Huawei Launches The $699 MateBook Windows 10 Tablet At MWC 2016
Huawei MateBook is just announced at the MWC 2016 conference in Barcelona. Huawei MateBook is a new productivity tablet with its own Stylus (called MatePen), and a keyboard cover that aims to take on the Apple iPad Pro and Surface Pro 4 from Microsoft and both the MatePen and attachable keyboard will be sold separately.
MetePen is a combination of Apple Pencil and the surface Pro’ Pen and it has the sensor that detects over 2048 levels of sensitivity and the rechargeable lithium battery that offers up to 100 hours of use with only a single charge. The pen charges over USB and one hour of charge is enough for one month of use.
MateBook is the two-in-one device and functions as the laptop but the screen can be detached to operate as a tablet, which will run Microsoft's Windows 10. It has sixth generation core and processor. The company has also introduced a dock that has the USB-C connector to support two USB 3 ports, One Ethernet, HDMI, and VGA and other connectivity options. MateBook has dual microphones and dual speakers and has the built-in touchpad with multi-touch technology.
Specification and features:
- The Mate book features an aluminum unibody and weight 640 gram.
- It sports a 12 Inch multi-touch screen-to-body ratio of 84% and resolution of 2160*1440 pixels and is powered by a 33.7Wh high-density lithium battery.
- The MateBook Keyboard features a 1.5mm keystroke, chiclet keycap design and built-in touchpad with multi- touch support. It seems very decent type on initial impression.
- The MateBook, which starts $699, is equipped with a 12 Inch, 2160*1440 resolution IPS multi-touch display, Intel core m3 processor, 4GB of RAM, 128 GB of storage, and a 33.7Wh high density. Lithium battery works up to Nine hours, 9 consecutive hours of Internet use and 29 hours of music playback.
- The top end MateBook Feature a core m7 processor, 8GB of RAM, 512 GB of storage, and is priced at $1,799
According to the Huawei, the device will be going to be a sale in Asia, Europe, and North America in the coming month, but we weren’t able to know the exact date. The Huawei MateBook will be offered in Grey and Golden colors and the keyboard case comes in Black, Brown, Orange and Beige colors.