Huawei MatePad Professional 13.2 vs. Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Extremely

The pill phase is probably not as sizzling because it as soon as was, but it surely doesn’t imply there aren’t loads of cool units on the market. And for those who do not wish to go together with the Apple’s eco-system, there’s a good likelihood you’d cease on a Samsung or a Huawei pill. And at the moment we will likely 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 optionally available keyboard covers. Each of these will likely 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 whole specs sheets.

Measurement comparability

The Galaxy Tab S9 Extremely is the larger pill, coming with the considerably bigger display. It additionally feels extra premium as it’s made totally 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 any way.

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

Total, Samsung did higher on the subject of 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 larger 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 has the upper brightness – 770nits vs. 642nits in Auto mode and 626nits vs 353nits with handbook management.

Each screens provide correct shade copy.

The Huawei MatePad Professional 13.2 affords 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. Alternatively, 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 will want 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, because of its extra power-efficient chipset, and doubtless display, scored a notably higher Energetic Use Rating in our battery life take a look at. It did higher throughout all checks – calls, internet, streaming and gaming.

Charging velocity

There’s a main distinction the 2 tablets on the subject of charging velocity. 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 and not using a charger.

It’s no shock then that the MatePad Professional 13.2 is twice as quick on the subject of charging velocity.

Speaker take a look at

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 take a look at and certainly, it sounds extremely loud even when the amount is about 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 take a look at and it affords excellent audio high quality – the sound is wealthy from bass to highs.

Lengthy story quick, each tablets do excel on the subject of speaker techniques. We listened to each side-by-side and we are able to 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 working on the Kirin 9000S chipset. There may be an 8-core processor inside, with one Prime-like Taishan Predominant 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, that 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 sooner (50% or extra) UFS4.0 storage in comparison with UFS 3.1 on the MatePad, and affords 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% sooner CPU, in addition to almost 3x sooner 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 major 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 accommodates a 16MP digicam (Quad-Bayer sensor, mounted 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 nicely. The rear cameras are the standard – a 13MP major 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 mounted for each front-facing cameras.

The pictures from the principle digicam on the MatePad have a greater developed middle, however worse corners and inaccurate white steadiness with a visual purple tint.

The ultrawide digicam on the MatePad produces worse pictures than the Galaxy’s with much less element, smudged corners and infrequently with a visual reddish tinge.

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

Galaxy Tab S9 Extremely: Predominant • Ultrawide • Selfie • Selfie ultrawide

MatePad Professional 13.2: Predominant • Ultrawide • Selfie

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

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

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

MatePad Professional 13.2 Video: Predominant (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 feel and look. It is just like the EMUI-labeled builds from the corporate too.

HarmonyOS 4 brings improved system widgets on your homescreen, bettered Tremendous Machine connectivity, and enhanced privateness and safety. The OS nonetheless helps APK installs through Huawei’s AppGallery, APK Pure or related, and Gbox works simply nice of you wish to run Google apps.

You may launch apps right into a split-screen view through a aspect 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’ll 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 aspect, which in flip opens a separate job switcher.

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

There isn’t any DeX-like mode on the MatePad, although its UI sort of works like desktop and the one factor that’s not accessible right here is placing recordsdata in your homescreen, a.ok.a. an actual desktop. It could be good if Huawei added this selection sooner or later.

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

It’s also possible to copy and paste pictures 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’ll 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 finished.

Multi-tasking within the pill view is finished as on the latest Galaxy smartphones – through the Job Switcher. Whereas within the job switcher you simply faucet on an app icon, and you’ll select between Cut up Display screen view and Pop-Up view. Not all apps assist pop-up mode, however the majority can do Cut up Display screen view.

Homescreen • Job Switcher • Pop-up view • Cut up view • Combined 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 Middle.

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

DeX desktop • Home windows • Snapping home windows

The Galaxy Tab S9 Extremely affords much 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 buy 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 think about the Huawei’s provide barely extra full – it’s not mandatory to begin purchasing for one thing instantly after you open the field.

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

The Galaxy Tab S9 Extremely is the most important and essentially the most highly effective Android pill proper now. It employs the whole lot Samsung can provide in a pill and does it proper. The AMOLED display is attractive, the Imaginative and prescient booster is a good addition, and the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy does impressively nicely 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 metallic unibody. Its bundled S-Pen is waterproof as nicely, and of essentially the most premium high quality at that – the energetic stylus with low latency enter. We do recognize having it within the retail field.

Lengthy story quick – you both get the Huawei provide for its brilliant and quick OLED and higher even when optionally available 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 may even have it with a SIM slot for 5G mobile connectivity. Not a troublesome alternative, is it?