Huawei Mediapad video demo

CHINESE GADGET MAKER Huawei announced its Mediapad tablet at an event in London last night.

The Mediapad will cost £330 in the UK but it won't be available until the first quarter of 2012. It will have a 7in IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen and run Android 3.2 Honeycomb.

The Mediapad is 10.5mm thick and weighs 390g, and will be "supported by Huawei Device's Hispace cloud solution". Huawei claims that the battery will last for more than six hours.

A 1.2GHz dual-core processor from Qualcomm will power the Mediapad and it will have a front facing 1.3MP camera. It will also have WiFi, HSPA+ 3G and an HDMI port.

Pre-installed applications will include Facebook, Twitter, Let's Golf and Documents to go, as well as support for Flash 10.3. µ