At CES 2019, Huawei had some news for its Stateside
fans. It's bringing its midrange MediaPad M5 Lite tablet and its slim and
powerful MateBook 13 laptop to US buyers, starting this month. The MediaPad M5 Lite has been
official since Octoberbut will now bring competition to the 10-inch tablet
market in the States.
The MediaPad M5 Lite has a 16:10 10.1-inch
1920x1200px IPS LCD, a Huawei Kirin 659 octa-core chipset, 3GB of RAM, 32GB of
expandable storage and a generous 7,500mAh battery. The MediaPad M5 Lite's party
trick is a quad speaker setup with Harman Kardon certification and the support
for the Huawei M-Pen lite stylus (which comes in the box).
The slate has Kid's Corner, which creates a
parent-cutomizable software environment for kids to use the tablet.The
Huawei MediaPad M5 Lite will launch in Space Grey the US in late January
through Amazon, Newegg and other retailers, priced at US$ 299 with the Huawei
M-Pen lite stylus included.
The Huawei MateBook 13 is a premium laptop that sits
between Huawei's top of the line MateBook X Pro and its entry-level MateBook D
line of notebooks. The MateBook 13 has a 13-inch 3:2 2160x1440px IPS LCD which is
touch-enabled, has a brightness of 300 nits and 100% coverage of the Adobe sRGB
color gamut. That's a flagship display right there.
Like the X Pro, the MateBook 13 uses Huawei's
signature laptop design with slim bezels (up to 88% screen to body ratio),
premium aluminum alloy body with diamond-cut chamfered edges and a power button
that doubles as a fingerprint scanner. The MateBook 13 comes with 8th
gen Whiskey Lake chipsets, up to 8GB of LPDDR3 2133MHz RAM, 256GB or 512GB of
PCIe SSD, 41.7Wh battery and there's a model with an NVIDIA GeForce MX150 with
2GB of video RAM and a TDP of 25W.
The Huawei MateBook 13 will launch in the States on
January 29 through Amazon and Newegg and later through other retailers in
February. The base model has an 8th gen Whiskey Lake i5, 8GB of RAM, 256GB of
storage and comes in Mystic Silver for US$ 999. The top of the line model brings
an i7, 8GB of RAM, 512BG of PICe SSD storage and a 2GB NVIDIA GeForce MX150 GPU
(the more-powerful 25W TDP variant), and comes in Space Gray for US$ 1,299.
