Huawei Launches its kindle-like Reading Table | Matepad Paper | Exciting Features

Huawei launched its Kindle-like e-ink reading tablet, the MatePad Paper, which sports other features like note-taking.

CHIBA, JAPAN – SEPTEMBER 12: The Huawei Technologies Co. logo is seen on the business day of the Tokyo Game Show 2019 at Makuhari Messe on September 12, 2019 in Chiba, Japan. The Tokyo Game Show will be open to the public on September 14 and 15, 2019.

As per a news story by SlashGear, the upcoming device of the Chinese tech giant, the Huawei MatePad Paper, appears to be a combination of an e-ink tablet, as well ‘as a notebook, combining reading and note-taking in a single device.

Huawei’s Kindle Tablet, MatePad Paper

The e-ink tablet of Huawei impressively has thinner bezels flaunting a 68% screen-to-body ratio, making it look more like one of the latest tablets out there. Not to mention that it sports a massive 10.3-inch display.

However, it is to note that the massive display of the upcoming e-tablet of Huawei comes with an e-ink grayscale display. The screen also comes with reading tablet features, such as anti-glare and anti-reflective.

Huawei Launched its kindle-like Reading Tablet | Matepad paper | Exciting Features

SEATTLE, WA – NOVEMBER 4: Jeff Ing of Seattle uses a Kindle Fire tablet device at the newly opened Amazon Books store on November 4, 2015 in Seattle, Washington. The online retailer opened its first brick-and-mortar book store on November 3, 2015.

According to a recent report by Engadget, the grayscale display of the Huawei MatePad Paper comes with 256 various shades of black and white, which could not only show photos and text, it could also display videos.

Huawei MatePad Paper Features

As mentioned, the MatePad Paper is more than a mere reading e-book tablet, it also serves as a productivity tool.

The e-ink Huawei tablet comes with an M-Pencil stylus, allowing its users to take down notes or scribble on their reading device. The Chinese tech giant boasts that it has enabled a 26ms sensitivity for the paper-like tablet display to make note-taking smoother.

Engadget noted in the same news story that the smoothness of the stylus experience on the MatePad Paper is far from what users of the S22 Ultra would experience. However, it is already an impressive performance for an e-ink display.

It is worth noting that the M-Pencil stylus is also used on some of the tablets of Huawei, so it is not an entirely new product for the Chinese phone maker.

Meanwhile, SlashGear highlighted that the note-taking feature of the e-ink tablet also allows its users to convert their handwriting into text.

On top of that, if ever its users will be writing personal or confidential notes on the upcoming MatePad Paper, they could lock and encrypt it. They could open it using the fingerprint scanner of the reading tablet.

Huawei MatePad Paper Price

All these features don’t come cheap, with the Huawei MatePad Paper at a recommended retail price of €499 (around $558). That’s a lot compared to the starting price of around €90 for Amazon’s Kindles, but it’s more in line with a comparable Android tablet like the Onyx Boox Note Air 2, which retails for €499 in Europe. At least Huawei is including an M-Pencil and cover as standard with the MatePad Paper. Huawei has yet to announce a release date or markets for its debut e-reader, but a US release seems unlikely.

The MatePad Paper has been announced alongside a range of new Huawei devices at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. There’s the MateBook X Pro laptop, the MateBook E 2-in-1, the MateStation X all-in-one PC, a laser printer called the Huawei PixLab X1, and a portable Bluetooth speaker called the Sound Joy.

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