Honor’s new MagicPad 4 is “the smallest tablet in the world”, apparently
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Honor has taken the wraps off its latest Android tablet, the MagicPad 4. Billed as the “world’s smallest tablet”, the MagicPad 4 looks to be a huge improvement over its predecessor the MagicPad 3 – one of our favorite Android tablets of 2025.
I’ll be in Barcelona covering the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in a few days, where I’ll hopefully have a chance to see this ultra-thin tablet in the flesh. For now, though, here’s everything we know so far about the Honor MagicPad 4.
What are the main features?
Size and weight
- Dimensions: 275 x 4.8 x 181mm (WDH)
- Weight: 450g (852g with keyboard and stylus)
Honor claims the MagicPad 4 is the world’s thinnest tablet, possibly 4.8mm thick (although there is some competition from the reMarkable 2 e-reader, if you can call that a tablet). A full millimeter thinner than the MagicPad 3, though, and thinner than Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra beauty (5.4mm).
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- Panel type: OLED
- Display size: 12.3in (small bezel 3mm)
- Show resolution: 3,000 x 1,920
- Show refresh rate: 165 Hz
- Pixel Density: 299PPI data
- High brightness (HDR): 2,400 you say
We were disappointed by the Honor MagicPad 3’s LCD – at 13.3in it was quite large, but it lacked the contrast, color and brightness of the beautiful OLED panel of the MagicPad 2. For all intents and purposes, the MagicPad 4 seems to be a course correction: the display is the same size, resolution and refresh rate as the Pad 2, although it is also far, far brighter.
Time and our testing will tell if the MagicPad 4 can reach the maximum brightness of 2,400 nits quoted in HDR.
Processor, storage and memory
- SoC: Snapdragon 8 Gen 5
- Memory (RAM): 8GB, 12GB, 16GB
- Storage: 256GB, 512GB, 1TB
Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 is far and away the most exciting thing about the Honor MagicPad 4. This chipset is a big hit this year and promises blistering speeds – maybe not the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 levels found in this year’s flagship phones, but certainly faster than anything we’ve seen on an Android tablet so far.
Battery
This is actually a downgrade from 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 more 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 looking for a portable workstation and an easy couch companion for the web. Plug in the keyboard and the MagicPad 4 will enter PC Mode, which supports 20 simultaneous windows and turns your interface into something like a desktop (complete with navigation bar, file system and mouse and keyboard shortcut support).
Surprisingly, the MagicPad 4 – and all its stables – also play well with Apple products. You can transfer photos and videos efficiently with the Apple-supported Honor Connect app and use the tablet as a second screen for your MacBook. The tablet also supports iWork, which means you can edit documents between the Pad 4 and your Apple devices.
AI comes into play here too. MagicPad 4 can attend your meetings, take notes, generate memos and automatically identify speakers. I don’t think you will gain much love from your colleagues if you struggle like this.
When does it start, and how much does it cost?
We’re not yet sure when it’s launching OR how much it costs, unfortunately, but we’ll update this page as soon as we know more. We’ll also have a full Honor MagicPad 4 review for you within the next week, so stay tuned.
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