After the numerous rumors that have followed in recent weeks, Huawei has officially announced the Mate 9, a worthy successor to Mate 8 and direct competitor of other top of the range such as iPhone 7 Plus, Google Pixel XL and Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge. Mate 9 retains the same metallic design as its predecessor, which is already widely appreciated by consumers. The colors available are Space Gray, Moonlight Silver, Champagne Gold, Mocha Brown and Ceramic White. Instead, there are numerous changes in the hardware sector.
Mate 9 is equipped with the new Kirin 960 processor, equipped with 4 Cortex A73 @ 2.5GHz cores and 4 Cortex A53 @ 1.8GHz cores. For storage you have 64 Gb of ROM (expandable), while the Gb of RAM are 4. This year the real strength of Huawei devices was the photographic sector and Mate 9 follows the trend, showing off the setup at 20 Mpx double chamber (monochrome sensor) + 12 Mpx (color sensor) certified by Leica. The photographic sector is completed by laser autofocus, dual LED flash, OIS and f / 2.0 aperture. The much talked about optical zoom is not present and gives way to Huawei's so-called Hybrid zoom. Mate 9 is powered by the same 4000mAh battery as its predecessor, rechargeable up to 58% in half an hour thanks to the company's “SuperCharger”. The operating system is Android Nougat 7.0 with improved EMUI interface.
Huawei has stated that the smartphone will become faster and more performing over time, contrary to what happens with most of the devices on the market. The software will "learn" to allocate memory more efficiently based on the user's activities and studying their habits, increasing performance by 8% after approximately 10000 hours of use. The price of the phablet is 699 euros.
