Chinese company Huawei has officially announced its new tablet, the MatePad 11 Pro 2024 Edition, which is the world’s first tablet to support satellite communications.

According to the company, the tablet comes with a large 11-inch OLED screen that can display more than a billion colors, its brightness reaches 600 nits, its resolution is 2560 x 1600 pixels, its refresh rate reaches 120 Hz, and it has TUV. Rhineland protects eyes from fatigue and blue light with long-term use.

The device has a satellite calling feature to send and receive short text messages via satellite in case cellular or Wi-Fi coverage is not available, but this feature is only available in the Chinese market.

The new Huawei MatePad Pro 11 has a 13-megapixel primary rear camera and an 8-megapixel wide-field camera, while the front camera is 16 megapixels. The device runs on Huawei’s HarmonyOS 4 operating system with device-specific features for multitasking. Also offers WP Office suite for business.The device has a battery capacity of 8300 mAh.

Huawei offers a keyboard and an M-Pencil stylus device that offers a high level of sensitivity and accuracy through NearLink technology.