After much speculation, Huawei Mate 9 is now official. Huawei launched the successor to Mate 8 i.e. Mate 9 flagship at an event in Munich Germany. It comes with 5.9-inch Full HD 1080p, 2.5D curved glass display powered by Huawei own Kirin 960 octa-core processor along with Mali G71 GPU and 4 GB of RAM. It comes with 64 GB of internal storage along with support for expandable storage via microsd card up to 256 GB and runs on Android 7.0 Nougat with Huawei EMUI 5.0 on top of it.
In terms of camera, it comes with 20MP (Monochrome) & 12 MP (RGB) Dual rear cameras with Leica lenses, f/2.2 aperture, dual-tone LED flash, PDAF, CAF, Laser AF, OIS, 4K video recording and a 8 MP front shooter with f/1.9 aperture. It is backed by a battery of 4000 mAh along with support for fast charging. It comes with a fingerprint sensor and support for 4G LTE along with VOLTE.
Huawei Mate 9 specifications
- Display : 5.9-inch Full HD 2.5D curved glass display
- CPU : Octa-Core Huawei Kirin 960 processor + i6 co-processor,
- GPU: Mali G71 Octa-core
- RAM : 4 GB RAM
- Storage : 64 GB, expandable up to 256GB with microSD
- OS : Android 7.0 Nougat with EMUI 5.0
- Misc : Hybird Dual SIM, Fingerprint sensor
- Camera : 20 MP (Monochrome) + 12 MP (RGB) Dual rear cameras with Leica lenses, f/2.2 aperture, dual-tone LED flash, PDAF, CAF, Laser AF, OIS, 4K video recording + 8 MP front-facing camera, f/1.9 aperture
- Dimensions: 156.9 x 78.9 x 7.9mm
- Weight: 190g
- Connectivity : 4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11ac (2.4GHz/5GHz), Bluetooth 4.2 LE, GPS, NFC
- Battery : 4000 mAh with fast charging
Huawei Mate 9 is priced at 699 Euros (~Rs. 51,00) and will be available in Black, Space Gray, Moonlight Silver, Champagne Gold, Mocha Brown and Ceramic White options. It will be available in China, Malaysia, France, Poland, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Spain, Japan, Thailand, Kuwait and United Arab Emirates.
