August 22, 2022

HUAWEI expands its MateBook portfolio with the launch of its first 16-inch laptop, the HUAWEI MateBook D16

The Huawei South African Consumer Business Group has announced that’s its first 16-inch laptop, the HUAWEI MateBook D16, is now available on the HUAWEI online store, and in selected retail stores. Led by extensive consumer research, HUAWEI has found that the desire for 16-inch lightweight laptops is on the rise. With a global move towards remote working and studying, there is an increase in high-performance laptops.

Thin and lightweight, the HUAWEI MateBook D16 is the perfect laptop for professionals and creatives that require a powerful device to work seamlessly whilst on the move. The HUAWEI MateBook D16 brings numerous advancements, including a sleek metallic body, high-performance 12th Gen Intel® Core™ H-Series Processor, as well as futuristic Super Device experiences.

A professional large screen to optimise productivity

The HUAWEI MateBook D16 boasts a sizeable 2.5K resolution touch screen with a high screen-to-body ratio of 90% along with a 3:2 aspect ratio, granting a larger viewing area for effective content creation. It also attains a high colour accuracy, supporting a 100% sRGB colour gamut while covering the display of 1.07 billion rich colours. The touch screen supports high-precision 10-point multi-touch integrated touch solution which perfectly transplants the ultra-high technology of Huawei mobile phones to the HUAWEI MateBook D16, ensuring a smooth glide and a more delicate touch experience, making it easy to enlarge details with the touch of a finger.

Powerful performance to handle multi-tasking

Powered by the 12th Gen Intel® Core™ Processor, consists of up to i9-12900H, 14 cores and 20 threads with a max and turbo frequency of up to 5G Hz. The performance cores maximise single-threaded performance and energy-efficient cores. This means that the P-cores controls the heavy-duty tasks, such as gaming, real-time rendering and video clipping. When it comes to graphics, the HUAWEI MateBook D16 uses the Intel Iris® Xe Graphics to provide outstanding graphic processing capabilities, ideal for graphic designers, photo and video editors as well as gamers. The HUAWEI MateBook D16 assists with graphic-intensive tasks easily and smoothly.

In order to meet the needs of different user scenarios, the HUAWEI MateBook D16 comes with two modes, balance mode and performance mode. The balance mode is designed for users to handle everyday productivity tasks and the performance mode supports a 60W thermal design power (TDP) for heavy office tasks.

84Wh big battery+90W SuperCharge

Additionally, the HUAWEI MateBook D16 comes with a large battery of 84Wh (rated capacity). Day and night, it offers users an enduring battery life to better focus on work and creation, without worrying about charging the device from time to time.

Smart conference calls anytime, anywhere

As hybrid office working is gradually becoming the norm, people are in need for an immersive, safe and efficient meeting experience in complex environments. The HUAWEI MateBook D16 comes with a Smart Conference solution that features AI Sound and AI Camera. The crystal-clear 1080P AI Camera makes video conferencing a delight thanks to its picture quality and smart AI features.

The Metaline Antenna

The HUAWEI MateBook D16 Metaline Antenna is a brand-new antenna structure that compared with average antennas, has 56% better signal conversion efficiency. In the same network environment, it offers 2dB and 2.6dB better upload and download signals respectively. Even under weak Wi-Fi signals, the downloading speed increases by 55%.

Super Device features

The HUAWEI MateBook D16 takes multi-device collaboration to a whole new level thanks to the Super Device features that bring together super productivity and a cohesive multi-device experience. This enables s you to effortlessly connect to and collaborate with other HUAWEI devices nearby. Simply place your HUAWEI earphones, mouse, keyboards and speakers close to the HUAWEI MateBook D16, which automatically identifies your HUAWEI devices prompting quick and easy pairing.

In addition, with smartphones like the newly launched HUAWEI Mate Xs 2, it is even more useful. Once you have wirelessly connected your phone, you will see its UI (User Interface) appear on your laptop screen, so you can operate it as if your smartphone and laptop are one device. You can access and edit your files, use and manage up to three phone app windows simultaneously, take video or audio calls from your phone through the HUAWEI MateBook D16MateBookand even use your mouse and keyboard to control your smartphone.

The large screen is optimised for an immersive digital experience and the multi-tasking and processing capabilities features make it simple to deliver tasks and enjoy entertainment. If you are a business professional looking for super device features look no further than the HUAWEI MateBook D16, with numerous advancements, including a sleek metallic body, high-performance 12th Gen Intel® Core™ H-Series Processor, as well as futuristic Super Device experiences.

Get the high-performance HUAWEI MateBook D16 from the HUAWEI online store and at selected retailers, for R25 999.

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