The Oreo roll-out is still rolling strong and this time around, we're talking about Huawei's yesteryear models, the Mate 9 being among them.
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Huawei Mate 9 UK launch happening this Friday on Three
The Huawei Mate 9 UK launch is happening this week, and there’s no reason to doubt it, as the information comes from the official Twitter account of Three UK. As of January 13 you will be able to grab one from the carrier, though it has been not disclosed yet how much it will set you back.
At the launch even in Munich the company revealed a price tag of €699 for Europe, and the phone has been recently launched in the US going for $599 (though Americans will get the phone bundled with Amazon’s Alexa voice service.
In case you missed our Mate 9 coverage, make sure to check out our full review; disclaimer: the phone scored pretty high.
If, however, you’re waiting for the Porsche Design version, there’s currently no word on when exactly it will be available. However, the official Porsche Design webpage says it will start shipping at the end of the month, but the price tag will immediately filter its target audience (and yes, the Porsche Design Mate 9 is not a phone for the masses).
@heartyparty We will indeed! It’s launching this Friday.
— Three UK (@ThreeUK) January 9, 2017
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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?
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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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You can call Huawei crazy, but its two-year plan is to surpass Apple in smartphone sales
It’s starting to feel like Huawei has been sitting in third place in the global smartphone vendor ranks for quite some time, but what people tend to forget is the 1987-founded networking and telecommunications equipment specialist barely tapped into the consumer device market a few years back.
Richard Yu, the always outspoken CEO of the Huawei Technologies Consumer Business Group, didn’t omit to remind members of the media present in Munich, Germany for yesterday’s announcement of the Mate 9 and Mate 9 Porsche Design that “people told us we were crazy when we announced that we wanted to sell phones.”
They also “told us we were crazy when we said we wanted to sell 100 million phones”, which has now happened for two consecutive years, so you’ll probably understand Huawei’s disregard of the general skepticism concerning the company’s next big goal.
Once again, Yu sets his sights on Apple, the current number two in smartphone sales hierarchies, claiming it could take as little as two years to beat the Cupertino-based giant “step-by-step, and innovation-by-innovation.”
“At every curve or turn, there is an opportunity to overtake the competition”, and while the Mate 9 is certainly not going to outsell the iPhone 7, the latest high-end Android phablet should further win “the trust and loyalty of customers” worldwide, especially in key European markets like Germany, France and Great Britain. What’s so far-fetched about that?
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Huawei Mate 9 Porsche Design first look: Sexy curves (Video)
Can you still keep a secret in this day and age leading up to a highly anticipated mobile product announcement? Not when it comes to big things, like device images, camera sensors, screen size or resolution, and processor details.
But, and we absolutely hate to admit it, Huawei did manage to catch us off guard today with the name and snazzy look of the Mate 9’s “limited edition” sibling. Forget Mate 9 Pro, and get ready to check out the race car-inspired Huawei Mate 9 Porsche Design in the flesh. A beautiful curved edged, graphite-finished, dark black-colored flesh, aiming to create an “equilibrium of aesthetics and function.”
The only downside to potentially owning an arguably luxurious, yet not overly showy 5.5-inch Android Nougat phone with Quad HD display resolution, 6GB RAM and 256GB internal storage space in tow? You may have to sell a kidney to afford this bad boy, priced at the equivalent of more than $1,500 for a late December European release.
Thinking of saving up or working overtime but perhaps not convinced “one of the most finely crafted premium devices available to consumers” is worth that small fortune? Not interested but still curious to see it manhandled for a few minutes? Here it is, our first encounter with the Porsche-designed Huawei Mate 9:
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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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