Huawei MatePad Air Series
Processor: unknown, Qualcomm Snapdragon SD 888 4GGraphics Adapter: unknown, Qualcomm Adreno 660
Display: 11.50 inch, 12.00 inch
Weight: 0.508kg, 0.509kg, 0.555kg
Price: 500 euro
Average of 5 scores (from 32 reviews)
Huawei MatePad Air 2023
Specifications
Notebook: Huawei MatePad Air 2023Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon SD 888 4G
Graphics Adapter: Qualcomm Adreno 660
Display: 11.50 inch, 3:2, 2880 x 1840 pixels
Weight: 0.508kg
Price: 500 euro
Links: Huawei homepage
Price comparison
Foreign Reviews
Source: Teknolojioku
TR→ENPositive: Elegant design; decent hardware; great cameras; nice performance.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 08/03/2023
Source: Ixbt
RU→ENPositive: Excellent display; attractive price; decent hardware.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 01/22/2024
Source: Mega Obzor
RU→ENPositive: Beautiful display; comfortable keyboard; decent battery life; good speakers; nice performance. Negative: Old processor; no LTE module.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 01/21/2024
Source: Mega Obzor
RU→ENPositive: Big screen; nice display; powerful processor; Wi-Fi 6; stereo speakers; long battery life; quick charging; comfortable keyboard. Negative: No memory card slot.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/15/2023
Source: Yamobi
RU→ENPositive: Premium design; solid workmanship; good speakers; large screen; bright display; high gaming performance; comfortable keyboard. Negative: Missing Google services; no headphone jack.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/11/2023
Source: Ixbt
RU→ENPositive: Elegant design; beautiful display; excellent performance; good connectivity; long battery life; slim size; quick charging. Negative: No memory card slot; no headphone jack.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 07/11/2023
Source: 3DNews.ru
RU→ENPositive: Slim size; light weight; nice display; comfortable keyboard; attractive price.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/11/2023
Source: Hi-Tech Mail
RU→ENPositive: Powerful hardware; good price; high mobility; comfortable keyboard; smart stylus pen; big screen; beautiful display.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/10/2023
Huawei MatePad Air PaperMatte
Specifications
Notebook: Huawei MatePad Air PaperMatteProcessor: unknown
Graphics Adapter: Qualcomm Adreno 660
Display: 11.50 inch, , 2800 x 1840 pixels
Weight: 0.508kg
Links: Huawei homepage
Price comparison
Foreign Reviews
Source: Product Test
RU→ENPositive: Excellent display; decent performance; quick charging; stereo speakers. Negative: Inflexible fingerprint sensor; no microSD card slot.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 03/25/2024
Huawei MatePad Air (2025)
Specifications
Notebook: Huawei MatePad Air (2025)Processor: unknown
Graphics Adapter: unknown
Display: 12.00 inch, 3:2, 2800 x 1840 pixels
Weight: 0.555kg
Links: Huawei homepage
Price comparison
Reviews
Source: OI Spice Tech News
The Huawei MatePad Air (2025) is a sleek and powerful Android alternative, launched in August 2025, designed for both work and play on the go. Right away, it comes with a 12-inch display that grabs your attention. It’s not just big, but also incredibly smooth with a 144Hz refresh rate and 2800 x 1840 pixels resolution. This ensures buttery-smooth scrolling and gaming, delivers up to 1000 nits of brightness for outdoor use, and supports HDR Vivid for immersive viewing. All of this is packed into a remarkably thin and light aluminum body, weighing just 555g and measuring under 6mm thick, making it a perfect travel companion. Under the hood, this tablet is built for performance. It runs on the latest HarmonyOS 5.0 and comes with a generous 12GB of RAM paired with your choice of 256GB or 512GB of storage.
