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iQOO launched the iQOO Pad Pro 8.8 in China on October 28, 2026, according to Gadgets 360. The compact tablet has an 8.8-inch AMOLED screen with a 165Hz refresh rate and a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset. FoneArena reports that it is already on sale in China, with prices starting at 4,299 yuan.
Key facts
- Display: 8.8-inch OLED, 2304 x 1440 pixels (308 PPI), 165Hz refresh rate, up to 4,500 nits local peak brightness.
- Chips: Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (3nm) with Adreno 840 GPU, plus iQOO's Q3 gaming chip.
- Memory: 8GB, 12GB or 16GB of RAM with 256GB or 512GB of UFS 4.1 storage.
- Battery: 9,020mAh with 66W fast charging.
- Price in China: 4,299 yuan (about $644, or roughly Rs 61,390) for 8GB+256GB, up to 5,799 yuan (about $869, or roughly Rs 82,810) for 16GB+512GB.
A gaming focus in a small body
FoneArena describes the tablet as a compact, gaming-focused device that follows the iQOO Pad Ultra. It uses a dual-chip setup: the Snapdragon chip handles general work, while the Q3 chip works with a rendering engine iQOO calls QNSS. iQOO says this enables 2K super-resolution, full-scene ray tracing and lossless frame interpolation in supported games.
The unusual hardware choice is active cooling. The tablet includes a 30 x 30 x 3.5 mm fan rated for up to 0.94 CFM of airflow, along with dual vapor chamber plates and graphite sheets. The total dissipation area is listed as more than 23,000 mm². In internal testing of an open-world mobile game at ultra-high settings in a 60fps mode, iQOO recorded an average of 60.2 fps. That figure comes from the company, not independent testing.
Battery and body
The 9,020mAh cell uses a fourth-generation silicon-carbon anode and second-generation semi-solid-state technology, per FoneArena. iQOO claims up to 10.75 hours of continuous 60fps MOBA gaming, 21 hours of short video or live streaming, and 27 hours of offline video. The company also lists battery health of at least 80% after 1,200 cycles.
The tablet measures 197.36 x 126.25 x 5.74mm and weighs 298g. It runs Android 17 with OriginOS 7 HD and supports Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4 and USB Type-C 3.2 Gen 2. Cameras are a 13MP rear unit and an 8MP front unit, and there are dual speakers.
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Neither source mentions availability outside China. The rupee figures are conversions of the yuan prices, so they are not Indian pricing. Any global or India launch would likely bring different software, pricing and possibly configurations.
Independent testing will show whether the fan and the Q3 chip deliver sustained performance beyond iQOO's own figures, and how much noise the cooling adds.
