Oppo Pad Mini revealed as small tablet powerhouse with giant battery

Oppo is apparently done keeping its smallest tablet under wraps. Qiao Jiadong, the company's Director of Smart Ecosystem Products, took to the local version of TikTok in order to give the Oppo Pad Mini its unofficial reveal party.

While there was no specs sheet attached, an unofficial earlier leak by tipster Digital Chat Station painted a surprisingly powerful picture for such a compact slate.

Oppo Pad Mini specs and release date

We're reportedly looking at a custom 8.8-inch high-refresh-rate OLED display, which already puts it in direct competition with Huawei's MatePad Mini.

This is followed by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 5, which is a rather aggressive chip choice for a mini tablet. The camera specs round things out at 8 MP front and 13 MP rear, which is somewhat pedestrian, but nobody would be buying an 8.8-inch tablet to shoot concerts anyway, though there have been such documented cases.

A leaked preview of the Oppo Pad Mini tablet also pegged the battery size at the very respectable 8,000 mAh given that it is 60% larger than the pack powering the Apple iPad Mini 7, for instance. It is also way larger than the battery of its main competitor on the Android side, the Huawei MatePad Mini, indicating that Oppo might be wielding some of its special silicon-carbon electrode magic for the Pad Mini like it does for its Find series of high-end phones.