[Mobile China Review] Huawei Mate 7 has ushered in the era of large-screen flagships in business. In the early stage of its launch, it was not only out of stock, but even sold at a price increase. It is also intoxicating to think about it. Ultimately, the Mate 7 sold more than 7

[Mobile China Review] Huawei Mate 7 has ushered in the era of large-screen flagships in business. In the early stage of its launch, it was not only out of stock, but even sold at a price increase. It is also intoxicating to think about it. Ultimately, the Mate 7 sold more than 7 million. The Mate 8 released last year continues to promote the competitiveness of Chinese brands in the high-end flagship market, and the sales of Mate 8 also exceeded 6.8 million. The success of the Mate series has made Huawei one of the few Chinese brands that can compete with Apple and Samsung in the high-end market.

Huawei Mate 9 review

The just released Huawei Mate 9 has pushed the entire Mate series to a new height. Many points that were not as hacked as Apple and Samsung in the past have been greatly strengthened, including the new generation of Leica dual camera lens, the Kirin 960 chip with explosive performance, the first EMUI 5.0 based on Android 7.0, 4.5V/5A high-voltage fast charging, etc.; especially Samsung's own mistakes, the right time, place, people and others seem to have stood on Huawei's side, and Mate 9 has basically also booked the Android phone king in 2016.

Huawei Mate 9 Double Star

Huawei Consumer Business CEO Yu Chengdong More than once said that Huawei wants to surpass Apple and become the world's second largest smartphone manufacturer in two years. In the first half of 2016, Huawei's mobile phone shipments reached 60.56 million units, an increase of 25% over the same period last year; mobile phone sales revenue was 77.4 billion yuan, an increase of 41% year-on-year. Mate 9 can be regarded as a killer for Huawei to show off its muscles. As for whether it can defeat Apple and Samsung in the high-end market, let’s first look at its actual performance.

has created Huawei's large-screen mobile phone series from the first generation of Mate, to the metal body and fingerprint recognition of Mate 7, to the more charming and exquisite thing made by Mate S, to the narrow bezels of Mate 8 and the metal body processed by multiple processes. It can be seen that the changes in the appearance and process of the Mate series have never been drastic, and each generation will always be better than the previous generation. The latest Huawei Mate 9 is equipped with a 5.9-inch full HD display, which integrates narrow bezels, large screen-to-body ratio, 2.5D glass and other designs. Mate 8 users will look very familiar with this face.

Mate 9 The overall appearance has not changed much

0 Fortunately, the screen material is not AMOLED, otherwise the 5.9-inch paired with 1080P resolution will feel grainy for users who are picky about their eyes. I personally think the screen performance of Huawei Mate 9 is still very good, with full colors, large viewing angles, and clear enough text edges.

Mate 9 adopts a narrow frame design

Huawei Mate 9's improvement is mainly reflected in the metal process, which adopts a processing method similar to the P9 series. The metal back uses coating technology to create a smooth and delicate touch, which has both the hardness of metal and the texture of glass. There are six versions available in ceramic white, champagne gold, mocha gold, moonlight silver, rose gold, sky gray and black. We got the champagne gold version. The rear fingerprint module can realize fingerprint photography, fingerprint answering, fingerprint encryption, and also supports sliding left and right to browse pictures and double-click to clear the notification bar. The metal body treated with

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three-stage design

sides are polished and polished and satin-brushed to present a satin effect as thin as hair. The integrated metal body creates two textures, which makes the business style of Mate 9 slightly weakened, with more P series fashion atmosphere, and the holding feel is more rounded.

polishing and polishing and satin brushing treatment

On the data interface, Huawei Mate 9 also chose USB Type-C, which not only does not distinguish between front and back, but also has more advantages in data transmission speed and charging speed, better fit the newly added super fast charging of Mate 9. At the same time, the speakers and microphones also adopt left-right symmetrical design.

