On March 16, Huawei released its first ink screen product, MatePad Paper, at the spring conference of the whole house intelligent and all-scenario new products. Compared with the Kindle type of simple reader ink screen products on the market, Huawei MatePad Paper is essentially a tablet, but compared to ordinary tablets, Huawei MatePad Paper is more inclined to read and office attributes, which can fully make high-frequency demand for office scenes such as work notes, browsing documents, file management, reading annotations, and conference recordings, and can also seamlessly collaborate with other Huawei equipment to unlock more office scenes.
Exterior design
Huawei MatePad Paper as a whole adopts a minimalist design, the front is a 10.3-inch, screen ratio of 86.3% of the ink screen, although the screen size reached 10.3 inches, but the feel of getting started is very relaxed, with this size of electronic products do not match the thin and light, thickness of only 6.65mm, weight of about 360g, basically with two smart phones. Due to its larger and more boxy size, the weight of the Huawei MatePad Paper can be diluted, and the pressure on the palm of the hand is not so strong compared to the mobile phone.
The main reason why it is so thin and light is that compared with the color screen, the ink screen is more power-efficient, so the battery capacity will not be as large as the ordinary flat plate; secondly, the fuselage adopts a magnesium alloy frame frame to further reduce the weight and make the MatePad Paper more lightweight and portable.
In order to ensure the one-handed reading experience, Huawei MatePad Paper specially added a "book spine" design on the left side of the fuselage, that is, the left screen border extends outwards a part, the width is basically the same as the border, and this safety distance ensures that the thumb will not accidentally touch the screen when holding it with one hand. At the same time, this bezel adopts a micro-curved design for a more comfortable grip.
The surface of the fuselage is made of plain leather material, with three colors of brocade white (lambskin pattern), clear blue (lambskin pattern), ink black (micro lychee pattern), not only anti-slip and scratch-resistant environmental protection, but also more like a real paper book or notebook whether it is seen or touched.
Huawei MatePad Paper is not only Huawei's first ink tablet, but also the world's first ink level board that has passed the T-V paper display certification in Germany, and its low blue light, no strobe, wide viewing angle and clear display in the sun provide a better reading experience.
Refresh rate for ink screen products is very important, the actual experience of Huawei MatePad Paper page turning very fast, no obvious residual shadow, and provides a "smart refresh mode", the system can automatically match the appropriate screen refresh according to the user's current viewing content, such as reading, notes and other plain text scenes to maintain a low refresh rate, in the graphics, video or more sliding scenes, adapt to the refresh rate of faster smooth display mode to reduce screen flicker.
Record and read
Huawei MatePad Paper is equipped with the second generation M-Pencil stylus, and other pens equipped with HarmonyOS 2 and above versions of Huawei tablets are universal, and many functions like the stylus on the Huawei tablet have also been retained, such as 4096 level pressure sensitivity, global handwriting, Bluetooth automatic pairing connection, magnetic charging, and easy to use double-click switching pen and eraser.
In terms of the actual writing experience, Huawei MatePad Paper stream is doing a good job, but also very follow-up, compared to writing on an ordinary tablet, the damping and rustling sound brought by the ink screen will be closer to the real paper writing feeling, but in third-party software like WPS when entering with a stylus, the delay will be higher. And because it is a large screen, the entire hand will be pasted on the screen when writing, and there is no accidental touch problem.
In order to improve efficiency, Huawei MatePad Paper has added a lot of shortcut gestures, such as the repeated scribing of text on the Huawei tablet before can quickly delete the corresponding text, the text is split or combined with vertical lines before and after, and the horizontal line on the text in the text box is quickly selected to select the corresponding text, etc. These should be well understood when using Huawei tablets and stylus.
In addition, with a stylus in the upper right corner of the screen to slide inwards to enter the "global annotation" and "split screen notes" mode, and then can be marked anywhere on the interface; split screen notes can be opened in reading and other scenes, so that one side reads the annotation literature and records notes, ideas, draws logical frameworks or does problems on one side, and calculates on the other side, which is very convenient and efficient.
As an important use scenario of Huawei MatePad Paper, Huawei has preset five sets of templates in the note-taking app: meeting minutes, Cornell notes, reading notes, SWOT, and to-do items.
