Weibo tipster @UncleKanshan says that Huawei will directly launch a new MatePad 11.5 2024 tablet on October 30. The term directly hints that there won’t be any release event, unlike other products. The device will directly be on the sale shelf.

The company unveiled the MatePad 11.5-inch S tablet in May this year. Now it is seemingly planning to bring an upgraded 11.5-inch tablet with useful capabilities.

Huawei MatePad 11.5 2024 tablet coming on October 30 (Image Credits: UncleKanshan/Weibo)

Apart from UncleKanshan, another tipster shared some key specs and main changes to the new tablet. The leak hints that the MatePad 11.5 2024 will have the same design as its predecessor. But Huawei will upgrade its chip and other internal specs.

For instance, the company may use the Kirin 8000 processor for the alleged tablet. The sound feature powered by Huawei Histen could be upgraded from level 8 to 9 (Histen 9). Next, a 40W charger with 30W charging power may accompany the tablet.

Speaking of the price, it will likely be similar to the previous-gen model. As per the tipster’s leak, there won’t be any 4G LTE full network variant this time.

Huawei MatePad 11.5 2024 key specs and changes (Image Credits: Weibo)

MatePad 11.5 2023:

Huawei launched the MatePad 11.5 2023 tablet in July last year. The device weighs 499 grams and brings a TFT LCD panel with a resolution of 1440 x 2200 pixels, a 120Hz refresh rate, and a 229 PPI. It came out of the box with HarmonyOS 3.1.

The device runs on Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 (4nm) chipset paired with Adreno 644 GPU, 6GB/8GB RAM, and 128/256GB storage. MatePad 11.5 2023 has a 13MP rear main camera and an 8MP front-face shooter with 105-degree ultrawide angle capability.

It equips a 7700mAh battery with 22.5W wired charging support and is only available in Space Gray shade.

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With the latest security patch, the company has fixed 6 medium-level CVEs. This time, there aren’t any critical bugs found in the device’s system. However, we recommend keeping your devices up-to-date with the newest software or security builds.

These rollouts often work as a baseline build for the major updates. On the other hand, they also protect the device from privacy exploits and harmful malware that often leads to system crashes, app freezing, abnormal functioning, and data leaks.

Apart from 6 CVEs, the company has also fixed 2 critical and 16 high-level third-party library defects. Installing the new security patch on your device will unlock an efficient and bug-free experience.

EMUI

Huawei has seemingly completed the EMUI 14.2 rollout for its eligible top-end models. Although the company hasn’t mentioned any details regarding the EMUI 14.2 expansion for other models. In this case, it may push a surprising update in the future.

HarmonyOS

The tech giant is quite busy with the HarmonyOS NEXT in China. The new OS has reached the public beta phase. It may step on the stability platform next month alongside the Mate 70 series. You can learn more about the software upgrade HERE.

October 2024 security patch hasn’t started to roll out for Huawei devices. At present, the company is busy with the September 2024 update distribution among its left-out devices. Although the company may soon begin the new patch rollout shortly.

Till then, let’s take a look at Huawei October 2024 EMUI and HarmonyOS security patch details.

Huawei October 2024 EMUI and HarmonyOS security patch details released (Image Credits: HuaweiCentral)

Medium:

• CVE-2024-47290, CVE-2024-47291, CVE-2024-47292, CVE-2024-47293, CVE-2024-47294, CVE-2024-9136
• Affected Versions: EMUI 12.0, EMUI 13.0, EMUI 14.0, HarmonyOS 2.0, HarmonyOS 2.1, HarmonyOS 3.0, HarmonyOS 3.1, HarmonyOS 4.0, HarmonyOS 4.2.

Third-Party Library

Critical:

• CVE-2024-33042, CVE-2024-33052
• Affected Versions: EMUI 12, EMUI 13, EMUI 14, HarmonyOS 2.0, HarmonyOS 2.1, HarmonyOS 3.0, HarmonyOS 4.0.

High:

• CVE-2024-40658, CVE-2024-40662, CVE-2024-40652, CVE-2024-40657, CVE-2024-40655, CVE-2024-40656, CVE-2024-33045, CVE-2024-33038, CVE-2024-33043, CVE-2024-33050, CVE-2024-34739, CVE-2024-34741, CVE-2024-23381, CVE-2024-23384, CVE-2024-2937, CVE-2024-4607
• Affected Versions: EMUI 12, EMUI 13, EMUI 14, HarmonyOS 2.0, HarmonyOS 2.1, HarmonyOS 3.0, HarmonyOS 3.1, HarmonyOS 4.0, HarmonyOS 4.2.

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The OpenHarmonyOS 5.0 version is released by OpenAtom Foundation. Developers will find major changes in the app development kit, ArkUI, and other segments. These modifications will provide clearer logic and scenario-based views.

Further details in the changelog show refinements for network stability, distributed data management, richer encodings for media, and optimized power supply. Developers can quickly develop apps using enhanced Web capabilities with upgraded tools.

Other sections in the list count communication, security, graphics, camera, event notification, encryption, hardware capabilities, and more. You can check the details below.

