Let’s check the top functions and key specs of the new MatePad 11.5 tablet.

Top Features:

• The all-metal integrated body design
• Upgraded display solution
• HarmonyOS 4.2
• 7700mAh battery + fast charging
• Education Center

Design

Huawei has used integrated aluminum alloy to craft the MatePad 11.5 2024 tablet. It has a thin and lightweight design and comes in three shades: Island Blue, Frost Silver, and Space Gray. The rear look is similar to that of the previous-gen model.

Dimension and Display

MatePad 11.5 2024 measures 260.88 x 176.82 x 6.85mm with a weight of 499 grams. The device sports a TFT LCD (IPS) screen of 11.5-inch with 229 PPI, 2200 x 1440 pixels resolution, 16.7 million colors, and 100% sRGB color gamut.

Huawei MatePad 11.5 2024 colors (Image Credits: Huawei)

The screen also supports a 120Hz high refresh rate and 86% screen-to-body ratio. Huawei has also adopted an anti-glare nano-etching PaperMatte technology that reduces 97% of light interference and lessens visual fatigue in the eyes.

Internal Configurations

Huawei launches MatePad 11.5 2024 tablet with 8GB RAM and two storage variants: 128GB and 256GB. The device pre-installs the HarmonyOS 4.2 software system.

HarmonyOS 4.2 offers the SuperHub File Transfer tool, floating multiple windows, multi-screen collaboration, and an upgraded Notes app that has new features like exclusive emoji stickers, magic notes to record mood and create notes accordingly, lock feature, AI handwriting adjustment, and more.

The Education Center in the device remains synced with the school, textbooks, and learning exercises. It also supports AI learning and finds the weak points of a student, making the classes easier and more beneficial for the child.

Huawei MatePad 11.5 2024 Education Center (Image Credits: Huawei)

The company hasn’t listed the chipset details on the official page. Although a tipster stated earlier that the tablet will feature the Kirin 8000 processor.

Camera

MatePad 11.5 2024 brings a single 13MP HD camera on the rear side. It is housed in a pill-shaped cutout. The front side includes an 8MP selfie lens at the center with a 105-degree ultra-wide-angle shooting and enables you to click wider shots.

Battery and Charging

The new tablet packs a 7700mAh battery with 30W fast charging support. It allows users to quickly recharge the device and play local videos for 10 hours straight, making the tablet an energetic device at all times.

Users can opt for a third-generation M-Pencil or the Huawei Smart Keyboard to support the tablet and make office work and other operations easier.

Other features include 2.4GHz and 5GHz WLAN 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax, MIMO 2 × 2, HE 160, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, USB Type-C, USB 2.0, ambient light sensor, gravity sensor, and Hall sensor. It has two mics, four speakers, and Huawei Histen 9.0 Audio support.

Price and Availability

MatePad 11.5 2024 also has a PaperMatte Edition in two storage variants. The device is available on the Huawei Mall for official sale with a 100 yuan limited-time discount. You can check the price and storage details below.

• MatePad 11.5 2024 8GB + 128GB – 1599 yuan
• MatePad 11.5 2024 8GB + 256GB – 1899 yuan
• MatePad 11.5 2024 PaperMatte 8GB + 128GB – 1899 yuan
• MatePad 11.5 2024 PaperMatte 8GB + 256GB – 2099 yuan

Huawei MatePad 11.5 2024 on sale (Image Credits: Huawei)

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The tech giant says that HarmonyOS NEXT equips a Star Shield Security framework. This new addition ensures the safety of the app ecosystem in the device.

Simply put, the architecture looks after the app installation and relevant operations in the HarmonyOS NEXT devices. It checks if an app is running accurately.

Star Shield Security further enhances the AppGallery in the HarmonyOS NEXT. Huawei says that the new App Store in the latest software contains 200 detection capabilities. These components trace every app present in the application store.

Also, several experts review apps before listing them on the AppGallery. If an application and its codes do not meet HarmonyOS NEXT security standards, the experts restrict it and don’t list it on the AppGallery.

“Codes and applications that do not meet security requirements cannot be put on the AppGallery or installed on devices. Every app is traceable with a real name.” says Huawei.

HarmonyOS NEXT app security on AppGallery (Image Credits: Huawei/Weibo)

This addition claims that HarmonyOS NEXT makes the app installations safer than ever before. It keeps an eye on the app while it downloads on a device.

During the installation, if the software detects an illegal operation such as an attack on private data, system, or more, it restricts the app running and stops the installation. Thus, your data remains out of the reach of third-party servers.

