High-end Android tablets may have largely gone the way of the dodo, but that hasn't dissuaded Huawei. At the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show, the company took the wraps off the MediaPad M5 series, a range of premium slates with high-resolution screens, speedy processors, and Android Oreo.
| Specs | MediaPad M5 10 Pro | MediaPad M5 (10.8) | MediaPad M5 (8.4) |
| Display | 10-inch WQXGA (2560 x 1600) IPS | 10-inch WQXGA (2560 x 1600) IPS | 8-inch WQXGA (2560 x 1600) IPS |
| System-on-Chip | HiSilicon Kirin 960 | HiSilicon Kirin 960s | HiSilicon Kirin 960 |
| RAM | 4GB | 4GB | 4GB |
| Storage | 64GB/128GB + microSD card (up to 256GB) | 32GB/64GB/128GB (up to 256GB) | 32GB/64GB/128GB (up to 256GB) |
| Rear Camera | 13MP | 13MP | 13MP |
| Front Camera | 8MP | 8MP | 8MP |
| Connectivity | LTE/WiFi | LTE/Wi-Fi | LTE/Wi-Fi |
| Software | Android 8.0 Oreo | Android 8.0 Oreo | Android 8.0 Oreo |
The MediaPad M5 8, M5 (10.8), and M5 10 (8.4) are successors to 2016's MediaPad M2, and it's easy to see the family resemblance.
On the software side of the equation, the MediaPad M5 tablets run Huawei's homegrown Emotion UI 8.0 on top of Android 8.0 Oreo. That's a pretty major upgrade from the MediaPad M3's Nougat-based firmware, and it packs features such as picture-in-picture (PiP), app shortcuts, intelligent text selection, and more. It'll benefit from Huawei's company-wide security policy, which will see the tablet get Google's monthly Android security patches over the next two years.
The M5 series trades the M3's HiSilicon Kirin 950 processor for the Kirin 960, an octa-core processor with four 2.4GHz ARM Cortex-A73 cores and four 1.8GHz ARM Cortex-A53 cores paired with a Mali-G71MP8 GPU. It's not quite as powerful as the Mate 10 Pro's Kirin 970, but should be more than enough for productivity tasks and media consumption.
The M5 Pro, M5 (10.8), and M5 (8.4) have metal unibodies and WQXGA (2560 x 1600) screens with 2.5D glass, which Huawei claims is a "world first". (The screens benefit from Huawei's ClariVu 5.0 display technology, which the company says makes videos "stay crisp and clear".) All three tablets have a USB Type-C connector; a 8MP front camera (with a fixed focus) and a 13MP autofocusing rear camera; a built-in microphone; support for Bluetooth 4.2 and Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, Hi-Res audio; physical home buttons and fingerprint readers; and Huawei QuickCharge.
They come in two colors, Space Gray and Champagne Gold, and ship with a 9V/2A travel charger and a 3.5mm headphone jack adapter. (Huawei hasn't announced pricing or availability yet.)
But that's pretty much where the similarities end.
MediaPad M5 10 Pro
The MediaPad M5 10 Pro, the flagship of the bunch, comes Huawei's M-Pen stylus (which supports up to 4,096 levels of pressure sensitivity), and POGO pins that allow the tablet to be connected to keyboard accessories.
Other highlights include four Harman Kardon professionally tuned speakers with Huawei's Listen software, and a 7,500mAh battery. There's also a "Desktop View" that adds a taskbar to the bottom of the screen with easy access to files for sharing and editing.
MediaPad M5 (10.8)
The MediaPad M5 10, a slight step down from the 10 Pro, is available in 32GB/64GB/128GB configurations and retains the M5 Pro's 4GB of RAM, Kirin 960 system-on-chip, and 7,500mAh battery.
MediaPad M5 (8.4)
The MediaPad M5 8 is a smaller, cheaper model with an 8-inch screen. The tablet has two speakers instead of four and a slightly smaller screen size, but those are the only differentiators between it and the M5 10 Pro and the M5 10 (10.8); it's got 4GB of RAM, 32GB/64GB of internal storage, and a 5,400mAh battery.
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