Huawei Mate S hands-on: Incredible Force Touch on a 5.5” screen

Huawei Mate S was announced at IFA last week, introducing its Force Touch feature as the most notable aspect of phone. However, is it as great as Huawei said? Today, we bring you a review of the phone for deeper insights of the device’s performance.

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huawei mate s 3 Hands-on photos of the device

Huawei Mate S Specs (partial)

Display 5.5-inch FHD
Processor HiSilicon Kirin 935 2.2GHz octa-core
Mali T-628 MP4 GPU
RAM 3GB
ROM 32GB
expandable microSD up to 128GB
Camera Rear: 13MP
Front: 8MP
Battery 2,700mAh
OS EMUI 3.1 based on Android 5.1.1 Lollipop

Huawei Mate S design

As we can see, the device has a nice dimensions. Its display is 5.5”, which is not so large, but still can fit in your hand. Moreover, the phone is made completely from metal, giving it a more premium look.

huawei mate s 1 Additionally, Huawei Mate S display features Force Touch, which you can take a look by viewing the video at the end of this article. Will Huawei make it better than Apple?

Huawei Mate S hardware

The device sports nice 3GB RAM, 32GB internal storage and an octa core processor. You can also expand storage by using a microSD card. Huawei Mate S battery is a 2700mAh one, so it does not fare well with even sub PHP 10k devices on this.

Huawei Mate S camera

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The device’s camera is a 13MP, which is acceptable on nowadays smart phones. However, this camera specs may not earn its much love, since there are better camera phones out there, notably Sony Xperia Z5. Even in its price range, there are many better choices.

Huawei Mate S release date and pricing info

Release date and pricing info in the Philippines of the device are not known yet. However, we guess Huawei Mate S price in the Philippines will be around PHP 33k.

Force Touch feature in video