February 2022 – Page 10 – news.buyenne.com

Huawei MatePad Paper is a 10.3 inch E Ink tablet

Huawei has been selling tablets under the MatePad brand for years, but for the most part they’ve been Android-powered devices with full color displays. The new Huawei MatePad Paper is something different: it’s a 10.3 inch device with a grayscale E Ink display and pen support running Huawei’s own HarmonyOS software. It’s expected to sell for […]

The post Huawei MatePad Paper is a 10.3 inch E Ink tablet appeared first on Liliputing.

Huawei has been selling tablets under the MatePad brand for years, but for the most part they’ve been Android-powered devices with full color displays. The new Huawei MatePad Paper is something different: it’s a 10.3 inch device with a grayscale E Ink display and pen support running Huawei’s own HarmonyOS software.

It’s expected to sell for €499 (~$560) when it hits the streets this year.

The MatePad Paper features slim bezels for a 86.3% screen-to-body ratio, an E Ink display that supports 256 shades of grey, and a series of LED front lights that enable 32 levels of illumination, making the screen easy to view outdoors in direct sunlight or indoors in dim to no light. Huawei says the screen refresh rate is adjusted automatically to help conserve battery life when you’re viewing static content, while enabling higher rates when using apps or features that benefit from smoother scrolling. Theoretically you could even watch videos or play games.

With support for Huawei’s M Pencil stylus, you can write notes or draw pictures on the display or annotate eBooks or other content. There’s support for 4096 levels of pressure sensitivity and Huawei says the pen has just 26ms of latency, for an experience that feels like pen on paper.

The tablet’s €499 price tag includes both the M Pencil and a folio cover.

The E Ink tablet has 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage, a fingerprint reader, and support for up to four weeks of standby battery life (expect substantially less if you’re heavily using the tablet). The device also supports WiFi 6, has a USB-C port, and weighs 360 grams (less than 13 ounces).

There are still some details that Huawei hasn’t revealed: we don’t know what processor powers the MatePad Paper. And we don’t know what countries it will be sold in. It’s also unclear how HarmonyOS will stack up against alternate operating systems: some E Ink devices like Kobo or Amazon Kindle devices use proprietary operating systems while others, like the reMarkable 2, Onyx BOOX devices use Linux or Android-based software.

All of which is to say that Huawei is hardly the first company to release a tablet with an E Ink display that’s good for more than just reading eBooks. But it’s certainly one of the biggest companies to do so in a while.

Introducing the #HUAWEIMatePadPaper.

The newest member to the MatePad family, reviving your reading & office experience.#SuperDeviceSuperCreativity pic.twitter.com/d4nm5Olb1k

— Huawei Mobile (@HuaweiMobile) February 27, 2022

via Huawei, Engadget, and TechAdvisor

The post Huawei MatePad Paper is a 10.3 inch E Ink tablet appeared first on Liliputing.

Krieg in der Ukraine: Warum wir versagt haben

Das Geschehen dieser Tage zeigt, in welchem Maße die einst mächtige Friedensbewegung gescheitert ist. Und wie es weitergehen müsste

Ukraine-Krieg: Satelliteninternet KA-SAT ausgefallen

Beginnend mit dem Krieg in der Ukraine begann ein Ausfall des KA-SAT-Satellitennetzwerks. Elon Musk hat Satelliteninternet mit Starlink zugesagt. (Satelliteninternet, Technologie)

Australia’s standoff against Google and Facebook worked—sort of

Australia forced tech giants to pay for content; other countries now expect the same.

Over Zoom, Australia’s communications minister, Paul Fletcher, has the air of a man in the middle of a victory speech. He credits his team and the country’s competition regulator for succeeding where others had failed: forcing tech giants to pay for news. “There were a lot of people saying you can't really succeed in taking on the global digital giants,” he says, sitting beneath strip lighting in his Sydney constituency office. But Fletcher and Australia’s federal treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, persevered. In 2020, when the Australian government asked the competition regulator to develop a law that would force tech giants to pay for the news that appears on their feeds, Fletcher was aware of the stories others used as warnings. When Germany’s biggest news publisher, Axel Springer, tried to block Google from running snippets of its articles in 2014, it backtracked after just two weeks once traffic plunged. When Spain tried to force Google to pay for news in 2014, the search giant just left—blocking Google News in the country for seven years.

Google threatened Australia with even more drastic action. In January 2021, the tech giant suggested Australians could lose access to its entire search engine if Fletcher and Frydenberg’s “news media bargaining code,” which would force platforms to pay news publishers for links, came into force. Facebook also lobbied hard against the code, arguing that news makes up less than 4 percentof the content people see in their news feed. On February 17, Australians woke up to discover that all news links had been wiped off the platform, leaving the Facebook pages of the country’s biggest media companies completely blank. Traffic to news websites sank 13 percent, illustrating exactly what the government said it was worried about. Facebook’s actions “confirm for all Australians [the] immense market power of these media digital giants,” Frydenberg said at the time.

Read 19 remaining paragraphs | Comments