Huawei MediaPad M3 8.4-Inch Tablet - (White) (4 GB RAM, 32 GB SSD, Android)

If you love the ‘book like’, form factor of the old and great Nexus 7 then you will love this tablet because it improves on the Nexus in every way; good performance, great quality and excellent display for a very reasonable price. Highly recommended.ProsExcellent performance.Great display with good resolution and default colouration.Screen aspect ratio may not suite those who watch lots of videos or play intense games.Very well made.Enjoyable to hold and use.Has a substantial feel that means it doesn’t feel as precarious to hold as the wafer thin tablets.Small foot print.Good battery life.Nicely balanced to hold with one hand.Excellent finger print recognition (better than the Samsung Galaxy Tab).Can add an SD card.ConsRear camera is passable, but lags many of its competitors in detail.Sound is acceptable but not top notch.Lots of bloat-ware pre-installed.Screen size and aspect ratio may be a problem for some.Given the price, performance and quality of this tablet there is only one big decision to make and that is whether you want a tablet with the

I really like this tablet. It's fast, has a great display, and works well - so far, within the first 3 weeks, no problems whatsoever, no crashes, etc. Nonetheless, I am quite disappointed. Some reviews and the official description led me to believe that it would be updated to Android 7.0 during setup. Which wasn't the case - my tablet still runs on 6, and when checking it reports no updates. Then I contacted the Huawei customer service to ask about the Android upgrade to Nougat. Someone promptly asked for my serial number, which I provided, and then I did not hear from them again. With this outdated OS (the Google Pixel meanwhile runs on Android 8, after all!) and the terrible customer service this product is, in my eyes, not worth more than 3 stars - 1 star each deducted for OS and customer service.P.S. I added one star, since on 15 December the tablet finally updated to Android 7.0 Nougat. The deduction for the bad customer service stays, though - I never heard from them again.

This is fantastic. I was replacing a Nexus 7 android, which I loved, but which really couldn't keep up with me any more. This Huawei is great. The display is nice and clear, and plays films and media well. The speakers on either side of the tablet give good sound quality. A big plus was that I could automatically port over all of my apps by syncing it with the Nexus, which saved no end of fuss. A great tablet, perfect for what I need, and a great price. I don't play fast moving games, so can't comment on that, but it gives excellent performance for swipe and touch games like candy crush.

Performance wise, it is great. Good unboxing experience, feels solid, looks very sturdy yet it is light. 1600x2560 resolution is brilliant on such small screen! That's the bright side.Now into bit more of this tablet:Much bloatware. Half of it CAN be uninstalled, other half CANNOT.Android is nowhere near stock. It came with Android 6.0 (emui 4.1) and security patch is as old as December 2016. Confirmed with Huawei support: no more updates available now. Android nougat is only RUMOURED (emui 5). Come on! Android O will be released pretty soon, and this isn't on Nougat yet??The only way to get latest Android is through flashing custom ROM which = warranty void.Huawei's launcher is terrible. Luckily I bought Nova Launcher year ago, so that was, SLOWLY replaced.Why slowly?It took me a while to find out where are all the options, specifically looking for Launcher settings. After 30 mins searching through everything, including Developer mode, I ended up looking online.Settings menu feels like the OS is on trial period and user needs to pay to unlock all features. A lot of stuff is missing, a lot of stuff is in weird places. Some misspellings here and there (e.g. notifications bar show AEROPLANE but in settings it is AIRPLANE). Language set to UK English.Huawei's keyboard is also poor, so I suggest a use of Google keyboard.Rear camera seems to take worse photos than the front one. Where is logic? Apparently both are 8MP...Navigation is hard to get used to.Battery keeps pretty well. Over 6h of video playback at 70% brightness and still fair bit of juice left.But once everything is set up, it is pretty good device. Just pain in the *** to get everything sorted out and get used to it.PS: this is my opinion after ~10h of usage. Yes, I am a kind of geek, therefore I know what I deal with. Roughly. 3 stars for great hardware but terribly bad and unfinished software. Stock Android would be far better than what Huawei done to this.Ended up sending for a refund. After experiencing official "support" of Huawei, I decided it is not worth it. No issues getting OS info, but anything else was a black magic for them.

The MediaPad M3 is a good quality 8-inch tablet. The hardware is first class, with solid performance from the processor/memory combination. Very good screen IPS high resolution excellent viewing angles. Case is solid aluminium and feels quality in your hands. There is a headphone socket (but no phones included in the box). The loudspeakers deliver good sound. Front fingerprint sensor works brilliantly for convenient unlocking. Only slight downside is the side bezels which are very thin and this can make hand-holding in portrait mode a bit awkward. Also there is no NFC chip.The software (Jan-18) is Android 7 and EMUI 5. Boots quickly at least it does when new. Apparently big H make their version of Android a lot like the Apple but I gather this is better (less dumbed down) now in version 5 of the EMUI than it was before. Seasoned Android users will want to enable the app drawer as soon as they get it. Chromecast is not supported in the OS - but this is OK provided your chosen video/music/WE app supports it directly.Found it fits in the the Amour Wear 8 inch case.