The Vivo Pad 3 has a physical footprint of 266.4 mm wide and 192 mm tall, with a slim 6.6 mm thickness and a total weight of 589.2 g. Its overall volume comes to 337.58 cm³, giving it a reasonably compact form for its screen size. The tablet does not include a stylus, a detachable keyboard, or a backlit keyboard, and it offers no water resistance rating. Pen tilt sensitivity is also absent from this model.
The Vivo Pad 3 features a 12.1-inch IPS LCD touchscreen with a resolution of 2800 x 1968 pixels and a pixel density of 283 ppi, delivering a reasonably sharp visual experience. The panel runs at a 144Hz refresh rate with a 240Hz touch sampling rate, ensuring responsive input and smooth on-screen motion. It carries a contrast ratio of 1500:1 and supports HDR10, though HDR10+ and Dolby Vision are not supported. The display does not use branded damage-resistant glass or sapphire glass.
The Vivo Pad 3 is driven by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 system-on-chip, built on a 4 nm process with a CPU configuration of 1 x 3 GHz, 4 x 2.8 GHz, and 3 x 2 GHz cores using big.LITTLE technology, and a thermal design power of 12.5W. It comes with 12GB of RAM running at 4800 MHz, 512GB of internal storage via eMMC 5.1, and no external memory slot, with a maximum supported memory ceiling of 24GB and a peak memory bandwidth of 64 GB/s. Graphics are handled by the Adreno 735 GPU clocked at 1100 MHz with 3 execution units, supporting OpenGL 3.3, OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenVG 1.2, OpenCL 2, and DirectX 12, with output to a single display. The chipset includes integrated LTE, TrustZone security, and 64-bit support, and the tablet ships with Android 14. Geekbench 6 scores are recorded at 5570 multi-core and 2019 single-core, with an L2 cache of 1 MB and an L3 cache of 8 MB.
The Vivo Pad 3 is equipped with an 8 MP rear camera using a CMOS sensor and a 5 MP front camera, with main video recording capped at 1080p at 30 fps. The rear camera supports manual controls including ISO, focus, exposure, and white balance, along with touch autofocus, continuous autofocus during video, built-in HDR mode, and a single LED flash with a video light. Optical zoom is not available, and the sensor lacks back-side illumination as well as optical image stabilization. On the video side, slow-motion recording, HDR10 recording, and Dolby Vision recording are all absent, and the camera does not support timelapse, burst mode, panorama, or 360-degree panorama shooting. The front camera has no flash, and neither a dual-tone nor RGB LED flash is present on the device.
The Vivo Pad 3 includes stereo speakers for built-in audio output, but does not feature a 3.5 mm headphone jack or a radio. On the wireless audio side, none of the advanced Bluetooth codec standards are supported, including aptX, aptX HD, aptX Low Latency, aptX Adaptive, aptX Lossless, or LDAC.
The Vivo Pad 3 houses a 10000 mAh rechargeable battery that supports fast charging, and a battery level indicator is available to keep track of remaining charge. The battery is sealed and not user-removable, and wireless charging is not supported.
The Vivo Pad 3 supports Wi-Fi 4, Wi-Fi 5, and Wi-Fi 6 for wireless connectivity, paired with Bluetooth 5.4 and a USB Type-C 3.2 port offering download and upload speeds of 10000 Mbits/s and 3500 Mbits/s respectively. The tablet does not include a cellular module, 5G support, GPS, NFC, HDMI output, Ethernet, or an infrared sensor, though it does support the Galileo satellite system and includes a gyroscope and accelerometer. On the software side, it supports split screen, Picture-in-Picture, widgets, dark mode, dynamic and theme customization, media picker, full-page screenshots, customizable notifications, notification controls, sharing intents, child lock, multi-user support, battery health check, on-device machine learning, offline voice recognition, voice commands, and the ability to play games while downloading. Privacy features include location privacy options, camera and microphone access controls, clipboard warnings, and app tracking blocking, though cross-site tracking blocking, Mail Privacy Protection, and Wi-Fi password sharing are absent. Biometric security options such as a fingerprint scanner, iris scanner, and 3D facial recognition are not present, and the device does not support Quick Start, app offloading, focus modes, or direct OS vendor updates.
The Vivo Pad 3 uses DDR5 memory and supports multithreading, allowing the processor to handle multiple threads simultaneously for more efficient task execution.
