The MWC 2015 saw many major companies feature their flagship devices. One company however, chose to be different, and that company is none other than Huawei. Instead of going the natural route and presenting the world yet another flagship, Huawei played it smart and chose instead, to debut a whole array of products, except a flagship. What this marketing strategy has done for the former World No.3 Phone manufacturer, is that while the rest of the competition put full focus on their flagship smartphones, and end the suspense, Huawei unveiled everything other than a smartphone, which means that when Huawei does indeed decide to unleash their flagship phone, they will have to do so in a stand-alone event which means only one thing – More Airtime and spotlight for their device. Coming back to the MWC. Huawei took their first step into the smartwatch world with the Huawei Watch, which I will cover in my next article. For now, lets look at the other device Huawei put forth – The Huawei MediaPad X2.

The X2 brings with it , a segment of its own. This is because, its neither a smartphone, nor a full fledged tablet, and funnily enough, its slightly bigger than your average Phablet as well. So basically, you could call this device a Hybrid, or you could come up with a name of your own, maybe Smart Phablet. Whatever be the case, we are not just concerned about the name of the segment it belongs to , so lets take a quick look at what the MediaPad X2 is all about.

On the first look, you will see that the 7 inch MediaPad X2, looks a lot like its 6 inch Phablet cousin, the Huawei Ascend Mate7.

It features a lightweight unibody aluminum shell which enhances the grip of this device, great 80% screen-to-body ratio and powerful new Kirin 930 chipset. The 80% screen to body ratio also implies that while the display may be a handful, the body won’t be as bulky as you might think it is. Actually, I am ready to bet on the fact that with a design like this, one-hand operation might also be possible. Also, this screen to body ratio is one of the highest and best, that I have seen till date. You can expect some really slim bezels on this one.

Going a little bit more in-depth with the display, we see that the MediaPad X2 utilises a fully laminated 7″ IPS display of 1920 x 1200 pixels, which roughly equals about 323 ppi, which , in my opinion is higher than the famed retina grade ppi.

Huawei has fit the MediaPad X2 with their new Kirin 930 chipset which employs an octa-core Cortex-A53 processor with four cores ticking at 2.0GHz and the other four at 1.5GHz, while the GPU in charge of graphics is Mali-T628.

As far as the memory department is concerned , The MediaPad X2 will be offered in a 16GB flavor with 2GB of RAM and a more premium version with 32GB storage and 3GB of RAM. This scheme is growing ever so popular in the flagship segment, and Huawei have chosen to capitalise on that.

The rest of the major features include a 13MP rear camera, a 5MP front selfie shooter, and a 5,000 mAh battery. So, in case you ever choose to operate this device as your phone, you will be travelling with an absolute monster of a device.

Huawei MediaPad X2 runs on Android 5.0 Lollipop, skinned with company’s latest Emotion UI 3.0. The launcher is highly customizable, supports various themes, security features and enhancements, power optimizations and more. The OS feels really smooth and snappy.

This is it as far as the Preview of the device is concerned. Huawei has not yet announced the availability or picing of this device, so we will have to wait on that.

Going by the preview though, I can say that Huawei have done their homework, and made minimal to zero flaws with this new device. I would have liked to see a revamped UI as this UI is not really to my liking, but hopefully that will happen soon as well.