Huawei's just launched this this is their latest flagship tablet called the MatePad Pro we have
a 12.6 inch screen with this one now it's oled it's all powered by the kirin 9000 now my unit
here that was sent out to me from huawei has 8 gigabytes of ram and 256 gigabytes of storage
the battery capacity in this one is a large 10 050 milliamp hours it does have wireless charging,
40 watt charging and the optional keyboard you can see which i do have i'll be covering
that in this review and the m pencil active stylus inside the box of the mate pad pro
you will find a 40 watt supercharger we have an adapter here for 3.5 millimeter to type c and
a sim tray tool now my model doesn't have the sim support but other models i believe will
and this does have expandable storage option which you need this tool here of course to
access this tablet for a 12.6 inch one has a very good weight to it so it is only just over
600 grams as you see here with my scales 616 very very thin too as well so just a fraction under
seven millimeters according to my measurements and take a look at the size of the bezels of
this one they're only about five millimeters there very very slim bezels around the 12.6 inch screen
up the top of the mate pad pro here we have a volume up and down button and the frame around it
is made out of plastic also the material on the back so three microphones here along the
top down the bottom we have the expandable storage little tray there which would also be a sim tool
if you do get a version that does have lte or 5g i believe possible future editions of those may be
coming but at this time it's just for storage at the moment it takes huawei's in m card on the left
are power button some harman kardon speakers so they are side firing either side of this
on the right we've got a type c port and you can see the other speakers right there so this type
c port supports video out i've tested it out with a type c to hdmi and also a huawei type
c dock works just fine but it's only cloning the display there doesn't seem to be any desktop mode
this time with it the material on the back this is made out of a high quality plastic just like
the frame and it does not feel cheap at all it's quite a premium feel to this particular tablet
and a small camera module here so there are three cameras our main camera is 13 megapixels we have
an 8 megapixel ultra wide and then the camera that is used for time of flight for our 3d depth
sensing you can see it is branded right there and this is our fourth microphone on the back and
there is an led flash going is the cutout in the screen now too so we used to have the front facing
camera right here which was a cut out in the screen they've moved it right here the 8 megapixel
front facing camera to the top bezel and i do prefer this now it supports face unlocking which
is very quick and i haven't had any issues with it it is reliable and seems to be quite accurate
you can also get this is a optional keyboard for it so it's a keyboard type cover and it covers
the rear of it so magnets hold this into place it has this texture on the back of it which is
soft it's a synthetic material it's all like a plastic they are using but it's high quality
and the magnets are very strong holding this into place and the other side is exactly the
same they're covering that up so to open it up simply lift it down and then we've got
these two different positions so that's the most upright position there for the tablet
and then the next one down is the one i like to use it's more of a comfortable angle i find when
i'm sitting at a desk which is good and typing on this particular keyboard very comfortable it's so
much better than using an on-screen keyboard so if you do type a lot i do recommend getting these
i'd say that with all other tablets that support the hardware keyboards because it's superior to
on-screen keyboard typing and good spacing of the keys we've got most of the shortcuts and things
you would want on here there's a cut you can see with that button we've got the function keys there
too as well and overall it is good it has around about 1.4 millimeters to 1.3 millimeters of travel
so a little short on the travel with the keys it does lie completely flat so you can't prop it up
to a more comfortable typing angle so very similar to what we've seen with other manufacturers when
it comes to their type covers that they lay flat there it is not backlit and it is powered
by the tablet itself overall it's a quality keyboard i like this one so the screen here it
does have a resolution of 2560x1600 we've got various different options with our color you
can change the white balance you can tweak it to your own preference there vivid's on by default i
do actually prefer normal and there's one option here i really do like which is natural tone that
automatically adjusts the color temperature based on your ambient lighting i find it actually does
work very well now the maximum brightness of this particular screen here is close to 700 nets it's
very good it's fully laminated it has scratch resistant glass over it and yes it is an oled
but it has a pen to arrangement so if you look at it really really close around the fonts you
will notice sometimes around the letters that it does have jagged edges now to me this is not an
issue it's like the lenovo p11 pro that i reviewed if you look at it really close it will not look as
sharp as other panels yes but at normal viewing distances i don't actually personally find this
to be an issue it's a sharp and good looking screen now back there in the options under display
we've got our dark mode ebook mode is there too you can adjust the screen size so if you're not
happy with it looking a little bit large like that i would probably actually run it really small but
for this review i'm keeping it on default you can increase that too as well so your typical
scaling options they're all there with the harmony os that this is running
and one last thing with our screen that the touch response is very very good no problems
and i'm not seeing any flicker with it so we've swapped now from emui to harmony os which is the
new thing here from huawei and they have made some design changes especially with this tablet
with the ui so you can see if i swipe down here from the right we have the control center so all
of our toggles right there we've even got music connected devices and our brightness controls
very easy to access everything right there doc here at the bottom we have the last three apps
that i have run so recent apps are there and notifications if you just swipe down here from
the top so you can see that it's stating there non-commercial version that's because this is
