The tablet doesn't come with a charger. I tested it with the 67 Watt charger that came with my phone to see how fast it charges. I didn't actually time it but it does take much longer than an hour and a half to charge and that's not even from an empty battery. Another disappointment is there's no SD card slot. I would have liked to copy some of my Christmas movies onto the tablet around Christmas time. I won't have them on there all year round but I would love to be able to have the movies on there on an sd card. Also the +6GB ram using storage can not be disabled. This will put unnecessary wear on the tablets storage. 8GB of ram is enough (although 16GB Physical ram would be preferable). I would have loved if this was a 13" tablet thats a 16:9 screen format. I think tablet designers and tablet manufacturers should consider making tablets aibed primarily at media consumption in their lineup. The 12.1" screen is nice but with it being a 16:10 screen format when you watch 16:9 videos there's black bars on the top and bottom reducing the size of the video. If they made a tablet with the same specs as this but with a 16:9 13" or 14" screen screen it would be perfect to me. Yes its not OLED but if it was an OLED screen it would cost a whole lot more because for some reason OLED is still a very expensive technology thats more than 10 years old. You would think OLED would start become affordable by now. Another con is The facebook app that came installed on the tablet doesn't work. You need to uninstall it and go into the google store and install facebook from there. But this seems to be an older facebook app on the google play store too. Theres no dark theme in this version and it locks itself to portrait mode. I had to use the lock the app into landscape mode feature on this. I haven't found a tablet version of facebook for this yet. Plus it took about 5 attempts to login into facebook for the login to stick in the tablet. But it did work eventually. Sure there are tablets out there that are more expensive with more powerful chipsets and OLED screens. But if youre just like me who only wants to watch movies , watch TV shows , do some light web browsing , do some amazon or facebook. Then I would highly recommend this tablet.

Good product. Used all the time.

This is a simply brilliant tablet. As someone who works in IT, I needed something to take in our campervan that would have a super clear screen, great sound and great features. This does not disappoint. It's an excellent device and at the price point its an absolute no-brainer.

Perfect size that's comfortable to hold, doesn't strain the hand like my iPad does. Crisp clear screen & nice sound quality. Very responsive & more than fast enough for what I use it for, mainly browsing & playing YouTube content. I've never had an android tablet, always iPads so I was somewhat hesitent to purchase, but here I am leaving a review to say that I'm pretty happy with the Honor Pad 9 & intend on purchasing 2 more for children for Xmas to place their old iPad pro's from 2016. Well worth the money spent and using the MagicOS installed it feels like I'm using an iPad.

I got it on a sale and I'm very happy with it. Screen quality is beautiful, set up was very easy, it has everything you'd expect from a tablet. I use it for reading music when I play piano and reading manga mostly I really like it.

Perfect bigger value for money