Huawei has released now the MatePad 11 it is a smaller version of the MatePad pro that I reviewed
the 2021 model this has a 10.95-inch screen however it is 120 hertz a much faster smoother
refresh rate we've only got 60 with the larger model and it's an OLED screen this one is ips now
this tablet is powered by the Snapdragon 865. it does have six gigabytes of ram and 128 gigabytes
of storage i've got the attachable keyboard and the stylus too this is a review loan unit that
was sent out to me from Huawei and what do we get with the MatePad 11 so we got a type c to type a
cable they do include a 3.5 to type c adapter so no it doesn't have a 3.5-millimeter headphone jack
most tech and tablets do not nowadays there is a micro sd card tray tool no some support with
this particular model and the charger so this charger here is called Huawei's supercharge
22.5 watts maximum output and it takes around 2 hours and 45 minutes to fully charge the MatePad
11. so this tablet feels good it's solid it has a plastic frame around the outside plastic here
on the rear but the materials are great there is no flex in it it has an internal metal frame
and it is alloy i believe that they are using with that it feels really solid really strong and quite
resistant to fingerprints here so on the back we have a 13 megapixel camera and this does have a
microphone and an led flash as you can see on the right side we've got two speakers two a four our
type c port here does not support video out sadly if you want the video out from the type c port
you need to get the larger pro version with that and then on the other side another two speakers
i'll give you some of them later on in this video our power button and along the top here we have
three microphones our volume up and down buttons now there is a front facing camera this one is
eight megapixels and i will give you a sample of that one now now i do like the quality i'm seeing
here with these cameras good audio of course i do have some bright lights on at the moment so how's
this front eight megapixel camera going to fare when i turn off those bright lights it's actually
doing okay it looks so much brighter than what it really is in this room it's quite dull and
it's doing an okay job considering those kind of conditions there so overall for a tablet i think
it does have good mics and good cameras then our accessories so this one has a synthetic material
on the back with a nice texture to it adds to the grip of it it offers protection for the rear clips
on magnetically and i'll show you that shortly but this part here is nice and soft so this is
not going to be scratching the plastic on the rear of the tablet cut out of course for the cameras
and we have the two positions there that you can sit it upright in so one angle that's better for
i think using on a table other one if you're going to be using it on your lap and the magnets are
quite strong with this so it does have this reasonably good layout i do like it now there are
a few compromises around this area with the space that we have on offer remember that this is 10.95
inches this tablet and of course with the larger model you see that this keyboard
is definitely a lot better i like the shift key on this one the enter it's more comfortable to type
on still for the smaller size i don't find it is that bad at all so i'll show you how it clips in
that you simply just need to place it there and it will attach in with the magnets it's quite strong
and then you can prop it up that is the first position and then we have the second position
again the magnet at the bottom there's very strong so if i lift that up give it a shake it is really
not going to go anywhere and when you're using the tablet and you press on the screen you get a
little bit of wobble but overall it's not too bad so this tablet here has an upgrade over the larger
version and that is its refresh rate so the screen 10.95 inches which i often just refer to as 11
inches i round it up there ips panel 2560 by 1600 resolution that means it's a 16 by 10 aspect ratio
ips screen here now the blacks in the screen here don't actually look too bad at all for an
ips panel you can see the bezels here which by the way are about six and a half millimeters around
this screen there's not too much of a difference between the black there you can see it you can
distinguish the difference but trust me it's not bad other ips tablets that i've been looking at
more budget ones this will be coming up as more of a lighter gray color when it is trying to display
just pure blacks here so dark mode clearly on at the moment eye comfort mode we've got ebook mode
scaling text size can be changed and we've got the color mode options there too as well that if you
want a more natural tone that i prefer or you can go ahead and just adjust that to whatever you like
your own personal preference there now triggering gestures and our touch response very good i have
not had any problems with it and here's the options we do have with the refresh rate so
i've kept it on dynamic because i want to get the combination of the best battery life
and i have not seen too much of a difference when it's swapping you don't actually see it because
if you're looking at content it's just 60 hertz the refresh rate's in 60 so it really makes no
difference and then in the ui it's 120 so it's nice and fluid and smooth with that but you can
force it onto high and keep it at 120 hertz or of course use 60 to save a little bit on battery life
and then our os with this one is of course harmony os now this is new from huawei now there was some
confusion when i reviewed the larger model of this people didn't really understand that
is it running android can we install apk files yes and yes it does run android it's android based
okay and you can install apk files so swiping here from the top we do have all of our toggles
will come through i'm not running a commercial version of the firmware because this is a review
loan unit from them so there could be some minor differences here but overall these experiences
should be the same swiping down here we have our toggle straight forward you've got huawei share
as well and there's a lot of different things you can do you can split screen applications
now if you wanted to find those favorite games and apps and what happens if they're not actually
going to be in huawei app gallery so i just did a search here for gboard i want as my keyboard and
you'll see that the results it's not in the app gallery but because it's now incorporating petal
search it's pulled through alternatives for me so it's found an apk file i can install which i've
done so i have gboard now on this that is possible now the good things to point out too as well
that netflix it can run in full hd we do have a drm level one security level okay and you can see
the supported codex hev support vp9 is all there however i need to point out that with amazon prime
video which i will just get into now where is it this one i was actually just watching a little
bit of expanse this is in standard definition sadly and you do notice that with the quality
it doesn't look so good when you go over to the data rates in the settings of amazon prime video
