Honor Pad V8 debuts with new Dimensity 8020 SoC

The latest Honor Pad may have beaten the Motorola Edge 40 to the punch in terms of launching as the world's first Dimensity 8020-powered mobile device. The OEM has confirmed that the SoC is a 6nm chipset with 4 ARM Cortex-A78 cores clocked at up to 2.6GHz and 4 Cortex-A55s at 2.0GHz. The Mali-G77 handles graphics touted to get up to 40% more performance compared to its predecessor.

The silicon powers a tablet presented as a lighter version of the pre-existing V8 Pro - somewhat literally, at ~485 grams (g), with a height of just 7.3mm. It packs a battery that, while reduced to 7,250mAh in this V-series variant, is still backed to last about 15 hours per charge.

Then again, it will not do so with the speed to match its 120Hz display, at just 22.5W compared to 35W in the V8 Pro. The newer vanilla tablet is rated to support Honor's latest Magic Pencil 3 and "MagicRing" cross-device ecosystem features - however, its version of MagicUI (6.1, and thus even older than that of the Pad V8 Pro) is based on Android 12.

That might be why Honor is starting this new slate at as little as 1,799 yuan (~US$260) for a base 8GB RAM/128GB (expandable) memory SKU with blue or yellow faux leather finish options in its native China. A global release for the apparently affordable tablet has yet to be announced.

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