Huawei introduced the Mate 9 Pro around this same period last year as a variant of the flagship Mate 9. The Mate-series was already established as Huawei premier flagship series but the Mate 9 Pro and Porsche Design added some colour, making it look more premium. The video you are about to watch now is more or less an exhibition of the properties of the Mate 9 Pro’s display. The device was badly damaged such that the screen was completely bent backwards, making an angle of almost 20 degrees with the rest of the body. The surprise here is that despite the damage, the Mate 9 Pro continue working and not only that, the display was still functioning with the touchscreen functions still operational as well.

As would be recalled, the Mate 9 Pro features a 5.5-inch curved OLED display with Gorilla Glass protection. The body also comes with a metal fuselage and while it is expected that the metal can take a bend, the surprise is the display and internal panels weren’t damaged. No, the Mate 9 Pro isn’t packing a flexible OLED display but the thing is likely that the bend wasn’t enough to cause any other damage other than the physical damage. Perhaps, a bend greater than the one we’re looking at would have damaged the display panel.

Read Also: Huawei Mate 9 Pro Unboxing Images – Jaw-dropping Beauty!

All the same, it is astonishing to see that the device is this durable at a time a slight fall would have damaged the screen of a lesser model. We can’t say if the Mate 10 Pro is this durable, but we expect Huawei has done a better job on the Mate 10 Pro. Coincidentally, the Huawei Mate 9 was also revealed with a similar bend soon after its launch last year and in the same manner, the screen was unbroken and the device continued working flawlessly. You can check out the video of the bent Mate 9 Pro from below.

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New Year is usually a time when cities are usually lit up at the hour mark to herald the birth of another promising year and what better mobile phone camera could best capture these moments than the Huawei Mate 9 . Huawei recently teased a photo containing images of seven cities, including Paris, London, New York and others, said to have been captured by the Huawei Mate 9 / Mate 9 Pro camera. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. The images speak volume of the Mate 9 and Mate 9 Pro’s camera if really they were shot by the Huawei flagships.

Huawei Mate 9 and Mate 9 Pro only differs in display sizes but both have the same Kirin 960 processor as well as the same 4,000mAh battery. They both have a 20MP monochrome + 12MP color sensor dual camera module at the back as well as other similar camera features like 2x zoom, Laser Focus, OIS, and dual LED flash. Up front, there’s an 8MP f/1.9 aperture shooter. Since the cameras are the same, Huawei’s claim that the photos were shot by the Mate 9 / Mate 9 Pro are not doubtful.Both the Mate 9 and Mate 9 Pro run on EMUI 5.0 interface based on  Android 7.0 Nougat out of the box.

Related: Huawei Mate 9 Porsche Design Vs Gionee M2017: Which Luxury Phone is Worth Your Money?

 The Mate 9 sports a 5.9-inch Super AMOLED display with 1080p resolution and a rear placed fingerprint sensor. There are six color options for this standard model including mocha gold, champagne gold, silver moonlight, ceramic white, gray sky and bright black. On the other hand, the Huawei Mate 9 Pro comes with a 5.5-inch curved flexible display with the resolution bumped up to 2K and the fingerprint placed on the front. There are four color options for the Pro variant namely amber gold, rose gold, silver and gray.

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Huawei shipped well over 100 million smartphones globally, setting a record for the largest shipment by any of the over 300 of China’s phone manufacturers. As a follow up to that successful outing, the company did set a goal of 140 million smartphone shipment for 2016. There are indications that the tech giant has achieved that feat and the year isn’t even over yet.

Huawei’s Senior Vice President made this disclosure in an interview recently. Topping the chat among Huawei’s models is the Huawei P9 which was released in April this year. The P9 shipments exceeded 9 million units worldwide as at November 4 and the company expects the P9’s sales life cycle to reach 12 million units in total. The Huawei Mate 8 was also revealed to have sold 7 million units.

Read More: Huawei ships 28.3 million phones in Q1 2016

The Huawei VP had predicted at the IFA Berlin 2016 that the company is projecting to surpass Apple as the world’s second largest phone manufacturer in 2018, two years from now. If the Chinese company keeps up this current pace, it may as well over run Apple even before 2018. The tech company has got a lot of innovative smartphones like the Mate 9, Mate 9 Pro, Mate 9 Porsche Design that could enable it make in road into high-end market.

