The Blackview Oscal Pad 18 measures 256 mm wide, 168 mm tall, and 7.4 mm thick, with a total weight of 490 g. It carries no water resistance rating and is not a rugged build by any designation. The tablet does not include a stylus, a detachable keyboard, or a backlit keyboard, and pen tilt sensitivity is also absent.
The Blackview Oscal Pad 18 features an 11-inch IPS LCD touchscreen with a resolution of 1900 x 1200 px and a pixel density of 206 ppi. The panel does not carry branded damage-resistant glass, sapphire glass, or an anti-reflection coating, and it does not support HDR10, HDR10+, or e-paper technology. It is a standard flat display without any of those additional protective or display enhancement layers.
The Blackview Oscal Pad 18 is powered by the Unisoc T616, a 12 nm octa-core chipset configured with two performance cores at 2 GHz and six efficiency cores at 1.8 GHz, supporting 8 threads, big.LITTLE technology, and TrustZone security. Graphics are handled by the Mali G57 MP1 GPU with a turbo clock of 750 MHz, backed by OpenGL ES 3.2 and OpenCL 2 support. The device ships with 8 GB of DDR4 RAM running at 1866 MHz alongside a maximum memory bandwidth of 14.928 GB/s, and a maximum supported memory of 14 GB. Storage stands at 256 GB via eMMC 5.1, with an external memory slot available for expansion. The chipset integrates LTE, features a 1 MB L3 cache, and runs Android 13, with full 64-bit support throughout.
The Blackview Oscal Pad 18 features a 13 MP rear CMOS camera capable of recording video at 1080p and 30 fps, supported by touch autofocus, continuous autofocus during recording, HDR mode, and manual controls for exposure, ISO, white balance, and focus. A single LED flash is fitted at the rear, though it is neither dual-tone nor RGB. Features such as optical image stabilization, slow-motion recording, timelapse, panorama, burst mode, a video light, and manual shutter speed are all absent. The 8 MP front camera handles video calls and selfies but does not have a dedicated flash, and no back-illuminated sensor technology is present on either camera.
The Blackview Oscal Pad 18 covers the audio essentials with stereo speakers for built-in playback, a 3.5 mm headphone jack for wired listening, and a built-in radio for over-the-air broadcasts.
The Blackview Oscal Pad 18 is equipped with an 8800 mAh non-removable rechargeable battery that supports fast charging. A battery level indicator is present for monitoring remaining charge. Wireless charging is not supported.
The Blackview Oscal Pad 18 connects via Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) and Wi-Fi 4, with a single SIM slot for LTE cellular use, Bluetooth 5, and GPS for location tracking, though 5G, NFC, a gyroscope, a compass, Ethernet, and HDMI output are not available. The USB Type-C port operates at USB 2.0 speeds, with maximum download and upload speeds of 300 Mbit/s and 100 Mbit/s respectively. On the software side, the device supports split-screen multitasking, Picture-in-Picture, widgets, dark mode, dynamic theming, theme customization, full-page screenshots, a media picker, sharing intents, customizable notifications, an extra dim mode, voice commands, offline voice recognition, multi-user support, a child lock, and device tracking. Privacy features include location privacy controls, camera and microphone access options, clipboard warnings, and app tracking blocking, while cross-site tracking blocking, Mail Privacy Protection, Wi-Fi password sharing, and a battery health check are absent. A fingerprint scanner, iris scanner, 3D facial recognition, built-in projector, infrared sensor, focus modes, app offloading, Quick Start, and direct vendor OS updates are also not part of this configuration.
In benchmark testing, the Blackview Oscal Pad 18 scores 380 in Geekbench 5 single-core and 1391 in Geekbench 5 multi-core, reflecting the processing capability of its octa-core configuration. The device uses DDR4 memory.
