Huawei just launched two new entry-level tablets both powered by the company’s home-baked Huawei HiSilicon Kirin 659 chipset and 10.1-inch (1920 x 1200) displays. They are the Huawei MediaPad M5 Youth Edition and the Huawei Enjoy Tablet.
Huawei’s Kirin 659 chipset, a similar SoC to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 625, packs 4 cores clocked at 2.36 GHz and 4 cores clocked at 1.7 GHz, thus should bring slightly better performance. The CPUs are then coupled with either 3GB or 4GB of RAM and 32GB or 64GB of internal storage (expandable) for both tablets.
Huawei Enjoy Tablet
Huawei MediaPad M5 Youth Edition
Aside from the specs above, the tablets are different in pretty much everything else. The MediaPad M5 Youth Edition is the more premium of the two as it comes with a bigger battery of 7500mAh, it packs four large high-quality Harman/Kardon stereo speakers to bring a more immersive movie watching experience and it has a 4-microphone array so that you can activate Huawei’s AI assistant even in rooms with lots of noise.
In addition to that, the M5 Youth Edition comes with an M-Pen lite stylus which supports 2048 high-precision pressure sensing, a fingerprint scanner and GPU Turbo to increase performance in dedicated tasks. Finally, the tablet has an autonomy of up to 13 hours when watching videos or 55 hours of listening to music with the battery fast charging at 9V2A (18W) through the USB Type-C.
Huawei MediaPad M5 Youth Edition Specifications
- 10.1 inches 1920 × 1200 pixels
- RAM: 3GB/4GB
- 500mAh (typical)
- 8 megapixels, F / 2.0 aperture, auto focus
- 8 megapixels, F/2.0 aperture, and supports fixed focal length
- Features: GPS/Glonass/Beidou
- Networks: 2G: Mobile 2G (GSM) / Unicom 2G (GSM) / Telecom 2G (CDMA)
3G: Mobile 3G (TD-SCDMA) / Unicom 3G (WCDMA) / Telecom 3G (CDMA2000)
4G: Mobile 4G (TD-LTE) / Unicom 4G (TD-LTE/LTE FDD)/Telecom 4G (TD-LTE/LTE FDD)
(Wi-Fi version does not support 2G/3G/4G) - OS: EMUI 8.0 based on Android 8.0 Oreo
Huawei Enjoy Tablet
Moving onto the cheaper Huawei Enjoy, the tablet packs a smaller 5100mAh capacity battery which can be charged via the microUSB port, it comes with two speakers at the bottom, supports GPU Turbo and that’s pretty much it.
Huawei Enjoy Tablet Specifications
- 10.1 inches 1920 × 1200 pixels
- RAM: 3GB/4GB
- 5100mAh (typical)
- 5 megapixels
- 2 megapixels
- Features: GPS/Glonass/Beidou
- Networks: 2G: Mobile 2G (GSM) / Unicom 2G (GSM) / Telecom 2G (CDMA)
3G: Mobile 3G (TD-SCDMA) / Unicom 3G (WCDMA) / Telecom 3G (CDMA2000)
4G: Mobile 4G (TD-LTE) / Unicom 4G (TD-LTE/LTE FDD)/Telecom 4G (TD-LTE/LTE FDD)
(Wi-Fi version does not support 2G/3G/4G) - OS: EMUI 8.0 based on Android 8.0 Oreo
Pricing
The Huawei MediaPad M5 Youth Edition starts at 1899 Yuan ($270) for the WiFi version, while the LTE variant costs 2099 Yuan ($300). Meanwhile the cheaper Huawei Enjoy Tablet (3GB/32GB WiFi) starts at just 1299 Yuan ($187) and goes up to 1599 Yuan ($230) for the 4GB/64GB WiFi and 3GB/3GB LTE model, with the 4GB/64GB variant costing 1799 Yuan ($260).