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Huawei had released the Mate 9, Mate 9 Pro and Mate 9 Porsche Design in China on November 14, barely a month ago but the smartphones have been making waves both on the local and foreign scenes. The Mate 9 has been on sales since then, recording catastrophic sales figures. On the other hand, the Huawei Mate 9 Pro and Porsche design which both have curved displays are yet to it store shelves nationwide. Well, that is about to change as the sleek Huawei Mate 9 has been revealed by the Chinese company to enter sales on December 15 by 10.08am.

According to a source on Weibo, the Huawei Mate 9 Pro would only see 6,000 units up for grab on that day while 10,000 units of the Mate 9 Porsche Design would be on sales on December 15. The Mate 9 which itself has a beautiful design sold over one million units since inception and considering the sleek and sturdy design of the Mate 9 Pro and Porsche Design, records are expected to be broken, expectations exceeded when the sales commence. Predictably, the Mate 9 Pro would likely be sold out in just few seconds. Even the high price tag on the Porsche Design may not be enough to prevent it from being sold out in seconds.

Related: Huawei Mate 9 Porsche Design Comes With A Crazy Price Tag, Features Dual Curved Display

In a related news, the Mate 9 has been revealed to enter the US market soon. According to tipster @evleaks, the Huawei flagship would be available in the US market on January 6 next year. The Mate 9 is already on sale in Europe, Malaysia, Thailand, UAE and several other countries where sales is reported to have been successful. This may finally be Huawei’s year of capturing and stamping its foot on the highly lucrative US market. Samsung and Apple may just need to keep watching their back.

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The Huawei Mate 9 is a 5.9” device with a Full HD resolution but it has a smaller sized sibling with a curved 5.5-inch 2K OLED display called the Mate 9 Pro that has been released exclusively for China.

The Mate 9 Pro is not only different in terms of the screen, it is also the other Huawei phone (alongside the Mate 9 Porsche Design) to have its fingerprint scanner located in front. That single design change makes the phone look like it is a Samsung phone. Other differences the Mate 9 Pro has from the original Mate 9 are also in the design. The antenna lines are more visible and the LED flash and laser focus module now flank the dual-cameras at the top and bottom and not on the sides. The Mate 9 also sports just one speaker grille instead of two as the second speaker grille has been replaced by the 3.5mm jack.

READ MORE: Huawei P10 Renders Leak  Revealing Dual Cameras and More

The Mate 9 gets the teardown treatment and if you want to open up your unit, you’ll need a Phillips screwdriver.Just don’t forget that the first step is removing the sim tray and the screws at the base.

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The Huawei Mate 9, Mate 9 Pro and Mate 9 Porsche Design were all released in China yesterday. While we had seen the duo of Mate 9 and Mate 9 Porsche Design earlier on when they both went official in Germany, the Mate 9 Pro was a new addition which was outed for the first time. We have got beautiful images of the Mate 9 Ceramic white and Mate 9 Pro Rose gold versions courtesy the guys at iT168.

The Huawei Mate 9 and Mate 9 Pro are not similar in most aspects but the Mate 9 Pro and Mate 9 Porsche Design has a number of similarities.  In simple terms, the Mate 9 Pro is a cheaper version of the Porsche Design, same design but lacking the Porsche branded logo. The Mate 9 and Mate 9 Pro comes in different display sizes. While the Mate 9 has a bigger 5.9-inch 1080 pixel flat AMOLED display, the Mate 9 Pro features a 5.5-inch curved AMOLED display with a higher 2K resolution.

However one feature which stands out on both devices are the narrow black borders at the edge of the display. The borders are very much visible on the white ceramic version of the Mate 9 and Rose gold version of the Mate 9 Pro both on display here. That is because both versions come in white colors on the front panel.

If you think the black borders are a turn-off or deal breaker, then perhaps you should stick with the black variant of either the Mate 9 or Mate 9 Pro. The black borders won’t be very obvious since the front panel is black as well. That doesn’t in anyway reduce the beautiful, sleek designs of the Mate 9 and Mate 9 Pro, though.

