Huawei will unveil two new tablets next Tuesday (August 6): the Huawei MatePad Pro 12.2 and the Huawei MatePad Air 12. However, official details are still scarce.
Here are the images used to promote the new tablets:
Huawei MatePad Pro 12.2 • Huawei MatePad Air 12
Note that the company already has a couple of recent Pro tablets. The Huawei MatePad Pro 13.2 (2023)for example, has a notch for the dual front camera (13 MP wide and 8 MP ultra-wide angle). There is also the Huawei MatePad Pro 11 (2024) with a punch-hole camera in the corner. The new Pro model uses neither design – in fact, we can’t see the front-facing camera at all, so it’s either hidden in the bezel or under the display.
As for the air, the Huawei MatePad Air (2023) has a different camera design than pictured above, with two lenses on the back instead of just one.
Huawei MatePad Pro 13.2 (2023) • MatePad Pro 11 (2024) • MatePad Air (2023)
CEO Richard Yu posted this image on Weibo, drawn using the new Huawei MatePad Pro 12.2 and the stable version of the GoPaint app, which is also due out on August 6. Yu promises major improvements and optimizations over the app’s original public beta. The app supports air gestures using the stylus you see embedded in the keyboard case.
A painting created using the MatePad Pro and the GoPaint app
This is all we have from the official information, but a few months ago leaks suggested that the MatePad Pro 12.2 would be the Kirin-9010 chipset and feature 100W charging. The MatePad Air 12 will support 66W charging instead (chipset unknown).
The Pro model could have satellite SMS functionality, just like the MatePad Pro 11 (2024). Both the Pro and Air models are said to support CloseLinkwhich is a short-range wireless communication technology. It was introduced on the Huawei Mate 60 series and can also be found on the Pura 70 series. Some earphones and styluses also support it, which is a replacement for Bluetooth (a Low Energy mode offers 12 Mbps at less than 2 mA power consumption) and Wi-Fi (Basic mode goes up to 1.2 Gbps).