OnePlus entered the tablet game two years ago, right after Google reenergized the space with improvements to Android's tablet interface and experience. It's been a success so far—the OnePlus Pad quickly became my favorite Android tablet, and its successor refined it further.

Now we're at the third generation with the OnePlus Pad 3, and while the hardware and software continue to improve, I fear OnePlus may have lost the plot of what made its tablet so dang good. Don't get me wrong, there's not much to fault with this slate, but it's now going toe-to-toe with the likes of the iPad Pro and Samsung's ultra-expensive Galaxy Tab S10 series with its new $700 price—$900 if you add the keyboard case. That's a marked jump from the $628 cost for the original Pad plus keyboard. Was it necessa

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