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Earlier today, Huawei held the Chinese launch of the Huawei Mate 9 and Mate 9 Pro in Shanghai. But those were not the only devices launched, as in a move similar to what Xiaomi did during the Mi Note 2 launch, the company announced its own VR glasses called Huawei VR.

The Huawei VR is not entirely new as it surfaced earlier this year at the Huawei P9 launch. It kind of looks like a white Galaxy VR with straps that go over and around the head, touch controls on the side, and a focus ring on the top.

The Huawei VR has a 360° field of view, 2K support, and sound synchronization. The glasses will work with 5.5” devices such as the Huawei Mate 9 Pro, Mate 9 Porsche Design, and Huawei P9 Plus. There is no mention of it working with the 5.2” Huawei P9 but the prototype displayed earlier this year worked with the P9. So you might want to confirm that before buying.

Huawei says they already have close to 5000+ free movies, hundreds of panoramic videos and a number of games that you can watch and play on the Huawei VR. The Huawei VR is priced at ¥599 ($88) and should be available for purchase anytime soon.

READ MORE: Xiaomi Unveils Mi VR Headset for ¥199 ($29)

The company also launched a smart cover, a Leica leather case, and a Porsche Design smart cover as well.

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No one envisaged Huawei still had a surprise up its sleeves regarding the Mate 9 variants. Well, not until the Huawei Mate 9 was unveiled in China today and it came along with an all new Mate 9 Pro variant together with the Mate 9 Porsche Design. The Huawei Mate 9 Pro follows suit in having almost similar specs with the Mate 9 Porsche Design and also a sleek beautiful design.

Here is an array of amazing hands-on images of the Mate 9 Pro, so you’ll have a close glimpse of the device in these stunning images captured from different angles. You might think this is the Mate 9 Porsche Design we have on display here but it is not. The Huawei Mate 9 Pro looks as beautiful as the Mate 9 Porsche Design but lacks the Porsche branding engraved on the screen of the Mate 9 Porsche Design. The device also comes in four color variants namely amber gold, rose gold, silver and gray.

The Huawei Mate 9 Pro comes with a 5.5-inch curved flexible display with the resolution bumped up to 2K and the fingerprint placed on the front. So here you have it, a Huawei smartphone with front mounted fingerprint sensor.  The device has an all metal body with fine finishing at the front but at the rear the body seems to take some brushed metal look.

The Mate 9 Pro retains the dual camera setup at the rear of same 20MP + 12MP sensors combo. But since the fingerprint sensor is at the home button, there is no rear fingerprint sensor. In addition, the Mate 9 Pro also has on the inside a Kirin 960 processor as well as two storage versions of 4GB + 64GB and 6GB + 128GB respectively, a 4000mAh battery with fast charge support and lots more offerings.

As the device is beautiful on the outside, so also is the interface as the Mate 9 Pro runs EMUI 5.0 based on Android 7.0 Nougat out-of-the-box.

Read Also: Huawei Releases Three Models In China: Mate 9, Mate 9 Pro & Mate 9 Porsche Design

The Hauwei Mate 9 Pro starts at 4699 Yuan ($687) for the 4GB + 64GB and goes up to 5299 Yuan ($775) for the 6GB + 128GB version. The device is already on sale in China.

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The Huawei Mate 9 released a few weeks ago comes in two variants: the standard edition and the curved-screen edition called the Mate 9 Porsche Design. However, we reported that Huawei is going to launch a different model in addition to the two above as a China exclusive.

This new model features the same dual-curved display but lacks the Porsche Design customization. For the sake of clarity, Huawei is calling it the Mate 9 Pro and real images of the phone have been leaked online ahead of the launch tomorrow.

The images were posted on Weibo by @Digitalcrazy and we can’t help but see how closely the front resembles that of a Samsung S7 Edge.

This unit of the Mate 9 Pro has a Champagne Gold coating and a brushed metal design on the back. The camera setup is the same as the other two models but the LED flash now sits atop the sensors and the laser focus module below it.

The antenna lines are more visible and there is a 3.5mm audio jack  at the bottom. The fingerprint scanner has also been moved to the front of the phone.

