Huawei MediaPad 7 Lite Android tablet comes with an aluminum unibody

Huawei MediaPad 7 Lite Android tablet comes with an aluminum unibody, yet uncofirmed specs

Huawei just announced a new 7″ Android tablet – the MediaPad 7 Lite. With Google’s Nexus 7 tablet on the market, there isn’t a lot of room for 7″ droid tablets but the Huawei offering does have a few things the pureblood tablet doesn’t.

First off, the Huawei MediaPad 7 Lite has an aluminum unibody design. Then there’s the 3G connectivity (with voice calls and SMS), along with cameras on the front and the back. The tablet seems to be running stock Android ICS, but Huawei really thrifty with the details.

From one of the images it seems that it has two slots hidden under flaps – presumably one is for the SIM card and the other for a microSD card (which would be another advantage over the Nexus 7), but nothing on the official page confirms it.

Actually, that’s all we know about the MediaPad 7 Lite for now – the processor is unknown and there’s no info on pricing, markets or launch date. Without this, we don’t know how it stacks up against the $200 Nexus tablet with a quad-core processor and guaranteed OS updates (but no 3G, cameras or microSD card slot).

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Take a look inside the Mobile World Congress venue

Take a look inside the Mobile World Congress venue

The Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona is coming to an end. Until 2013 the event took place at Fira de Barcelona in the foot of the Montju?c hills, but this year the exhibition has moved to the more spacious and modern-looking Fira de Barcelona Gran Via.

If you followed our coverage from the congress, you probably already know a lot about the devices on display. But in case you are wondering what the venue and the booths inside looked like, we;ve got you covered as well. We have snapped a few shots around the futuristic booths set up by the manufacturers, so we can share with you the spirit of the MWC.

Here is the ZTE exhibition booth:

ZTE booth

Samsung’s corner looks pretty much the same every year:

Samsung booth

There were lots of people trying to get their hands on the Optimus G Pro at LG’s booth:

LG booth

Nokia had pretty big exhibition too:

Nokia booth

Motorola had probably the most awesome place, though it didn’t show anything new in terms of devices.

Motorola booth

We can tell you that people really liked the tech Sony brought to Barcelona.

Sony booth

This is HTC’s place, followed by the Alcatel One Touch booth.

HTC booth • Alcatel One Touch booth

And finally, here is the Huawei’s spot.

Huawei booth

I hope that’s enough for you to catch up on some of that MWC spirit, it was really beautiful inside the exhibition halls, though it was really tiring due to the longer distances at the new venue.

So you think your iPhone has a killer screen

So you think your iPhone has a killer screen? Check THIS out!

We have a little something that we’re working on right now and we just couldn’t keep it all to ourselves. It’s a phone with a screen so gorgeous that it easily puts to shame the current best. Blacks are immensely deep, the colors are vivid and the viewing angles are mind-boggling. Here’s it compared to the iPhone 3G (both screens set at maximum brightness):

We can’t tell you what phone it is just yet but it surely has one hell of a display. We haven’t seen anything like that.

Update: that’s actually the Samsung Wave display up there. You can check our full preview of the thing here here.

For the more inquisitive among you, we’ve got to point out that this shot hasn’t undergone any digital manipulation. The display performance of the newcomer is equally impressive under direct sunlight.

Unfortunately, we’ll have to keep silent on the identity of the phone for now as it should be announced at the MWC 2010 – the events starts on the 15 February and you can bet we’ll be there on location covering the latest and greatest.