OpenHarmony 5.0 Changelog

Highlights:

• The application framework gets more lifecycle management capabilities and provides sub-process-related capabilities.
• ArkUI further opens up the rendering capabilities of custom nodes.
• Application package management improves application packaging efficiency and enriches the operational scenarios for end users to use applications. (For instance, creating application clones, creating desktop shortcuts, and more)
• It enhanced the distributed data management capabilities and security while ensuring reasonable data sharing.
• File management further improves Picker’s capabilities and enables reasonable control of permissions and reasonable data sharing.
• It enhances the media’s audio, video playback, and recording capabilities with the support for multiple audio, video, and image encoding formats. It now has more detailed playback control operations.

OpenHarmony 5.0: Application Framework

• Supports creating JS/Native sub-processes. Developers can execute time-consuming operations in sub-processes.
• The lifecycle monitoring ability supports more lifecycles such as onNewWant.
• Supports the ability to return AbilityResult to the caller without actively destroying itself.
• The context supports Sendable object conversion for multi-threaded Context transmission.
• Supports application-level font settings.

ArkUI

• Enhanced the component customization capability with the addition of new components like a modifier, ContentModifier, and DrawModifier, which support adding new properties based on existing components, customizing component content and fully self-drawing.

The Custom nodes and Native rendering nodes are open. Custom nodes are node objects that have some basic capabilities of underlying entity nodes. These nodes can be mixed with native components through custom placeholder nodes.

Custom nodes can have the ability to calculate the layout of a single node, set basic properties, set event monitoring, and customize the drawing and rendering content. It includes three types of objects: FrameNode, RenderNode, and BuilderNode.

• BuilderNode: Provides a custom BuilderNode that can mount native components.
• FrameNode: Provides a custom FrameNode, which represents the entity node of the component tree. NodeController can mount it to NodeContainer through the FrameNode held by BuilderNode, or obtain RenderNode through FrameNode and mount it to other FrameNodes.
• RenderNode: Provides self-drawing rendering node RenderNode to support custom drawing requirements on the Native side.
• NodeController: NodeController implements operations such as creation, display, and update of custom nodes. It is responsible for mounting custom nodes on NodeContainer.

Other enhancements in the ArkUI section include the NDK capability for the third-party framework components. It covers component creation, property setting, event registration, customization capabilities, and component tree construction.

The Navigation component has more enhanced capabilities, including single-column and double-column switching effects, interruption and continuation of transition animations, and the ability to monitor the page life cycle.

The control visuals, animations, and interactions have been refreshed and added support for aging-friendly interfaces, mirrored languages, and screen reading. Menu and pop-up components support developers in defining color, shape, rounded corners, size, position, and shadow.

OpenHarmony 5.0: Application package management

• Supports access and management of application clones. Applications can access application clones through simple configuration.
• Supports home screen shortcuts. Users can dynamically add shortcuts to the home screen.
• Supports independent upgrade capabilities of system-level HSP and ArkWeb. It also supports independent updates of preset applications.
• Supports recovery mechanism after abnormal interruption of OTA upgrade. If a power outage or service crash occurs during the OTA upgrade process, the OTA process will be restored upon restart to continue installing and updating applications.
• Provides automatic cache directory cleaning capability and supports storage management to automatically clean up the cache directory when the device space is insufficient.
• Supports Native software packages and provides the capabilities of packaging, installing, and uninstalling native software packages.
• When the packaging tool packages the app, it compresses the entire app package to reduce its size on the shelf.

Distributed soft bus

• IPS provides CAPI basic interface capabilities, including serialization or deserialization, message sending and receiving processing interfaces, etc.

OpenHarmony5.0: Distributed Data Management

• RelationalStore&Preferences support access to common sandbox data.
• RDB supports opening in read-only mode.
• UDMF supports the compatibility query between UTD and MIME types.
• Migration scenario data asset synchronization optimization.
• Supports distributed data management with Class E encryption.
• The inverted index construction scenario supports an application-specified external tokenizer.
• The NDK-based CAPI supports the cross-device drag-and-drop capability of UDMF data.

A Distributed Hardware

• Provides refined ACL management: It performs refined addition, deletion, modification, and query operations on ACLs based on business devices, users, accounts, and package names.
• Quality reinforcement to improve functional stability and reliability.

Distributed DeviceProfile

• Equipment data is reconstructed hierarchically to improve the efficiency of adding, deleting, modifying, and checking data.
• Quality reinforcement, optimization of background link establishment function, and improved stability and reliability.

File Management

• Supports incremental file backup.
• Provides an interface for the backup application to obtain detailed information about the amount of backup data, allows the application to report the number of data records to be backed up (such as the number of text messages), and supports reporting of abnormal events during the backup and recovery process.
• Added support for SA access backup and recovery framework.
• Enhanced Picker capabilities: Provides the ability to select multiple files at a time in the Audio Picker; adds a Download Picker, allowing applications to save files directly to the “Download/package name level” directory, and subsequent access to the directory does not require permission to apply, complementing the download experience of applications such as browsers.
• Apps are supported to obtain access rights to public directories (Download, Desktop, Document) by applying for permissions (supported by some devices and needs to be determined by syscap). Apps cannot directly access public directories without applying for permission.
• Supports applications to select files or directories through FilePicker and obtain temporary access rights to the directory or file, and supports persistent access capabilities. Non-persistent files or directories cannot be accessed after the application exits.
• Added CreateStream, fdopenStream, and other streaming file access interfaces .
• Added new interfaces for setting and getting extended attributes.

