Xiaomi Pad 7’s purple patch emerges from an unconventional generational transition

It was never going to be easy to follow up on the collective package of brilliance that the Xiaomi Pad 6 from last year proved to be. I can attest to that with certainty, having relied on that as my primary work machine more often than any other Android tablet in the past decade. With the Xiaomi Pad 7 having to follow up on that effort, it was always going to be a scenario where risk was potentially higher than the reward. More that couldn’t match up to the predecessor’s slickness, and even if there was a collective step forward, that’s what everyone expected, didn’t they?