Good stylus ; Strong battery life ; Meaty-sounding speakers

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

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...

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...

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.

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...