Graphics, Images, and Windows

Graphics

• The NativeImage module based on the NDK’s C API now supports NativeWindowBuffer.
• The NDK-based C API now supports NativeVsync and multiple callbacks for a single frame.
• The NDK-based C API now supports variable frame rates.
• ColorSpaceManager supports sendable capabilities.
• The font engine supports text-shadow capabilities and underline alignment.
• The graphics drawing interface improves drawing-related capabilities.

Window

• Provides the display.getDisplayByIdSync interface for use with the multi-screen feature, allowing applications to synchronously obtain information about the screen where the Ability is located through IDs.
• Supports obtaining screen available area information.
• Support setting status bar text color according to page color in ArkUI.

Media: Audio

• Audio focus enhancement: Supports focus sessions, allowing apps to set concurrent playback policies with other apps, and allowing apps to play silently without interrupting audio playing in the background.
• Added support for more audio devices such as DP and USB headsets, and support for switching the default sound device function (earpiece and speaker).
• Added a new audio stream type for video calls to optimize the audio stream playback experience in this scenario.
• Added a unified volume component to facilitate use and reduce development complexity.
• Supports customization of the style of in-app casting components.
• Supports ringtone list query and customized ringtone settings.

Play

• The player start and seek performance are optimized to reduce latency.
• Added multiple playback protocols or formats: support DASH streaming protocol playback; support AMR, APE, WAV PCM-MULAW format audio playback.
• Added a variety of playback control capabilities: support for multi-track video playback, changing the output Surface during video playback, silent playback, precise seek, setting playback range, and subtitles.
• Supports configuration of streaming media buffer size; supports audio offload mode.
• Enhanced streaming media playback capabilities: Optimized streaming media cache strategy to reduce lag.

Recording

• Enhanced audio recording capability. It now supports MP3, WAV PCM-MULAW format audio recording.

Screen Recording

• Supports exempting the application’s own privacy window from screen recording protection, and provides a privacy confirmation window and screen recording status prompt.
• Supports excluding the specified window when recording.
• Supports configuring screen rotation and dynamically adjusting rotation parameters.
• Supports simultaneous recording of microphone and system sound.

Audio and video codec

• Added AVTranscoder transcoding interface. It supports bit rate reduction, outputs video files in video encoding AVC, audio encoding AAC, and encapsulation format MP4, and reduces the amount of data transmitted/stored.

DRM

• AVPlayer / AVCodec supports DRM information parsing of DASH protocol programs, decryption of TS-encapsulated H265 video format, and audio decryption.
• AVCodec DRM adaptation adds decryption parameter settings.

Camera

• New model capabilities have been added, including time-lapse photography, panorama, streamer shutter, large aperture video recording, and fluorescent photography.
• Added a new camera PerConfig one-click configuration mechanism to ensure consistent camera effects and reduce development complexity.
• Optimize the segmented process to improve the performance and quality of photo/video recording.
• Benchmark ArkTS API capabilities and complete related C APIs.
• Enhanced camera experience, including mirroring, zoom, anti-shake, continuous shooting, camera status notification, etc.

Picture

• EXIF reading and writing capabilities are enhanced, supporting EXIF ​​batch reading and writing, and GIF supports obtaining playback count information.
• Support HDR capabilities: HDR dual-layer encoding and decoding, and conversion between HDR and SDR.
• The codec format is enhanced to support HEIF codec and DNG decoding.
• The editing framework is based on the NDK’s C API, including the effector base class, filter base class, and custom algorithms.

Event Notification

• CEM tools now support publishing custom public events.
• Emitter adds a new generic interface that can be used to directly pass Sendable objects.
• Supports synchronous query notification enablement status.

Basic Communications

• Support third-party applications to connect to hotspots through network management.

OpenHarmony 5.0: Network Management

Network management capabilities

• Supports specifying a Wi-Fi hotspot by creating a NetConnection object to connect to it.
• An NDK-based C API that provides network management status monitoring, application-level proxy monitoring, and other capabilities.

The Network protocol stack capabilities

• Supports upgrading TCP Socket to TLS Socket to improve communication security.
• TLS Socket supports skipping certificate verification to avoid scenarios where the certificate cannot be verified under special circumstances.
• All sockets support obtaining local IP and port.
• HTTP supports configuring certificate pinning information.
• HTTP supports the brotli compression algorithm.

Power Supply

• Supports obtaining the current charging current. Third-party applications can obtain the current device current through nowCurrent.
• Supports temperature control actions in flight mode. Developers can customize temperature control strategies to control the device to enter flight mode.
• Supports power consumption control based on the WorkSource agent running a lock-assisted resource scheduling module.
• It supports automatically entering S4 sleep mode after waking up from S3 sleep mode when the battery is low, achieving ultra-long standby characteristics.
• After the system starts, it supports reading and broadcasting the presence information of the device shell/case, the battery information kernel node, whether to send a broadcast, etc., which supports developer configuration.

USB

• USB DEVICE configuration management security access control enhancement.
• The USB standard data transfer mode (interrupt transfer, bulk transfer) function is enhanced.
• Supports standard USB peripheral security management and control.

Start Recovery

• It supports Native software package packaging, installation, running, and uninstallation, and builds a Native software package development and release system, which helps to quickly build productivity software ecosystem capabilities and also helps system developers improve development efficiency.
• Provides a resettable developer anonymous device identifier ODID to replace UDID and other hardware identifiers.
• Supports running bftpd commands and debugging application sandbox data access in user mode.

