"OnePlus Pad 3" tipped to come with faster charging and bigger battery

Oppo is now tipped to unleash the Pad 4 Pro as its latest flagship tablet on the Chinese market in April 2025. The slate might make its way to international shores thereafter, albeit under the OEM's brand OnePlus.

Should that be the case, the company could call it the Pad 3: a true successor to the brand's current global flagship slate with the Snapdragon 8 Elite processor as a direct upgrade from the 8 Gen 3 in OnePlus' Pad 2 (now available on Amazon at $549.99).

The Pad 2 also supports 67W SuperVOOC charging: already relatively fast for a tablet, but potentially sluggish compared to the 100W SuperVOOC upgrade now possibly linked with the putative next-gen tablet. 

That technology is said to serve a battery believed to rise above the 10,000mAh mark, whereas OnePlus' second-gen tablet hovered just under it at the capacity of 9,510mAh unchanged from the first-gen Pad (underwhelming compared to the OnePlus 13's 6,000mAh upgrade perhaps, but possibly less prevalent in something the size of a tablet).

On that note, the "Pad 3/Pad 4 Pro" is now also tipped to come with a twin powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 9400 or 9400+, a direct if distant descendant of the 9000 found in the original OnePlus Pad.

One of the premium slates might have an OLED display while the other might be LCD, although which screen goes to which variant is a mystery at this stage.

Finally, both tablets are tipped to have side-mounted fingerprint readers and depth sensors that might form part of their front camera arrays for improved face unlocking.