Huawei MatePad Air 2024 Launched, With 12 Inch Screen, AI Features

On August 6th Huawei held a rather important event, meant to showcase its latest hardware products, that include, among others… tablets. We’re talking about the Huawei MatePad Air 2024 and the MatePad Pro 12.2, which we already detailed here. Now the former also gets specced.

The new Air model comes with a good looking design and 4 elegant pastel colors. There’s a new type of display here, improved AI and a lightweight design. It’s got a 2.8K screen and an upgraded Notes app. The Huawei MatePad Air 2024 has a camera area inspired by the Nova 12 Ultra, for some reason. It’s available in green, pink, white or gray.

It measures 183 x 270 x 5.9 mm and weighs just 555 grams. The screen on board is an IPS, a 12 inch one with a resolution of 2800 x 1840 pixels and 144 Hz refresh rate. It has a Papermatte finish, which reduces the light reflection by 60% compared to the predecessor. It also reduces interference of light by 99% and offers a crisp image, while watching movies, reading e-books or writing notes.

There’s also stylus support. Other specs include a dual back camera, with a main 13 MP shooter with F/1.8 aperture and autofocus, plus an 8 megapixel fixed focus F/2.2 aperture ultrawide lens. Upfront we find an 8 megapixel selfie camera. There’s also a 10.100 mAh battery inside, with 66W fast charging. There are 14 hours of video playback available here.

The company also integrates an M-Pencil 3rd gen stylus and a magnetic keyboard powered by NearLink technology. The keyboard weighs 308 grams and it’s very slim and light. It runs on HarmonyOS 4.2, with features like Celia AI, PC-level apps, a Born to Draw appp and a new Notes app. The pricing starts at $417 for the 8 GB RAM, 256 GB storage version.