Huawei’s Honor has launched a new tablet dubbed Honor Tab 5. The new tablet adopts a design that is more or less generic but what it lacks in design, the tablet gains in configuration. The tablet is available in both WiFi and LTE versions which is pretty impressive.It also features the premium Kirin 710 chipset which is in the same league with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 660.
The Honor Tab 5 features an 8-inch display with a resolution of 1920×1200 pixels. As stated earlier, the tablet is powered by the efficient Hisilicon Kirin 710 chipset. The chipset is a 64-bit octa-core mid-range performance mobile ARM LTE SoC introduced by HiSilicon in mid-2018. This chip, which is fabricated on TSMC’s 12 nm process, features four Cortex-A73 big cores operating at up to 2.2 GHz along with four Cortex-A53 little cores operating at up to 1.7 GHz. The chipset also comes with the ARM Mali G51 MP4 GPU. In addition, the Honor Tab 5 comes with GPU Turbo 2.0 to further boost the graphics and make the tablet a good one for hardcore gaming. 
The Honor Tab 5 8-inch model comes in 3GB+32GB and 4GB+64GB memory configuration. The tablet is also equipped with dual speakers. The Honor Tab 5 comes with dual Smart PA audio chips which can sense the status of the dual speakers in real time, intelligently adjust the amplitude of the speakers in other to improve the sound level, bringing richer bass and better sound quality. The Honor Tab 5 gets its juice from a big 5,100mAh battery. The tablet is also equipped with an 8MP front camera and a rear camera. The rear camera is located at the top left corner with a slight camera bump.
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Pricing and Availability
As for the prices, the Honor Tab 5 3GB+32GB WiFi version comes with a 1099 yuan ($163) price tag while the 4GB+64GB WIFi version will sell for 12,99 yuan ($193). On the other hand, the 3GB+32GB LTE version costs 1399 yuan while the 4GB+64GB LTE version is priced at 1499 yuan. The prices are pretty impressive considering the specifications. The Honor Tab 5 will go on sale in China from March 12 via TMall, VMall, Suning etc. Pre-order commences today until March 10 when it will end. We expect Honor to release the tablet for the global market in no distant time.
