Huawei MediaPad X1

[Sushubh]

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Huawei MediaPad X1 hands-on | Android Central

On the inside, Huawei is going with a relatively unknown Kirin 910 1.6 GHz quad-core processor and 2GB of RAM — in our time with the device the UI seems snappy and fluid with not a single slowdown. The display comes in at an impressive 1200 x 1920 and looks absolutely great to our eyes with solid viewing angles and colors. Huawei is still doing some weird things with its interface that keep icons and settings overly-colorful to our eyes, but if you know its interface than you'll feel at home here.
The rest of the device rounds out just like most of Huawei's other devices — a 13MP Sony Exmor R camera on the rear and wide-angle 5MP camera on the front, a few new camera modes and the ability to charge other devices off the USB port. The hardware design is a step in the right directon for Huawei and really feels like a more premium device. The software still needs some work, we think, but is also heading in the right direction.

 

[Sushubh]

Huawei MediaPad X1 is the lightest and narrowest 7-inch tablet, plus it's a phone (video)

First and foremost, you get a pair of cameras: 13-megapixel f/2.4 on the back, and 5-megapixel f/2.2 on the front. There's 16GB of internal storage, and you can add up to 32GB of external space via microSD. The SoC here is Huawei's HiSilicon Kirin 910 (as seen on the Ascend P6S), which features a 1.6GHz quad-core Cortex-A9 CPU, along with 2GB of RAM and a Mali-450 MP4 GPU.

 

[Navjot Singh]

Still ships with Android 4.2.2. Why are some companies so reluctant to launch Kitkat based devices?

 

[Sushubh]

Forget Huawei. Lenovo. All three of their newly launched Android smartphones are Android 4.2 based. And they are promising big things with Motorola.

 

[Navjot Singh]

Exactly. Its like someone is paying them to continue using outdated versions. Or I guess they are too lazy to update their custom software/skins to work with Kitkat.

 

[Sushubh]

Lenovo has just joined the Windows Phone ecosystem so maybe they would finally learn how to ship phones with latest OS edition.

 

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[Navjot Singh]

Let's see. Also hoping that Motorola staff can teach them a little bit about using updated OS and all. Hmm.

 

[Sushubh]

Let's hope the two teams do not interact at all. There should be a wall made up of JK Cement between their development offices.

 

[Navjot Singh]

Right. An Independently working Motorola would be very much desirable than a Lenovosq Motorola or Motorolasq Lenovo.

 

[Sushubh]