Huawei has been on quite the journey. With geopolitical tensions between China and the West meaning its access to many platforms and pieces of hardware and software we take for granted is blocked, the Chinese tech giant's fast rise was somewhat stalled in the western hemisphere. Undaunted, Huawei has started making its own chipsets and its own suite of apps and software, and in the Huawei MatePad 11.5"S (2025), the most polished – and addictive – of the lot makes it worth the purchase all on its own.
But is GoPaint enough to overcome the challenges of having to download familiar apps via APK packs and make the latest MatePad a genuine iPad alternative? I've had the MatePad 11.5"S for over a month to find out.