USB Type-Ch

Overall, the new generation of Huawei Mate 9 also undergoes a slight process upgrade based on the previous generation. The advantage of this step-by-step approach is that it can achieve mass production in a short time. After all, the market demand for the Mate series is very large. Compared with the slight improvement in appearance technology, the performance improvement of Huawei Mate 9 can be described as a big leap in.It uses the new generation of Kirin 960 chip, the latest Cortex A73 architecture CPU, and the Mali G71MP8 GPU and UFS 2.1 storage with stronger read and write performance, which increases the CPU efficiency of Mate 9 by 15%. The performance of graphics processors has been improved by 180% and energy efficiency by 20%. Kirin 960 is also the first to support Vulkan graphics standard, improving multi-threading performance and maximizing GPU performance.

Kirin 960 uses a combination of "small and micro" cores, including the A73 quad-core with 2.4GHz main frequency and the A53 quad-core with 1.8GHz main frequency. It also has the latest coprocessor i6 built-in, responsible for some lightweight applications, further reducing power consumption and further increasing memory. While ensuring battery life, it can support more functions, such as low-power positioning navigation and push services, which can sense user movement and changes in the environment.

Kylin 960 chip

has no credibility, data is proof. In the GeekBench 4.0 test, Kirin 960's single-core score was 1938 and multi-core score was 6045. This score surpasses Qualcomm Snapdragon 821, Samsung Exynos 8890 and MediaTek X25, and is only lower than Apple A10 in single-core performance.

CPU performance comparison

In the GFLBench test, the Manhattan 1080p off-screen score of Kirin 960 was 45, and the T-Rex off-screen score was 104, which also surpassed Qualcomm Snapdragon 821, Samsung Exynos 8890 and MediaTek X25 in all aspects. It can be said that in the next six months, Huawei Mate 9 will be the performance king of the Android camp.

GPU performance is significantly improved compared with

overall performance, and at the same time, the power consumption is lower, which is the answer given by Huawei Mate 9. With the Kirin 960, Huawei is equivalent to controlling its own destiny. Not only does it give its products differentiated advantages, but the most important thing is not to look at other people's faces. The dual lenses of

and Leica have cooperated with each other to get a good market response to the P9 series' photography capabilities. Huawei has also continued to work hard and moved this set to Mate 9, and it is an upgraded version. It uses a combination of 12-megapixel color + 20-megapixel black and white dual lenses. The color camera captures colors and restores them. The black and white camera is used to capture picture details, because the black and white lens is increased to 20-megapixel, which also means that the Mate 9 captures more details. Not only that, with the help of this feature, Huawei Mate 9 can also achieve 2x dual-camera zoom, which is said to be close to lossless within 2x.

Huawei Mate 9 also adds OIS optical anti-shake function, which can improve the light inlet and output rate during night scene shooting; for the first time, phase focus, laser focus, depth focus and contrast focus can be integrated, so that focus can be completed quickly and accurately in different scenes.

Second-generation Leica dual-camera

In addition to providing rich shooting modes, the highlight of Huawei Mate 9 is also some of the features that cooperate with Leica, such as "Leica Color Mode", which has three options: "standard", "bright" and "soft", allowing the mobile phone to capture the unique rich color style of Leica cameras. With the help of the dual lens characteristics, a large aperture mode can be achieved, and users can adjust between F16 and F0.95.

Rich shooting functions

Judging from the simple casually taking samples, Huawei Mate 9's photography strength has truly reached the flagship level, especially night scene shooting. The control of noise and glare is unexpectedly good. It seems that increasing the black and white lens to 2000W pixels and adding OIS optical anti-shake is of great help for night shooting. Later we will also bring a comparison between Mate 9 vs. P9 and Mate 9 vs. iPhone 7 Plus, so stay tuned.

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Huawei Mate 9 has also come to the forefront in terms of system. It is equipped with the new version of EMUI 5.0, which is the first customized system developed in-depth based on Android 7.0. When you light up the screen, you will feel that it is more beautiful than all EMUIs in the past dynasties at first glance.Yu Chengdong summarized the UX design of EMUI5.0 into three keywords - Clean, Simplified, and Living. In fact, it is not that troublesome. You can understand it as being close to the native. In addition to sensory freshness, the most attractive thing about EMUI 5.0 is the improvements made in experience. EMUI 5.0 performs subtraction based on user's operating habits. It is said that more than 90% of the core operations can be handled within 3 steps. Making users simpler should be a key consideration for every OS.

new EMUI 5.0

Negative one screen As an information aggregation page, some commonly used applications, sports data, life services, consultation and other content will be displayed here. It can be regarded as the old version of scenario intelligence, because EMUI 5.0 cancels the scenario intelligence notification bar entry. The multi-task switching has been changed to a card-style, and the native 7.0 double-click multi-task key to jump between two APPs is also very easy to use.

