Huawei MediaPad FHD 10 with Quad Core CPU & Full-HD display for sub-$500 and Release Date

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19 Jul, 2012 1:19 pm

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The Huawei Mediapad 10FHD debuted at Mobile World Congress back in February and now we finally have a price and a street date. Chengdong Yu, head of the companies Consumer Business Group has just announced that the Huawei MediaPad 10 FHD will hit the street at the end of August in the Chinese companies home country. The 10.1″ tablet with a Full HD display and the 1.5 GHz Quad Core K3V2 will then cost only 2999 yuan, which is about 385€. This makes the unit a bit cheaper than the cheapest tablet running Nvidia’s quad core Tegra 3 processor. But unlike the Toshiba AT300 or the Acer Iconia Tab A510 Huawei’s quad core beast will be sporting a full-HD display for a lower price tag.

The Huawei MediaPad 10FHD is going to be a very competitive tablet as it comes with a 6400-mAh battery which will offer up to 9 hours of Full HD video playback. Yu also promises an extremely long standby times, the WiFi version offers 83 days and the 3G version at least 33 days. There will be also a new 10-inch model that will offer 4G/LTE.

The MediaPad 10FDH runs Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” and has a 1.3-megapixel camera on the front and an 8 MP cam on the rear. At 8.8 millimeters, the device is also very thin. The part that’s sure to impress if the rest hasn’t won you over is that it comes with 2(!) Gigabytes of memory which make it a pioneer in the arena.

Need more? Here’s our hands-on video:

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Source: Yu Chengdong via UnwiredView via Notebook Italia


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  • sola

    Looks almost as expensive as the Transformer Infinity.

    If so, I just don’t see any reason for choosing this one over the Infinity which has a much better screen than this (Super IPS+), optional keyboard dock.

    These high-end tablets should all come with a (battery+usb+fullsd)-hosting keyboard dock as an option to at least minimally justify these inflated prices.

  • Itiz Aname

    This mediapad 10 is going to offer an optional keyboard dock.
    It was announced or rather leaked from screenshots in May I believe.

  • CyberGusa

    The HiSilicon K3V2 Quad-core 40nm ARM Cortex-A9 has been claimed to offer better performance than the Nvidia Tegra 3. Specifically the company claims 30 to 50 percent more performance than the Tegra3 across a range of benchmarks.

    The 1.2-1.5 GHz K3V2 was a two-year project of Huawei’s HiSilicon division and the main enhancement is a 64-bit memory bus.

    Mind ARM processors are still 32bit but they’re slowly starting to implement 64bit features. You just won’t see much more than a few enhancements for a couple of years in the general market because the main efforts will be to getting full 64bit for the server market first.

    However, the performance claims have yet to be properly verified and a performance advantage in one area doesn’t mean it has a advantage overall.

    So we’ll see if this product is really worth its price after it comes out and its performance properly measured. Though as the article points out it’s one of the first to come with 2GB of RAM and the wider memory bus does mean it can probably take better advantage of that capacity.

    Also the 6400-mAh battery isn’t bad either compared to other Android tablets.

    While we’ll likely have to wait until these tablets reach larger market share before they start lowering the prices more.

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