Instead of focusing on a trendy thin design or crazy-high-res HD screen (like most manufacturers), Huawei decided to take the road less traveled and offer a tablet with an immersive audio experience for watching movies and TV shows. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to check out the audio properly because the demo area here at CES 2016 was as loud as a Las Vegas nightclub.
Most models pack speakers that you could find on an average smartphone. If you use a tablet for watching a lot of video, immersive sound could elevate your experience from good to great. Even if you primarily use headphones, your ears need a break sometime.
On a more productive note, the MediaPad M2 also includes a stylus. There's no way to attach it to the tablet, so if you lose things as frequently as I do, good luck with that. Still, despite its dangerously untethered existence, I really liked it.
When I used the preloaded Notes app, the tablet easily and quickly recognized my handwriting and converted it into text. Writing with the stylus didn't feel weird or unnatural. I enjoyed it as much as writing on a notepad and if I had actually used it for work it would've saved me a lot of transcribing time.
The stylus worked well during my time with it, though a lack of palm rejection resulted in accidentally grazing the buttons on the bottom navigation bar, causing me to exit the app, go to the home screen or open the recent apps screen when I didn't intend to. It was an unfortunate nuisance. The good news is that's the worst thing about the stylus (and it's not really the stylus' fault).
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