No Mate S2 or Mate 9 to be announced at IFA Berlin, Huawei exec confirms

Our expectations for Huawei’s pre-IFA product announcement event on Thursday probably need to be taken down a notch or two for them to still be “defied”, with the Nova series likely to fly solo to the capital city of Germany after all.Granted, it was a bit of a stretch to anticipate a (very) early September

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IFA 2016: What to expect (spoiler alert: a lot)

With the already hugely successful Galaxy Note 7 unveiled early to get a head start on the iPhone 7 (or 6SE), LG feeling confident enough in the G5-similar sequel to the surprisingly popular V10 to give it its own

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Huawei reminds us it’s looking to ‘defy expectations’ at IFA 2016 on September 1

Way before the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 was a (real) thing, Huawei rushed to be the first mobile device manufacturer with a launch event slated on the eve of IFA 2016’s start. In the meantime, of course, the highly anticipated Note 7 saw daylight thousands of miles away from Berlin, leaving the Mate 9 or

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Huawei SuperCharge could be the greatest Mate S2 or Mate 9 feature

Samsung has adaptive fast charging, OnePlus calls its take on a technology mostly pioneered by Qualcomm Dash Charge, OPPO will be switching from VOOC to Super VOOC before long, some Moto phones are TurboPower-enabled, and

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Huawei phone spotted on GFXBench: is it the Mate S2 or the 7P?

Huawei was not done when it released the P9 earlier this year. Supposedly, it still has plans for a Mate S sequel, a “Nexus” 7P and a Mate 9, too. All that pressure has us wondering more and more about this GFXBench log that we’ve picked up, thanks to Telefoonabonnement.The specs are pretty ...

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Huawei pulls a Samsung with pre-IFA event

The International Funkausstellung Berlin comes our way starting September 2 and it will be a jam-packed week of tech business. But Huawei is kicking it off just a bit earlier.It has invited press outlets to an event in Berlin at which the company will release at least one new smartphone on September 1.Given Huawei’s release pattern of last year, we may see the sequel to the Mate S at this event. The

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Could the Huawei Mate S sequel be in the US?

We’ve been continually disappointed by Huawei’s reticence in terms of deploying its big guns in the US. Sure, there’s that Nexus 6P, but it’s a Nexus phone — it’s not exactly a mass-market product.However, mere hours before we officially learn of the

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Huawei Mate S sequel may pile on the curved screen edges

Huawei was the hustler of the smartphone industry in 2015. It had four poles holding up a tent that spread across the world, not just its home country. And if the company’s pomp and circumstance didn’t put the Mate S up in the product ranks of the P8, the Nexus 6P and the

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