Honor Pad 8: Specs, Pricing, and More

Released in 2022, the Honor Pad 8 is a budget-friendly 12-inch tablet that offers a lot of screen real estate for relatively little money. It’s not a standout tablet spec-wise, but it offers great value if you want an entertainment tablet without breaking the bank.

Here, we’ll go through the Honor Pad 8’s specs and notable features, plus discuss some alternatives that you may want to consider.

Highlights

• 12-inch IPS LCD
• Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 4G CPU
• 128GB of storage
• Up to 6GB of RAM
• Ships with Android 12
• 7250 mAh battery

Full Specifications

Honor Pad 8: The Basics

Honor seems to have had one goal in mind when designing the Pad 8: offer as large a screen as possible for around €350. The Pad 8 has a 12-inch, 2000 x 1200 IPS screen, which, while on the soft side, is perfectly adequate for entertainment and video content. Under the hood, we get an 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 with either 4GB or 6GB of RAM, the latter of which is nice to see on a budget-friendly device. Honor opted for 128GB of non-expandable storage on the Pad 8, while a 7250 mAh Li-Po battery keeps the Pad 8 running for 6.5 hours in our standardized battery life tests.

This isn’t a premium tablet by any stretch of the imagination, but Honor did at least try to make the Pad 8 feel premium. You get a sleek all-aluminum body here, even if it’s not quite on the level of Apple or Samsung. Sadly, this sleekness extends to the port selection, with no microSD slot or headphone jack present.

The Honor Pad 8 ships with Android 12 and the company doesn’t seem to have plans to update it to Android 13.

Read: Honor Pad 8 review

Pricing and Availability

As with many Honor tablets, international availability is the Pad 8’s biggest weakness. It’s available directly from Honor in Germany for an MSRP of €349, while the UK MSRP is £269. You can get the Honor Pad 8 at a heavy discount at the time of writing as it’s now superseded by the Honor Pad 9. Unfortunately, the Pad 8 doesn’t seem to be readily available in the US.

Honor Pad 8 Alternatives

The most obvious alternative to the Honor Pad 8 is its successor, the Honor Pad 9. It costs more than the Pad 8 but has improved specs, including a higher-resolution display and faster processor. Otherwise, you can consider the Lenovo Tab P12, which is also pricier but has a much larger 12.7-inch display and better specs all around. If you want a faster tablet and don’t necessarily need a 12-inch display, the Xiaomi Pad 6 is a great choice. It has a smaller 11-inch screen but much better overall performance.

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Honor Pad 8

Read now: Our Honor Pad 8 Review

The Honor Pad 8 is a great choice if you're looking for an affordable entertainment tablet with a 12-inch display and great speakers. It's not perfect, however. The resolution is quite low and the processor performance is weak. On a positive note, we get lots of storage, a large RAM, Android 12, and a premium-feeling metal body.

Positive

• Affordable large display
• Premium design
• Very good speakers
• Large internal storage
• Lots of RAM
• Android 12

Negative

• Full HD resolution only
• Weak processor
• Updates unsure

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