Huawei MatePad Professional 13.2 vs. Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Extremely

The pill section is probably not as scorching because it as soon as was, but it surely doesn’t imply there aren’t loads of cool gadgets on the market. And if you happen to do not need to go along with the Apple’s eco-system, there’s a good likelihood you’d cease on a Samsung or a Huawei pill. And right now we might be pitting in opposition to one another the newest and biggest tablets from these two producers.

The Huawei MatePad Professional 13.2 faces the Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Extremely. Two massive slates with high-end stylus assist and non-compulsory keyboard covers. Each of these might be remembered for his or her notched screens, which certainly made them controversial among the many followers.

Desk of Contents:

Let’s start by evaluating the entire specs sheets.

Measurement comparability

The Galaxy Tab S9 Extremely is the larger pill, coming with the considerably bigger display screen. It additionally feels extra premium as it’s made solely of aluminum. Moreover, the Galaxy Tab S9 Extremely is IP68-rated for mud and water resistance, whereas Huawei’s slate has no ingress safety in anyway.

The bundled S-Pen recharges on the again of the Galaxy, however there’s additionally a magnetic holder on the body, The non-compulsory Huawei M-Pencil has just one mattress – each for charging and storage – and it’s on the body.

General, Samsung did higher relating to design and value.

Show comparability

Each tablets have premium shows that may wow you with their distinction and colours. The one on the Galaxy is bigger, however with barely decrease decision and refresh price. The one on the MatePad is a bit smaller, however with increased sharpness, refresh price and deeper colours (10-bit vs 8-bit). Each screens assist HDR10, although the Huawei’s assist is unofficial.

The Huawei MatePad Professional 13.2 display screen has the upper brightness – 770nits vs. 642nits in Auto mode and 626nits vs 353nits with handbook management.

Each screens provide correct coloration copy.

The Huawei MatePad Professional 13.2 presents the upper refresh price, however in our testing we could not affirm its claimed most refresh price or its dynamic switching. So, we now have to take its phrase and belief it’s a dynamic one. However, the Galaxy Tab S9 Extremely helps 30Hz, 60Hz, and 120Hz steps relying on the content material.

Lastly, the 2 tablets assist HDR10 and are efficiently acknowledged throughout Netflix and the likes. To take action on the MatePad Professional you’ll need to make use of Gbox variations of these apps, although.

Battery life

The MatePad Professional 13.2 is powered by a ten,100 mAh battery, whereas the Galaxy Tab S9 Extremely has a 11,200mAh cell.

The Galaxy Tab S9 Extremely, due to its extra power-efficient chipset, and doubtless display screen, scored a notably higher Lively Use Rating in our battery life check. It did higher throughout all checks – calls, net, streaming and gaming.

Charging pace

There’s a main distinction the 2 tablets relating to charging pace. The MatePad Professional 13.2 helps 88W quick charging and comes with that charger, whereas the Galaxy Tab S9 Extremely maxes out at 45W and ships with no charger.

It’s no shock then that the MatePad Professional 13.2 is twice as quick relating to charging pace.

Speaker check

The MatePad Professional 13.2 makes use of a 6-speaker system with 4 woofers and a couple of tweeters similar to the MatePad Professional 11. It additionally options ‘Huawei Sound’, which the official specs do not elaborate on, but it surely does sound nice. The Galaxy Tab S9 Extremely has 4 audio system with assist for Dolby Atmos, and they’re fairly loud.

The MatePad Professional 13.2 scored an Glorious mark on our loudness check and certainly, it sounds extremely loud even when the quantity is ready to 50%! Even higher, its sound high quality is sensible – there’s deep bass, nice vocals, well-presented excessive vary.

The Galaxy Tab S9 Extremely additionally scored an Glorious mark on our loudness check and it presents very good audio high quality – the sound is wealthy from bass to highs.

Lengthy story brief, each tablets do excel relating to speaker techniques. We listened to each side-by-side and we will conclude the Huawei slate has ever so barely extra highly effective, bassy and sound-rich system.

