{"id":1133621,"date":"2023-04-28T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1133621"},"modified":"2023-04-28T09:00:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T13:00:56","slug":"oneplus-pad-hands-on-i-did-not-know-they-still-made-displays-this-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1133621","title":{"rendered":"OnePlus Pad hands-on: I did not know they still made displays this bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<ul class=\"gallery shortcode-gallery gallery-wide\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"gallery-item-content\">\n<div class=\"gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/52-1-980x668-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\n            The OnePlus Pad. It&#8217;s got a keyboard.                           [credit:<br \/>\n                              Ron Amadeo                            ]\n                      <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Android tablets are supposed to be making a comeback, and along with Google&#8217;s push for new software, which started <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2021\/10\/android-12-is-so-last-week-meet-android-12l-now-in-developer-preview\/\">in 2021<\/a>, we&#8217;re also getting waves of new Android tablet hardware. One of the most anticipated is probably the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2023\/02\/oneplus-takes-on-the-ipad-with-the-oneplus-pad\/\">OnePlus Pad<\/a>, a mid-range tablet that, at $479, looks squarely aimed at the entry-level iPad. OnePlus was probably hoping the headline-grabbing 144 Hz LCD at this price would convert some buyers, but it&#8217;s not possible to get a <em>good<\/em> 144 Hz display at this price point. The OnePlus Pad&#8217;s display is smeary and ugly, and it made me want to put it down about as soon as I picked it up.<\/p>\n<p>The display looks fine if nothing is moving, but the second you have to scroll anywhere, everything turns to mush. Text on the display is a streaky, blurry mess in motion to the point where it&#8217;s pretty hard to read smaller text sizes until scrolling stops. Smaller text gets noticeably thinner and lighter colored during scrolling, usually going from a solid black to a shimmery gray. It feels like either the display has a weird subpixel layout that doesn&#8217;t look good in motion, or OnePlus&#8217; software uses a strange anti-alias effect during scrolling that looks different from a stationary picture.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever happened here, the point is that scrolling a page with text on the OnePlus Pad is difficult to read and often physically uncomfortable to view. As one of the primary uses of a tablet, this is a total deal-breaker and completely negates whatever else is going on here. Apple&#8217;s scale usually gives it better component prices. Considering that the base model $449 iPad still ships with a smaller (10.9-inch), lower resolution (2360\u00d71640) display, the OnePlus cranking the spec sheet up to a 144 Hz, 11.61-inch, 2800\u00d72000 panel seems to have involved completely throwing image quality out the window. Big displays are expensive, and I don&#8217;t think this display stat line works at this price right now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1928777#p3\">Read 8 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1928777&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1928777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OnePlus Pad hands-on: I did not know they still made displays this bad<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OnePlus Pad. It&#8217;s got a keyboard. [credit: Ron Amadeo ] Android tablets are supposed to be making a comeback, and along with Google&#8217;s push for new software, which started in 2021, we&#8217;re also getting waves of new Android tablet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1133621\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1133622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1133621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1133621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1133622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1133621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1133621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1133621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}