After a long period of anticipation and speculation, Huawei finally launched the highly-anticipated new MatePad mini in mid-May. This tablet not only marks a major upgrade of Huawei's tablet product line, but more importantly, it unveils the huge ambition of the HarmonyOS in the tablet and PC space.
Exterior design: delicate and fashionable, thin and portable
The MatePad mini has a modest but sleek exterior design. Its bezels are similar in width to those of the iPad Pro, with equal width and narrow edges on all sides. The large display screen of about 10 inches brings users a comfortable and immersive viewing and use experience. The body is thin and slim, making it easy to carry around, whether you are at home, in the office, or outdoors.
In terms of color matching, the MatePad mini is available in a variety of stylish colors, ranging from classic neutrals to vibrant and eye-catching colors, allowing users to freely mix and match according to their personal preferences.
Powerful performance: Kirin 9000S processor
As Huawei's first tablet equipped with a Kirin 9000S processor, the MatePad mini can be said to be one of the most powerful tablets in the Android camp at present. Built on a 5nm process technology, the Kirin 9000S features an industry-leading 8-core CPU and a 24-core Mali-G78 GPU, enabling you to run 3D games and high-intensity applications for an efficient and smooth running experience.
In addition, the Kirin 9000S also supports up to 8GB of RAM and up to 512GB of storage, so even users with extreme storage needs can use the MatePad mini with ease.
It is worth mentioning that the MatePad mini uses a large giant battery and Huawei's unique intelligent long battery life technology, which can maintain a long battery life even under continuous high-load work, which is definitely a big blessing for users who want to use it intensively in mobile office situations.
Powerful productivity tools
Hardware strength is the foundation of the MatePad mini, but its real highlight is the new HarmonyOS system and its ecosystem. As the first device to be equipped with the desktop version of the HarmonyOS tablet, the MatePad mini perfectly combines the advantages of a mobile phone and a PC, which is not only easy to touch like a mobile phone, but also can be assisted by a peripheral keyboard to achieve an efficient productivity experience.
On the desktop version of the HarmonyOS tablet, Huawei has carefully created a number of powerful productivity applications. The most noteworthy is the newly upgraded Huawei PC application engine. Through this app, users can easily run a large number of classic Windows software on the MatePad mini, which greatly expands the application scenarios of the HarmonyOS tablet.
For example, if you install the Windows version of the Office suite on the MatePad mini, you can edit Word documents and make PowerPoint presentations anytime, anywhere. For example, you can run professional image processing software such as Photoshop and complete the design and retouching work on the MatePad mini.
In addition, the MatePad mini will also feature Huawei's most powerful handwriting and drawing app ever. By connecting to a professional-grade third-party stylus, users can unleash their creativity on the MatePad mini's large screen, whether they are writing, drawing, or sketching, they can experience the ultimate smooth writing feel.
With the support of this app, the MatePad mini truly has the ability to replace the traditional paper notebook and become an efficient mobile tool for creative workers.
At the same time, MatePad mini also perfectly supports WPS, a cross-platform collaborative office suite. With WPS's powerful cloud document sharing and collaboration capabilities, users can grasp the latest progress of documents at the first time, and modify and leave messages at any time, no matter where they are, truly breaking the boundaries of time and space, and greatly improving the efficiency of mobile office.
Integrate the HarmonyOS ecosystem: seamless connection and interconnection
As an important member of the HarmonyOS ecosystem, the MatePad mini can achieve seamless and barrier-free connectivity with other hardware devices in the ecosystem.
Taking Huawei's autonomous driving system "Smart Car" as an example, with the popularization of intelligent and connected vehicles, people's demand for productivity in the car will increase in the future. At that time, you only need to connect the MatePad mini to the large screen of the car through wireless projection, and you will have a powerful in-car office tool with excellent functions. In the car, you can control the content of the MatePad mini at any time through the multi-screen collaboration function of the HarmonyOS system, which can not only handle work affairs efficiently, but also maintain a comfortable operating experience in bumpy road conditions.
In terms of smart home, the MatePad mini can also seamlessly connect with Huawei smart home devices, making it an excellent home control center. You can remotely control the switches of home appliances, adjust the lighting, play music, etc., through voice or gestures, and truly achieve a smart home experience at your fingertips.
In addition to hardware interconnection, the deep integration of MatePad mini and HarmonyOS has also brought many innovative experiences at the software level. For example, the multi-screen collaboration between Huawei phones and the MatePad mini enables super-efficient cross-device operation and seamless content sharing.
For example, if you browse a news page on your smartphone, you can simply make a gesture and the page will be transmitted directly to the MatePad mini's large screen, so you can enjoy the content more clearly. For example, if you edit an important document on the MatePad mini, the document can be synced to your smartphone with just one operation, so that you can easily read and modify it later.
This seamless cross-device collaboration experience greatly improves the efficiency of all terminal devices in the HarmonyOS ecosystem, and also allows you to work efficiently anytime, anywhere, and truly achieve a perfect work-life balance.
Overall, MatePad mini is not only an excellent tablet hardware product, but also an outstanding representative of the integration and innovation of the HarmonyOS ecosystem. It will be the breakthrough for many people to truly experience the new intelligent life brought by the advanced HarmonyOS system for the first time. We have reason to believe that with the continuous maturity and improvement of the HarmonyOS tablet desktop version and ecosystem, MatePad mini and its successors will become a highly representative and influential flagship platform in the HarmonyOS ecosystem.
The development prospects are broad and the potential is unlimited
As a key part of the implementation of the HarmonyOS strategy, the significance of the MatePad mini is far more than simply improving Huawei's competitiveness in the tablet field. It represents the determination of the HarmonyOS ecosystem to penetrate into the field of tablets, laptops, and even desktop PCs.
There is no doubt that with the powerful performance of the Kirin processor, the innovative experience of the HarmonyOS operating system, and the advantages of ecological linkage, the MatePad mini is fully capable of shaking up the tablet PC market pattern currently dominated by iPadOS and Windows operating systems.
What's more, the advent of the MatePad mini opens a whole new door. In the future, with the blessing of Intel or self-developed Kirin chips, we are very likely to see Huawei launch real HarmonyOS laptops and all-in-one computers, bringing users a new computing experience that is undoubtedly the same as traditional Windows systems.
It is foreseeable that in the near future, the HarmonyOS will support a full range of computing products from mobile phones and tablets to notebooks and desktops. At that time, the HarmonyOS ecosystem will completely form an infinite "smart ocean", creating an unprecedented and consistent intelligent experience for users.
In addition to traditional computing devices, the MatePad mini and its successor HarmonyOS tablet products will also become an excellent entry point for penetrating all walks of life. With a large display, excellent productivity tools, and seamless collaboration with other end devices, the HarmonyOS tablet is bound to become an important tool in many fields such as industrial manufacturing, medical education, and in-vehicle intelligence and entertainment.
It can be said that MatePad mini is not only the pioneering work of HarmonyOS in the field of tablet computers, but also will lead HarmonyOS to stride into every corner of the intelligent world. It will redefine interactive computing and write a new intelligent lifestyle that belongs to the future.
The intelligent era is coming, and MatePad mini will become an important guide for the HarmonyOS ecosystem to a smart world. Let's wait and see more surprises brought by Huawei, and I believe that in the near future, HarmonyOS will lead us to open a new era of intelligence!