Huawei Announces Seven Inch Honeycomb MediaPad
Posted in: honeycomb, Tablets and E-Readers, Today's Chili
From the front, Huawei’s MediaPad looks curiously familiar
Huawei’s new MediaPad proves one thing: That the style of any and every tablet–at least from the front– is fixed. The screen gets a thick black bezel, and is et into an aluminum frame.
Round back the new seven-inch tablet gets a few stylings which are its own. The camera sits in the center, and there are black triangles cut out top and bottom. It’s inspired.
Inside, the MediaPad is the first seven-inch tablet to be running Android 3.2 HoneyComb, specially optimized for the smaller screen. That screen, by the way, is an IPS panel with a 217 ppi resolution. It sits inside a body which is a shade over a centimeter thick, weighs 0.86 pounds (390g) and Huawei’s claimed battery life is six hours (Huawei doesn’t say whether this was tested with or without the installed Flash plugin switched on).
The rear camera gives five megapixels and the front one 1.3MP. The radios are 802.11n fir Wi-Fi and HSPA+ for 3G. You get 8GB storage, and the processor is a Qualcomm dual-core 1.2GHz chip.
As Android tablets go, this one looks pretty sweet. It will, of course, come down to the apps and the OS, two things which have proved a lot harder to copy than a bezel and a slim aluminum shell. Price and availability to be announced.
Huawei MediaPad [Facebook]
See Also:
- New Huawei MiFi is One Hot-Looking Hot-Spot
- Honeycomb
- What We Know About Honeycomb, the Android for Tablets
