Vivo recently debuted the Vivo X100 and V100 Pro smartphones in the Chinese market. The BBK group-owned brand equipped the smartphones with the latest MediaTek Dimensity 9300 SoC. The flagship chipset from MediaTek is slated to be equipped with many other devices in the future. The company is tipped to have many products in the pipeline, which will debut in the first half of 2024. Some of them include Vivo X100 Ultra, Vivo X Fold 3, Vivo X Flip 2, and more. A report has revealed that Vivo is working on the successor to Vivo Pad 2, which debuted in April 2023. Digital Chat Station has revealed the chipset details of the upcoming Vivo Pad 3 tablet.
Vivo Pad 3 to Continue to Powered by MediaTek’s Flagship Chipsets
Vivo equipped the Vivo Pad 2 with MediaTek’s then flagship Dimensity 9000 SoC, built on a 4nm process. Digital Chat Station confirms that the upcoming Vivo Pad 3 will be equipped with the latest MediaTek Dimensity 9300 SoC. The chipset is built on TSMC’s 4nm process and features one Cortex-X4 core at 3.25GHz, three Cortex-X4 cores at 2.85GHz, four Cortex-A720 cores at 2.0GHz and Mali-G720 Immortalis MP12.
The upcoming tablet is expected to debut along with the Vivo X100 Ultra smartphone. The previous reports suggest that Vivo might debut the smartphone in April 2024. The forthcoming Vivo X100 was earlier tipped to launch under the Vivo X100 Pro+ moniker. Vivo is tipped to equip the Vivo X100 Ultra smartphone with the newly debuted Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC. Digital Chat Station hasn’t revealed any other specifications of the upcoming Vivo Pad 3 tablet.
Vivo is expected to continue to launch the upcoming Pad 3 tablet with a design similar to its predecessors. Vivo launched the Pad 2 tablet with a fair amount of bezels on top and bottom of the display. The dual rear cameras were placed in the top left with a placement similar to smartphones in a circular camera module. To recall, Vivo equipped the tablet with a 12.1-inch LCD panel with a resolution of 1968 x 2800 pixels.
The display has support for 1B colours, a refresh rate of 144Hz, HDR10, a peak brightness of 600 nits, and a pixel density of 284 PPI. Under the hood, the device is powered by MediaTek Dimensity 9000 SoC, an octa-core chipset built on a 4nm process. The chipset features one Cortex-X2 core at 3.05 GHz, three Cortex-A710 cores at 2.85 GHz, four Cortex-A510 cores at 1.80 GHz, and a Mali-G710 MC10 GPU. The tablet runs on Origin OS 3 based on Android 13 out of the box.
The chipset pairs with up to 8 / 12GB of RAM and 128 / 256GB of storage. The dual rear cameras include a 13MP primary lens with f/2.2 aperture and a 2MP macro lens with f/2.4 aperture. The 8MP selfie camera with f/2.0 aperture is placed in a horizontal orientation. The tablet is backed by a sizeable 10000mAH battery with 44W wired fast charging tech. Vivo also equips the tablet with support for 5W reverse wireless charging tech.