Globalization

• Provides C API to support internationalization capabilities of the ICU4C standard.
• International formatting processing capabilities support screen size adaptation.
• Full support for pseudo-localization testing.
• Provides C API to support resource file management capabilities.
• String resources support translatability markers.
• Provides minority language font capabilities.

OpenHarmony 5.0: Safety

Encryption and decryption algorithm library framework

• ArkTS API provides corresponding C APIs for some commonly used encryption and decryption algorithm capabilities.
• Support SM4-GCM algorithm interface.

Certificate Management

• Provides an API for launching the certificate management interface.
• Provides an API for obtaining an application’s private certificate list.

Program access control

• Geolocation permissions support a one-time authorization option.
• Supports opening the permission management application interface of the settings page.

User IAM

• Supports password validity period checking.
• Supports recovery keys.

Account

• Supports logging out of local accounts.
• Supports specifying a short account name (used as the name of the personal folder) when creating a local account.
• Support querying local account names.
• Added new privacy account type.
• Added unlock authentication intent.
• Added new credential types: Graphic and Four-digit PIN.

OpenHarmony 5.0: ArkCompiler

The ArkTS front-end compiler

• Syntax enhancement: the compilation target is switched from es2017 to es2021, and the compilation of source code files with es2018~es2021 syntax features is supported.
• The obfuscation capability is enhanced to support exception stack restoration, file granularity non-obfuscation, HAP and HSP module file name obfuscation, and whitelist wildcard function.

ArkTS Runtime

• Supports lazy loading of modules, and synchronously loads executable files when variables are used, improving application startup performance.
• The concurrency capability is enhanced, providing a Sendable object-sharing mechanism to optimize the object cross-thread communication performance; TaskPool provides functions such as task queues, long-term tasks, and periodic tasks.
• The debugging function is enhanced to support reverse debugging, Smart Step into, and other functions.
• The tuning function is enhanced to support hiperf/profiler mixed back stack and multi-instance HeapDump functions.

ArkTS basic library

• It supports high-precision floating-point operations, provides StringDecoder character stream decoding capabilities, stream data stream processing capabilities, and supports bit vectors.

JSVM

• Provides a system JS engine that supports the high-performance running of JS and WASM.

Integrated sensor processing platform

Drag frame

• Supports rotating and dragging the window as the window rotates.
• Supports dragging between three devices.
• Supports application-defined configuration to not display quantity badges during dragging.
• Supports data receiver to customize cut and copy behaviors.

Keyboard and mouse crossing

• Control both ends to initiate activate interface calls at the same time.
• Optimize the timing issues of keyboard and mouse crossing, reduce system dependence, and eliminate timing issues between multiple processes.
• Improve traversal management performance, increase success rate, and reduce traversal delay.

Multimode input

• Provides C API to support device information query and other related capabilities.

Pan Sensor

Vibrator

• Some asynchronous query interfaces provide synchronous version APIs.
• The system can better use motor devices to trigger vibration according to different device capability levels.

Sensor

• Some asynchronous query interfaces provide synchronous version APIs.
• Provides C API to support linear acceleration and game rotation vector sensors.

Accessibility

• Magnification gesture: supports magnifying the screen content through gestures.
• Active broadcast capability: When the application is adapted for screen reading, it can support active broadcast of changing information through accessibility in some dynamically changing scenarios.
• Active focus capability: When an application is adapted to screen reading, it can request active focus on components in certain scenarios.

Resource Scheduling

Background Tasks

• Apply for long-duration task types and support applying for multiple types of long-duration tasks at the same time.
• The application applies for DATA_TRANSFER download-related long-term tasks, and supports returning download notifications to the application for progress updates.

Performance, power consumption, thermal integration control

• The system load fusion gear is determined based on information such as the current temperature, load, and whether it is in a high-load scenario. After the application registers the system load callback, it can adaptively downgrade its own business load according to the different levels of the system load fusion gear, thereby reducing the load of the entire machine.

Agent reminder

• When an application applies for a recurring calendar reminder, it supports specifying an exclusion day, on which no reminder will be given.
• When the application applies for a reminder, wantAgent supports passing parameters. When jumping to the target UIAbility after clicking the reminder, the parameters are carried.
• When the application queries for published reminders, the corresponding reminderId is returned in the query results.

Testing Framework

• Supports compatibility testing of cross-platform interfaces.

DFX

• Provides an API to determine whether the HDC debugger is connected.
• Support turning on the trace function in developer mode.
• Enable awareness of main thread timeout events.
• errorManager supports TaskPool and Worker to listen for unhandled Reject events.

Kernel

• Provide thread QoS level marking and scheduling based on user interaction relationships.

Upload and download

• request.agent.Fault refines the error types to help developers quickly locate API usage problems.
• request.agent.Config adds a new proxy member to support setting the network proxy address of the task.
• request.agent.Task.start supports restarting failed\stopped tasks, making it easier for developers to quickly recover failed tasks.
• request.agent.Task supports configuring TLS certificate pinning fingerprints using the network.json configuration file.
• request.agent.FileSpec supports specifying all file paths under the base directory of the application sandbox, making it easier for developers to manage sandbox files. It also supports uploading public files on the front end, such as gallery files and album files, to reduce the overhead caused by additional copies.

