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this coverage of MWC is brought to you by bitdefender mobile security huawei's largest tablet offering here at MWC can do more than you might think hey it's Josh of Agartha manager authority what's going on everybody and this is the huawei media pad m1 the design of the 8 inch media pad m1 borrows a couple of design cues from the HTC One as is probably what you're going to think when you first take a look at this tablet but it does rock the look very graciously and the end result is still in overall good looking tablet so maybe it doesn't matter as much the m1 is just 7.9 millimeters thick which is less than most devices competing in its class it's also pretty light for an 8 inch tablet at 329 grams we are looking at an all-metal device with a clean design that has a premium feel beyond its mid-range specification sheet and it is also available in grey and white now the front of the m1 is especially pretty with the very large screen and also the thin vertical bezels that plenty of people do favor greatly the 8 inch IPS LCD display of the media pad m1 has a resolution of 1280 by 800 translating it to a pixel density of about 189 PPI now that is pretty low for most standards but we do need to keep in mind the price tag of this device this is really just an average display for all intents and purposes but that could still be just fine for a plenty of users out there the media pad m1 is also powered by an in-house made high silicon quad-core processor clocked in at 1.6 gigahertz and combined with one gigabytes of RAM the processor should do a good job of powering the user interface though we won't really vouch for more intense activities like let's say multitasking in high gaming you do get the option of 8 or 16 gigabytes built-in but you can also add additional storage thanks to the micro SD card slots and as far as the camera goes you get a pretty basic setup a 5 megapixel main shooter and a 1 megapixel front camera for video calls and the occasional selfie and as far as the battery life goes you do get a pretty sizable 4800 million power battery that should power it for quite a long time and finally when it comes to the software the emotion UI Android overlay on the media pad m1 is designed to be as easy to use as possible hence the lack of an app drawer that's present on most Android devices I do understand however if that's a bit of a turn-off for some of you out but it is a motif of Huawei software instead all of the apps are shown on the home screen and unless you do a little bit of organization it could get a little bit cluttered while we also went for a very bright and colorful aesthetic with their software which was rather easy on the eyes overall it does get the job done and you should be able to get quite a bit done in this software without really too much fuss at all in the end this is still a tablet but it is capable of taking SIM cards connecting to mobile data networks and taking calls and doing SMS messages and that does put the media pad m1 on a rather unique scale and in the end we do kind of like what we see so this is Josh Pagar from Android authority reporting to you live from the Mobile World Congress here in Barcelona Spain