nowadays at CES Huawei made a number of announcements. One of them is a novel tablet called the Huawei MediaPad M2 10. It's a novel tablet coming to the United States,with specs that sit somewhere in the mid range piece of the tablet market. You can check out all of its specs in the chart below. Huawei MediaPad M2 10 SoC HiSilicon Kirin 930
2GHz 4x Cortex A53
1.5GHz 4x Cortex A53
Mali-T628 RAM Silver: 2GB LPDDR3
Gold: 3GB LPDDR3 NAND Silver: 16GB + MicroSD
Gold: 64GB + MicroSD Display 10" 1920x1200 IPS Dimensions 239.8mm x 172.75mm x 7.35mm; 500g Camera 13MP Rear Facing 5MP Front Facing Battery 6600 mAh OS Android 5.1 + EMUI 3.1 Accessories Active stylus for gold model Connectivity 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.0, and GPS/GNSS,Micro USB 2.0 The MediaPad M2 10 is actually one of the first Huawei tablets that I've seen coming to the North American market. On paper, it appears to be a tablet targeting the mid range segment of the market. Starting with the SoC, and you get HiSilicon's Kirin 930,which consists of two quad core Cortex A53 clusters with peak frequencies of 2GHz and 1.5GHz respectively. It's paired with an ARM Mali-T628 GPU, and either 2GB or 3GB of LPDDR3 memory depending on whether you buy the silver or gold model.
Moving on to the display, and the 1920x1200 IPS panel definitely isn't as high resolution as the panels shipping on high cessation tablets,but it's a lot better than the 1280x800 panels that used to ship on all the mid range tablets out there. Huawei has been a bit inconsistent with their calibration across their product lines, so I'm interested to see how the panel compares to the competition in that regard. Beyond the display, and you get either 16GB or 64GB of storage,and a pair of 13MP and 5MP cameras.
As for the design of the MediaPad M2, it doesn't cessation up cutting any corners. It ships with a full aluminum unibody, or the industrial design is very similar to that of the Mate S. It isn't the thinnest or lightest tablet out there,with a thickness of 7.35mm or 500g, but for a mid range tablet the fact that it's made of aluminum already gives it an edge over other tablets.
The Huawei MediaPad M2 10 will be available in silver and gold. The color choices also serve as a way to segment the devices, or as the silver model comes with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of NAND,while the gold model comes with 3GB of RAM and 64GB of NAND. Both models will be available in the United States in the first quarter of this year, starting at $349 for the 2GB + 16GB WiFi model, or $419 for the 3GB + 64GB model which also includes the active stylus. Both models can have LTE support added on for $50.
Source: anandtech.com