The Chinese manufacturer is trying to take the buzz out of the new Galaxy Note 8 with phones galore, such as the Mate 10 coming this fall.
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The Huawei Mate 10 looks mighty pretty, will cost a pretty penny
Well, according to China standards as few phones we talk about really break the 4,000 Yuan mark — that's US$600, by the way.
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Huawei P10 Plus Real Camera Review: Leica for the win (Video)
Unlike its little brother, the Huawei P10 Plus brings just enough improvements to the table over last year's Mate 9 to warrant an in-depth camera review.
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Huawei P10 vs Mate 9: Beauty and the Beast… (Video)
The two Huawei flagships share plenty at the core of their being, but when it comes to the panache and pang, there are clearly different tacks going on.
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Huawei P10 and P10 Plus kick off second year of Leica Camera partnership
Dual cameras are back again and seemingly better than ever. Huawei's MWC 2017 event is all about changing our point of view with the P10.
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Huawei Mate 9 vs LG V20: Big Phones Dual Cameras (pt.2)
In our second installment of “Big Phones, Dual Cameras” we’re moving to the real showdown.
Android 7 Nougat vs Android 7 Nougat. LG’s software skin vs Huawei EMUI. A large 5.9″ 1080p screen against a big 5.7″ 1440p display. The Qualcomm 820 chipset vs the Kirin 960 octa-core cpu. These two phones pair up well against each other, delivering high end hardware, premium build quality, gobs of custom software, and some incredible photography features.
Huawei has been impressing lately. The Mate 9 is a formidable foe, so it only makes sense to pit it against one of our favorite multimedia smartphones of the year. LG now faces the second generation Leica dual camera system. Will its incredible headphone performance and durable build quality eke out the victory?
It’s time for a showdown! Which phone wins? You decide in our viewer poll!
Huawei Mate 9 vs LG V20: Big Phones Dual Cameras (pt.2)
Watch part one, pitting the Mate 9 against the iPhone 7 Plus
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Long Island railroaded: Huawei Mate 9 Pro launches in China
Typically, adding the word “Pro” to a phone’s name indicates that the device exudes of better performance and expanded purpose beyond what a normal version would take on. In Huawei’s case, it had a couple of words it wanted to use first: “Long Island.”
FYI, I didn’t just make it up ;) pic.twitter.com/WInbcVHzYN
— Evan Blass (@evleaks) November 4, 2016
We were told of this first from leakster Evan Blass and now, it’s finally real and we have no use for allusions to New York anymore. The Huawei Mate 9 Pro, the Mate 9‘s younger, but bolder sibling, is now in China.
Some of the features we get include a 5.5-inch quad HD display (as seen on the Porsche Design version of the Mate 9) and a slightly-tweaked Kirin 960 chipset. What remains is the Leica-approved dual-camera setup — a 12-megapixel color sensor and 20-megapixel monochrome sensor — and a front-mounted fingerprint sensor. Top that off with an 8-megapixel selfie camera, Android Nougat and a decent 4,000mAh battery and we’re talking business.
How much business? According to Huawei, it’s ¥4,699 ($686) for a version with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage and ¥5,299 ($773) for a Mate 9 Pro with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. Pre-orders have been turned on for the phone and the Mate 9.
The $1,500 Porsche Design version — or maybe even the “fancy schmancy Mate 9 Pro,” if you look at the specs — doesn’t go up for pre-sales until December 15.
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Hot Takes on the Huawei Mate 9 and more… after dark | #PNWeekly 225
It’s nighttime in America and it’s Friday to boot. We should be out on the streets painting the town red. But instead, we’re sitting down, cracking a few cans open and talking with our best mates about a new Mate.
As Huawei takes over the scene for the week with a couple of luminescent phones, Evan Blass and Alcatel remind us that Windows can be a fun platform if it tried. Will it try? We may come up with an answer or we may just pass onto the unrelenting carrier wars, flip phones for modernity, Kickstarters, Indiegogos and a kick in the pants for us to go go GO!
It’s the weekend and this is episode 225 of the Pocketnow Weekly.
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Pocketnow Weekly 225
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How’s it goin’, Mate?
(00:02:55)
Following on from the Huawei P9, the Mate 9 makes its debut in Munich, Germany. Our Juan Carlos Bagnell was there to handle the Leica-endorsed, dual-camera goods — particularly with that fancy schmancy €1,400 Porsche Design version — while Jaime Rivera and Adam Z. Lein put some light onto the Huawei Fit tracker.
News
26:26 | This Windows phone is more than just a concept
32:09 | The Alcatel Idol 4s with Windows 10: where it’s at and where it won’t be
35:37 | Where’s Microsoft at with Windows 10 Mobile?
42:44 | Lenovo Phab 2 Pro finally makes it to the dance floor
51:52 | ZTE flips a phone here, Samsung flips a phone there
57:59 | Apple dongles dangle for a discount as a jungle protests
1:05:37 | Blood on the water between T-Mo and Verizon
1:14:39 | We completely speculate that Foxconn and Sharp are moving to the US
1:19:07 | Maybe Xiaomi is coming here, too?
