Huawei MatePad Air (2026) hands-on

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During its yesterday's lawsuit successful Malaysia, Huawei introduced the Pura 90s series on with the FreeClip 2 S and MatePad Air (2026). We had our accidental to conscionable the devices successful person, truthful here's a speedy rundown of the updated MatePad Air for this year.

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MatePad Air (2026)

Just similar its predecessor, the MatePad Air (2026) features a 12-inch display, but alternatively of a plain aged IPS LCD panel, the newer Air swaps it retired for a brighter OLED 1 with a 144Hz refresh rate. What's more, the surface features Huawei's PaperMatte coating that makes it look similar paper. Reflections are reduced, making the surface perfect for reading, not conscionable for multimedia consumption.

Speaking of multimedia, the instrumentality is equipped with 6-array stereo speakers for a due listening experience.

Huawei MatePad Air (2026) speedy  hands-on

With this feature, Huawei brings the different much affordable MatePad Air person to the higher-end MatePad Pro lineup, which boasts the aforesaid PaperMatte display.

The Kirin T93C SoC is doing each the fig crunching and is paired with either 8GB of RAM oregon 12GB of RAM, portion retention is lone 256GB. There are nary different options.

Huawei MatePad Air (2026) speedy  hands-on

The T93C chipset is bully capable for immoderate AI-powered Pro features, going by Huawei's words.

The cameras connected the backmost are chopped successful half; present lone the 50MP main snapper remains. Gone is the 8MP ultrawide camera from the erstwhile generation, but we don't deliberation it volition beryllium missed. The beforehand houses a 12MP shooter.

The full strategy is powered by a generous 10,100 mAh battery, supporting 66W accelerated charging.

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MatePad Air (2026)

Despite being a 12-inch tablet, however, the Air, arsenic the sanction implies, is beauteous bladed and lightweight. It measures conscionable 5.3mm successful thickness and tips the scales astatine 509 grams. That's astir 50 grams of value simplification compared to the erstwhile model.

The disposable colors are Sakura Pink, Airy Blue and White.

As usual, the tablet supports Huawei's accessories similar a detachable keyboard, which you get with astir each bundle astatine launch, and the M-Pencil Pro, which allows a fistful of astute features similar the Air Mouse functionality. You tin swipe and interact with the contents connected the surface from a abbreviated region without adjacent touching the display.

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