Huawei MediaPad M5 Series

Processor: Kirin 659, Kirin 910, Kirin 960, Kirin 960s, HiSilicon Kirin 710, Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 MSM8939
Graphics Adapter: ARM Mali-450 MP4, ARM Mali-G51 MP4, ARM Mali-G71 MP8, ARM Mali-T830 MP2, Qualcomm Adreno 405
Display: 8.00 inch, 8.40 inch, 10.10 inch, 10.80 inch
Weight: 0.31kg, 0.316kg, 0.341kg, 0.461kg, 0.475kg, 0.498kg
Price: 229, 300, 330, 379, 449, 549 euro
price: 79%, performance: 73%, features: 77%, display: 82%, mobility: 83%, workmanship: 82%, ergonomy: 89%, emissions: 96%

 

Huawei MediaPad M1 8.0

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.

Specifications

Notebook: Huawei MediaPad M1 8.0
Processor: Kirin 910
Graphics Adapter: ARM Mali-450 MP4
Display: 8.00 inch, 16:10, 1280 x 800 pixels
Weight: 0.341kg
Price: 229 euro
Links: Huawei homepage

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Average Score: 82.67% - good

 

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Huawei MediaPad T2 10.0 Pro

Specifications

Notebook: Huawei MediaPad T2 10.0 Pro
Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 MSM8939
Graphics Adapter: Qualcomm Adreno 405
Display: 10.10 inch, 16:10, 1920 x 1200 pixels
Weight: 0.461kg
Price: 300 euro
Links: Huawei homepage

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Average Score: 75.31% - good

 

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Huawei MediaPad M5 10.8

Specifications

Notebook: Huawei MediaPad M5 10.8
Processor: Kirin 960s
Graphics Adapter: ARM Mali-G71 MP8
Display: 10.80 inch, 16:10, 2560 x 1600 pixels
Weight: 0.498kg
Price: 449 euro
Links: Huawei homepage

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Average Score: 81.61% - good

 

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Huawei MediaPad M5 8.4

The tablet industry has been quite stagnant for the past couple of years. There has been very little in the way of movement, particularly with tablets based on Google's Android operating system. However, Huawei announced new MediaPad models at the Mobile World Congress 2018, namely a small 8.4-inch model and a larger 10.8-inch Pro model with a stylus. With its aluminum body, smooth back and curved corners, Huawei’s 8.4-inch MediaPad does not tread new ground for tablets. It feels well-built and is super-light at 316g. Thanks to having an 8.4-inch display and relatively little in the way of screen bezels on the left and right side, Huawei has managed to make the M5 compact enough for single-handed use, it can also easily be slipped into a pocket or bag. The front of the device is dominated by the display, but unlike many of the new phones coming to the market this year, it retained a bezel around it. This is fine on a tablet, since it gives the hands something to grip onto. A fingerprint scanner sits below the display and works superbly; a Huawei logo and front-facing camera sit above the display. The overall design is clean and basic. One of the most pleasing elements of this tablet is its screen. The aspect ratio is unusual: 16:10. With its 2560 x 1600 pixel resolution, the 8.4-inch display is super crisp while offering lovely clean whites, vibrant colors and, considering it is an LCD panel, great contrast.

When users are playing movies, the Huawei ClariVu technology uses intelligent algorithms to adjust unclear frames or drops in contrast ratio to deliver a better viewing experience. Huawei used massive amounts of research data to develop a display that is safe and comfortable for the eyes. Eye Comfort Mode reduces harmful blue light to make it safer and easier to read. And the Huawei MediaPad M5's display automatically adjusts to the color temperature of the surrounding light. Inside this Huawei tablet, users will find an octa-core Kirin 960S, which is essentially a tweaked version of the chip that powered most of Huawei's flagship phones in 2017. The performance is therefore appropriate for a high-end tablet. Each game loaded without any complaining or noticeable delay. The Huawei MediaPad M5 supports Hi-Res audio, which is an industry standard for sound quality. Every facet is captured perfectly, keeping treble sweet and bass anchored for significantly truer, more immersive listening experience. Tuned by the renowned acoustic legend Harman Kardon® Audio, the tablet delivers quality sound with more bass and no distortion. Huawei Listen audio creates a perfect soundscape to produce 3D sound that is richer, more layered, and penetrating, too. Finally, concerning autonomy, it takes only 1.9 hours to fully charge the Huawei MediaPad M5. Its 5,100 mAh (TYP) battery and smart power-saving technology allow users to enjoy 1080p videos for up to 11 hours.

Hands-on article by Jagadisa Rajarathnam

Specifications

Notebook: Huawei MediaPad M5 8.4
Processor: Kirin 960
Graphics Adapter: ARM Mali-G71 MP8
Display: 8.40 inch, 16:10, 2560 x 1600 pixels
Weight: 0.316kg
Price: 379 euro
Links: Huawei homepage

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Average Score: 81.33% - good

 

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Huawei MediaPad M5 10.8 Pro

Specifications

Notebook: Huawei MediaPad M5 10.8 Pro
Processor: Kirin 960
Graphics Adapter: ARM Mali-G71 MP8
Display: 10.80 inch, 16:10, 2560 x 1600 pixels
Weight: 0.498kg
Price: 549 euro
Links: Huawei homepage

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Average Score: 81.36% - good

 

