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this coverage of MWC is brought to you by bitdefender mobile security huawei 7-inch offering is more than just a pretty tablet hey Josh regard from Android authority what's going on everybody and this is the first look at the huawei media pad x1 yes you are looking at a 7-inch tablet that is capable of also taking phone calls thus making it one of the largest smartphones we've ever had our hands on while not a very profitable device by any means we did find the handling to be as good as we always claim of this being one of the thinnest and lightest 7-inch form factors out there the aluminum finish is a very nice touch and the flat sides make it pretty easy to hold in one hand provided you're actually able to wrap your hand around it the 7 inch screen is no slouch as it packs Full HD resolution at 1920 by 1200 giving this big phablet the ability to provide some great media experiences the small bezel helps keep the entire tablet a smaller size despite its bigger screen from what we were able to glean in our time with the tablet the colors were really quite nice and the brightness is more than adequate underneath the surface an in-house SOC called the Huawei hisilicon Kirin 910 employs a quad-core cortex a9 and the Mali 450 graphics with 2 gigabytes of RAM to allow you to get some good multitasking done the capability of taking advantage of 4G speeds in at least various markets in Asia can help make this smartphone tablet speed right through the internet and the on-board storage can be bolstered by the included micro SD card slot and a very sizable 5000 milliamp hour battery unit helps the x1 truck along for quite a while the camera on the rear will please shutter bugs as it comes with a 13 megapixel Sony Exmor R BSI sensor that packs quite a wallop selfies are a bit of a focus for Huawei as the front camera comes with built-in tips for taking the best possible self-portraits you can enjoy in the time we were able to spend with the software we saw how Huawei does try to make the large screen more accessible for users for one thing it is possible to scroll through the elements with one hand even while holding your screen with the thumb on the other hand one aspect that I thought was really cool was the ability to hide the soft keys at the bottom with the press of a little arrow found on the left if you do need them to come back you can simply swipe up from the bottom of the screen and over here and despite the lack of an app drawer we still thought the operating system looked pretty crisp and colorful without really going overboard the media pad x1 is one nifty little tablet and it just so happens to have general phone capabilities built-in as well so stay tuned for more developments from the Mobile World Congress from us here in Barcelona Spain