Huawei’s MatePad Paper shall be the predominant serious Amazon Kindle rival

While Amazon’s Kindle units are by a ways the ideal names in ereaders, with E-Ink units from Onyx and Xiaomi handiest getting miniature attention, a huge new instrument has upright been announced which customarily is a predominant rival.

This comes from tech giant Huawei, unveiled as piece of its conference at MWC 2022, and it be called the Huawei MatePad Paper. There are some critically spectacular specs right here for an ereader, which is why we predict it may perchance furthermore rival Amazon’s slates, in particular the Kindle Oasis.

The Paper comes with a 10.3-hunch cloak, which is pleasing huge for an ereader, has give a enhance to for a stylus and there is a fingerprint scanner constructed into the vitality button. 

It makes express of a USB-C port that can enable for speedily charging, has an Oasis-esteem backbone to be without disclose holdable, and has a four-week battery existence.

Instrument-wise, this runs Huawei’s HarmonyOS, and entails the Huawei Books app providing you fetch admission to to over 2 million books. There is give a enhance to for over 20 languages and the shop is available on the market in over 170 worldwide locations/areas.

Larger than upright books

There is more than upright books even supposing, as this appears esteem a fully-functioning productiveness instrument with emails, calendars, obvious apps on hand to gain from the Huawei App Gallery, handwriting conversion (the usage of the stylus), connectivity between the Paper and a smartphone or PC, advise recording, video playback and more.

Internally, this has 4GB RAM and 64GB storage, so again it be more extremely efficient than the Kindles, nonetheless it be moderately a miniature bit more costly too. 

In Europe, it charges €499 (roughly $560 / £420 / AU$780) – we’re no longer definite where it will launch upright but, but given Huawei’s display screen file, we would engage the US off the listing straight away.

With nearly about two years of pandemic lockdown within the aid of us, many of firms maintain been unveiling new place of business and work-from-home objects, and the MatePad Paper appears esteem a pill-gash-ereader that’s designed to be easy to observe at, lengthy-lasting and functional…

… asserting that, we have not tested the thing, and will no longer strategy to any corpulent conclusion till we now maintain given it a dash. We’re fond of our Kindle, and a rival wants to essentially tag us.

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