Huawei MediaPad 10 Rolling Out Next Month

BERLIN - Huawei announced today that its MediaPad 10 tablet will begin global shipments next month.

The MediaPad 10 features a 10.1-inch, 1,920-by-1,200 HD IPS display. It has an 8-megapixel, rear-facing camera that records 1080p HD video, and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing one.

The device will run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, a 1.4-GHz quad-core A9 processor, and a 16-core GPU. Acer promised up to 10 hours of battery life.

With an optional keyboard add-on, the MediaPad 10 becomes an ultrabook, Huawei said.

The tablet is available now in China, and will begin shipping to Germany, Sweden, Russia, Belarus, Korea, Bahrain, and Kuwait in September, with other markets to follow. Pricing was not revealed.

The original, 7-inch MediaPad last year, while the MediaPad 10 at Mobile World Congress in February.

Huawei is not leaving the 7-inch form factor behind, however. The company today also released the MediaPad 7 Lite. The 7-inch tablet also runs Android ICS, and boasts a 7-inch, 1,024-by-600 display and a 1.2-GHz Cortex A8 chip. Huawei said the MediaPad 7 Lite also includes 3G cellular voice functionality.

It will start shipping to South Africa, China, Russia, Philippines, and Taiwan at the end of August and to Indonesia and Malaysia starting next month.

On the smartphone front, meanwhile, Huawei unveiled the Ascend G600, a 4.5-inch device running Android ICS and a 1.2-GHz dual-core CPU. The Ascend G600 has an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera and a 960-by-540-pixel resolution.