not a commercial version okay this is not a retail unit i don't have retail firmware it is a loan
device from huawei that is why that's there so it's not a final version of the software but
i have not experienced any bugs or issues so far with it which is great when you take a look at our
settings it's all standard pretty much laid out as it was before with emui it's very very similar and
familiar to us everything's there so my version here has the eight gigabytes of ram 256 gigabytes
of storage and i've updated everything i can hms core that is there that was updated and you can
see here the version that i have which is version 2.00122 at the time of this video is the most
recent there so with our applications i'll just go into a couple of things here to point out that
uh when you're going to run something and if you want to run it in a window you can do that okay so
absolute support it you'll see this little icon here so you can run windowed apps you can swap
over and do multitasking this way which is very quick to just bring things up so i can bring up
browser here okay so it'll pop up into there and the whole thing has been performing just so fast
smooth and fluid which is good is what i want to see out of my tablet but i really do miss
at least having like 90 hertz would have been the the sweet spot there to have that
for the performance at least so we've got app gallery of course now with app gallery i'll
just minimize those and get them out of the way it's improving because you've got pedal
search now so a lot of the applications that we couldn't get before they are now finally
there more developers are moving over and and getting their apps onto their market which is good
even though it doesn't have everything some games especially are lacking they're not there
it will come up with alternatives where you can install things so i tried to run display tester
which i likes one of my applications so you will occasionally run into that problem so here when
i just bring it up you see display tester it still wants play services unfortunately that
one is not going to work but i found workarounds for a lot of things now i do not approve of this
application and i know so many people run it because i see it in comments all the time
as youtube advanced of course now if you did want youtube you could install that but please
if you're using an android device that does support normal youtube use that please there's
adverts support the creators out there because this removes all ads and i'm highly against it
but i know i'm not stupid people out there are using this app so it's there if you needed
youtube or you can use the browser now for gmail and things like that you can use email and you
can access your gmail so there are workarounds for a lot of things and it is slowly getting
better it's just that some apps won't work yet on this particular tablet and harmony os
now for benchmarks a little bit skinned unfortunately because i could not get antutu to
run on this tablet not yet hopefully support for that one will be added later on in the future so
here we have wildlife that's a 3d mark benchmark and it gets a very respectable score here that
does tell us what we already know that it is yes a flagship and it has flagship performance there
and look at these storage speeds they are just so so quick sequential reads of over 2 000 rights of
over 1500 there and look at those random reads and writes this fast fast fast storage is not
going to hold up this tablet at all it's just so quick over to audio now so impressive sound
out of the side firing speakers that this one has from harman kardon they are truly right up there
i would say with some of the best i've heard from a tablet good volume but it does not distort it's
clear it's quite balanced there's a bit of bass in there so just before i give you that sample
i wanted to point out that yes you can use 3.5 millimeter audio with this but there's no jack
okay so you have to use that included adapter now sound through it it sounds fine to my ears
it does sound really good bluetooth audio as well i have tested that out on it and no issues
it also sounds excellent here are those speakers now at 100 volume it really is quite impressive
and what about just media consumption on this very very good because it's got a really nice
oled screen super deep blacks great contrast very good colors on it now it does have widevine level
1 suit however i have noticed with netflix at least i think amazon prime video is is in 1080p
but barbarians is a series i will just look at right now it's very good actually it's subbed
over but i would watch it in german with subtitles this one very very good however running it and
letting it just go when you look at it closely it doesn't seem to me it's definitely not in full hd
it seems like it's running at just hd or standard definition even though we've got the widevine
level one cert netflix just doesn't want to run it at full hd and having a look at youtube here
with my one of my own videos just bring it up into full screen and you can run this right up to 4k
with no problems and it does look very sharp and great as you can see looking on this that there's
no problems but again because it's a 16 by 10 aspect ratio screen and this content most media
or videos at least movies and things will be 16 by nine so that's why we have the borders there
top and bottom we do have now support for the m pencil which is optional is not included so very
similar to the last gen one but it does have a lot of improvements now it's faster more accurate
and you can see here that i can place it onto the top so this does charge wirelessly you can see m
pencil 100 battery and the battery just seems to go forever on this it does last a very very long
time and most people will be storing it on the top and it'll be fully charged anyway when you need it
now the magnet is very very strong it holds it in place then if i violently shake the tablet
you can see that's that's not going anywhere so i do like how strong it is
now it does have palm rejection of course which we need with a stylus like this a very a smart stylus
now the detection works approximately i would say about five four millimeters away from the
screens you can see that when i do it now okay i've got finger support oh that's i'm
on the eraser mode that's why so there we go it's going to work then but as soon as it's about here
or touching the screen that's the palm rejection so only then the pencil is going to work now it
has 496 pressure levels this is me just pressing very very light you can hardly see that and i
press harder and then harder and harder and you can see that's coming through now it does work
right up to the absolute very edges here so drawing straight lines across the screen