In the note-taking application, there are two recording methods of handwriting and recording, both input methods can be directly converted into standard text, and the standard text can be directly edited in the note or copied to the document of WPS and mail, and become the "official text" content sent to others. At the same time, speech-to-text supports Chinese and English bilingualism and a variety of dialects, and can be marked by manual dotting during the recording process, and generate labels at the corresponding time points of the recording bar, and key information can also be noted next to the labels, and the written notes can also be backed up and saved through cloud space to prevent data loss.
Compared with the record, reading should be the most basic and high-frequency use of the scene, Huawei MatePad Paper is equipped with Huawei reading, aggregating 1.65 million+ reading resources of partners such as palm reading, click crowd reading, Chinese online, and 130,000+ diversified reading content of cooperative publishers such as CITIC Publishing House, Peking University Press, and Shanghai People's Publishing House, which is very rich in resources.
The actual reading experience verified that whether it is looking at mobile phones, tablets or monitors, notebooks, smart TVs, the larger the screen, the better. The ink screen not only protects the eyes, it is not easy to cause visual fatigue, and the 10.3-inch large screen is incomparable to the small screen reader such as the Kindle, and it is really an excellent reading device.
Moreover, after logging in to the Huawei account, Huawei Reading can share resources on multiple terminal devices such as Huawei MatePad Paper, Huawei Mobile Phone, and Huawei MatePad, so that when reading in the future, you can completely choose the huawei MatePad Paper that is more eye-pleasing.
HarmonyOS 2
As a member of Huawei's "smart office" family, Huawei's MatePad Paper is equipped with harmony OS 2 system, which can seamlessly connect with other Huawei devices to form "hyperterminals" to achieve hardware mutual assistance, resource sharing, and collaborative operation.
As mentioned earlier, after logging in to the same Huawei account, you can read the contents of the bookshelf in your mobile phone and tablet through the Huawei MatePad Paper. In addition, through the HyperTerminal, users can transfer the books, articles, information and other content on the mobile phone to the Huawei MatePad Paper with one click, and continue to read on the ink screen, and the visual effect of the ink screen paper makes the look and feel more comfortable
At the same time, Huawei MatePad Paper can achieve multi-screen collaboration with PCs, incarnate PC expansion screens, and the eye protection characteristics of the ink screen are particularly suitable for long-term processing of text work. On the basis of multi-screen collaboration, based on HarmonyOS distributed technology, various text materials such as e-books and documents in the PC can be directly dragged to the Huawei MatePad Paper, and in turn, various notes, documents, screenshots, etc. processed such as modification annotations on the Huawei MatePad Paper can also be directly dragged into the PC. In addition, HUAWEI Share also enables you to quickly share documents with mobile phones, PCs, and other devices.
Finally, a brief chat about the Huawei MatePad Paper system desktop and interaction, the entire interface has been rearranged and designed, the leftmost has "home", "notes", "bookshelf", "book city" and "application" five categories, the home page interface in the form of cards set like calendar / calendar, notes, mailbox, recent documents, reading and other high-frequency applications. The application interface is distributed with various applications, and the applications downloaded in the application market are concentrated here.
The global gesture operation is the same as that of mobile phones, the left and right sides of the screen slide inward to return to the previous level, and the bottom slides up to return to the desktop.
Summary: Large-screen ink screen products are a very small product category, in the gap between readers, mobile phones, tablets flying in the sky, large-screen ink screen products because they take into account the functional attributes of readers and tablets. Therefore, although there are such products on the market for a long time, they are almost ignored
Huawei MatePad Paper has been fully upgraded from hardware to software, positioning smart office products, the fuselage is light and thin, there is no burden of carrying even if you travel, the redesigned interface is more concise and clear, with handwritten notes, annotation modifications, split screens while checking data while recording office more efficient. As the soul of smart office, the addition of HarmonyOS has greatly improved the practicality of Huawei's MatePad Paper, seamless cross-device collaborative experience, and it will be more comfortable to work with PCs and mobile phones to process text.
Of course, even if you use it simply as a reader, the experience is much better than the reader currently on the market.