OnePlus Pad 2 ZDNET's key takeaways The OnePlus Pad 2 is the company's 2024 Android tablet with a premium design and flagship specs, on sale for $350.
It's compatible with a keyboard and pen that OnePlus sells separately, so you can turn it into an Android-powered laptop.
While the multitasking features are excellent, and the Pad 2 checks all the boxes when it comes to entertainment, it still suffers from the pitfalls of using Android on a big screen. View now at Amazon View now at OnePlus more buying choices
The Android tablet market has been in a weird place for a while. Companies either position them as regular iPad alternatives or try to add advanced productivity features to compete with the iPad Pro and Surface Pro. We've even seen tablets that turn into smart displays, such as the Google Pixel Tablet.
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There are many ideas about what an Android tablet can be. The 2024 OnePlus Pad 2 combines some of these ideas while remaining moderately priced -- particularly right now, when we're seeing a 36% discount for Black Friday, bringing the price down from $550 to $350 at both Amazon and OnePlus.
With specs from the latest flagship smartphones, an aluminum design, quality speakers, and pogo pins for a keyboard, it aims to be both your next laptop and your go-to device for watching movies. (We'd also recommend the 2025 OnePlus Pad 3, which is now on sale for $579, so it's quite a big price difference.)
I'll give it to OnePlus; it crafted a beautiful device. The Pad 2 sports a high-end aluminum enclosure that feels as premium as you'd expect. It's sturdy, ice-cold when you pick it up in the morning, and it feels like it's worth twice as much. It's also impressively thin at 6.49mm and weighs just over a pound.
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The speaker grilles are on both sides for stereo audio, and the pogo pins for the accompanying keyboard are on the bottom. OnePlus included a prominent camera bump on the back of the tablet, a brand identifier seen on most modern OnePlus smartphones. The company even says its smartwatch lineup was inspired by it. Inside the bump is a 13MP camera, which is best suited for scanning documents or QR codes -- not for replacing your smartphone camera.
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