Huawei MateBook, the alternative to iPad Pro and Surface Pro 4 from 799 €

At the Mobile World Congress 2016 which is held these days in Barcelona, Huawei has unveiled a new device aimed at the world of productivity. The new product, which is nothing more than a portable 2-in-1, introduces the company as part of the laptop, where the goal of the Chinese is to solve some of the historical problems of the category considered: excessive weight, poor quality the display, poor operational autonomy of single charge to name only a few.

Huawei MateBook, this is its name, is based on the experience gained by the company over the years in the more mobile blatantly areas (smartphone and smartwatch in the first place). As for the appearance, MateBook resembles a cross between an iPad Pro and one of the last of Surface Pro models. While maintaining exemplary lightness and thickness values thanks to a meticulous design and construction process, comes with Windows 10 (Home or Professional Edition), the same operating system you use on your desktop or notebook at work.

The design is perfectly symmetrical, and the metal shell can be protected by an enclosure keyboard optionally proposal, just as we saw with the "professional" tablet of Apple and Surface Pro. It is an accessory widely advocated for those who need a device able to meet the typical professional environments of productivity requirements, without which the new MateBook appears naturally very limited, just as the alternatives already on the market.

Let's move on to the technical specifications: the display used by Huawei on MateBook is an IPS LCD 12-inch 2160x1440 pixel resolution with higher gamut than the two more famous competitors in the industry. According to what is revealed by the Chairman of Huawei's Richard Yu device division, who presented the new device to the international audience, the panel should deliver great mixed color fidelity at a maximum brightness of 400 nits. Unparalleled in the category, even the screen-to-body ratio of 84% of the front surface.

It is this a significantly higher value than the two competitors, which do not exceed 77%. The whole is enclosed in a shell only 6,9mm thick and firm tip the scales at 640g. In other words, Huawei is keen to point out that the new MateBook, at least as regards the part tablet, is thinner and lighter than competitors, without, however, to compromise on the quality front of the display, performance or operational autonomy (which is about 10 hours, then superior to a typical working day).

Under the thin shell "roaring" Intel Core processors m3, m5 and m7 sixth generation with a maximum operating frequency of 3,1GHz, supported by 4 or 8 GB of RAM and a storage from 128GB up to a maximum of 512GB for higher versions range. Everything will be powered by a 33,7mAh battery that can be charged through the Type-C USB port located on the body. MateBook supports the rapid charging technologies and can be brought from 0 to 60% in just two hours.

Let's go back to accessories: Huawei provides the cover backlit keyboard, a stylus pen 2048 Call sensitivity levels MatePen with laser pointer and a MateDock to increase the availability of ports on the notebook. This includes two USB ports, one Ethernet, and also VGA and HDMI ports to connect the device to an external monitor (you can see in the gallery of images that we report the page). Along one of the sides it was also installed a sensor for fingerprint scanning, with which you can access a different account according to the finger used during log in. The speakers at the base of the tablet are two, stereo.

Prices and availability. Huawei MateBook will be available starting next month in Europe with both Windows 10 and Windows 10 Home Professional. The price starts from 799 € in the European market for the version with Intel Core m3, 4GB of RAM and 128GB SSD.

 At this outlay, all things considered riparametrato reduced if the price of Surface Pro 4 and iPad Pro, you have to add at least one of the cover keyboard, which will be offered to additional 149 Euros. The MateDock is MatePen will instead be sold respectively to 99 and 69 €, with prices that have been reported including taxes also for the European market.