Huawei’s New MediaPad 7 Youth2 Is A Samsung Galaxy Tab3 Lite Competitor

It was spotted in an FCC filing back in June, but Huawei has today confirmed the MediaPad 7 Youth, a full HD 7-inch Android tablet aimed towards the lower-end of the market. The latest in Huawei’s MediaPad range sports an aluminium metal unibody that’s 9.9mm thin and weighs 350g, which is sleeker.

Beijing: The affordable tablet market is getting crowded with each day that passes by. The latest tablet that’s going to try and win the hearts of users on a budget comes from Huawei, and it’s called MediaPad 7 Youth2.

Like the MediaPad 7 Youth launched last year, the new model has a metallic frame, and a 7-inch display is a 10-point touchscreen with 600 x 1024 pixels. It runs Android 4.3 Jelly Bean with Huawei’s Emotion UI 1.6, further featuring HSPA+ (21 Mbps), Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, A-GPS, a 3MP rear camera, VGA front-facing camera, 1GB of RAM, 4GB of internal memory, MicroSD card support, and a 4,100 mAh Li-Po battery helped by “Huawei’s patented power-saving tech and the Dynamic Power Management system.” The company also boasts that it’ll last two weeks on standby, although that means relatively little in terms of practical use.

Huawei says the processor inside the MediaPad Youth2 is a quad-core 1.2GHz MSM8x12 A7 - which likely means it’s a Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 (either the 8212, or the 8612 model).

With these features, the Huawei MediaPad 7 Youth2 will give Samsung’s latest Galaxy Tab3 Lite a run for its money. We could even say that the Youth2 looks a bit better on paper, specs-wise. The Galaxy Tab3 Lite should cost around $130, and we’re guessing that Huawei won’t ask more for its new tablet. The Chinese company hasn’t announced when and where it intends to launch the MediaPad 7 Youth2, but we’ll likely hear more on this soon.

Pricing is yet to be announced, but the MediaPad 7 Youth will be launched in Russia, China, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Europe throughout the third quarter of 2013.

Huawei’s Own Octa-Core Chip Ready

In related news, Huawei’s Richard Yu has revealed that his company’s octa-core HiSilicon chip is ready. Based on 28nm HPM, this octa-core SoC is expected to come with the usual quad Cortex-A15 plus quad Cortex-A7 big.LITTLE combo. This is not all, according to Yu, the SoC will pack multi-mode LTE modem that can handle both WCDMA and TD-SCDMA radios.