Information aggregation page

For the usage habits of different users, EMUI 5.0 provides two desktop presentation methods, one is the most common iOS tiling type, and the other is the native Android style drawer type, which users can switch according to their preferences. Of course, there are not few popular app clone functions, and they can support dual openings of WeChat and QQ. Most users only have two WeChat and two QQ levels, which is enough.

supports drawer display

How can business people miss buying and buying in their lives? However, if you want to carry a bunch of cards with you, how can you meet the elegant temperament of business people? Huawei Mate 9 provides HUAWEI PAY function, and with the help of NFC, you can directly browse your phone to make payments. Security issues are not necessary because of fingerprint verification. Swiping a bus card is also a function of HUAWEI PAY. If you limit the number one day, you don’t have to flip through the bus card around to squeeze into the subway.

HUAWEI PAY

Infrared remote control also appears on Huawei Mate 9. Needless to say, it is just to transform your Mate 9 into a super remote control. The more electrical appliances, Mate 9 is enough. With the help of 4Mic architecture design, common recording functions have become unusual, and directional recording can be achieved during multi-person meetings, especially enhancing the voice of the person you want to record.

infrared remote control and recording

For payment security, EMUI 5.0 independently creates a protection system that can intelligently detect whether there are risks. Moreover, payment applications can be completely isolated from external applications, fundamentally eliminating virus applications and ensuring users' payment security.

Payment security is guaranteed

Huawei Mate 9 is equipped with a 4000mAh large-capacity battery, plus the system-level power saving optimization, I basically charge it every two days. On this basis, Huawei also launched SuperCharge super fast charging technology. Supports 4.5V/5A low-voltage fast charging, and 20% can be filled in 10 minutes. This technology also has five levels of safety protection mechanisms, which can monitor voltage, current and temperature in real time, prevent safety hazards from all aspects from chargers to battery cells, and achieve both fast charging and safety. According to the actual test data, the charging capacity of

reaches 19% in 10 minutes, which is basically consistent with the official data. It can be fully charged by 60% in 30 minutes. After 80%, the charging speed begins to slow down. It should be due to safety restrictions. The time it takes to fully charge is 105 minutes. This speed is great, especially the top 80%, which is really lightning!

charging speed measurement

network is Huawei's strength. It realized the main card Unicom 4G sub-card Telecom 3G, and now Huawei Mate 9 has realized the main card Telecom 4G sub-card Unicom 3G. Some friends will wonder what the use is, which may not be able to understand for ordinary users. For business people who often fly around the world, in markets such as Japan and South Korea, China, there will be no signal for China Unicom's sub-cards. Mate 9 can also fully support 5 2G bands, 10 3G bands and 20 4G bands, achieving global travel without barriers.

network support is the most complete

Android phone king of the year is you

Although the material and design of Huawei Mate 9 have not been particularly improved, the performance, photography and experience are supplemented through Kirin 960, the second-generation Leica dual camera, and EMUI 5.0. The "weakness" that many people criticized in the past are all missing on Mate 9. Looking at the entire market, there is really no Android phone that can fight head-on. Xiaomi Mix can barely be considered one, but due to the limited brand image and production, most users can see and cannot buy PPT mobile phones. Samsung is even trapped by the Note7 explosion gate and can only rely on S7 edge support this year. So, the Android phone king of 2016 can only be Huawei Mate 9.

Huawei, which is moving forward step by step steadily, has good control over the pace. Years of scientific research investment have finally blossomed and bear fruit on the Mate 9. For a long time to come, Huawei Mate 9 will be one of the strongest smartphones on the market. The defect-free Mate 9 is very terrible. Importantly, Huawei released a high price of 699 euros in the European market, and is obviously much more affordable in China. The price starting at 3,399 yuan is basically no suspense. It is believed that Huawei Mate 9 has surpassed previous generations in sales.