Efficiency

The Huawei MatePad Professional 13.2 is the primary machine we meet operating on the Kirin 9000S chipset. There’s an 8-core processor inside, with one Prime-like Taishan Most important core clocked at 2.65GHz, three Taishan Center cores working at 2.15GHz and 4 energy-efficient Cortex-A510 cores at 1.5GHz. The Taishan cores assist multi-threading and that is the explanation why some {hardware} apps detect the CPU as 12-core. The GPU is a customized Maleoon 910 MP4, which means it has 4 computing cores. It’s clocked at 750MHz.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Extremely is powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy. This chipset has 1×3.36 GHz Cortex-X3 prime core, 2×2.8 GHz Cortex-A715 heavy hitters, 2×2.8 GHz Cortex-A710 medium cores and 3×2.0 GHz Cortex-A510 power-saving models. The Adreno 740 GPU is clocked at 719. This mannequin has quicker (50% or extra) UFS4.0 storage in comparison with UFS 3.1 on the MatePad, and presents mobile capabilities as much as 5G, opposite to the Wi-Fi-only Huawei MatePad Professional 13.2. Oh, and there’s a microSD slot, too!

Fairly expectedly, whereas nonetheless strong, the Huawei MatePad Professional 13.2 has inferior efficiency in comparison with the Galaxy Tab S9 Extremely and its flagship-grade Snapdragon {hardware}. The Galaxy Tab has about 40% quicker CPU, in addition to almost 3x quicker GPU.

The Galaxy Tab S9 Extremely has cutting-edge {hardware} and a extra superior processor, higher-end graphics with ray tracing, and a greater AI core. It’s higher fitted to high-end gaming, and it has confirmed to be a pill that gives nice sustained efficiency.

Huawei’s {hardware} is much from dangerous, it’s simply not flagship-grade, however would nonetheless deal with the vast majority of duties with out breaking a sweat.

Digital camera comparability

The Huawei MatePad Professional 13.2 has two cameras on its again, and are two extra on the entrance, inside a notch. There’s a 13MP main on the again with a 27mm f/1.8 lens and autofocus and an 8MP ultrawide shooter with a 13mm f/2.2 lens and glued focus at infinity. The entrance setup incorporates a 16MP digital camera (Quad-Bayer sensor, fastened focus) with a 27mm f/2.2 lens and a ToF 3D unit for safe face unlock.

The Galaxy Tab S9 Extremely has two cameras on its again, and there are one other two entrance cameras, inside a notch as properly. The rear cameras are the same old – a 13MP main one with a 23mm f/2.0 lens and autofocus and an 8MP ultrawide shooter with a 13mm f/2.2 lens and glued focus at infinity. The entrance cameras are two 12MP imagers. The primary has a 25mm f/2.2 lens, whereas the second makes use of a 15mm f/2.4 lens for ultrawide-angle view. The main focus is fastened for each front-facing cameras.

The photographs from the primary digital camera on the MatePad have a greater developed heart, however worse corners and inaccurate white stability with a visual pink tint.

The ultrawide digital camera on the MatePad produces worse photographs than the Galaxy’s with much less element, smudged corners and sometimes with a visual reddish tinge.

The selfies usually are not nice on the MatePad – it has a 16MP Quad-Bayer digital camera that saves 4MP photographs with little element. However, the Galaxy Tab has very actual 12MP imagers that save detailed photographs with correct colours.

Galaxy Tab S9 Extremely: Most important • Ultrawide • Selfie • Selfie ultrawide

MatePad Professional 13.2: Most important • Ultrawide • Selfie

The Galaxy Tab S9 Extremely helps 4K video capturing with all however the UW digital camera, whereas the MatePad helps 4K movies solely with its rear digital camera.

The movies shot on the Galaxy Tab are typically higher. They’re those with persistently correct colours and extra seen element.

Tab S9 Extremely Video: Most important (4K) • Ultrawide (1080p) • Selfie (4K) • Selfie ultrawide (4K)

MatePad Professional 13.2 Video: Most important (4K) • Ultrawide (1080p) • Selfie (1080p)

Software program comparability

The MatePad Professional 13.2 runs HarmonyOS 4.0, the in-house working system, which integrates Android API 31 (Android 12). This newest v4.0 is newer than the v3.0 we noticed on earlier MatePads, but it surely’s very related in appear and feel. It is just like the EMUI-labeled builds from the corporate too.

HarmonyOS 4 brings improved system widgets in your homescreen, bettered Tremendous Gadget connectivity, and enhanced privateness and safety. The OS nonetheless helps APK installs by way of Huawei’s AppGallery, APK Pure or related, and Gbox works simply tremendous of you need to run Google apps.

You may launch apps right into a split-screen view by way of a facet menu, accessible by swiping in from both fringe of the show and holding briefly to override the again gesture. Tapping an app from right here spawns a floating window of it, and you may have two such home windows open on the identical time, with each subsequently launched one minimizing one of many earlier ones to a separate icon on the facet, which in flip opens a separate job switcher.