1:23:08 | Crowdfunding Corner: 360° video-recording glasses and an eye-tracking VR headset
1:33:35 | Mobile beats desktop internet usage for first time ever
Nightcap
Yep. That’s a Southwest Airlines attendant. Dressed as a Galaxy Note 7.
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Huawei Mate 9 and Mate 9 Porsche Design make their joint official debut
Is this what the Pixel XL could have been? Probably, but instead of taking a backseat to “made by Google” marketing, Huawei boldly chose to do its own thing, and basically kill two birds with one stone, following both the self-branded Mate 8 and Big G-endorsed Nexus 6P… in a way.
Granted, the highly anticipated, just-unveiled Mate 9 shares a family resemblance with its actual predecessor first and foremost, also borrowing and improving the Leica-powered dual rear camera arrangement of the P9 and P9 Plus.
This time, you get a 12MP color and impressive-sounding 20MP monochrome sensor on the back of a 5.9-inch Android giant, focused on enhancing hybrid zoom, depth perception and wide aperture bokeh mode.
But as recently teased in a number of official promo videos, the Huawei Mate 9 is so much more than a proficient cameraphone. It’s a general powerhouse too, 4GB RAM and homebrewed octa-core Kirin 960 processor included, with a high-end gaming-centric Mali G71 GPU in tow.
Then you have a massive 4,000 mAh battery, somehow purportedly capable of fully charging in less than 90 minutes. Quad microphones with directional recording and stereo speakers join hands for a premium audio experience, while the familiar-looking rear-positioned fingerprint scanner now supports gestures.
We’ll admit, the Full HD screen resolution doesn’t feel up to late 2016 flagship phablet standards, and the Huawei Mate 9 could have also used a 6GB RAM configuration.
But that’s where the Mate 9 Porsche Design comes in, curved 5.5-inch Quad HD display, 6GB RAM, 256GB internal storage (up from 64 on the regular version) and all. It’s what we expected to be called Mate 9 Pro, just with a more luxurious look, the fingerprint reader moved to the front, and identical Mate 9 specs besides the aforementioned.
“Combining Porsche Design’s signature brand aesthetic with Huawei’s mobile engineering expertise”, this is but a “limited edition” smartphone inspired by fancy race cars, and will retail in Europe for an outlandish €1395 starting late December.
For what it’s worth, both Mate 9 editions are to run a very lightly skinned version of Android 7.0 Nougat out the box, with the less extravagant config priced at €699 for the old continent.
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Speculated Huawei Mate 9 announcement moves up to November 3 in Germany
The world’s third most popular smartphone vendor, though China-based, is getting big across Europe and North America too, seemingly taking a particular liking to German press events after unveiling the mid-range Nova and Nova Plus at IFA 2016 in Berlin.Munich, the nation’s third largest city, and the capital of ...
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Huawei Mate 9 renders show it in nine finishes
A source on Weibo that apparently only has previously posted renders of the Huawei P9 prior to today has leaked out renders of the upcoming Huawei Mate 9.The dual camera sensors remain as seen in previous leaks, but there’s some engraved text showing off camera company Leica’s ...
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Huawei-Leica deal could help Mate 9 with dual-OIS
One of the most lamented limitations of dual-camera technologies has been the implementation of image stabilization.Optical and electronic forms of the technology are great with single camera sensors, but with two of them engaging to form one image, the slightest extra jiggle on one sensor could spell disaster in terms of final product. OIS in particular relies in part on magnetism to keep things relatively still as well.Recent chatter ...
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Daydream VR-compatible Huawei phone definitely coming this fall
While Google confirmed at the I/O developer conference last month that fall 2016 is the ETA of its “high quality mobile virtual reality” Daydream platform, the search giant didn’t say when actual supporting phones manufactured by partners Samsung, HTC, Huawei, LG, ZTE, Asus, Alcatel, and Xiaomi would land.And mind you, current-gen Android flagships, including the Galaxy S7, LG G5, HTC 10 and even Google’s own Nexus 6P, are pretty much guaranteed to
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Huawei P9 Review: More than just a pair of cameras?
Most of the discussion on Huawei’s latest phone has focused on photography and video performance. No surprise there, as the dual camera experiment, a joint collaboration with boutique manufacturer Leica, is an interesting development. We’re a bit guilty of that too, as our first video after unboxing, was to take that camera for a spin.The P9 is more than just a pair of camera sensors however. Our review unit arrived with a 5.2″ 1080p ...
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Huawei P9 real camera review: Is this “Leica” legit?
The most interesting things about Huawei’s P9 are the dual camera sensors on the back. This is the first device born of the collaboration between Huawei and Leica, and it’s not without a little controversy. While Huawei representatives insist that Leica was an active partner in developing the camera hardware and software for the P9, many are still concerned this might only be a branding exercise.Regardless of the logos on the box, or the lofty certifications referenced, the P9 is an interesting photography experiment. We’ve seen dual sensor phones before, but none with ...
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