Huawei MediaPad M5 Pro 10.8-inch

Good stylus ; Strong battery life ; Meaty-sounding speakers

No Netflix HD streams ; No headphone jack ; Screen doesn't quite match the best

Sharp, bright screen. Powerful audio. Fast LTE.

Pricier than the iPad, which is the product by which all other non-Windows tablets are measured.

Bottom Line: Huawei's Mediapad M5 could have been the product to face down the $329 iPad, but the larger model costs at least $70 more.

Sharp, colorful screens; Decent performance; M5 Pro packs great sound, battery life and M-Pen ; Pricey; Mediocre gaming capabilities; MediaPad M5 has short battery life ; The Huawei MediaPad M5 Pro is a solid mid-range tablet.

Pricey; Mediocre gaming capabilities; MediaPad M5 has short battery life ; The Huawei MediaPad M5 Pro is a solid mid-range tablet.

The Huawei MediaPad M5 Pro is a solid mid-range tablet.

A nice looking and solid design ; Screen is big and colourful ; Generally smooth performance ; Included stylus is a nice touch ; Undercuts iPad Pro price point

Video apps streaming quality is bad ; Touch unresponsive at times ; Poor placement of buttons and speakers ; Touch-sensitive layer (for stylus) makes screen slightly fuzzy

The MediaPad M5 Pro is a tablet that promises a lot, but doesn’t quite deliver on its name. Speaker and button placement is odd, while watching content is hindered due to the screen's outer layer making things fuzzy and apps/software lacking output...

high-quality workmanship ; LTE Cat.6 ; 64 GB storage ; 4 speakers ; Android 8.0 ; high resolution display ; good camera ; very fast ; digital stylus ; stays cool during use ; solid battery life ; quick charging

no 3.5 mm jack ; system takes up a lot of space ; Wi-Fi not particularly fast ; preinstalled bloatware ; USB 3.0 port with USB 2.0 speeds ; weak display luminance ; throttling under load

High resolution 2K display, 4 Harman Kardon speakers, a good camera, solid battery life and quick charging - the MediaPad M5 10.8 Pro essentially shares all of the MediaPad M5 10.8's virtues. On top of that, it comes with three good extra features: The...

Smooth design ; Neat included stylus ; Great speakers

Not the brightest screen in its class ; No headphone jack

This tablet may not bury the iPad Pro, but it gets you similar skills for hundreds of pounds less.

Bundled stylus ; Sharp, attractive display ; Decent battery life

Older Kirin chipset ; Keyboard dock sold separately ; Awkward power/volume buttons

If you’re after an iPad Pro-style device which runs Android instead, the MediaPad M5 Pro ticks most of those boxes and adds a few advantages of its own. You get the same neat keyboard cover and stylus pen setup, with the added bonus that the pen is...

Excellent speakers ; Optional 4G and Wi-Fi connectivity ; Blistering fingerprint scanner

No 3.5mm headphone jack ; Expensive ; Doesn’t replace a Windows 10 PC

The Huawei MediaPad M5 Pro might not be flawless but it certainly is an excellent tablet and at around £500 you’re getting good value for money for the specification.