doesn't seem to be a problem at all it does seem very very quick and accurate now this
is autodesk sketch that i'm using right here with this one so it's one app that does work with this
and you've got your various different tools too so i do find the performance of this pen
the updated pin seems to be very very quick and for handwriting i'll just give you a short demo
now this app i'm using is called nebu or nebo it did come with the tablet so see how it appears
here with handwriting okay that didn't even work for some reason no because i haven't even
the sap is called nebu or nebo it did come with the tablet and let's see how it fares here so
hello world
oops how uh you very messy my writing there but it seems to work quite well i'll just do another very
quick one-handed test there and i do it again with my palm of course so i think for note takers out
there this one is quite good it's very fast and i do like that latency that i'm seeing with it
and accuracy where i'm putting the nib of it it's pretty much exactly where it is coming through on
the screen now you can write into any area that there is text important i'll quickly show you
that so if i just tap there and i can just write now hello you'll see it'll recognize that and that
is converted over so any area that you want to for example you're filling in a form online on a
website you can simply instead of typing with the keyboard or the on-screen keyboard you can simply
just go ahead and write that into those text fields now gaming performance is excellent thanks
to that kirin 9000 the eight gigabytes of ram so with pubg yes it can run pubg no problems call of
duty i did try to run that one and i just couldn't get it to run it does want google play services
unfortunately for that title but very very smooth performance right here at the 60 frames per second
if i look down the sights i've already got three kills very smooth no lag and so immersive thanks
to this large screen and then those speakers the speakers sound absolutely fantastic on this tablet
especially for gaming it really does add to the immersion so to get the 60 frames per second
option you simply just need to set the graphics with pubg to smooth if you put it on balanced
then we only get the ultra frame rate which is 45 frames per second and i want the extreme here
which is of course 60. now over to our camera so the front facing camera we have with this tablet
is eight megapixels it can shoot a maximum of 1080p resolution the quality is okay it looks
a little bit soft to me but it is certainly better than my laptop's webcam so if you're gonna be
using this for say skype or zoom calls and things it's adequate and there of course are the four
microphones in total that this MatePad Pro has and the 13 megapixel camera on the rear this one can
shoot up to 4k with electronic image stabilization for a tablet the quality is acceptable
it's all right i mean i have seen better and your phone will probably do a lot better than this
but at least we do have this option for 4k video with the stabilization
and then we can shoot with the ultra wide too it's very windy here at the moment so we have a bit of
wind noise coming through on those mics as expected
and just a few short photos from the rear camera so the main 13 megapixel and a shot from the 8
megapixel ultra wide again i think for a tablet the camera quality is definitely acceptable and
it's better than others i've seen it's not maybe the best but it is usable and that's what we want
okay so this tablet has some fantastic hardware the kirin 9000 the eight gigabytes of ram and
that really quick storage fastest storage i have seen in the tablet i mean look at those sequential
reads and rights they are excellent so good gaming performance is great and then the speakers on this
the speaker setup has to be probably one of the best i have heard in a tablet very immersive for
gaming and of course playing pub g there with the gunfire the footsteps and on this large screen was
a very immersive enjoyable experience stylus so this m pencil improved it's better it's faster
i like the fact that we can just write in anywhere there's a text input if you wanted to do that with
your handwriting and handwriting recognition seems to be working quite well even for
my messy handwriting so other things about this the screen i think is where they've made a bit
of a blunder here 60 hertz take a look at your competitors and everyone else now is swapping over
to say 90 or 120 hertz displays and i believe with this resolution 90 would have been perfect
the blender course of battery life and a fluid smooth ui not to say it's not fluid for 60 hertz
it is very good the performance it feels fluid the animations look good recent apps multitasking is
good another thing too with the display out that it just seems to at the moment mirror what is on
the screen okay so it's just using a casting and it's just the wired casting mode wide mirror mode
now and it seems at the time of doing this video there doesn't seem to be a desktop mode there for
as well so battery life is very good so over a 10 000 milliamp hour battery it will just go and go
and i'm getting around 10 possibly 11 hours out of this and that's with netflix browser general
kind of light mixed use it just goes and goes i have found that those seven nanometer carrying
9000 chips they are very efficient and it tends to work quite well so the other thing is okay harmony
os is now new we've got uh the app gallery which is getting better but still not everything's there
so be prepared to find workaround or different apps that do the same thing if you're going
to be getting one of these you have to find solutions and you have to find okay well gmail
you can use the mail app for google maps okay you need your mapping map app then you've got
pixel maps on there so far doesn't actually seem to be too bad at all i've been testing it out
now gps accuracy seems fine on this seems very good not a problem with it there and it's just
that you're not going to find every single app that you want and i know that puts off a few
other people but it is getting better and i'm seeing the improvements coming through which is
great i just hope more developers get on board the area where i find that it falls short with those
apps and games that you can't find is that games more okay so say call of duty not working on
this it's mostly the games which i've had more difficulty with with this particular tablet here
so excellent hardware great build got a lot going for it i just want to see that app gallery mature
more so thank you so much for watching my review here of the huawei mate pad pro with the m pencil
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