Monday, June 20, 2011

Huawei announces MediaPad, the first tablet with Android 3.2

 Huawei announced this week its first venture into the vast world of tablets with Android. Interestingly, it is also the first tablet to run version 3.2 of the system. That may sound like an advanced version too (considering that Android 3.1 is still being sent to tablets today), but actually that is specific to the Honeycomb tablets of 7 inches, which is the case of Huawei MediaPad.

 
The MediaPad has a Qualcomm dual-core processor clocked at 1.2 GHz, 7-inch LCD screen with 217 ppi density, 1.3-megapixel front camera, rear 5-megapixel camera with autofocus and recording capacity HD, GPS, 3G, WiFi and battery life of 6 hours, which seems a pretty weak compared to other tablets. It also supports video playback at 1080p through the HDMI output, which is already becoming standard tablets Android.
 
It may seem like a tablet interesting, but the propaganda that Huawei has created to show it is not exactly the most exciting or explanatory. See the video here below and if you understand the meaning behind it, say in the comments because I have no idea.
 

The MediaPad Huawei will come in the last quarter of the year in the U.S. for a price not yet set. The company also said it plans to sell the rest of the world, but he's not a definitive list of which countries will receive it for now.