Weekly poll: Huawei Mate 9 - how are you liking it?

Big-screen flagships are one short this season in the absence of the Samsung Galaxy Note7. Or are they?

The Huawei Mate 9 was expected sometime this fall, and sure enough it's here, but a Mate 9 Porsche Design has arrived as well, dual-curved like a certain Samsung top-shelf model. The PD Mate 9 may be redefining the 'top-shelf' term, though, with a list price just short of EUR 1,400.

The Mate 9 proper comes first on our list, however, as the more sensible of the two. An expansive if not too pixel-dense 5.9-inch FullHD display, and a dual-camera setup like no other already sounds like a great proposition, and it can only get better when you hear of the 4,000mAh battery in a beautiful metal body - the Mate 9 follows closely the traditions set by its predecessors, and builds on top of them.

The Mate 9 Porsche Design is a different beast. Camera and battery are the same, but a curved 5.5-inch QHD AMOLED panel graces its front, and that would have been enough to sway some in its direction - if it didn't cost as much as two vanilla Mates.

The Huawei phablets don't exist in a vacuum, though, and there are plenty of other droid top-dogs for the same amount of cash, or less. Trying to compare them gets complicated very quickly, but let's just say we can't think of a big-name flagship with a display this large off the top of our heads.

Then there's the Apple-faithful folk, to whom no Huawei smartphone will ever be good enough. Well, everyone's free to burn their cash any way they please, we're certainly not ones to judge.

Huawei Mate 9 - how are you liking it

I'm so getting one! Just give me the Porsche design version!

There are better Androids out there... Go team Apple!

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