Huawei Mate 9 Officially Unveiled
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Huawei has officially revealed Mate 9, a phablet smartphone, in an event held in Munich, Germany. Mate 9 Porsche Design is also revealed in this event, a higher specification variant. Mate 9 is the latest device in Mate series by Huawei and featured improvements than its predecessor. Huawei Mate 9 would be great alternative of Galaxy Note 7, as it has nearly identical features to Note 7. The highlights of Mate 9 are most powerful chipset, an amazing dual rear camera and a bigger battery.
Design:
Huawei has improved the design of its devices over the years, so is the case with Mate 9. It features familiar Mate Series design in Metal body. The most amazing thing about Mate 9 design is the its small bezels around the screen, which helped Huawei to achieve to small overall body size as compared to other devices. The fingerprint scanner on the back under the camera feels easy to navigate and use. the sharp combination of metal and glass that makes up the frame of the new Mate feels pretty solid in the hand. Mate 9 is fairly slim device irrespective it is a phablet smartphone.
- Dimensions: 156.9 x 78.9 x 7.9
- Weight: 189g approx.
- SIM: Dual Sim
Display:
As Mate 9 is a phablet smartphone, it is featuring large display size. The Mate 9 comes with a 5.9-inch Full HD 1080p LCD display screen on the front with 2.5D glass, offering a pixel density of 373ppi. Considering large Screen Size and the fact that it is a flagship device, full HD display is not looking appealing. But Huawei is hopeful low pixel density will be covered by a color gamut that meets 96% of the NTSC standard and a high contrast of 1500:1.
- Display Technology: LCD
- Screen Size: 5.9-inch
- Screen Resolution: 1920 x 1080 pixels (373 ppi)
Performance:
Huawei has promised a lot in Mate 9 performance. As that was said in the event that its chipset is fastest among the rest of the devices. Huawei has introduced Kirin 960 chipset, which boosted some improvements, as It's the first smartphone to use ARM's Cortex-A73 cores. Huawei also claims that Mate 9 GPU offering up to 180% improved graphics performance compared to the GPU used in the Kirin 950. Huawei also hopes better performance with the improved AI of Mate 9, which is intelligent enough to observe the behavior of the user and then prioritize, how much space will be allocated to the apps in case of heavy usage. With advanced chipset and processor, the DayDream VR experience would be tremendous in Mate 9.
Mate 9 will be running Android Nougat 7.0 with the latest Emotion UI 5.0 of the Huawei. To match the performance of the chipset, it is supplied with equally bigger 4GB RAM. The internal storage of the device is 64GB/128GB along with option of extendable storage up to 256GB in form of MicroSD.
- OS: Android Nougat 7.0
- UI: Huawei Emotion UI 5.0
- Processor: Kirin 960; Octa-core (4 x 2.4 GHz A73 + 4 x 1.8 GHz A53) + i6 co-processor
- GPU: ARM Mali-G71
- RAM: 4GB LPDDR4 RAM
- Internal Storage: 64GB / 128GB
- Removable Storage: microSD up to 256GB
Camera:
Leica-branded Camera is another high point of new Mate 9. It is featured with a 12megapixels color sensor and a 20megapixels black & white sensor dual rear camera, with an 8-megapixels front camera as well. The latest Kirin chipset is capable of capturing videos at amazing 4K 2160p resolution. Apart from OIS and Auto focus, the camera is filled with lots of other exciting features as well.
- Rear Camera: Dual Camera, 20MP Monochrome + 12MP RGB, F/2.2, Dual LED-Flash
- Front: 8MP Auto Focus, F/1.9
- OIS (Optical Image Stabilization)
- 4K video
Battery:
Huawei Mate 9 is packed with slightly bigger battery to provide longer back up time. It has 4000mAh battery, which seems to be more than enough for 5.9-inch smartphone. Huawei also introduces a new charging technology, named SuperCharge, which will provide enough charging for full day usage in 20 minutes
- Battery Capacity: 4000mAh
Colors:
The Mate 9 is available in Moonlight Silver, Mocha Brown or Ceramic White, Space Gray, Champagne Gold and Black colors.
Price & Availability:
The Huawei Mate 9 is expected to arrive in Europe and other selected markets starting in December, no words on device availability in North America. As the Mate 9 is a flagship device, the price is high and will cost you €699 (~$775).
