Huawei had a tablet announcement in store for MWC 2020, but since the Barcelona event is cancelled it just had to do it the regular way-- the MatePad Pro 5G, a self-explanatory 5G update of the iPad Pro-style MatePad Pro.

Announced last year for the Chinese market, the MatePad Pro is a high-end Android tablet. It features a 10.8-inch 16:10 aspect ratio AMOLED touchscreen complete with a punch hole for an 8MP front-facing camera. Display resolution clocks at 2560 x 1600, and Huawei claims it has a screen-to-body ratio of no less than 90%. The display is also allows for pen input, specifically through the (not included) M-Pencil stylus.

Apple should launch a the latest iPad Pro at around March 2020, but according to DigiTimes shipments will only peak until after April, since component suppliers are still ramping up output following an extended Chinese New Year break.

The reason behind the longer-than-usual break is, of course, the coronavirus outbreak. DigiTimes says upstream supply chain partners kicked off component production for the new model before the Lunar New Year, but the epidemic has put on the break. As a result, shipments may peak at a monthly level of over 3.5 million units in Q2 2020, since assemblers will only start ramping up shipments from March.

Taiwanese ODM Compal might be best known for being one of the biggest contract laptop manufacturers in the world, but it actually has a history of original hardware concepts-- such as the Pivobook, an innovative laptop with a pivoting display.

A product design winner in the 2020 iF World Design Guide Awards, the PivoBook has a 14-inch OLED display users can rotate between landscape and portrait views. Details on the actual laptop are scarce, but Compal says the display is extra-thin and lightweight, while "hinge ingenuity" allows for easy rotation. Tech specs are not available, but the intriguing concept means it should find use in any applications, particularly since the vertical orientation can be useful for heavy web browsing or video conferencing.

Samsung announces what it claims is the first 5G tablet-- the Galaxy Tab S6 5G, a variant of last year's Galaxy Tab S6 featuring a 5G modem, specifically the Snapdragon X50, instead of the integrated X24 LTE modem.

Set to initially go on sale in Samsung's home S. Korea, the Galaxy Tab S6 5G features otherwise identical specs as the previous model. It is a 10.5-inch device with a QHD+ Super AMOLED display and quad speakers with Dolby Atmos, and inside are the same Snapdragon 855 processor, 6GB RAM and 128GB storage. An S-Pen is also included for stylus input.