Input Method Framework

• The NDK-based C API now supports self-drawn UI components using input methods, including launching and exiting input methods, and processing text on-screen requests.
• Optimize the callback timing when pulling up the keyboard, so that the input method application can adjust the keyboard display content in time according to the input box properties.

Time Zone

• Provides system APIs for forcing NTP time to refresh and obtaining the current NTP time.
• The NDK-based C API provides the ability to obtain the time zone.

Clipboard

• The NDK-based C API supports clipboard capabilities.
• Provides a cross-device clipboard switch.
• When the app is upgraded to API 12 or later, add a read permission check to the clipboard reading interface.

Web

• The network takeover feature is enhanced to support obtaining the FrameUrl of the request and the ResourceType of the intercepted request.
• Supports the pre-screening capability of the Web scene input method.
• Supports Web Components keyboard hosting capabilities.
• Supports synchronous drawing capabilities of Web components and ArkUI native components.
• Supports setting whitelist directories that can be accessed across domains using the File protocol.
• Support applications to specify rendering subprocesses.
• Web components support an accelerometer and gyroscope.
• Web components support intelligent filling of H5 pages.
• Web components support BFCache capabilities.
• Improve the soft keyboard avoidance mechanism of Web components and support Resize and Offset modes.

Theme Framework

• Supports enabling themes through folder directories, which improves the performance of enabling themes compared to enabling through compressed packages.
• Supports the management of card resources, and the ability to add, delete, modify and query added subject cards.
• Provides characterization functions for external screen devices and supports enabling external screen themes.
• Theme enablement support does not switch the current “active” directory.

Compile and build

• The CMake version required for compiling and building dependencies has been upgraded from 3.16.5 to 3.28.2.

OpenHarmony 5.0 released with ArkUI and other improvements (Image Credits: OpenHarmony)

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MatePad Air comes with HarmonyOS 3.1 out of the box. The company kept updating the device with new security rollouts. It already served the 4.2 build to home ground users. However, the respective software treatment was missing for global users.

Now the tech giant has released the HarmonyOS 4.2 update for the Huawei MatePad Air tablet in the global market. The update is currently rolling out in the Middle East. Although the company will soon initiate a broader software release.

The MatePad Air tablet users can identify the update with the HarmonyOS 4.2.0.210 version. Ensure to have sufficient storage as the firmware weighs 5.92 Gigabytes.

HarmonyOS 4.2 update unlocks new themes and productive features to enhance the user experience. It also brings smart tools like Live View and SuperHub that ease daily tasks. The former shows the real-time activity of services while the latter enables you to store media files temporarily in a space and transfer them accordingly.

You can check the complete changelog below:

Create Your Own Home Screen

Magazine Themes

• The Art Star theme lets you choose a portrait photo you like and a wallpaper to match.

Maximum Productivity and Efficiency

Live View

• Keeps you up-to-date on the status of important events by displaying timely notifications on the lock screen, home screen, and more.
• You will also see a notification window pinned to the top left of the home screen. Tap it to see more details.

SuperHub

• Supports dragging and dropping content between apps and devices. You can tap and hold defined text and images, then drag and drop them to SuperHub to store them temporarily or send them in bulk.

Ark Engine

• Provides a smoother user experience with the upgraded Ark Engine.

Huawei has started rolling out the HarmonyOS 4.2 update to old tablets. The latest update has appeared as a ray of hope that the company will soon bring this new version to more eligible devices in the time ahead.

Devices like FreeBuds Pro 3, Watch Ultimate and Watch 4 series received the major update. Now the company may soon bring the HarmonyOS 4.2 to more global devices.

Huawei MatePad Air receives HarmonyOS 4.2 update in global market (Image Credits: HuaweiAilesi)

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Let’s explore the new tablet!

Design

Huawei MatePad Pro 12.2 made its global debut in two colors: Premium Gold and Black. Gold is the star shade of this device. It is inspired by traditional silk paintings that bear a shiny look. It uses Silk Weaving craftsmanship to get the organic silk fabric feel.

The tech giant has designed the device by aligning multiple layers of the unique golden silk texture to give a dazzling shine to its flagship handset.

Huawei MatePad Pro 12.2 design (Image Credits: Huawei)

Dimension and Display

MatePad Pro adopts an 182.53 x 271.25 x 5.5mm dimension with 508 grams weight. It features a 12.2 Tandem OLED PaperMatte screen with a 2800 x 1840 pixels resolution, 274 PPI, 1.07 billion colors, a P3 wide color gamut, and 2000 nits peak brightness.

Benefits of Tandem OLED and PaperMatte display solutions include:

• Anti-sparkle and anti-reflection properties
• 99% of the elimination of environmental light interference
• Brighter, clearer, and more vibrant picture quality
• Easy on the eyes even in direct sunlight scenarios

This solution also increases the device and its screen durability. Dual-layer OLED has scratch-resistant properties that protect the screen from external damage. It also reduces power consumption by 30% and makes the device last longer.

PaperMatte tech, on the other hand, gives a paper-like smoother, and richer feel while gliding the stylus on the tablet’s screen.

Other display capabilities include a 92% screen-to-body ratio and a contrast ratio of 2000000:1. Users will observe a better viewing experience than ever!