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Huawei MediaPad M5 lite

The Huawei MediaPad M5 Lite is a new mid-range tablet that boasts of an aluminum unibody and a quartet of speakers. Buyers will receive a fancy-looking mid-range tablet with LTE support. The new tablet is built around a Kirin 659 processor and runs on EMUI 8.0 based on Android 8.1 Oreo. This has a different settings structure and customized apps for telephoning, messaging, the gallery etc. compared to stock Android. The device features a 10-inch 16:10 display with a resolution of 1,920 x 1,200 pixels. The tablet comes in two configurations which are 3 GB/32 GB and 4 GB/64 GB. It is available in Champagne Gold and Space Grey color variants. The MediaPad M5 Lite features a 10.1-inch display with a resolution of 1,920 x 1,200 pixels, and an aspect ratio of 16:10. The average brightness is 492.2 cd/m², which is higher than those of other comparable tablets in this price range. The display does not reflect surrounding objects too much and screen content can be read easily. However, reflections become very strong under direct sunlight or a blue sky. The IPS panel of the MediaPad M5 lite has very stable viewing angles. Screen content can be read without distortions or falsified colors from almost all angles. Huawei has given the MediaPad M5 lite a metal case with a small decorative seam on the back. The top and bottom edges of the tablet have a lot of holes for the four speakers, as well as additional openings for the microphone along the top. This means that there is a row of holes all along the top of the device. Huawei MediaPad M5 lite have access to an 8-MP main camera as well as an 8-MP front camera. The latter takes good-quality portraits, as long as the subject is positioned in the center of the picture due to the fixed focus. Details are displayed nicely with only objects in the background slightly lacking sharpness. The MediaPad M5 lite can transfer data via its USB Type-C port, which, however, only offers 2.0 speeds. The USB port also functions as a charging connection. Headsets or external speakers can be connected to the tablet via the 3.5 mm audio jack. There is also a microSD card slot that allows storage to be expanded by up to 256 GB. The tablet is backed by a 7500 mAh battery. Additionally, the device ships with the company’s M-Pen lite stylus, which supports 2,048 levels of pressure sensitivity. Notably, the stylus will only be accessible in select markets. Furthermore, as mentioned, the company is touting the quad-speaker setup tuned by Harman/Kardon that works with the company's Histen 5.0 sound system to replicate surround sound experience. This tablet’s performance is sufficient for many everyday workloads. Modern games can also be played on this device, although users might have to content themselves with average graphics settings. It is most suitable for casual users who mainly use the tablet for entertainment purpose. Hands-on article by Jagadisa Rajarathnam

Specifications

Notebook: Huawei MediaPad M5 lite
Processor: Kirin 659
Graphics Adapter: ARM Mali-T830 MP2
Display: 10.10 inch, 16:10, 1920 x 1200 pixels
Weight: 0.475kg
Price: 330 euro
Links: Huawei homepage

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Average Score: 76% - good

 

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Huawei MediaPad M5 Lite 8.0

Specifications

Notebook: Huawei MediaPad M5 Lite 8.0
Processor: HiSilicon Kirin 710
Graphics Adapter: ARM Mali-G51 MP4
Display: 8.00 inch, 16:10, 1900 x 1200 pixels
Weight: 0.31kg
Links: Huawei homepage

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Average Score: 75% - good

 

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Comment

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).

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These graphics cards are not suited for Windows 3D games. Office and Internet surfing however is possible.

ARM Mali-450 MP4: OpenGL ES 2.0 GPU for ARM based SoCs with 4 fragment processors and 1 vertex processor.

Only some 3D games with very low demands are playable with these cards.

Qualcomm Adreno 405: Integrated graphics card for ARM based SoCs. Depending on the used SoC the clock rate is around 500 MHz and features 48 unified shaders.

ARM Mali-T830 MP2: Integrated graphics card for smartphones and tablets with two clusters (MP2) supporting OpenGL ES 3.2.

ARM Mali-G51 MP4: Integrated mid range graphics card with 4 clusters. Beware the results in the Mate 20 Lite, that detects benchmarks and boosts the performance.

Non demanding games should be playable with these graphics cards.

ARM Mali-G71 MP8: Integrated ARM graphics adapter for smartphones and tablets found in the HiSilicon Kirin 960.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.

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HiSilicon :

Kirin 910: ARM based Cortex-A9 quad core processor with an integrated ARM Mali-450 MP4 GPU and an LTE modem.

Kirin 960s: ARM based octa-core SoC (4x Cortex-A73 + 4x Cortex-A53) similar to the Kirin 960 but with an addition NPU for AI calculations. Integrates a Mali G71 MP8 GPU and is manufactured in a 16-nm process. Looks like to be slower clocked than the older Kirin 960.

Kirin 960: ARM based octa-core SoC (4x Cortex-A73 + 4x Cortex-A53) and successor to the Kirin 955. Integrates a Mali G71 MP8 GPU and is manufactured in a 16-nm process.

Kirin 659: ARM-based octa-core SoC (4x Cortex-A53 max. 2.36 GHz, 4x Cortex-A53 max 1.7 GHz) with an integrated LTE modem (Cat. 13) and a ARM Mali-T830 MP2. In our benchmarks around 4% faster as the older Kirin 658.

Kirin 710: ARM based octa-core SoC containing four Cortex-A73 cores for performance tasks (up to 2.2 GHz) and four Cortex-A53 cores (up to 1.7 GHz) to save power. Furthermore, the SoC integrates an LTE radio (600 MBps down) and a ARM Mali-G51MP4 GPU. The SoC is manufactured at TSMC in 12nm.

Qualcomm Snapdragon:

615 MSM8939:

Mid-range ARM SoC with 8 CPU cores (Cortex-A53, 64-bit capable) and an Adreno 405 GPU. Manufactured in a 28 nm LP process.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

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

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0.31 kg:

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

0.498 kg:

This is pretty heavy for a smartphone. Usually, small tablets weigh as much.

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79.93%: This rating is not convincing. The laptop is evaluated below average, this is not really a recommendation for purchase.

» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.

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