Gadget geeks in the UAE can soon expect to lay their hands on the new Huawei Mate S smartphone, which was unveiled in Berlin today (September 3).

Huawei has re-imagined how people interact with their devices, adding innovative touch features that enhance ease of use, functionality and creativity to the new Mate S.

“Our goal in designing the Huawei Mate S was to develop a smartphone that offers a personalised 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.”

Features on the new Mate S include:

• Fingerprint Sense 2.0, an upgraded version of the Huawei Mate 7’s advanced chip level security and single-tap unlock technology, is faster, more sensitive and has more accurate self-learning functions to improve recognition speeds by 100 per cent. Moreover, the fingerprint sensor now allows users to control notifications, scroll through photos and much more.
• Knuckle Sense 2.0 provides a host of new features and functionality at the tap of a knuckle. Users can quickly switch between apps by drawing a shortcut letter on the screen – pre-programmed shortcuts include drawing a “c” to activate the camera or “m” to listen to music. Users can also create and store their own personalised knuckle shortcuts, freehand crop and copy an image out of any photo or double tap on a video with a knuckle to capture snippets of film.

• Huawei’s innovative Force Touch technology, available in select markets, perceives different levels of pressure on the screen – allowing the user to complete different actions – such as zooming in to a photo or launching an app – by applying increasing pressure.

Innovative design from inside out

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 mm. The phone’s arched back fits perfectly into the palm of a hand, while its curved surface features solid pressure and weight, making the phone easier and more comfortable to hold.

Additional cutting-edge technology, including diamond cutting, CNC carving, nanotechnology and a sapphire lens are part of the phone’s seamless metal body.

The Huawei Mate S is equipped with a professional-grade camera that is great for all levels of users, providing everyone with high specs, including contrast, texture and distinctive tonality settings. The 13 mega pixel rear camera features a four-color RGBW imaging sensor, optical image stabiliser, dual colour-temp LED flash lights, and independent image signal processor camera units, which combine to capture higher quality pictures.

The Mate S takes camera capabilities one step further by offering an eight mega pixel front camera with soft, front lights to improve selfies. This ensures that users capture the clearest, most beautifying images possible.

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, an easier and more natural way to hold the device.

The professional 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.

Technology that adapts to every environment

Huawei also incorporates an extensive set of new conveniences in the Huawei Mate S for users on the go:

• The device features smart recording, which uses directive reception technology. This new hardware design operates three built-in microphones with a smart directional algorithm to enable a clear recording with minimal background noise.
• The Huawei Mate S also supports wireless printing through the Mopria general protocol. This alliance includes over 800 printer types across 16 leading brands, allowing users to print from anywhere.
• Dual SIM or dual 4G LTE can be configured on the Huawei Mate S in seconds, supporting 13 mainstream LTE frequencies covering Europe, Asia Pacific and America.
• The Huawei Mate S has spectacular charging with 5V and 2A, giving users two hours of talk time after just 10 minutes of charging.

The Mate S will be initially available in more than 30 countries including China, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Spain, South Africa and UAE. The Mate S will be available for pre-order in Western Europe on Vmall.eu starting Tuesday, September 15.

The standard version with 32GB of ROM comes in titanium grey or mystique champagne and is priced at €649 ($731).

The premium version with 64GB of ROM comes in prestige gold or coral pink and is priced at €699 ($787). – TradeArabia News Service