Homescreen • Job Switcher • Pop-up apps • Multi-window

There is no such thing as a DeX-like mode on the MatePad, although its UI sort of works like desktop and the one factor that isn’t out there right here is placing recordsdata in your homescreen, a.okay.a. an actual desktop. It might be good if Huawei added this feature sooner or later.

Oh, and whereas in split-screen, you too can have as much as two pop-up home windows on high, which brings the variety of lively apps on the identical time as much as 4.

You can even copy and paste photographs and textual content between home windows by merely dragging and dropping.

The Galaxy Tab S9 Extremely boots Android 13 with One UI 5.1. The interface helps pill and DeX mode, and you may simply change between these two anytime.

The S9 Extremely defaults to its pill view by default. Except you manually change to desktop (DeX) mode, that is how you’ll use the slate. There are a few main variations between pill and desktop view – the interface and icon scaling; the homescreen look and habits, and the way multi-tasking is completed.

Multi-tasking within the pill view is completed as on the current Galaxy smartphones – by way of the Job Switcher. Whereas within the job switcher you simply faucet on an app icon, and you may select between Break up Display view and Pop-Up view. Not all apps assist pop-up mode, however the majority can do Break up Display view.

Homescreen • Job Switcher • Pop-up view • Break up view • Blended view

The DeX mode, to not be mistaken with the wi-fi DeX possibility, is a desktop-oriented interface for the Galaxy Tab S9 Extremely. You may set off the DeX view from Settings or the Notification Heart.

As soon as activated the Galaxy Tab S9 Extremely is locked to panorama mode with Home windows-like desktop the place you place your apps. All apps open in window mode and on the high you should have the properly acquainted trio of sprint/sq./X. A lot of the app home windows assist native full display screen in DeX mode, however even when they do not – the One UI will inform you that, and it’ll nonetheless maximize the app correctly in full display screen; it might simply must be refreshed. We had no points with the full-screen possibility on any app – each suitable (not needing a refresh) and never optimized (wants a relaunch). You may stack numerous home windows, similar to you’d usually do on Home windows and macOS. You can even snap home windows in Break up View, similar to on Home windows.

DeX desktop • Home windows • Snapping home windows

The Galaxy Tab S9 Extremely presents way more mature software program and multi-tasking choices, even the S-Pen ones, and we discovered that customers with laptop-oriented wants would undoubtedly choose it over Huawei’s machine.

Verdict

The Huawei MatePad Professional 13.2 launch value is €1,000 for its 256GB Wi-Fi mannequin. That’s the very same value you should purchase the Galaxy Tab S9 Extremely’s 256GB Wi-Fi variant. The MatePad ships with its 88W energy adapter, whereas the Galaxy comes with an S-Pen as an alternative. We take into account the Huawei’s provide barely extra full – it’s not essential to start out purchasing for one thing instantly after you open the field.

Huawei has been one of many few corporations to proceed pushing new merchandise within the section of high-end tablets. The Matepad Professional 13.2 continues the lineage with the most effective pill OLED screens, speaker techniques, highly effective OS, tremendous quick charging and extremely well-made unique equipment. The potential deal-breaker, after all, is the shortage of Google Cell Companies. And whereas Gbox does ship working Play Retailer apps that require GMS, together with Google’s personal Maps, Gmail, YouTube, it might nonetheless be not sufficient for everybody.

The Galaxy Tab S9 Extremely is the biggest and probably the most highly effective Android pill proper now. It employs every part Samsung can provide in a pill and does it proper. The AMOLED display screen is beautiful, the Imaginative and prescient booster is a superb addition, and the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy does impressively properly beneath stress. And with the DeX mode, it’s a correct laptop-replacement.

The Tab S9 Extremely is an IP68-rated pill with an extremely skinny steel unibody. Its bundled S-Pen is water resistant as properly, and of probably the most premium high quality at that – the lively stylus with low latency enter. We do admire having it within the retail field.

Lengthy story brief – you both get the Huawei provide for its shiny and quick OLED and higher even when non-compulsory keyboard cowl. Otherwise you get the Galaxy Tab S9 Extremely as a result of it’s simply the higher provide – IP68-rated, extra highly effective, with DeX mode and higher battery life. And you’ll even have it with a SIM slot for 5G mobile connectivity. Not a troublesome alternative, is it?