Mobile World Congress (MWC) is home to all sorts of wacky tech advancements, but our interest this year has been captured by something wholly mundane — the Honor MagicPad 4. It’s only mundane in the sense that it isn’t a dancing robot. As far as tablets go, Honor’s efforts actually look like one of the best in the game.
What’s the magic word?
The MagicPad 4’s biggest strength is, ironically, its size. It’s 12.3in display is fairly standard, even if the 165Hz-capable OLED panel (3K resolution, 2,400 nit peak brightness) isn’t. No, it’s the tablet’s 4.8mm thickness that has us frothing at the mouth, beating out the likes of the iPad Pro, which clocks in at 5.1mm thin.
Inside lies an octa-core Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chipset running MagicOS 10, which may well make this a decent stand-in when you leave your laptop behind. A whole host of AI powers, like AI Memo and AI Meeting Agent (you get the idea), lie beneath the surface. That’s become standard practise in years past, and isn’t going away.
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As impressive as the MagicPad 4’s thickness is, we’d have liked a battery larger than the 10,100mAh embedded here. It’s not quite worthy of mockery — it’ll still pull down a decent number of hours, is our guess, and Honor’s too. The 66W wired charging spec is a nice touch, though.
A single 13MP shooter on the rear, coupled with a 9MP sensor on the front round out the tablet’s specs. All that remains is a price and availability. Honor’s fixed a £600 (∼R13,000) price for the 12GB variant, while the 16GB model demands £700 (∼R15,000). There’s no word on whether South Africa will join in the festivities. We’ve reached out to Honor SA in the hopes of seeing a local launch, but have yet to hear back.
