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Honor has pulled the covers from its latest Android tablet, the MagicPad 4. Billed as “the world’s slimmest tablet”, the MagicPad 4 looks to be a significant improvement over its predecessor the MagicPad 3 – one of our favourite Android tablets of 2025.
I’ll be in Barcelona covering Mobile World Congress (MWC) in a few days time, where I’ll hopefully have the chance to see this super-slim tablet in the flesh. In the meantime, however, here’s everything we know so far about the Honor MagicPad 4.
What are the key specs?
Dimensions & weight
- Dimensions: 275 x 4.8 x 181mm (WDH)
- Weight: 450g (852g with keyboard and stylus)
Honor claims that the MagicPad 4 is the world’s thinnest tablet, which at 4.8mm thick it just might be (although there’s some competition from the reMarkable 2 e-reader, if you can call that a tablet). It’s a full millimetre slimmer than the MagicPad 3, in any event, and slimmer than Samsung’s gorgeous Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra (5.4mm).
Display
- Panel type: OLED
- Display size: 12.3in (3mm narrow bezel)
- Display resolution: 3,000 x 1,920
- Display refresh rate: 165Hz
- Pixel density: 299 PPI
- Peak brightness (HDR): 2,400 nits
We were disappointed by the Honor MagicPad 3’s LCD – at 13.3in it was certainly big, but it lacked the contrast,colour and brightness of the MagicPad 2’s beautiful OLED panel. To all intents and purposes, the MagicPad 4 appears to be a course-correction: the display is the same size, resolution and refresh rate as the Pad 2, although it’s also far, far brighter.
Time and our tests will tell if the MagicPad 4 can reach the lofty 2,400 nits quoted peak brightness in HDR.
Processor, storage & memory
- SoC: Snapdragon 8 Gen 5
- Memory (RAM): 8GB, 12GB, 16GB
- Storage: 256GB, 512GB, 1TB
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 is far and away the most exciting thing about the Honor MagicPad 4. This chipset is hitting the mainstream this year and promises blistering speeds – maybe not the levels of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 found in this year’s flagship phones, but certainly faster than anything we’ve seen in an Android tablet to date.
Battery
- Capacity: 10,100mAh
This is actually a downgrade on last year’s Honor MagicPad 3, which had a beefy 12,450mAh silicon-carbon battery. Capacity isn’t everything, but don’t forget – OLED panels are much more power-efficient than LCDs, at least when it comes to displaying dark content.
What are the new features?
Honor is clearly aiming the MagicPad 4 at power users who want a portable workstation as well as a simple web-surfing sofa companion. Connect the keyboard and the MagicPad 4 will enter PC Mode, which supports up to 20 windows simultaneously and turns your user interface into something resembling a desktop (complete with a navigation bar, file system and mouse and keyboard shortcut support).
Miraculously, the MagicPad 4 – and all of its stablemates – also plays nicely with Apple products. You can transfer photos and videos fairly seamlessly via the Apple-supported Honor Connect app and even use the tablet as a second screen for your MacBook. The tablet also supports iWork, which means you can edit docs between the Pad 4 and your Apple devices.
AI is out in force here too. The MagicPad 4 can attend meetings for you, taking notes, generating memos and identifying speakers automatically. I don’t imagine you’ll earn much love from your colleagues if you pull a stunt like this.
When does it launch, and how much does it cost?
We’re currently not sure when it launches OR how much it costs, unfortunately, but we’ll update this page as soon as we know more. We’ll also have a full review of the Honor MagicPad 4 for you within the next week, so stay tuned.