Huawei MatePad Pro 12.2 display features (Image Credits: Huawei)

Internal Configuration

MatePad Pro 12.2 global unit comes with HarmonyOS 4.2 operating system out of the box. As per a Chinese leak, the device runs on the Kirin 9010W chip. This processor further pair-up with 12GB RAM and 256GB/512GB internal storage options.

Battery and Charging

The tablet packs a non-removable cell with a 5050mAh capacity. It is equivalent to a 10100mAh battery and supports 100W SuperCharge wired charging.

It also features Turbocharging that boosts the device’s power to 85% in 40 minutes and 100% in 55 minutes. The tablet also has a Smart Power Conserve capability that keeps it all-time ready even if it has been idle for a year.

Huawei MatePad Pro 12.2 Golden Edition (Image Credits: Huawei)

Camera

Huawei has integrated a rear dual-camera system on the MatePad Pro 12.2. It consists of a 13MP main shooter (f/1.8 aperture + AutoFocus) and an 8MP ultra-wide lens (f/2.2 aperture + Fixed Focus). There is also an LED flash inside the circular camera ring. The front face has a smart sensing lens with f/2.0 aperture.

Accessories

MatePad Pro 12.2 supports a 420-gram Glide Keyboard. It has a unique stylus slot and seamless charging support, giving a laptop feel. It sports NearLink technology for quick and easy connectivity and has ultra-low latency. The next accessory is the 3rd-gen M-Pencil with an improved and smoother writing experience.

Upgraded GoPaint app

The tech giant has upgraded the GoPaint app with the new tablet. The company has used the Fantian Painting Engine 2.0 which unlocks a wide range of brushes, 8K canvases, 500+ staggering layers, and a 120fps high frame rate.

GoPaint app (Image Credits: Huawei)

An all-new Huawei Notes app

MatePad Pro 12.2 brings smart Notes app features that ease daily-life experiences. The list of new and interesting tools in the Notes application count:

• Lasso tool: changes the color of selected text + custom colors in the palette
• Prominent Toolbar: A shortcut for frequently-used items
• One-tap split-screen: Tap on the split-screen tool at the top toolbar to use the feature
• Multi-note opening: Open multiple notes at once to find required notes more accurately
• Note Replay: Combines hand-written texts and audio recordings to recall and review the key details of a meeting more precisely.

Other features include a powerful 360-degree omnidirectional antenna that triggers strong signals even at long distances. It has a side-mounted fingerprint sensor and Huawei Sound for an immersive listening experience.

It has 4 speakers, 4 mics, multiple sensors (ambient light, hall, gyro, compass, and gravity), Type-C USB 3.1 Gen 1, OTG support, Bluetooth 5.2, and WLAN frequency of 2.4GHz and 5GHz.

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The Chinese phone maker has started posting security patch details for both EMUI and HarmonyOS-powered devices together. It’s a significant move played by the company for the ease as well as convenience of its smartphone and tablet owners.

In the August 2024 EMUI and HarmonyOS security bulletin, Huawei has mended 10 vulnerability exposures. There are 1 critical, 2 high, and 7 medium-level of CVEs. These exploits are affecting devices on EMUI 12/HarmonyOS 2 and above versions.

These issues are related to the permission verification, Contacts module, lock screen module, App Cloner, NotePad module, and graphics module. The company has further fixed certain third-party library defects in the new software versions.

Huawei has detailed the August 2024 security patch in advance. Although it may take some time to initiate the new update rollout, following the EMUI 14.2 distribution.

EMUI

Up to this point, Huawei offered EMUI 14.2 to various top-end models. Most of these are Pro variants of the flagship series. For instance, P60 Pro, Mate 50 Pro, Nova 11 Pro, and so on. The firmware also reached Nova Y91, Nova 11i, and Mate Xs 2.

But a few standard models like Mate 50, and Nova 11, are still waiting to grab the upgrade in some regions. And our hope to see EMUI 14.2 for some excellent old flagship is still alive. But the OEM hasn’t made any official announcement on this matter yet.

HarmonyOS

On the other hand, HarmonyOS NEXT developer beta has stepped into the third phase. The tech giant has pushed off the developer beta 3 with new features for the Celia Keyboard, camera segment, and network system of the devices. Know More.

What’s next the company is cooking for its software section is a mystery. Till then, you can have a look at the August 2024 EMUI and HarmonyOS security details.

Huawei releases August 2024 EMUI and HarmonyOS security patch details (Image Credits: Huawei Central)

Critical:

• CVE-2024-42037
• Affected Versions: EMUI 14, EMUI 13, EMUI 12, HarmonyOS 4.2, HarmonyOS 4.0, HarmonyOS 3.1, HarmonyOS 3.0, HarmonyOS 2.1, HarmonyOS 2.0

High:

• CVE-2024-42035, CVE-2024-42038
• Affected Versions: EMUI 14, EMUI 13, HarmonyOS 4.2, HarmonyOS 4.0, HarmonyOS 3.1, HarmonyOS 3.0

Medium:

• CVE-2024-42030, CVE-2024-42031, CVE-2024-42032, CVE-2023-7265, CVE-2024-42033, CVE-2024-42034, CVE-2024-42036
• Affected Versions: EMUI 14, EMUI 13, EMUI 12, HarmonyOS 4.2, HarmonyOS 4.0, HarmonyOS 3.1, HarmonyOS 3.0, HarmonyOS 2.1, HarmonyOS 2.0

