Not all 7-inch Android tablets are created equal. According to Huawei, its 7-inch MediaPad will be the first to run Google’s Android 3.2 Honeycomb update. Unlike Android 3.0 and 3.1, the new version is optimized for small-sized tablets, setting the 7-inch MediaPad a cut above the competition.
Last week we scored a sneak peak with the 7-inch Huawei MediaPad. At the time many of the details were unconfirmed, but today we’ve ironed out the kinks. We now know the MediaPad features a 1.2 GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor, 5-megapixel rear auto-focus camera and 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera for video chatting.
The 7-inch display runs at WSVGA resolution delivering a pixel density of 217ppi, beating the Motorola Xoom (160ppi) and iPad 2(132ppi) by a considerable margin. In addition to the razor-sharp display, the MediaPad supports HDMI output in 1080p, 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1 and HSPA 3G at 14.4Mb/s.
Dimensions wise the 7-inch MediaPad is thicker than the iPad 2 at 11mm, but it weighs just 390g. There’s a 4100mAh battery which promises over six hours of use, but if there’s one thing we’ve learned about Android — no battery is too much battery. The Huawei 7-inch MediaPad will ship this fall.
Coming Fall 2011 | Huawei | TBD
