The Xiaomi Pad 9 Pro is now official, and it's a relatively thin 12.5-inch tablet with a 144Hz display, 11,000mAh battery, and Snapdragon 8 Gen 5. In China, the starting price is about $566, which makes it pretty affordable for the performance-focused specs.

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Alongside the Xiaomi 18 Pro series, the company has launched the Pad 9 lineup. Of the two new pads, the regular Pad 9 is standing as an affordable rival to the iPad Air 11-inch. This tablet is powered by the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4, has an 11.2-inch 144Hz display, and measures 5.75mm thick. The starting launch price is around $447.

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Smartphones and tablets are basically little computers with touchscreen displays. But since most ship with mobile operating systems like Android or iPadOS, they're often tightly tied to Google or Apple for support, services, and app stores, among other things. So developer tech4bot decided to set a cheap Android tablet free by turning porting Linux to run on it. The Doogee U10 is a budget tablet that sells for around $80 and ships with Android 14. But tech4bot's open source software lets you install a Debian 12 "Bookworm" image to a microSD card and boot from that instead, allowing you to use it like a full-fledged (if underpowered) Linux PC.

The TCL NXTPAPER 11 Plus is a mid-range Android tablet with one stand-out feature, TCL's NXTPAPER 4.0 display technology that offers an anti-glare, paper-like viewing experience. First introduced during CES in January, the NXTPAPER 11 Plus is now available from Walmart for $249. The tablet features an 11.5 inch, 2200 x 1400 pixel IPS LCD display with a 3:2 aspect ratio, a 120 Hz refresh rate, and support for up to 550 nits brightness.

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OnePlus Pad 4 launched in India with a 13.2-inch 3.4K 144Hz display, Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, stylus support, OxygenOS 16, and a 13,380mAh battery.

The Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus is a premium Android tablet with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor, 16GB of LPDDR5x-8533 memory, 256GB of UFS 4.0 storage, and a 12.7 inch, 1944 x 1840 pixel LTPS display with a 144 Hz refresh rate. First announced during CES in January, the Yoga Tab Plus is now available for $600 from Lenovo.com…