HarmonyOS NEXT also blocks 9 types of unnecessary permissions for installed applications:

• Reading the list of installed apps
• Accessing text messages
• Accessing storage files
• Creating home screen shortcuts
• Obtaining device information
• Displaying floating windows
• Accessing call logs
• Installing apps within apps
• Making and managing calls

HarmonyOS NEXT restricts 9 unreasonable app permissions (Image Credits: Huawei/Weibo)

A tiny privacy indicator on the status bar will constantly remind you when an app is found using a mic, camera, or location. It will also display all the details such as the sensitive permissions of the application in real-time.

System-level file encryption is another beneficial feature that ensures only the device owners or authorized users can access their encrypted files on the phone/tablet. It doesn’t limit sharing and supports Word, Excel, PPT, PDF, and TXT formats.

These HarmonyOS NEXT capabilities ensure that the apps in Huawei devices do not lead to data leaks or unauthorized access to confidential details of users.

HarmonyOS NEXT makes app installation safer than ever (Image Credits: Huawei/Weibo)

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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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Looking into the key features, the Huawei MatePad 12 X tablet brings an ultra-bright PaperMatte display, an upgraded GoPaint app, a NearLink accessory, smart tools for the Notes app, ultra-long battery life, and the most appealing color variants.

Without any ados, let’s jump into the MatePad 12 X tablet features and specs!

Design

The ultimate tablet comes in three colors: Greenery, White, and Sakura Pink. It adopts an all-metal design with clear-cut lines and glossy bezels around the screen. The shimmery polish on the rear side with a Nova 12-like camera design gives a stunning feel.

Huawei MatePad 12 X colors (Image Credits: Huawei)

Display and Dimensions

MatePad 12 X dimensions count 183 x 270 x 5.9mm and weighs 555 grams. It features a 12-inch LCD screen with 2800 x 1840 pixels resolution, 280 PPI, 16.7 million colors, a P3 wide color gamut, 1000 nits peak brightness, and an 88% contrast ratio.

It has a self-adaptive refresh rate of 30-144Hz which ensures crystal clear view and reduces power consumption, offering a reliable experience.

Being a PaperMatte solution, the device reduces light interference by 99% and reflection by 60%. Thus, users get tactile, natural, and brighter visuals.

Huawei MatePad 12 X display features (Image Credits: Huawei)

Internal Configuration

Huawei hasn’t listed the chipset details yet. But a previous input said that the tablet sports a Kirin 9000W chip, the same as the MatePad Pro 13.2.

It pre-installs the HarmonyOS 4.2 software system paired with 8GB/12GB RAM and 256GB of internal storage. The tablet supports NearLink technology, a 3rd-gen stylus, and a magnetic keyboard to give a PC-like experience.

Huawei MatePad 12 X specs (Image Credits: Huawei)

Camera

The tablet has a dual-lens arrangement with a 13MP (f/1.8 + autofocus) HD main shooter and an 8MP (f/2.2 + fixed focus) wide-angle lens. The front side bears a tiny 8MP selfie lens with f/2.2 aperture). An LED flash also resides in the elongated frame.

Battery and Charging

MatePad 12 X installs a 10100mAh large-capacity battery paired with 66W super fast charging. It provides 14 hours of video playback in a single charge cycle.

New Upgraded Apps:

Huawei MatePad 12 X tablet has an upgraded GoPaint app with 150+ premium brushes, smart tools, quick gestures, and interactive training tutorials.

PC-level WPS office shares a laptop-like interface so that users can get more done on the go. The Notes app also has smart tools like lasso, Note Replay, and a one-tap split-screen tool. Users can also access SuperHub and Floating Multi-Window features.

Huawei MatePad 12 X features (Image Credits: Huawei)

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AI subtitles would be a familiar feature to Huawei device users. The phone maker introduced this capability with HarmonyOS 2.0 and EMUI 11. But following the U.S. restriction, the company phased out this feature from its global software system.

On the flip side, Huawei kept upgrading the feature for its Chinese phones. HarmonyOS 4.2 is the latest and major software version that brings an enhanced form of AI Subtitles for its users. Let’s learn more about this feature and its significance.

HarmonyOS 4.2: AI Subtitles

From the name, AI subtitles generate real-time transcription of audio and video clips. It converts the music or video into texts at times when you are unable to play sound. The feature can easily translate multiple foreign languages into Chinese subtitles.

HarmonyOS 4.2 AI Subtitles feature (Image Credits: Huawei Central)

Users can also enable this feature during a call to convert the other party’s speech into subtitles for more transparency. One can access the feature via Settings > Huawei Assistant > AI Voice. Now scroll down and select the AI subtitles to turn on the feature.

