Huawei announces half e-reader, half tablet MatePad Paper

Source: Huawei

Huawei's newest tablet is also an e-reader. If you wanted more features than a Kindle, that's what the MatePad Paper offers. It's a 10.3-inch device featuring a greyscale screen with an anti-glare reflective display for low-light use. It can reproduce 256 shades of greyscale to display text, images, and videos. I'm not sure I'd be too excited about black & white videos (unless they're created that way). But it's an option here. It also has 32 levels of backlighting.

For an e-ink device, the MatePad Paper has relatively smaller bezels. Huawei says it can achieve an 86.3 percent screen-to-body ratio but gets a book spine-inspired design to make sure you still have something to hold. The MatePad Paper also supports the Huawei M Pencil, so you can scribble or annotate on documents or books. According to the company, it has refined the sensitivity of the textured screen to 26ms, which might not seem much for newer devices. But it's a notable feature on a matte e-ink surface.

Of course, the device easily integrates within Huawei's ecosystem. And it runs on HarmonyOS, which can be a constraint if the apps you use aren't available on the platform. There are workarounds on the platform, but it might be tedious for some users to navigate.

Huawei hasn't revealed pricing and availability yet ahead of its MWC 2022 presentation.

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