Earlier this year, Chinese giant Huawei launched its new tablet device in the market, dubbed as Huawei MatePad Pro 12.6. Now, an engineering version of the device has been spotted online which was used for testing, hinting at a higher refresh rate.

The Huawei MatePad Pro 12.6 launched so far features a 12.6-inch display with a 60Hz refresh rate. Now, the engineering model with a 120Hz refresh rate has appeared online which the company was using for internal testing.

It is being reported that the company was working on a 120Hz refresh rate display for the tablet but couldn’t offer it when the device got launched because of supply chain issues. Currently, it’s not confirmed if the company plans to launch this 120Hz screen model in the market or not.

It is powered by the Kirin 9000 series chipset. The Wi-Fi version comes with the Kirin 9000E while the 5G version is powered by the Kirin 9000 chipset. It packs up to 512GB of internal storage and there’s support for storage expansion via Huawei’s NM card slot.

The device features a 12.6-inch OLED display with a resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels and 5.6mm slim bezels that give it a 90 percent screen-to-body ratio. It has a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio, DCI-P3 color gamut, and a Delta E color accuracy rating of less than 0.5.

It comes with eight speakers tuned by Harman Kardon and with Histen 7.0 sound effects. It is also equipped with four microphones designed to pick up your voice from several meters away and also cancel background noise when having a video call or recording. The tablet is powered by a 10,050mAh battery that supports 40W fast wired charging, 27W wireless fast charging, and 10W reverse wireless charging.

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Leading Chinese tech giant Huawei has continued to show resilience despite the crippling of its smartphone arm by the US sanction. The company has today announced the launch of a slew of high-end electronic products for the Asia-Pacific market. the products range from a monitor, earbuds, laptop, a smartwatch, to even a smartphone. Aside from its home country of China where these products had earlier been launched, other countries targeted by this new launch include India, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia, among others. The products include the Huawei Nova 8i smartphone, the MatePad series made up of the MatePad Pro 12.6-inch, MatePad Pro 10.8-inch, and MatePad 11. The Huawei Watch 3 series smartwatch as well as the FreeBuds 4 TWS earbuds also joined the fray. Huawei also unveiled two high-end monitors – the MateView and MateView GT.

Apart from the Nova 8i which is making its first official appearance, the other products have earlier been announced in China. The MatePad Pro 12.6, MatePad Pro 10.8 and MatePad 11 as well as the Watch 3 series are mong the first products that were announced to be powered by the latest cross-device HarmonyOS 2. The self-developed OS comes with a distributed data management and task scheduling capabilities which will allow the Watch 3 and MatePad Pro to be able to pair with other intelligent devices such as smartphones, PCs, monitors. The potential which this cross-device capability brings is just enormous.

Huawei didn’t release details of the availability or their pricing in the targeted markets. The company only disclosed hat the FreeBuds 4, Watch 3 series, MateView, MateView GT, MatePad Pro 10.8, and MatePad 11 will be hitting Singapore pretty soon. Of course, announcing the product is one thing, releasing them is another. With the present reality, intending buyers may have to wait a while longer before these products are released into the market.

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