for example so just go through to my stuff and i need to find that i'll just show you that when you
look at the streaming quality best is very low 0.46 gigabytes per hour so definitely standard
definition but other things like disney plus netflix is in full hd on this model which is good
so there is some compromises and with a lot of the typical applications that i would normally use on
a dedicated google play system i can't hear but gmail can be accessed via the email application
google maps we've got petal maps browsers there's so many to choose from i've got dolphin browser
that i'm using at the moment and the list goes on there are alternatives that you can use
and you can find workarounds for pretty much every single app now so it's not so bad now i do have
some synthetic benchmark figures here to show you this is the storage so 128 gigabytes worth
and i have six gigabytes of ram now those speeds are excellent
random reads random right sequentials and sequential right of course this is all
powered by the snapdragon 865 which is a last gen flagship chip and performance throughout has been
very very good even with the six gigabytes of ram i'm not seeing really any lags or anything when
using this tablet so wildlife this is a 3d mark synthetic graphics benchmark you can run this
on your own tablet or your phone and this score is for the snapdragon 865 it's a good score
i ran it then with the stress test so that's the repeat test i think it loops it
up to 20 times and it didn't really throttle 99.6 so it dropped down only 0.4 indicating that really
it did not throttle at all thermals are excellent on this tablet it's not like a phone this of
course has a much larger area to dissipate the heat away from the snapdragon 865 and the 865 is
not hot like the triple eight is audio performance now so on this particular model the four side
firing speakers that if you're holding it like this you can block them sometimes a little bit
but they do sound really good nice bass good mids and some treble in there too i would rate them to
be very similar to that of the xiao shin pad pro from lenovo the galaxy s7 plus from samsung it
is really right up there that they are impressive speakers and here's a sample of them at 100 volume
now the M-Pen stylus so this is an active digital stylus it has a rechargeable battery built within
it charges wisely and you just dock it onto the top magnets will then hold it into place and it
will tell you the battery life percent now it does charge rather quick it only has a small capacity
battery in there has palm rejection 4096 levels of pressure sensitivity so when i hold it around
about there about a centimeter away it then will not do anything i pull it up about two-three four
centimeters now you can see that i can easily mark there so just do a very quick handwriting example
this by the way the app is called sketchbook
Hello, world very poor handwriting there it is fast the latency is good so just scribbling here
i'm pressing very lightly, in fact, you couldn't even see that come through so very light
and even lighter now and i'll press down harder and harder there pressure sensitivity is working
well now in the corners it won't work right up to the very edge depending on the app
so if i zoom in here a little bit notice he doesn't want me to do that but around about
there in fact now it's actually letting me get right into the corner there so drawing straight
lines they're not going to jump all over the place where you can see again that that latency
is good it's quite a quick pen but it certainly is no apple pencil or s pen not quite as good i find
but overall it is a very good stylus though don't get me wrong and our battery life i do think it's
very good considering i've been running 120 hertz well the dynamic option which does swap over to
62. so a 7 250 milliamp hour battery i have 23 battery lift and i've got an on-screen time here
of almost eight hours mostly media consumption so netflix streaming amazon prime video some pubg
i think this is decent now if you do force it to just 60 hertz expect more or if you run and force
120 hertz throughout the ui then of course you will get less than what i'm getting here so just
take this as a guide but overall very good battery life lastly over to our gaming performance now so
this title everyone knows pretty much pubg so i've selected hd and extreme frame rate which
is good hdi can also run extreme ultra hd that is an option but then it drops the frame rate down to
ultra so i don't want that i want the best possible frame rate which is extreme let's
take a look and see how it runs now this performance as expected is really quite good
no lag looking down the sides looking around everywhere just seems to be fine down the iron
sights able to get kills and smoke and you think's not gonna lag it out as expected for a snapdragon
865 still a very good chip that the performance is great here with the extreme frame rate option
excellent keyboard to type on although yes it is a little bit more cramped than the larger MatePad
pro version but still with the space they've got they've done a very good job with it i think we've
got the two different levels you can pop it up that way or there and the magnets are quite strong
with that the stylus m pencil active stylus here very good no real issues with it palm rejection
presses pressure sensitivity ui performance is great it's faster the ui and more smoother more
fluid because of the 120 hertz there that we've got versus the MatePad pro now i've got a full
in-depth review also the same style as this one that one so if you're interested check it out but
synthetic benchmark wise this is the one that's going to win all the time it is an absolute
monster very good performance out of it larger keyboard oled screen is better to look at but
limited to 60 hertz that's ips and 120 hertz now battery life very very similar
and the most important thing is real world use in the ui applications really seems about the same on
both of these models price tag this is cheaper as well so i would probably go for that one
it really comes down to what i mentioned before is application support app gallery i know i've talked
about it before that it's getting better we just need more developers on board which eventually
is going to happen but it's just a matter of time really isn't it before they start to move over to
that so there are a few work around applications that you have to go for now pedal search being
there is good so it can find apk files we can install to get those apps that you know and love
but certain games just won't run without google services which i've come across and it's up to
then that developers to remove that limitation and just let it run without google services
if they can make it stand alone and it's going to happen it will trust me but it's
going to take as mentioned time there with that and the other thing is the 25
22.5 watt charging isn't exactly super fast so it does take a little while there and then all
up all round great tablet here for the price with the MatePad 11. so thank you so much for watching
this in-depth review do check out the review of the pro version if you are interested of course
there is a link in the description and there should be a card popping up now of that one