Infinix XPAD 30 Pro review

XOS 16 on top of Android 16

The XPAD 30 Pro runs on XOS, which has traditionally been the Infinix smartphone platform. There is a lot going on as far as software is concerned, with many added features, especially compared to older Infinix tablets.

Our review unit, in particular, is running XOS 16.3.0 on top of Android 16. Unfortunately, Infinix doesn't share any formal software support promise, so we don't know how many Android updates are lined up for this device. Infinix says the XPAD 30 Pro comes with a "5-Year Smooth & Durable" promise, for what that's worth.

We won't go over every feature in XOS, but there are some highlights worth pointing out. The XPAD 30 Pro is aimed towards students and young professionals, so it should come as no surprise that it has excellent split-screen and floating window capabilities.

It also comes pre-loaded with a powerful connectivity center that promises cross-device connectivity, not only with other Infinix devices. There are a few educational apps pre-loaded as well, mostly aimed at kids, but also a surprisingly comprehensive eBook reading app.

And then there is the extremely powerful proprietary Notes app. It includes things like writing input support and doodling.

There are some AI features available as well. We have to hand it to Infinix, though, the company is quite ambitious in this regard - equipping its devices with its own Forlax AI assistant, which is chock-full of surprisingly useful features. You get things like AI-powered document photo-to-text, audio summarization and transcription, translation and AI subtitles. Infinix even has its own Circle to Search implementation and something called "Snap for Answer", which is particularly cool for students - you give it a picture of a math problem, and it not only solves it but guides you through the solution step by step.

Performance and benchmarks

Even though Infinix is not shy about advertising the XPAD 30 Pro as a gaming device and has even thrown in some interesting features like a voice changer on in-game comms, the tablet is not a particularly powerful device. In fact, the Helio G200 "Ultimate" chipset sits at the bottom of most current performance charts.

In the CPU department, you get two Cortex-A76 cores, clocked at up to 2.2GHz and six Cortex-A55 ones, working at up to 2.0 GHz. The onboard GPU is a Mali-G57 MC2, clocked at 1.1GHz, instead of 1.0GHZ, like it was in the Helio G100 and Helio G99.

The chipset is paired with LPDDR4X RAM and UFS 2.2 storage chips - hardly cutting-edge, but still capable of delivering a pretty fluent day-to-day experience.

Memory tiers are interesting. The XPAD 30 Pro starts with a base 4GB/128GB variant, and you can upgrade to 6GB/128GB, 8GB/128GB or 8GB/256GB. Virtual RAM is available but you might want to avoid the base 4GB RAM variant since, reading through the fine print on some of the provided information, it turns out that certain features, like the intriguing ability to use the XPAD as an extra monitor for your PC or smartphone, are only available with 6GB RAM and more.

Anyway, here are some benchmarks to give you an idea of the performance available here. If we add to these numbers, we'll say the XPAD 30 Pro feels fluid enough in daily use and did not stutter when switching between apps or when web browsing. We wouldn't expect it to handle any heavy gaming, but overall, it is a solid daily driver.

The Helio G200 is not a particularly powerful chip, but on the plus side it barely puts out heat. And a device the size of the XPAD 30 Pro has no problem dissipating whatever little heat is present.

Thermal-throttling

As a result, the XPAD 30 Pro hardly thermal-throttles at all and pretty much maintains all of its performance even with torture testing.