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 09/18/2025
Huawei MatePad Air (2026)
Specifications
Notebook: Huawei MatePad Air (2026)Processor: unknown
Graphics Adapter: unknown
Display: 12.00 inch, 3:2, 2800 x 1840 pixels
Weight: 0.509kg
Links: Huawei homepage
Price comparison
Average Score:
Reviews
Source: Yugatech
The HUAWEI MatePad Air (2026) is an interesting tablet because its biggest strength isn’t really one particular feature. It’s how everything comes together. The 12-inch 2.8K OLED PaperMatte display is excellent for both entertainment and productivity. It’s form-factor and weight make it remarkably portable.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 09/07/2026
Source: Yanko Design
The Huawei MatePad Air 2026 makes a strong case for itself with its slim design, excellent OLED PaperMatte display, solid battery life, and thoughtful stylus support. It feels well suited to people who want a premium tablet for reading, sketching, note-taking, and entertainment without carrying something heavy or awkward. The main caveat is the software experience.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 08/29/2026
Rating: price: 80% performance: 80% ergonomy: 80%
Source: Emkwan Reviews
In this review I test WPS AI, HUAWEI Notes, AI handwriting enhancement, speech-to-text, Live-Multitask and the features designed to make the MatePad Air feel more like a laptop replacement. I also take a look at the 12-inch 2.8K OLED PaperMatte display, 144Hz refresh rate, M-Pencil Pro, Smart Magnetic Keyboard and ultra-thin 5.3mm design.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 08/26/2026
Source: Phone Arena
Huawei’s tablets aren’t as widely available as its wearables, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t good. Quite the contrary: I’ve had the chance to use a number of Huawei MatePads over the last couple of years, and most of them left me with very positive impressions. This is not the cheapest tablet out there, but the bundle does present a relatively enticing deal, especially if you’re into a matte tablet display.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 08/18/2026
Rating: Total score: 70% performance: 51% display: 70% mobility: 73% workmanship: 84%
Source: Android Headlines
The main obstacle when it comes to buying this tablet is the same as with any other Huawei smartphone and tablet these days: the lack of GMS. If you’re willing to fire up MicroG and Aurora Store, which is immensely easy, you’ll get a similar experience. Just note that a very small number of apps may give you headaches. Its chip is also not the best, but unless you’re a power gamer, that shouldn’t bother you. Everything else is outstanding on this tablet.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 08/10/2026
Foreign Reviews
Source: Teltarif
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Short, Date: 09/02/2026
Source: Hartware
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 09/02/2026
Source: Computerbase
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 09/02/2026
Source: Xataka
ES→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 09/21/2026
Rating: Total score: 83% performance: 67% display: 92% mobility: 87% workmanship: 95%
Source: Android.com.pl
PL→ENSingle Review, online available, Medium, Date: 09/03/2026
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 70% display: 100% mobility: 80% workmanship: 90%
Source: Antyweb
PL→ENSingle Review, online available, Medium, Date: 08/21/2026
Source: GSM Maniak
PL→ENSingle Review, online available, Short, Date: 08/18/2026
Rating: Total score: 85% performance: 75% display: 95% mobility: 80%
Source: Instalki
PL→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 08/18/2026
Source: Tabletowo
PL→ENSingle Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/18/2026
Rating: Total score: 75%
Source: Techno Senior
PL→ENSingle Review, online available, Medium, Date: 08/18/2026
Source: Ixbt
RU→ENSingle Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 09/17/2026
Source: 3DNews.ru
RU→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 09/17/2026
Source: Hi-Tech Mail
RU→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 09/17/2026
Source: Zoom
RU→ENSingle Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 09/17/2026
Source: FPT shop
VN→ENSingle Review, online available, Short, Date: 08/04/2026
Source: Jagat Review
ID→ENSingle Review, online available, Short, Date: 09/11/2026
Source: Go4it.ro
→ENSingle Review, online available, Short, Date: 08/28/2026
Comment
Huawei: Huawei Technologies Co, Ltd. is a Chinese telecommunications company and hardware manufacturer founded in 1987 and headquartered in Shenzhen. Huawei is a global leader in information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. Huawei provides end-to-end solutions for telecommunications networks, devices, and smartphones, as well as storage, servers, networking, and cloud computing enterprise solutions and products.
In 2014, Huawei established the Honor subsidiary brand under which certain smartphone lines are sold. The Huawei name is usually not listed for these products.
Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.
Qualcomm Adreno 660: Graphics chip for smartphones and tablets that is integrated within the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 SoC. Qualcomm claims that it is 35% faster than the Adreno 650 in the Snapdragon 865 SoC and offers a 20% better power efficiency.For Android it should be one of the fastest graphics cards in 2021.
These graphics cards are not suited for Windows 3D games. Office and Internet surfing however is possible.
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» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Qualcomm Snapdragon:
SD 888 4G: High-end SoC for smartphones that was introduced in mid 2021 and manufactured in 5 nm at Samsung. Integrates one “Prime Core” based on a ARM Cortex-X1 architecture clocked at up to 2.84 GHz. Three more performance cores are based on the A78 but clock up to 2.42 GHz. Furthermore, four energy saving cores are integrated that are based on the ARM Cortex-A55 architecture and clock at up to 1.8 GHz. In addition to the processor cores, the SoC integrates a WiFi 6e modem, a Hexagon 780 DSP (up to 26 TOPS of AI performance) and a Spectra 580 ISP. The integrated memory controller now supports faster LPDDR5 memory with up to 3,200 MHz. Compared to the 888 5G, the 888 4G only integrates a 4G LTE modem.
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» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
12.00:
This range of display format is largely the upper limit for tablets and the lower limit for subnotebooks.
The advantage of subnotebooks is that the entire laptop can be small in size and therefore easily portable. The tiny display has the added advantage of requiring little power, which further improves battery life and thus mobility. The disadvantage is that reading texts is exhausting for the eyes. High resolutions, which one is used to from a standard laptop, are almost not usable.
The same applies to tablets in this size range.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
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78.6%: This rating is not earth-shattering. This rating must actually be seen as average, since there are about as many devices with worse ratings as better ones. A purchase recommendation can only be seen with a lot of goodwill, unless it is about websites that generally rate strictly.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
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