You can add it to the home screen for easy access. But if you’re home screen is already a cluttered place, then here’s how you can make it a shortcut on the Control Panel.

How to access HarmonyOS 4.2 AI Subtitles?

Open the Control Panel by swiping down from the upper right edge of the screen. Now tap on the Edit Icon at the top right corner and choose the ‘Edit switches’ option. Now you can add the “AI Subtitles” icon on the main panel to form a shortcut.

HarmonyOS 4.2 AI Subtitles feature (Image Credits: Huawei Central)

How to use AI Subtitles?

Once added to the Control Panel, tap on the AI Subtitles icon. Click the tiny setting icon in the subtitle box to make adjustments. For instance, select “Media” as audio input and a language for the Input Language section. Note that this should be the same language as in the video. As soon as you start playing the clip, the subtitles will appear.

Users can easily alter the size or position of the subtitles’ floating window as per their preference. Finally, save the subtitles in the Notepad by holding the subtitles for a few seconds and tapping on Save. To use this feature, you Huawei device should have the latest software version.

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Taskbar made its debut on tablets with Android 12L. The US tech giant wanted to give a desktop-like feel to large screen devices and foldable. It seems Google will bring this useful function to smartphones as well with the stable Android 15 upgrade.

Android analyst – Mishaal Rahman spotted the new taskbar capability for regular smartphones in the Android 15 beta 4. The build contains codes for a mini taskbar.

Being a compact taskbar, it may only support four apps at a time with a quick shortcut to the application drawer. One can enable the taskbar on their phone with a simple swipe-up gesture from the bottom of the screen. Note that it’s still a hidden feature.

Android 15 could bring a tablet-like taskbar to phones (Image Credits: GoogleBlog)

The shared video shows the taskbar at the bottom screen over open apps. Users can easily switch between applications on the bar without visiting the home screen. You can also choose to auto-hide the feature or keep it visible all the time.

Another good point is that the taskbar effectively supports split-screen and floating window functions. However, smartphone makers may alter this capability depending on their OS compatibility and smartphone technology.

Google has not confirmed this feature yet. Although a tiny taskbar for smartphones would be a great creation to swipe between frequently used apps without opening the app drawer or looking at the home screen again and again.

[Source – AndroidAuthority]

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Huawei promised to bring the AI Image Expansion offering for standard Pura 70 models this month. Now the company has begun releasing the feature to limited users. But it won’t take much time to roll out the firmware on a broader spectrum.

The Standard Huawei Pura 70 is getting the AI Image Expand feature via HarmonyOS 4.2.0.176 version. Users need to ensure sufficient space as the firmware package weighs 1.10GB. We also suggest using a stable Wi-Fi connection for installation.

Pura 70 users will be able to access the AI Image Expand feature with the latest software version. The feature smartly detects the object in an image and enlarges it without degrading the visuals or picture quality. Thus, you get large and clearer shots.

AI Image Expansion:

AI Image Expand tool runs on AI composition and image generation tech algorithms. It recognizes the details and image content and then suggests expansion accordingly. The missing parts in the picture are filled to give a wider field of view to users.

Left: Original Image; Right: Results after AI Image Expand feature (Image Credits: Huawei/Weibo)

To access the feature, select an image from the Gallery app. Now tap the Edit icon and click on the AI Image Retouch section. Tap the “Expand Image” feature.

Other than the editing tool, users will get the July 2024 security patch as well as optimizations for the sound experience in certain conditions. The company has also added the ‘smart multiple windows’ tool for some apps. They will eventually support horizontally floating windows on the home screen when required.

HarmonyOS 4.2.0.176 is a major update for the standard Pura 70 models but the company is also rolling out this version to other variants. If not received yet, you can check the update section of your device and install the latest firmware manually.

A few users might face network abnormality issues with the new build. It could be due to the self-optimization of the device system. Users can try restarting their phones or wait for a few days as it may get normal. If it doesn’t contact Huawei Consumer Service.

AI Image Expand feature rolling out for Huawei Pura 70 (Image Credits: Huawei)

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So without any further ados, let’s jump into specs details.

The first thing that will catch your eye on the Huawei Nova Flip foldable is its distinct square display. Unlike Pocket 2 and other predecessors, the company has integrated a squarish external screen with rounded edges on the Nova flip-flop device.

