Recently, during the launch of Huawei Nova 7 series smartphones in the Chinese market, the company also launched the Huawei MatePad tablet. He Gang, President of Huawei’s Consumer Business Product Line also revealed that the company has become the leading tablet brand in China.
According to the reports, Huawei remained the leading tablet company in terms of shipments in its home market China for the third and fourth quarter of 2019. The company has also reportedly achieved higher breakthrough in 2020 and now accounts for nearly half of the Chinese tablet market.
The sale numbers seem to align with what the company’s founder and CEO Ren Zhegfei said in a recent interview. He said that the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has made shipments and production difficult, but the company has also been seeing an increase in demand for tablets, computers and more.
In a recently released financial report for Q1 2020, Huawei has managed to sell more than 450,000 units of smartphones in the Chinese market alone in March 2020. However, Ren Zhegfei has acknowledged that while the domestic market is showing growth, the international market is facing a decline.
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This is likely because of the effective ban on Huawei by the United States which bars the company from using Google’s apps and services on its devices. Thus, the new devices from Huawei comes packed with Huawei Mobile Services (HMS).
The newly launched Huawei MatePad comes with a 10.4-inch IPS display with 2000 x 1200 pixels resolution, Kirin 810 7nm chipset, up to 6GB RAM, 128GB internal storage, 8MP front as well as rear camera sensors, Android 10 operating system with EMUI 10.1, optional 4G LTE and 7,250mAh battery.
The base model with 4GB RAM costs 1,899 yuan (~$268) while the 6GB RAM model is priced at 2,199 yuan (~$311) and LTE variant of the same going for 2,499 yuan (~$352). It is now up for pre-orders and will be available for purchase from 26th April.
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