Huawei MediaPad T3 Series

Processor: Mediatek MT8127, Qualcomm Snapdragon 425
Graphics Adapter: ARM Mali-450 MP4, Qualcomm Adreno 308
Display: 7.00 inch, 8.00 inch, 9.60 inch
Weight: 0.25kg, 0.35kg, 0.46kg
Price: 140, 229 euro
price: 60%, performance: 56%, features: 62%, display: 73%, mobility: 70%, workmanship: 76%, ergonomy: 74%, emissions: 97%

 

Huawei MediaPad T3 10

The Huawei MediaPad T3 10 impresses with a quite high processor performance for lower mid-range tablets. The back is made from one piece of anodized aluminum, a feature made fashionable by Apple's iPad. Huawei also builds its tablet in this way, making it available in space gray or a luxurious golden color. The case is clearly built and due to its rounded edges, it fits in the hand nicely. But the screen is not 100% protected: a medium amount of pressure from the back and front will be reflected in the liquid crystal display. The tablet can be twisted minimally and also shows this through colored traces on the screen. Overall the stability is okay, especially for this price range. The 16:10 screen format makes the tablet slightly more square than most of the comparison devices with a 16:9 screen. The MediaPad T3 10 is quite compact and also quite slim at 8 mm (~0.3 in). Moreover, at 460 grams (~1 lb), it is lighter than all the comparison devices. The tablet has a SIM slot on the left side, so the case cannot be opened. As for the display, the user has to be content with 1,280 x 800 pixels. On such a large screen, that is really noticeable and the display appears less sharp than that of the Full HD comparison devices. The IPS screen has the 16:10 format, so in landscape format, it is a little higher than 16:9 and there is not quite as much space in the width. With 16 GB of storage and 2 GB of working memory, the MediaPad T3 10 is on the standard level for this price class. The operating system is based on Android 7.0. On top of that is Huawei's own EMUI 5.1 user interface, which does not change the Android operating principles, but rather extends them. For example, swiping from the bottom edge upward on the quick glance screen will offer some quick access features, and the settings look marginally different and are slightly extended. The "Intelligent Support" menu item contains options for turning the device on or off automatically, for example when the user is not home. The cameras in MediaPad T3 10 do not offer a very high resolution. The buyer is offered 5 MP in the back and a meager 2 MP in the front. As a result, the pictures of the front camera appear slightly artificial, the color areas spotty, and there are apparent color auras around objects. Moreover, colors appear quite pale. Inside the Huawei MediaPad T3 10 runs a Qualcomm Snapdragon 425, although, with a slightly throttled clock speed of a maximum of 1.4 GHz. In terms of performance, despite the throttling, it is sufficient to provide a clear advantage compared to the predecessor and also to most of the competing devices. Subjectively, games do not take any longer to load than on other similarly priced tablets. The MediaPad T3 is essentially a low-midrange tablet targeted for users who do not need much. It does a pretty good job for a tablet at its price range. Hands-on article by Jagadisa Rajarathnam

Specifications

Notebook: Huawei MediaPad T3 10
Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 425
Graphics Adapter: Qualcomm Adreno 308
Display: 9.60 inch, 16:10, 1280 x 800 pixels
Weight: 0.46kg
Price: 229 euro
Links: Huawei homepage

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Average Score: 69.67% - average

 

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Huawei Mediapad T3 7.0

Specifications

Notebook: Huawei Mediapad T3 7.0
Processor: Mediatek MT8127
Graphics Adapter: ARM Mali-450 MP4
Display: 7.00 inch, 16:9, 1024 x 600 pixels
Weight: 0.25kg
Links: Huawei homepage

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Huawei Mediapad T3 8.0

Specifications

Notebook: Huawei Mediapad T3 8.0
Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 425
Graphics Adapter: Qualcomm Adreno 308
Display: 8.00 inch, 16:10, 1280 x 800 pixels
Weight: 0.35kg
Price: 140 euro
Links: Huawei homepage

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Average Score: 71% - average

 

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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.

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

Qualcomm Adreno 308: Integrated mid-range graphics card in the Snapdragon 425 SoCs that supports OpenGL ES 3.0 and features unified shaders.

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

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

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Qualcomm Snapdragon:

425: Entry-level SoC that was announced in February 2016. It integrates 4 ARM Cortex-A53 CPU cores clocked at up to 1.4 GHz, an LPDDR3 memory controller and wireless radios for WiFi and 4G/LTE.

Mediatek:

MT8127: Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 SoC clocked at 1.7 GHz that integrates a single channel 32 Bit DDR3-1333 memory controller and a Mali-450 MP4 GPU.

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

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7.00:

This display format is in the mid-range for smartphones. It offers a compromise between good visibility, details and resolution on the screen, and you can still fit it into trouser pockets.

8.00:

Large smartphones and a few small tablets are available for this display size. Unlike most smartphones, you can see more on the screen, more details and use larger resolutions. Such formats are better for people with defective vision. However, such devices are no longer easy to fit in a pocket, and they are probably not quite light either.

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

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70.35%: This rating is poor. More than three quarters of the models are rated better. That is rather not a purchase recommendation. Even if verbal ratings in this area do not sound that bad ("sufficient" or "satisfactory"), they are usually euphemisms that disguise a classification as a below-average laptop.

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

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