Third-Party Library

Critical

• CVE-2024-31320
• Affected Versions: HarmonyOS 4.2, HarmonyOS 4.0, HarmonyOS 3.1, EMUI 14, EMUI 13

High

• CVE-2024-34723, CVE-2024-31339, CVE-2024-34721, CVE-2024-23372, CVE-2024-23373, CVE-2024-23380, CVE-2024-26923, CVE-2024-31322, CVE-2024-22005, CVE-2024-0044, CVE-2023-6363
• Affected Versions: EMUI 14, EMUI 13, EMUI 12, HarmonyOS 4.2, HarmonyOS 4.0, HarmonyOS 3.1, HarmonyOS 3.0, HarmonyOS 2.1, HarmonyOS 2.0

Medium

• CVE-2024-21458, CVE-2023-43543, CVE-2023-43544, CVE-2023-21387
• Affected Versions: EMUI 14, EMUI 13, EMUI 12, HarmonyOS 4.2, HarmonyOS 4.0, HarmonyOS 3.1, HarmonyOS 3.0

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Inputs highlight that the new Huawei BKY-W20 tablet on Geekbench scored 1230 points in the single-core and 3544 points in the multi-core testing.

Further details show that the device equips an octa-core chip with 12 threads. It has two 2.49GHz large cores, six 2.15GHz medium cores, and four 1.53GHz small cores. Judging from the architecture, the chipset seems to belong Kirin 9000W series.

Kirin 9000W debuted with the MatePad Pro 13.2. Later, the company used this chip in MatePad 11.5 S tablets with optimized performance cores. The standard 11.5 S tablet features 9000WL whereas, the Smart model equips 9000WM processor.

CPU architecture:

• Kirin 9000WL: 2 cores @ 2.48GHz + 6 cores @ 2.15 + 4 cores @ 1.53GHz
• Kirin 9000WM: 2 cores @ 2.35GHz + 4 cores @ 2.15 + 3 cores @ 1.53GHz

The new Geekbench listing shows a likewise CPU core arrangement except for the large cores. Hence, the MatePad BKY-W20 chip could be a new derivative of the Kirin 9000W series. Things may get more clear with the official launch of the device.

Huawei BKY-W20 tablet visits Geekbench (Image Credits: ITHome)

Huawei BKY-W20 tablet is suspected to be a MatePad Air member. The predecessor launched with a Snapdragon processor. It had a light and elegant design with effective display capabilities. It came out of the box with the HarmonyOS 3.1 software system.

For the new device, details reveal that the BKY tablet has three models: W00, W10, and W20. These will likely have an 11.95-inch screen size with 60W and 100W fast charging. Just like many new MatePad tablets, these variants may also support NearLink.

The BKY-W20 tablet has already appeared on various certifications and could launch early next month. Although Huawei has yet to confirm this news and the official name of the device.

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The Chinese phone maker has announced new HarmonyOS native game features on the HarmonyOS Weibo account. As per the inputs, the OEM has added an end-to-cloud combination, AI super-resolution, smoother game streaming, and more.

Let’s learn about these features in more detail.

End-to-Cloud Combination (Native Smoothness)

HarmonyOS NEXT aims to make the applications smoother than ever. It uses an upgraded Ark Engine that connects with the software, hard core, and cloud at the system level. This Engine comprises motion effects, end-cloud combination, and GPUTurbo.

As a result, the gaming app becomes efficient and can easily handle heavy gaming scenarios. It ensures better energy-saving while making the experience more enjoyable.

HarmonyOS native smoothness for games (Image Credits: HarmonyOS/Weibo)

AI super-resolution (Native Intelligence)

Huawei is also using AI super-resolution in the making of HarmonyOS native game apps. This technology makes the app smarter and easier to use. When playing, the capability reduces power consumption and improves frame rate and resolution.

The cloud rendering can operate over 1 billion rays per second, making the smartphone game equivalent to PC-level picture quality.

HarmonyOS native intelligence for games (Image Credits: HarmonyOS/Weibo)

Native Connectivity

HarmonyOS NEXT-based apps can easily adapt to multiple devices. They can seamlessly switch between devices with natural and innovative interaction. One can swap HarmonyOS native games on phones, tablets, smart TVs, car computers, and more.

Overall, these features explain that the HarmonyOS-based games will offer better visuals, effective and fluent transfer, and power-saving capabilities to consumers. Users would be able to use their phone as a controller to play high-end games.

HarmonyOS native connectivity for games (Image Credits: HarmonyOS/Weibo)

The flagship devices with a multi-device task center can even run apps in the background while playing their favorite game. You can check more details in this video.

Huawei has currently listed only three main segments of the HarmonyOS native game apps. Although we may find more of these at the ChinaJoy event on July 26.

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For a long while, the company has been posting security patch details for both EMUI and HarmonyOS devices on different sites. But things changed with July 2024 patch.

As of now, the company has highlighted both HarmonyOS and EMUI versions that are being affected by the recent vulnerabilities on the same page. Good news is that the company resolved all these defects to provide a bug-free and seamless experience.

