Honor MagicPad 3 12.5 packs Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and 165Hz display into a mid-range tablet
In addition to the powerful MagicPad 3 Pro that’s based on the new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, Honor has also introduced the more compact and less expensive MagicPad 3 12.5 today. With a thickness of 0.23 inches, the tablet is almost as thin as the Pro model, but somewhat more compact due to the 12.5-inch screen.
Honor opts for a 3:2 IPS panel with a 165Hz refresh rate, a full-screen brightness of 700 nits and peak HDR brightness of 1,000 nits. Meanwhile, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 should offer decent performance. The tablet runs on the Android 16-based MagicOS 10, and the MagicPad 3 12.5 offers practical multitasking features. Multiple apps that can be placed freely on the screen, for example. Honor further offers a stylus and a keyboard case, both of which have to be bought separately.
The tablet also sports a 10,100mAh battery that can be charged with up to 66 watts via USB-C. Besides that, Honor offers a 8MP f/2.2 selfie camera and a 13MP f/2.0 main camera. WiFi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 are supported, as are the Hi-Fi codecs Sony LDAC and Qualcomm aptX Adaptive. The MagicPad 3 12.5 has an aluminum chassis that's available in either silver, black, green or purple.
Price and availability
The Honor MagicPad 3 12.5 is equipped with 8GB RAM and 256 GB storage and costs the equivalent of $380 in China. The top configuration with 12GB RAM is priced at $420. Details on a global release are still pending, but an official launch in the US is highly unlikely.
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