Huawei Mate 9 review: Mighty Mate

14 November 2016
With Huawei announcing the Mate 9, the manufacturer has been following the well-established game plan of releasing a 'mainstream' pocketable flagship in the spring, only to slap us with the phablet come fall time, thus staying relevant throughout the year. In this case, the Huawei Mate 9 we now have in our hands, comes 7 months after the P9.

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Jose, 15 Nov 2016Hello there, I was just wondering when you changed the batt... morethen
if they used the same old procedure
what would have been the result ?

    Why, how!, 15 Nov 2016Short and quick conclusions: -Audio quality & battery ... morewhats your options for upgrade

      AnonD-392652, 15 Nov 2016what is it with the battery testing procedure GSMArena? w... moreif u know any explanation
      plz inform me urgently

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        • Dave Granger
        • nxy
        • 15 Nov 2016

        Review the Xiaomi Mi Mix, please please please.

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          • lacp
          • ncG
          • 15 Nov 2016

          Imperator Neubaticus, 15 Nov 2016I'm no huawei fan. Never was and probably never will be. Bu... moreYou don't see that this phone has a superior hardware with a superior processor and a superior gpu? It consumes more battery even being of 16nm. It has 4 cores Cortex A73 and a octo core gpu Mali-G71..

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            • Anonymous
            • YTE
            • 15 Nov 2016

            The G-71 is a good GPU.
            but as usual Huawei puts in very few cores for the GPU thereby making the overall graphic performance mediocre.

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              • Anonymous
              • 4P2
              • 15 Nov 2016

              AnonD-588313, 15 Nov 2016No, try have a look at Huawei Note 8, its the beast, I have it...You mean Huawei Honor Note 8 ??

                AnonD-588313, 15 Nov 2016No, try have a look at Huawei Note 8, its the beast, I have it...That's not even pocket-able. It is just too big to fit in an ordinary pocket.

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                  • AnonD-454153
                  • S9u
                  • 15 Nov 2016

                  still better than iphone 7 , edge 7 still best phone

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                    • anonymous
                    • 0xe
                    • 15 Nov 2016

                    I am a fan of big phones. The Mate 9 could have been a killer phone if Huawei had given it a QHD IPS or Amoled screen similar to Nexus 6P which was produced by Huawei. I was previously a Mate 7 owner and nothing has changed in this respect. A disappointment!
                    Also the performance of the camera in low light conditions compared to other flagship phones like Galaxy S7 edge for example does not entirely convince me. Almost all flagship phones nowadays make brilliant photos during the day but as we also take lots of photos indoors, this is an important factor. Well, if you can live with that, then it is of course a great phone.

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                      • AnonD-610132
                      • 3AM
                      • 15 Nov 2016

                      Please do a comparison between this and the v20, I'm so for the wide camera of the v20, that's the only thing I really want from it

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                        • AnonD-588313
                        • Mnp
                        • 15 Nov 2016

                        Anonymous, 15 Nov 2016Best looking phone this year.No, try have a look at Huawei Note 8, its the beast, I have it...

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                          • vUR
                          • 15 Nov 2016

                          The story of all those Chinese copycat UI skins is simple:

                          - Meizu copied iOS in the Windows CE era, with mixed result.
                          - MIUI copied iOS in the Android 2.x era, and succeeded.
                          - Everybody starts to copy MIUI and iOS, and Chinese users loved it.
                          (with blessings of the Great Fire Wall, Google services, stock Android, and pretty much every Android skin of international brands win little love from Chinese customers)
                          - Now everybody is copying each other and iOS, a great melting pot.

                          --- An Android skin developer in China.

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                            • Regal
                            • g3h
                            • 15 Nov 2016

                            AnonD-587428, 15 Nov 2016MIUI is since 2010 and has Google's Hugo Bara leading it. J... moreHugo copied the top brands and made MIUI .
                            Which is nothing special.
                            Huge amount of MIUI interface is complete copy of other brands .
                            No brands has themes named after other brands like xperia theme, ios theme, galaxy theme .
                            But its all available in official MIUI theme store .
                            Even you will find EMUI themes there .
                            MIUI is junk with no uniqueness. Only a house of copied elements.

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                              • AnonD-587428
                              • w45
                              • 15 Nov 2016

                              Regal, 15 Nov 2016Before that MIUI copied them . Opening the MIUI theme stor... moreMIUI is since 2010 and has Google's Hugo Bara leading it. Just search "Hugo Bara MIUI" on youtube, the whole "emotion" thing is Hugo's idea. EMUI1 came out in 2013 and basically it looked like a lot of print screens from MIUI right up until EMUI4. EMUI5 is the most different but still has print screens in many elements. Don't be fooled buy Superman showing off the Leica lenses. Superman is just a normal guy and the Leica deal is just to carry the Leica logo while thy pass off Chinese lenses. Beneath all this advertising is just an average phone at extraordinary prices.

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                                • Anonymous
                                • X$H
                                • 15 Nov 2016

                                I was expecting a triple digit battery life rating.

                                Oh well, just goes to show in general Chinese phones are still one step behind the big players.

                                Waiting for the Mi Note 2 review to prove me wrong...

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • yMm
                                  • 15 Nov 2016

                                  Regal, 15 Nov 2016Before that MIUI copied them . Opening the MIUI theme stor... moreMost of Themes aren't made by mi themselves. They are made by theme designers and hobbyists. By the way there is a difference between a feature and a theme

                                    why the camera is on par with P9 ? Just buy P9 and save 200$ (170eur)

                                      This phone has no competition in Europe.

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                                        • AnonD-392652
                                        • Nyj
                                        • 15 Nov 2016

                                        what is it with the battery testing procedure GSMArena?
                                        was the phone tested differently??

                                        now it is 82h endurance, if I use my phone with automatic brightness, will this be different?

                                        honestly, I was looking for 102h endurance rating and maybe more.. I don't care about calls, all I want: web browsing and video playback!!!

                                        I hope my waiting for this phone does not go to waste. But I need an explanation for this low rating

                                        Thanks

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