Last week, Honor Malaysia announced that it will be launching five new products, and one of them turns out to be the Honor Pad X9a budget tablet, which has just been announced here in Malaysia. Honor is also offering a series of free gifts when you drop an order for the tablet, including a keyboard and a stylus.
Honor Pad X9a Malaysia: Price and availability
At launch, the Honor Pad X9a is offered with a sole WiFi configuration:
- Honor Pad X9a (8GB RAM + 128GB) – RM999

Honor Malaysia is offering you a series of complimentary gifts when you place an order for the Honor Pad X9a, including a Smart Bluetooth Keyboard, an Honor Choice Pencil, and a 3-month iQiYi membership card. Availability of these gifts is said to be first-come first-served. Colour options are also limited to just one, namely Grey.
You can pre-order the Honor Pad X9a either via Honor Malaysia’s official website or the brand’s official Shopee and Lazada stores.
Honor Pad X9a Malaysia: Specs and features

Build-wise, the Honor Pad X9a sports an aluminium body and measures 6.7mm in thickness with a weight of 475g. Up front, the tablet comes with a glass panel that houses an 11.5″ 2.5K (2508 x 1504 pixels) TFT LCD display that delivers a refresh rate of up to 120Hz. Its brightness ranges between 2 and 400 nits.
Alongside, you get a quad-stereo-speaker setup, which Honor says can produce 200% volume as compared to past models.

Powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 685 chipset, the Honor Pad X9a is currently offered in Malaysia with a sole WiFi configuration. You get 8GB of RAM that’s expandable to 16GB via Honor RAM Turbo, along with 128GB of storage.
Keeping lights on is an 8,300mAh battery that can receive charge via USB-C at 35W. Software-wise, the Honor Pad X9a runs on the brand’s MagicOS 9.0 skin, with Android 15 as its base. Before we forget, the tablet also comes equipped with an 8MP rear camera and a 5MP front camera.