Users can pick the device from four trendy colors which are: New Green – the star color, Zero White, Sakura Pink, and Starry Black. It has a dimension of 169.77 (unfolded) and 87.76 (folded). It has a width of 75.4mm with thickness as follows:

• Plain leather: 15.08mm when folded and 6.88mm when unfolded, 195 grams weight
• Glass Plate: 15.12mm when folded and 6.9mm when unfolded, 199 grams weight

Huawei Nova Flip foldable colors (Image Credits: Huawei)

The main display is 6.94-inch with a 1-120 Hz adaptive refresh rate. It has a 2690 × 1136 pixels resolution. Nova Flip supports SuperMotion and SuperVision with AI Image HDR for immersive visual effects. It has Touch Turbo 4.0 for precise touch feedback.

The cover display OLED is now 2.14 inches upgrading from 1.15 inches in Pocket 2. It has a 480 x 480 pixels resolution and supports P3 wide color gamut.

Hinge:

Huawei says its new device has gained the industry’s first Swiss SGS 1.2 million bending durability certificate. It uses a basalt water drop hinge, greatly reducing the gap and showing a flat screen after unfolding.

The double arm gear reflects a floating design and further allows easy opening and closing. Nova Flip brings the super anti-collision protection property for better durability.

Huawei Nova Flip foldable (Image Credits: Huawei)

Camera:

Huawei Nova Flip comes with a dual rear camera setup including a 50MP (f/1.9 aperture) RYYB primary shooter and an 8MP ultra-wide lens (f/2.2 aperture) with a 112-degree angle. It features 10x digital zoom and several shooting modes like high pixel, 2cm macro, and more.

The front part equips a 32MP selfie lens (f/2.2 aperture) in a single punch-hole design. Users can enjoy portrait, panoramic, voice-activated capturing, and timed photography.

The camera section adopts the company’s Da Vinci Portrait Engine 2.0 to generate amazing portrait selfies. It intelligently optimizes the shape, color, texture, light, and painting, making the face shape three-dimensional and offering beautiful portraits.

Users will find various filters like native, texture, and makeup under the new portrait engine mechanism. As a result, they will get a high-definition look, gentle makeup finish, or attractive effects as per their preference. One can also customize the interval time to click various shots at multiple angles.

Other features count:

• 1:1 square composition: Get simple and concise 1:1 ratio portraits via the square cover display.
• Hover Night Portrait: Capture a hands-free selfie or shots with stable long exposures.

Huawei Nova Flip specs (Image Credits: Huawei)

Battery and Charging

Nova Flip packs a 4400mAh silicon anode irremovable battery. It supports 66W super fast charging with 11V/6A power capacity and Turbo 2.0 service for a durable experience.

Software and Features:

This phone comes with HarmonyOS 4.2 out of the box and features several AI tools for camera and communication. For instance a new Call Fun Display for the unique square cover display, image retouch features for the optical framework, and more.

• Call Fun Display: The cover display will show animated lights during a call. Users can set various styles or patterns for this feature.
• Cute Pet: Users can apply a cute panda or other pet animals showing funny animations on the cover screen.
• Custom Style: One can also style their own picture, alter the clock or other fonts, or simply match the color of the wallpaper on the main screen to make the device more stylish.
• Interactive Themes: Apply fun wallpapers on the cover screen like Star Maze, astronauts, mini-games, and more.

Huawei Nova Flip square cover display features (Image Credits: Huawei)

Nova Flip supports a productive home screen that enables users to access apps from the cover screen. It can generate shortcut widgets to quickly launch important apps. Huawei has also integrated a Live Window feature for the external display.

HarmonyOS 4.2 brings AI elimination and a Smart Cutout feature that lets you edit images within no time. You can erase unwanted objects or clip out a particular section from the image as per your requirement, using these new tools.

Celia is more effective with Nova Flip. It helps users with skin consultancy, travel or trip planning, and document or table editing.

HarmonyOS Intelligent Communication 2.0

The latest capability delivers a strong signal irrespective of time or place. It supports dual-SIM Super Acceleration with faster upload and download speeds. The feature also has a weak signal enhancement mode that pairs the fast and slow wave antenna for a smooth signal in weak areas.

Price:

Huawei Nova Flip foldable comes in three versions which are priced as follows:

• Nova Flip (12GB + 256GB) – 5288 yuan
• Nova Flip (12GB + 512GB) – 5688 yuan
• Nova Flip (12GB + 1TB) – 6488 yuan

The pre-sale of the new foldable will begin today at 20:30 on the official VMall while the open sale is scheduled for August 9th in China.

Huawei Nova Flip foldable price (Image Credits: Huawei)

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With new software, the Chinese phone maker aims to boost the overall experience of its devices. Honor has imposed several features that will glorify every segment of the phone. Whether it’s photography or privacy, users will witness a new phase in their device.

Today, Honor announced the third major MagicOS 8.0 upgrade on its official Weibo account. The tech giant will roll out this ultimate software build to 40 devices. Although it will be a phased rollout and may take some time to cover all the units.