READ MORE: Huawei Has Sold Over 9 Million Huawei P9 Phones Already

The Mate 9 Pro will come in three memory variants:

1. 4GB RAM + 64GB ROM edition which will sell for ¥4599 ($674);
2. 6GB RAM + 128GB ROM edition priced at ¥5299 ($777);
3. 6GB RAM + 256GB ROM edition priced at ¥5699 ($835).

The Porsche Design Model will also be available for ¥9888 ($1449) for those who want it.

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The rumor mills are still agog concerning the expected Huawei Mate 9 and Mate 9 Pro, both of which would likely get unveiled tomorrow in Berlin, Germany. Although we are very certain about the Mate 9 launch, what is not certain is the  Mate 9 Pro as it had featured in just a couple of leaks with no real live renders to back up the claim.

However, we have got another one, a fresh leak detailing what is said to be some of the specifications of the Huawei Mate 9 Pro. From the leaked information, the Mate 9 Pro sports a 5.9-inch 2K double-edge curved display, fired up by the Kirin 960 processor with a huge 6GB RAM in tow. The Mate 9 Pro vis also listed as featuring a massive 256GB of internal storage space and would run on Android 7.0 Nougat pre-installed from factory.

Apparently, the Mate 9 and Mate 9 Pro would feature the same dual Leica camera set up with 12MP + 20MP sensors at the rear. Furthermore, the flagship device is said to pack a front fingerprint sensor in addition to the rear mounted one. If true, then it would make the Mate 9 Pro the first Huawei smartphone to have a fingerprint recognition sensor at the front.

Read More: Huawei Mate 9 Chinese Edition Could Launch on November 9

We cannot verify the credibility of this information, though. Besides mass producing a device with display as large as 5.9 inches with 2K resolution and double curved edges isn’t an easy feat.

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Huawei has unveiled its latest Kirin 960 chips and what is left now is the release of the first smartphone that would be fired up by the Kirin 960 processor, that is the Mate 9. Actually, recent rumors with some degree of credibility have hinted at the existence of two versions of the Huawei Mate 9 dubbed Mate 9 and Mate 9 Pro.

The Huawei Mate 9 Pro is said to have the same 5.9-inch display at the Mate 9 but with a dual curved edge screen and would have the same 2K display resolution as the Mate 9. Both Huawei smartphones are equipped with dual rear cameras that are Leica certified, left an right symmetrical laser focus an up to 4x optical zoom support. The Mate 9 Pro is said to come as the highest price Huawei phone till date, and the price has also been leaked to be up to $1300 or about 8800 Yuan, perhaps for the topmost version.

Recently, some more details of the Mate 9 have surfaced on Weibo, extracted from what is likely the instruction or user manual for the device. According to the details, the Mate 9 would feature dual SIM card / dual standby with one of the SIM slots functioning also as a microSD slot. There is also rear fingerprint sensor on the device as on the Mate 9 Pro. Dual Leica cameras with color temperature flash, laser focus module and also an infrared sensor is listed on the manual, among other details.

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Following yesterday’s leak of a render of the upcoming Huawei Mate 9, Evan Blass has released that of the curved variant called the Mate 9 Pro a.k.a. Long Island.

We are aware that quite a number of Chinese manufacturers are not known for original designs but looking at the front of the Mate 9 Pro, all I can think of is the Galaxy Note 7 or the Galaxy S7 Edge and if this is what the real device looks like, it’s sufficient to say it’s a disappointing move from a company as big as Huawei.

The confusing part about the design is the use of a physical home button. Samsung is known for placing a fingerprint scanner under their home button and Huawei doesn’t use capacitive buttons for their flagships talk less of a physical home button. But this render shows that the Mate 9 Pro has its fingerprint scanner on the rear and still sports a physical home button which leads to the question ”What is the physical button for other than a complete imitation of the Note 7 or S7 Edge?”.

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The Mate 9 Pro is expected to feature a 5.9” display like its sibling but will be a 2K dual curved one. It will sport 6GB of RAM, 256GB of ROM, a 4000mAh battery with support for Huawei’s Supercharge technology.

Both versions of the Mate 9 are expected to launch on the 3rd of November in Berlin.

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