We have already told you this morning about the debut of We are Max 3 and we have left you one comparative with the Redmi Note 5, but the truth is that considering the size of its screen, no less than 7 inches, it is worth taking a moment to consider it as a alternative to compact tablets.
More compact and lighter than 7-inch tablets
El We are Max 3 is very large compared to most phablets that we are going to find, bigger even than the We are Max 2 (17,62 x 8,64 cm and 17,41 x 8,87 cm, respectively), because Xiaomi It has preferred to take advantage of the space gained by reducing frames to introduce a larger screen, not to make a more compact device. And if you have any questions, you just need to see it in these images compared to iPhone 7 and iPhone X.
Despite this, if we compare it with the most popular 7-inch tablets, and even if we stick more specifically to those with a more careful design, we see that it is even more compact: the MediaPad T3 7, for example, measures 17,9 x 10,39 cm and the Galaxy Tab A 7.0 18,69 x 10,88 cm. The difference is even greater in weight, with the Mi Max 3 weighing only 221 grams, compared to 250 grams for the tablet. Huawei and the 283 grams of Samsung.
The main difference, beyond being able to make calls
Of course, what fundamentally distinguishes the We are Max 3 of tablets of the same size is to be a phone, but even leaving this aside for a moment, it should be noted that there is still a very important difference between one and the other and that is that they are devices that play in different leagues, and we talk here from Technical specifications and price.
The point is that at this point the only tablets that continue to be launched with 7-inch screens are the low-cost models, often targeted specifically at children. Some, like that of Samsung, they cost slightly more than $100, but the vast majority are tablets that are below this limit. The We are Max 3 It has been announced for about 220 euros for China and in Europe it will surely be around the $300.
The Mi Max 3 vs. 8-inch tablets
For between 250 euros (being optimistic) and 300 euros, the competition becomes much more complicated among compact tablets, because here we already have devices of a high level, such as the MediaPad M3, MediaPad M5, Galaxy Tab S2 or the Lenovo Tab 4 8 Plus. To begin with, these do all have somewhat larger screens. Your ratio screen / sizeIn any case, it is still much lower than yours (79.8%): that of the tablet of the latest Huawei tablet, the highest is 77,1%, and from there it drops to 71,8% of the tablet from Lenovo.
It is not only a matter of design, but it also has the advantage of coming up with a processor much more updated (Snapdragon 636) than any of them (even the Kirin 960 of the MediaPad M5 lags behind in this regard), it has the advantage of arriving with cameras that we can really think of using beyond emergencies and video calls, and it has more battery than any of them (5500 mAh) for a smaller screen. You do not have to pay extra for the version with mobile connection, in addition.
Why go for a compact tablet?
If we put the technical specifications of the We are Max 3 Compared to those of the most popular compact tablets, there are really only two reasons to bet on them: with respect to the 7-inch tablets, in their favor we must fundamentally put the price (although what we save we will notice in the characteristics); Regarding the tablets in its price range, all 8 inches, it is fundamentally a question of their quality as a device multimedia.
Focusing on the latter, which are a clearer alternative, it must be clear that if what we want is a device to play games and other types of tasks where performance is going to be the most important thing or if we really want to always carry a large screen with us and forget about carrying more trastros, it is really worth considering betting on the We are Max 3. If watching movies, series and more is our priority, however, tablets in their price range are usually Quad HD (with Super AMOLED panels in the case of Galaxy Tab S2) and they have stereo speakers of a certain level (Harman Kardon in the case of the MediaPad M3), in addition to the fact that it is an extra inch that they offer us, it is appreciated.
An option that is worth taking into account, in any case
We do not know to what extent the We are Max 3 It may end up opening a new path that ends up pushing compact tablets to even larger sizes (10-inch tablets are getting closer to 11 inches, so they have room to grow) or it will remain an exception, as it was and its predecessor with "only" 6.44 inches, but it does seem to us that it may be an option to consider.
And we do not want to say only that we consider getting it as the main phone and forgetting about tablets, but even consider buying it almost as a tablet with a mobile connection, knowing that at any time we can use it as a phone as well, as we recommended at the time to have in It also counts the MediaPad X1 and X2, which were theoretically also phablets: due to their size, few in our country would use them as a telephone as they did in China, but it was a great option for those looking for 4G tablets of a certain level. Something similar could apply here.