The company said that the new firmware contains an AI elimination tool to remove all the unwanted items from the image and make it more impressive.

Users will also be able to adjust the watermark on their images accordingly. Apart from camera, the update also enhances the smart features existing in Honor devices. For instance, the smart capsule, a new split-screen combo feature, and more.

Smoothness is another significant part of this update. Honor made animations more fluent. Device owners won’t have to stress over unwanted lags or buffering.

Aside from the standard smartphones, the company also integrated useful changes for foldables. The changelog is packed with many offerings. You can check them below.

Honor MagicOS 8.0 upgrade optimizations (Image Credits: Honor/Weibo)

MagicOS 8.0 third major upgrade

Camera

• Added a new AI removal (elimination) feature to smartly erase unwanted objects and passersby in images. Users can save photos with one click.
• Added a camera watermark editing feature. Users can add or restore watermarks by themselves.
• Added 16:9 camera aspect ratio
• Added three new image color styles: Natural, Vivid, and Texture.
• Added a new time-lapse photography professional mode menu and time-lapse templates for different scenarios to improve the time-lapse photography feature.

Smart Features

• Added new smart object recognition and smart shopping features.
• Added the YOYO Chinese Morning News feature.
• Added the support of the Meituan app and Baidu Maps cycling services to the Smart Capsule feature.
• The smart multi-window feature now has a split-screen combo feature. It saves the split-screen combinations in the form of icons. Tap on these icons to open the saved combination directly.

Security

• Added a new parallel-space anti-location tracking and anti-advertising tracking tool to protect privacy and security.

Optimizations:

• Smooth Animation: Improved the smooth animation experience in certain scenarios like launching apps, slide or swipe gestures, and gallery rotation.
• Notification Bar: Optimizes the display style of the notification bar and smartly adjusts the notification bar size.

Exclusive Optimizations for Foldable Phones

• Added a new feature to accurately arrange the blank space on the home screen when folding the device. It supports adding text widgets, customizing font and colors, and more.
• Added a new dock bar to foldable phones for seamless switching between applications. It will provide more efficient interaction on the home screen.
• When the device is unfolded, users can now select an app to take a screenshot in the split-screen mode.
• Added a new foldable app-level floating feature. When the screen is split into upper and lower parts for office, video, and fitness, the upper screen will show the content while the lower part will display the functional panel with the floating ability, as a mini notebook.
• Added the PiP (picture-in-picture) mode in the camera for a split-screen feature.
• The expanded gallery on the foldable now supports index columns in a directory form. It improves the info, communication, and operational efficiency.
• Upgraded the MagicRing capability. Users can project the screen of another device onto the foldable. They can also control the two phones at the same time and enjoy a large-screen experience.
• Improves the smooth animation experience such as folding, expanding, and switching screen animation, home screen exit animation, and control center micro-animation.

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Split-screen refers to dividing the phone’s screen into two parts. Doing so manages two operations at the same time. Thanks to EMUI 14.2, operating several tasks is now a matter of seconds. Just a few swipes and your multitasking platform is ready.

EMUI 13 introduced a Multi-Window feature last year. This capability allows users to open applications in split screens or a floating window as per their preference.

Users can even switch between split-screen and floating window, drag and drop between apps with multi-window, or remove an application. But EMUI 14.2 has made this section more useful for Huawei users with a “Split-Screen Combo” mode.

From the name, the Split-Screen Combo enables users to save the built split-screen combinations. So next time when you want to work on the same two apps, you don’t have to create the split-screen or floating window section again.

Users can easily access this combination from the home screen. But before that, Huawei device owners must know how to save the split-screen combination.

How to make a Split-Screen Combo?

Create a split screen on the device. Open an app in full view, swipe in from left/right, and hold. A Multi-Window Dock will appear on the side. Touch and hold the app you want to use and drag it out of the dock to form a split screen mode.

Split-Screen Combo access (Image Credits: Huawei Central)

In between the split-screen, you may see a three-dot icon. Tap on it to access controls like “Save Combo” and “Flip top/bottom”. Tapping on the first option will save the split-screen combination on the home screen for easy access.

How to save split-screen combination (Image Credits: Huawei Central)

How to find it? Users may see a combination icon on the home screen. Tap on that icon to resume your work whenever required. To exit this mode, drag the three-dot icon (between the two split-screen windows) to the edge of the screen.

Thus, users can make multitasking fun and more creative within a few clicks. However, to run this feature on your Huawei phone, you must have the EMUI 14.2 software version.

EMUI 14.2 Split-Screen combo on home screen (Image Credits: Huawei Central)

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