[News] Huawei Launches Mate S Smartphone in NZ

The Huawei Mate S smartphone is now available in New Zealand exclusively through retail partner Noel Leeming. The Mate S is the new flagship device in Huawei’s Mate series.

“Our goal in designing the Huawei Mate S was to develop a smartphone that offers a personalized experience, rather than a commoditized one,” said Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei Consumer BG.

“The Huawei Mate S is based on insights we gathered about human interaction – most notably that touch is a natural action we take to understand and interact with our world. The Huawei Mate S redefines how we incorporate touch technology into our smartphones, taking a revolutionary approach to touch screen control and ushering in a new era for human-machine interaction.”

The Huawei Mate S has some interesting functionality, some of which are an improvement from its predecessor and some which are completely new.

• Fingerprint Sense 2.0 is an upgraded version of the Huawei Mate 7’s advanced chip level security and single-tap unlock technology. Fingerprint Sense 2.0 is faster, more sensitive and has more accurate self-learning functions to improve recognition speeds by 100 percent. However, in the Mate S, the fingerprint sensor does more than just unlocking the phone or doing secure payment applications. Users can now control notifications, scroll through photos, take selfies, answer phone calls and even dismiss an alarm quickly by simply using the fingerprint sensor.
• Knuckle Sense 2.0 advances the Knuckle Sense technology first introduced in the Huawei P8, providing a host of new features and functionality at the tap of a knuckle.
• Quickly switch between apps by drawing a shortcut letter on the screen – pre- programmed shortcuts include drawing a “c” to activate the camera, “m” to listen to music or “e” to surf the Internet.
• Users can also create and store their own personalized knuckle shortcuts for anything from Android Wear to WhatsApp.
• Freehand crop and copy an image out of any photo by outlining it with a knuckle.
• Double tap on a video with a knuckle to capture snippets of film to easily share or save.

Building on the revolutionary Huawei Mate 7 smartphone, the Huawei Mate S features a full metal shell, a 5.5 inch AMOLED FHD screen with 2.5D Gorilla Glass, and side edges that are just 2.65 millimeters.

The curved back of the Huawei Mate S features nanometer injection modeling to connect the phone’s antenna and metal shell. Additional cutting-edge technology, including diamond cutting, CNC carving, nanotechnology and a sapphire lens are part of the phone’s metal body.

The Huawei Mate S is equipped with a 13-megapixel rear-facing camera featuring a four-color RGBW imaging sensor, optical image stabilizer, dual color- temp LED flash lights, and independent image signal processor camera units.

The Mate S also has an 8-megapixel front-facing camera with soft front lights to improve selfies. The Mate S also comes with fingerprint sense technology, allowing users to take a “natural selfie” by touching the sensor on the back of the phone for an “easier and more natural way” to hold the device.

The manual camera mode allows manual adjustment for ISO, exposure compensation, exposure time, white balance and focusing, and functions such as the grid, and flash-assisted focusing. The black and white filter mode was designed for artistic expression and automatically takes classic photos that provide multiple levels of density and real-time intensity adjustment.

Availability

The Mate S is available now exclusively through Noel Leeming. The “Luxurious Gold” colored Huawei Mate S, with 64GB of storage, will be priced at an RRP of $1349. A pressure sensitive model will be available in selected markets; not entirely sure if this will be available in NZ.

Specifications

Screen: 5.5″, AMOLED, ONCELL, FHD

Front Camera: 8MP, FF, BSI, F2.4, LED soft light

Rear Camera: 13MP, AF, BSI, F2.0, Dual color-temp LED flashes

Size: 149.8*75.3*7.2

Weight: 156g

CPU: Hisilicon Kirin 935, Quad 2.2GHz + Quad 1.5GHz

GPU: MALI 628 MP4 680M

RAM/ROM: 3GB/64GB (high version), 3GB/32GB (standard version)

Battery: 2700mAh (Typ.) 2620mAh (min.) Lithium Polymer

Sensors: Accelerometer, Compass, Gyroscope, ALS, Proximate, HALL

GPS: Compatible with GPS/ Beidou/ GLONASS/AGPS

System: EMUI3.1, Android 5.1

Compatible with dual 4G SIM card (high version)

Audio Hardware: Compatible with 3Mic

FM reception, external earplug antenna

Additional Features: NFC

Color: Prestige gold / Mystique champagne / Titanium grey /Coral pink

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