Author: Chris O’Brien / Source: VentureBeat
Huawei today announced upgrades to its laptop and tablet lineup today at a press conference held a day before the start of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The Chinese company showed off the new Huawei MateBook X Pro laptop and the MediaPad M5 to press and analysts gathered at the city’s Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona, a massive facility that Samsung had used in years past for its MWC keynotes.
The MateBook X Pro in particular represents a strong push by Huawei to design a sleek, ultra thin laptop that targets business users. It’s 14.6mm thick and weighs 1.33 kg. The 13.9-inch notebook has a 3K touch-enabled display made from Gorilla Glass. Huawei dubs the display “FullView” because it has 91 percent screen-to-body ratio. The previous generation was 88 percent, and Huawei says the Apple MacBook Pro is 82 percent.
“We’re quite clear that our target customer are the business elite,” said Huawei spokesman Cheng Lei of the PC and tablet product line, said at a briefing prior to the event. “So the meeting component is very important.”
To create a screen that covers nearly the entire face, Huawei removed the camera from the typical position above the screen and hid it under the F7 key. This will likely be one of those changes users love or hate. Pressing on…
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