Huawei MediaPad M1 8.0

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The Huawei MediaPad M1 8.0 is designed with beauty in mind. Huawei uses premium materials to ensure the tablet is kept sleek and elegant. An all-aluminium frame gives the device a metallic touch and the clean lines with subtle corner curves help deliver superb feel. The MediaPad M1 8.0 is ultra-slim and ultra-lightweight at just 7.9 mm and around 329 g. There are multiple colors to choose from; white, tulip, carnation, Lily/Lotus and Titanium grey.

Display comes in the form of an 8-inch IPS screen with wide viewing angles. Image quality is good with nice colors and contrast. The Android 4.2 Jelly Bean device comes with a Hisilicon Kirin 910 quad core processor clocked at 1.6 GHz, 1 GB RAM and a Mali450-MP4 GPU. The MediaPad M1 8.0 comes with 8 GB on board memory and users can upgrade storage with a microSD card up to and additional 32 GB. There is a 5 mega-pixel autofocus rear camera and a 1 megapixel front facing secondary camera.

Other features on the tablet include A-GPS, dual front-facing speakers with good sound quality and dual built-in noise reduction microphones. Battery on the device is a 4800mAh Li-Polymer cell which gives excellent battery life. The MediaPad M1 8.0 is meant for users looking for a large display format tablet which good multimedia capabilities with an affordable price.

ARM Mali-450 MP4: OpenGL ES 2.0 GPU for ARM based SoCs with 4 fragment processors and 1 vertex processor. These graphics cards are not suited for Windows 3D games. Office and Internet surfing however is possible. » Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Kirin 910: ARM based Cortex-A9 quad core processor with an integrated ARM Mali-450 MP4 GPU and an LTE modem.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
8":

This display size is a threshold between tablets and smartphones. Most tablets have larger screen diagonals but a lot of smartphones offer such a big screen.

Large display-sizes allow higher resolutions. So, details like letters are bigger. On the other hand, the power consumption is lower with small screen diagonals and the devices are smaller, more lightweight and cheaper.

» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
0.341 kg:

This weight is somewhat high for a smartphone. Smartphones with a big screen and small tablets weigh as much, usually.

Huawei: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. is a Chinese company founded in 1987 with focus on telecommunications hardware and 170000 employees. In the first quarter of 2016, Huawei had a market share of 8.2% in the smartphone market, making it the third-largest smartphone manufacturer in the world. Compared to the same quarter of 2015, Huawei increased its market share by more than 58%.
In 2014, Huawei created the sub brand Honor and offers certain smartphone series under this name. The name Huawei is usually not listed for these products.
There are a lot of reviews on Huawei phones with slightly above average ratings (as of 2016).
82.75%: This rating should be considered to be average. This is because the proportion of notebooks which have a higher rating is approximately equal to the proportion which have a lower rating.
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