Huawei MatePad Pro 12.6 (2021)

“The Huawei MatePad Pro 12.6 delivers a strong performance, but cannot convince all around. Nevertheless, the list of plus points is extensive. The 12.6-inch tablet has a high-quality build and is relatively light despite its XXL dimensions. The HDR10-compatible OLED display has few brightness reserves, but delivers rich contrasts and accurate colors and can cover the DCI-P3 color space almost completely. We also give a thumbs up for the fast and stable Wi-Fi 6, the powerful stereo sound from 8 speakers, and the good battery life.”

“The Huawei MatePad Pro 12.6 is one easily likable tablet for its attractive design, great OLED screen, fast performance, powerful speakers, incredible battery life and capable HarmonyOS. Huawei is definitely on the right track with the Android-based operating system and has spruced it up with enough features to make it tablet-worthy. M-Pencil works great, too, and if you like drawing, you'll like it how it's done on the MatePad Pro.”

“The 12.9-inch iPad Pro is the absolute best tablet Apple or anyone else has ever made. But with a starting price of $1,099, it’s hard to recommend buying it.”

“The Huawei MatePad Pro 12.6 is a killer tablet if you just look at the hardware, with speakers that show how much of a difference genuinely decent audio can make for mobile gaming and movie-streaming. Its screen is great and battery life is long. However, it’s impossible to ignore that the Huawei MatePad Pro 12.6 feels a bit like what you’d get if Amazon decided to make a really, really expensive Fire HD tablet. Huawei and Amazon tablets don’t get the Google Play app store, and that means access to games and apps is severely limited. You can only get around this so much by side-loading apps, itself a security risk, so bear that in mind before deciding the Huawei MatePad Pro 12.6 is a better deal than an iPad Pro 12.9 or Samsung Galaxy Tab S7+.”