The Xiaomi Pad Mini has a compact physical profile, measuring 205.1 mm wide and 132 mm tall with a 6.5 mm thickness, and it weighs 326 g. Its total volume comes in at 175.9758 cm³, keeping the overall form factor manageable for a tablet. The device does not include a stylus, a detachable keyboard, or backlit keyboard support, and it offers no water resistance rating.
The Xiaomi Pad Mini features an 8.8-inch IPS LCD touchscreen with a resolution of 3008 x 1880 px and a pixel density of 403 ppi. It supports a 165 Hz refresh rate and a 372 Hz touch sampling rate, contributing to smoother on-screen interactions. The display includes an anti-reflection coating and supports Dolby Vision, though it does not support HDR10 or HDR10+, and does not use branded damage-resistant glass or sapphire glass.
The tablet is powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 9400 Plus chipset, built on a 3 nm process with an 8-thread CPU configuration running at up to 3.73 GHz, alongside four cores at 3.3 GHz and three at 2.4 GHz using big.LITTLE and HMP technologies. Graphics are handled by the Immortalis G925 with an integrated GPU clocked at 1300 MHz. It comes with 12 GB of RAM running at 10667 MHz, supports up to 24 GB maximum memory with a bandwidth of 85.3 GB/s, and includes 512 GB of internal storage, though there is no external memory slot or ECC memory support. The chipset features a 12 MB L3 cache, integrated LTE, and 64-bit support, and the device ships with Android 15. Geekbench 6 scores are 2874 single-core and 8969 multi-core.
The Xiaomi Pad Mini includes a 13 MP rear camera with a CMOS sensor, an f/2.2 aperture, and no optical zoom, capable of recording video at 2160p at 30 fps. Manual controls cover ISO, focus, exposure, and white balance, while touch autofocus and continuous autofocus during video recording are both supported. A single LED flash and a video light are present, though there is no front-facing flash, optical image stabilization, slow-motion recording, HDR10 or Dolby Vision recording, burst mode, or timelapse function. The 8 MP front camera features an f/2.3 aperture and also benefits from the built-in HDR mode, though it lacks a front flash and the rear camera has no back-illuminated sensor.
On the audio side, the Xiaomi Pad Mini has a notably limited feature set. It does not include stereo speakers, a 3.5 mm headphone jack, or a radio. Bluetooth audio codec support is equally absent, with no aptX, aptX HD, aptX Low Latency, aptX Adaptive, aptX Lossless, or LDAC available.
The Xiaomi Pad Mini is equipped with a 7500 mAh rechargeable battery that supports fast charging and includes a battery level indicator. The battery is non-removable and does not support wireless charging.
The Xiaomi Pad Mini supports Wi-Fi 4 through Wi-Fi 7 (802.11n/ac/ax/be) with a download speed of 7300 MBits/s, and connects wirelessly via Bluetooth 5.4, though it lacks cellular, 5G, NFC, GPS, Galileo, Ethernet, and HDMI output. The USB Type-C port runs at USB 3.2. On the software side, the device offers a broad set of features including split-screen multitasking, Picture-in-Picture, full-page screenshots, dark mode, dynamic and theme customization, widgets, media picker, extra dim mode, app offloading, customizable notifications, battery health check, child lock, multi-user support, sharing intents, voice commands, offline voice recognition, and the ability to play games while downloading. Privacy options include location controls, camera and microphone access management, clipboard warnings, and app tracking blocking, though cross-site tracking blocking, Mail Privacy Protection, Wi-Fi password sharing, and focus modes are not available. The device also features on-device machine learning, an accelerometer, gyroscope, compass, infrared sensor, and mobile device tracking, while a barometer, fingerprint scanner, iris scanner, 3D facial recognition, and built-in projector are absent. Direct OS vendor updates are not provided.
The Xiaomi Pad Mini uses DDR5 memory and supports multithreading for handling concurrent processing tasks.
