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The Budget Huawei MediaPad M3 Lite -- REVIEWED
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May 29, 2025
There's lots to like in the new Huawei MediaPad M3 Lite with its bright 8-inch screen and speedy performance, but the best feature is its price. Considering all the tech jammed into the device - including a fingerprint scanner and dual Harman Kardon speakers - it's quite a bargain and perfect for most everyone. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out this Android-based tablet from Huawei and finds that it's lighter in specs than the MediaPad M3 "not lite", but still quite a good performer... Check it out: http://amzn.to/2CgMqzm
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you'll want to check this out it's a
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gorgeous Android tablet Dave Taylor here
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and I'm going to start this tablet
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review a little different to normal
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because I want to start right out by
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listening to the music and the audio of
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this huawei media pad m3 light it's an 8
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inch tablet running Android but let's
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just jump straight to music so I'm gonna
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go into google play music and we'll just
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play some jazz it is loud it is very
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pleasant now pause that there's no bass
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there's just you can't push bass out of
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something this small I mean it's thin
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there's nowhere to put a speaker that
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actually has a decent sized driver
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that's ok because it does such a good
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job otherwise at the fact if you just
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leave it sitting on the table it
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actually sounds quite good this is
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something where it's loud enough as you
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heard to fill your room I mean who would
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think that a tablet could actually do
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something like that but the reason for
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that is that Huawei paired up with
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Harman Kardon and Harman Kardon has been
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making audio gear for a really long time
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they make really great stuff so between
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all of those smart engineers they have
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created something that surprisingly
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sounds really good it even has two
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little tiny speakers at the bottom that
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somehow managed to give you really good
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audio now there's a lot more to like
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about this than just that however one of
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which is like I said it's running
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Android this is Android 7.0 nougat and
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on top of it Huawei runs their own UI
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called emui this is version 5.1 on this
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and this is the lite version so it's
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screen resolution is 1920 by 1200
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there's also the Huawei media pad m3 non
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lite version and that one's a lot more
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expensive but it gives you much better
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specs it's faster the screens almost
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double the resolution this is the little
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guy this is the lower-cost one and this
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one's still pretty darn nice so on the
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bottom it's not the home
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if you are from an iPad world you might
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think that's what it is it's a
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fingerprint scanner super easy way to
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unlock it once you've been added your
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fingerprint and then so then the home
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button and stuff actually is on the
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bottom and it stays there even when you
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reorient which takes a tiny bit of
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getting used to if you're used to that
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swinging around but pretty
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straightforward to work with let's see
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it's based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon
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435 which is an octa-core chip and has
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three gigabytes of RAM only 16 gig of
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memory which is not a whole lot and for
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reasons I don't fully understand you
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look you hope you don't see any ability
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to put another card in there so you
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really sort of locked into that 16 gigs
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of memory that's a bit of a drag I wish
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there was actually a way to just put in
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a little micro sd or something maybe the
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next generation so 16 gig of memory like
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I said and the dimensions it's about 5
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inches by about just a smidge more than
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8 inches and it's a third of an inch
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thick weighs just over pound it's very
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very portable very easy to work with and
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you know what let's look at some video
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too because I want you to see that it
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does a really good job with video too so
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this is streaming off of Amazon Prime
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video and I realize this is a sub
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optimal viewing environment but you can
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see it's a bright vivid colorful screen
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it's easily keeping up with the video
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and this is a full HD image because
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Amazon can push that out and this screen
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can definitely display it so very nice
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and the other thing to notice audio it's
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good it's loud it works really well put
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this in a nice little holder and you
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could easily just have it sitting on
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your table or right by your desk and you
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could be watching sports or Netflix or
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Amazon or whatever super easy this is
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the show Britannia if you're curious by
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the way and just a lot I really like
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about this it's just the Huawei has done
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a really nice job really getting this
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down to the essentials now it does have
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let's see if we do a quick tour of the
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ports there is an audio
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you X Jack yay you don't have to use
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Bluetooth of course it does have
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bluetooth and it has volume up/down and
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the power button and on the bottom it
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charges by a microUSB and there's a tiny
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microphone I assume and a bunch of holes
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because that's where the speaker is and
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that's pretty much everything you need
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from the actual device it has a camera I
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don't honestly see people using the
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rear-facing or front-facing camera that
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much but you know on the other hand you
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do see people at concerts and at school
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events and stuff where they're doing
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this and they're making video you can do
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that here's an example of a photo I took
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with it and it's pretty nice you know
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it's not a five or six hundred dollar
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iPad this is a much lower price but it's
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a really nice unit and if you love the
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Android world and you just really want
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to have an Android with a much bigger
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screen this is a really good choice so
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before I tell you the price and I'm sure
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you'll be surprised by it before I tell
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you the price let me just ask if you can
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click on that subscribe button really
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appreciate if you can subscribe cool now
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how much does this believe it or not one
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hundred and eighty five bucks in Amazon
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all right one hundred and eighty five
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ninety at amazon.com this is the huawei
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media pad m3 light I think it's
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definitely worth checking out if you're
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looking for a non iPad tablet it's a
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really nice choice this is Dave Taylor
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and I'll catch you in my next video
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