The Honor Pad 9 Pro measures 277 mm wide, 179.9 mm tall, and 6.6 mm thick, with a total volume of approximately 328.89 cm³ and a weight of 589 g. It offers no water resistance, and neither a stylus, detachable keyboard, backlit keyboard, nor pen tilt sensitivity are included or supported.
The Honor Pad 9 Pro features a 12.1″ IPS LCD touchscreen with a resolution of 2560 x 1600 px and a pixel density of 249 ppi, paired with a 144Hz touch sampling rate for responsive input. The display includes an anti-reflection coating but does not use branded damage-resistant glass or sapphire glass, and it does not support HDR10, HDR10+, Dolby Vision, or e-paper technology.
The Honor Pad 9 Pro is powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 8100 chipset fabricated on a 5 nm process, featuring an 8-thread big.LITTLE CPU with HMP support and peak clock speeds of 2.85 GHz, operating within a 6W TDP envelope. It comes with 12 GB of RAM running at 6400 MHz across four memory channels, a maximum memory capacity of 16 GB, 256 GB of internal storage with no external memory slot, and a memory bandwidth ceiling of 51.2 GB/s alongside 4 MB of L3 cache. Graphics are handled by the integrated Mali G610 MP6 GPU clocked at 860 MHz, with DirectX 12 and OpenCL 2 support, while security features include TrustZone and NX bit. The device runs Android 14 and recorded Geekbench 6 scores of 1140 single-core and 3624 multi-core.
The Honor Pad 9 Pro has a 13 MP rear camera with a CMOS sensor at f/2.0, capable of recording video at up to 4K 30fps, with a video light, single LED flash, touch autofocus, continuous autofocus during recording, HDR mode, and manual controls for exposure, ISO, focus, and white balance. Optical zoom stands at 0x, and optical image stabilization, slow-motion recording, timelapse, burst mode, panorama, dual-tone flash, and 3D recording are all absent, as is HDR10 or Dolby Vision recording support. The 5 MP front camera sits at f/2.2 for video calls and selfies, without a front-facing flash.
The Honor Pad 9 Pro includes stereo speakers but does not support any aptX codec variants — aptX, aptX HD, aptX Low Latency, aptX Adaptive, and aptX Lossless are all absent — and LDAC is likewise not available. There is no 3.5 mm headphone jack and no built-in radio.
The Honor Pad 9 Pro houses a 10050 mAh rechargeable, non-removable battery with a battery level indicator and fast charging support, though wireless charging is not available.
The Honor Pad 9 Pro is a Wi-Fi-only tablet supporting Wi-Fi 4 through Wi-Fi 6 (802.11n/ac/ax) with download speeds up to 4700 Mbits/s, alongside Bluetooth 5.2 and a USB Type-C port running at USB 2.0 speeds. It has no cellular module, no 5G support, no GPS, no NFC, no HDMI output, no fingerprint scanner, no Ethernet, and no infrared sensor, while biometric options such as 3D facial recognition and iris scanning are also absent. The sensor set is limited to an accelerometer, with no gyroscope, compass, or barometer present. On the software and privacy side, the device supports on-device machine learning, location privacy, camera and microphone access controls, clipboard warnings, and app tracking blocking, though Mail Privacy Protection, cross-site tracking blocking, and Wi-Fi password sharing are not available. Productivity and usability features include split-screen, Picture-in-Picture, full-page screenshots, a media picker, dark mode, dynamic theming, theme customization, widgets, customizable notifications, an extra dim mode, battery health check, offline voice recognition, voice commands, multi-user support, a child lock, sharing intents, phone tracking, and the ability to play games while downloading, while focus modes, app offloading, Quick Start, and direct OS vendor updates are absent.
The Honor Pad 9 Pro uses DDR5 memory and achieved Geekbench 5 scores of 960 single-core and 3800 multi-core.