Looking into the published details, the July 2024 EMUI security patch for eligible Huawei devices fixes a total of 6 systems and 28 third-party library defects. The system part consists of 1 critical, 1 high, and 4 medium-level vulnerabilities.

These issues mainly exploit the service confidentiality, availability of the Gallery search module, synchronization, security verification as well as memory module.

EMUI 14.2 – Distribution Stage

It’s the second month of the EMUI 14.2 update distribution. Huawei has offered the latest firmware treat and its features to top-end models like P60 Pro, Nova 11 Pro, and Mate 50 Pro devices. Gladly, the build is available for both beta and non-beta users.

The company also surprised Mate Xs 2 users by serving the newest 14.2 build ahead of many flagship models. P50 Pro is the latest one to join this software batch.

Still many eligible devices have not received the ticket to EMUI 14.2 upgrade. Mate 40 Pro phone users have also locked their eyes on whether they will receive a major update in the future. Read why the device deserves EMUI 14.2 – HERE.

HarmonyOS 4.2 distribution has almost completed in China but the wait continues for global tablet and wearable users. Things may proceed gradually in this case.

Amid these questions, Huawei has brought the July 2024 security patch details and you can have a detailed look at all the CVEs in the below section.

Huawei publishes EMUI and HarmonyOS July 2024 security patch details (Image Credits: Huawei Central)

Critical:

• CVE-204-39671
• Affected Versions: HarmonyOS 4.2, HarmonyOS 4.0, EMUI 14

High:

• CVE-2024-39672
• Affected Versions: HarmonyOS 4.2, HarmonyOS 4.0, EMUI 14

Medium:

• CVE-2024-39673, CVE-2024-39674, CVE-2024-39670, CVE-2023-52382
• Affected Versions: HarmonyOS 4.2, HarmonyOS 4.0, HarmonyOS 3.1, HarmonyOS 3.0, HarmonyOS 2.1, HarmonyOS 2.0, EMUI 14, EMUI 14, EMUI 13, EMUI 12

Third-Party Library

The third-party library patches mainly include fixes for vulnerabilities that were affecting HarmonyOS 2.1 and above versions as well as EMUI 12 and above versions. The company mended a total of 24 high and 4 medium levels of CVEs in this section.

High:

• CVE-2024-31310, CVE-2024-31314, CVE-2024-31315, CVE-2024-31316, CVE-2024-31317, CVE-2024-31318, CVE-2024-31319, CVE-2024-31324, CVE-2024-31325, CVE-2024-31311, CVE-2024-31313, CVE-2024-31327, CVE-2024-26926, CVE-2024-0671, CVE-2024-23351, CVE-2024-1067, CVE-2023-40093, CVE-2024-23709, CVE-2024-0024, CVE-2024-0025, CVE-2024-23705, CVE-2024-0043, CVE-2024-23712, CVE-2024-0019

Medium:

• CVE-2023-43524, CVE-2023-43525, CVE-2023-43526, CVE-2023-43528

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Mate 40 Pro came out of the box with Android 10-based EMUI 11 in October 2020. Over time, the company upgraded the device to EMUI 12 with interactive features. For instance, Multi-Device Task Viewer, Super Device, App Snippets, and more.

The old flagship currently runs on EMUI 13. Meanwhile, the company is constantly treating it with new security patches, bug fixes, as well as useful improvements.

Even after four years, the device is working effectively without causing many issues. Although a few points have made Mate 40 Pro users concerned about whether their charming smartphone will fetch the major EMUI 14 upgrade in the future.

Starting with regular security rollouts, Huawei has removed Mate 40 Pro from both monthly and quarterly update lists. This implies that the phone has reached the ‘Phased out’ stage and might receive only minor improvements in the time ahead.

Another reason is that Huawei has still not offered the EMUI 13.1 update to the Mate 40 Pro smartphones. The 13.1 version packs more impressive add-ons than the 13th build. It comes with smoother animations, camera upgrades, and more changes.

Next, the phone maker has not listed the device in the official EMUI 14 beta-eligible models. Hence, this led to the dilemma if Huawei Mate 40 Pro will get EMUI 14.

Will Huawei Mate 40 Pro get EMUI 14? (Image Credits: Huawei Central)

Chances for EMUI 14:

Now let’s take a look at why Mate 40 Pro still seems eligible for EMUI 14. The device uses Kirin 9000 5G chipset. It is still capable of running multiple operations simultaneously without leading to lag, buffer, or unnecessary freezing of any kind.

Huawei has released only two significant EMUI upgrades for the Mate 40 Pro devices so far. Thus, the phone could run at least one more major build like EMUI 14.

HarmonyOS 4.2 in China

The Chinese phone maker has already released HarmonyOS 4.2 for Mate 40 Pro users in its home ground. It now holds several new features like an anti-false alarm for malicious apps, a WLAN network switch, better security upgrades, and new themes.

A report also noted that Huawei is testing HarmonyOS NEXT-based apps with Mate 40 Pro devices. With the newest software releases in China, the company has shown that the respective device is still eligible for new updates.

EMUI 14.2 upgrade roadmap shows only 13 devices for the time being. It only counts the top flagships alongside a few Nova models. Thus we expect that the tech giant may expand this rollout to more devices in the coming weeks. Still, it depends on Huawei if it brings EMUI 14 for this phone or not.

Whatever the decision is, we will keep you posted with the latest software development on this subject. Stay tuned.

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