Xiaomi plans to return to the tablet market with some top-tier products

Xiaomi's Pad 6 Android tablet series was considered a flagship when it launched, despite using older chipsets inside. For this year, the Chinese company plans to refresh the range and abandon any hardware compromises.

According to a Chinese leaker Digital Chat Station (via PlayfulDroid), Xiaomi will launch the new Pad 7 tablet series next month. However, this time around, Xiaomi will be using some of the latest and most powerful chipsets in its flagship tablets.

At least one of them, the Pro model, will feature Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor, while the standard version will feature last year's Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset, which is still decent for a tablet Lighthouse.

Although the Chinese leaker did not mention the name of the tablets as part of the Pad 7 series, it is unlikely that Xiaomi will launch another model of the Pad 6 series a year after the first models debuted on the market.

At least one of the tablets, likely the standard Pad 7 model powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor, is expected to be introduced in China in late February.

The more powerful Pad 7 Pro model, equipped with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor and featuring an OLED screen, would be unveiled with the flagship Xiaomi 14 Ultra smartphone in April. Both will run on Xiaomi's new HyperOS platform.