14 DAY TRIAL // Since the Mobile World Congress is now underway, participants are announcing their various inventions, and Huawei is one of them.
Huawei made a rather bold claim when it launched the MediaPad 10 FHD tablet: it said this was the world's first 10-inch quad-core tablet.
We aren't exactly sure where that leaves the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime, but we've decided not to ask.
What did catch our eye, though, and in a good way, was the screen of the newcomer: an IPS display with a native resolution of 1,920 x 1,200 pixels.
Coupled with the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, these features set the stage for quite the level of performance.
The CPU is different from the others found in slates these days: Huawei used its own invention instead of NVIDIA Tegra or a Qualcomm Snapdragon.
The chip in question is called K3, has four cores and also an embedded GPU with 3D graphics processing for HD video playback and gaming.
Backing it up are 2GB of RAM (random access memory), while the storage space is of 8GB, 16GB or 32GB (a microSD card slot lets one expand upon it).
"Most consumers use tablets for entertainment purposes such as gaming, viewing multimedia content, browsing the internet and reading e-books," said Richard Yu, chairman of Huawei Device.
"We have created the HUAWEI MediaPad 10 FHD to excel in all of the entertainment capabilities including speed, power, web-browsing, high definition display and audio, and packaging it all in a compact and portable body."
In addition to the above, the Huawei MediaPad 10 FHD boasts an 8-megapixel rear auto-focus camera, a 1.3-megapixel camera on the front, Dolby surround sound, LTE support, Wi-Fi, USB, etc.
Availability is scheduled for the third quarter, but the price has yet to be mentioned. Hopefully, it will be at least as competitive as the hardware.