Huawei MediaPad X1 priced at under $300 in China, but it won't be that cheap in other markets

Huawei’s new and sleek MediaPad X1 was officially announced a couple of days ago at MWC 2014 as the "lightest and narrowest 7-inch tablet". It certainly is a good-looking device, and its specs are quite nice, too, including an IPS display with 1200 x 1920 pixels, 5MP front-facing camera, 13MP rear camera, a quad-core 1.6GHz HiSilicon Kirin 910 processor, 2GB of RAM, and a 5,000 mAh battery.



Vmall (Huawei’s official online shop for China) is already taking pre-orders for the MediaPad X1, asking $294 (1,799 CNY) for the 3G model, and $326 (1,999 CNY) for the LTE one. The tablet is called ...