Huawei's MediaPad 10 Tablet Shown at CTIA 2012

09.05.2012
Huawei brought its to CTIA 2012. The tablet was first introduced at Mobile World Congress in February, as was the Ascend line of smartphones.

Neither has changed much since then, and both remain in limbo in terms of U.S. availability, but we did catch a few new changes in the tablet's software and hardware.

Huawei confirmed the tablet will be running the company's K3V2 1.5-GHz quad-core processor, the same as . The processor is based on an ARM Cortex A9, and was developed by Huawei. Huawei had not previously discussed the specifics of the processor.

The MediaPad 10 has many other noteworthy design points that still, for the time being, set it apart from the crowd. The company says it will be the slimmest LTE tablet, at 0.35 inches. The tablet's LTE band handles 150Mbps.

Four months after MWC, this model remains one of just three Android tablets announced with 1920 by 1200 pixel resolution IPS display. (Acer and Asus are the only other manufacturers to announce such high-resolution displays.)

That works out to 226 pixels per inch, which is less than the current iPad's 264 ppi, but more than the iPad 2's 132 ppi. Text looked sharp, and images looked impressive on the MediaPad 10's 10.1-inch display, even when viewed on angle.