Key Features
- 5.5-inch 2K curved display
- 6GB RAM
- 256GB storage
- USB-C
- 4,000 mAh battery
- Kirin 960
- Manufacturer: Huawei
- Review Price: free/subscription
Huawei Porsche Design Mate 9 hands-on: Worth the cost of entry?
Huawei has teamed up with legendary car marker Porsche to create one of the most luxurious, powerful and expensive phones you can buy.
Beyond
the premium brushed metal chassis, dedicated home button and iconic
Porsche Design logo — what really stands out is how comfortable and
easy to hold it is compared to the massive 5.9-inch Mate 9. The
Porsche’s smaller 5.5-inch curved display is the same size as the iPhone 7 Plus and Galaxy S7 Edge, and looks stunning. It’s sharper too, thanks to the higher resolution 2K display.
You can get the Porsche in any colour you like, as long as it’s black - or more specifically Graphite Black. And contrary to Huawei’s claim, it’s a serious fingerprint magnet.
Porsche have also moved the fingerprint reader to the front of the phone, combining it with a new capacitive touch Home button. Like the iPhone 7 and HTC 10, the button doesn’t physically press in, instead you get a gentle vibration. In my short time with the Porsche, I wasn’t that impressed by the Home Button which seems to require more force to press than you’d expect.
The
new octa-core Kirin 960 processor powers both the Mate 9 phones, but
the Porsche gets a speed boost, sporting 6GB of RAM - up from 4 on the
Mate 9. You’ll never need to worry about storage either as the Porsche
boasts 256GB of the stuff.
Raw performance is all well and good, but you need the software to make using the phone feel fast and responsive. That’s where the new and improved EMUI 5.0 software comes in which, together with Android 7.0 Nougat, is lightning fast.
Both versions of the Mate 9 offer a new and improved version of the Leica engineered dual-camera setup we saw on the Huawei P9
earlier this year. A 12 megapixel RGB sensor alongside a 20 megapixel
monochrome sensor work together to produce bright and detailed shots.
First impressions are great, but we’ll need to test if further to give a
final verdict.
The
Porsche Design Mate 9 is a seriously impressive phone - but with a
eye-watering retail price of 1350 Euros (around £1250), I suspect most
of us will have to give this one a miss.
The limited edition Porsche Design Mate 9 is expected to be available in Europe from December and the rest of the world in the new year.
Huawei has teamed up with legendary car marker Porsche to create one of the most luxurious, powerful and expensive phones you can buy.
You can get the Porsche in any colour you like, as long as it’s black - or more specifically Graphite Black. And contrary to Huawei’s claim, it’s a serious fingerprint magnet.
Porsche have also moved the fingerprint reader to the front of the phone, combining it with a new capacitive touch Home button. Like the iPhone 7 and HTC 10, the button doesn’t physically press in, instead you get a gentle vibration. In my short time with the Porsche, I wasn’t that impressed by the Home Button which seems to require more force to press than you’d expect.
The
new octa-core Kirin 960 processor powers both the Mate 9 phones, but
the Porsche gets a speed boost, sporting 6GB of RAM - up from 4 on the
Mate 9. You’ll never need to worry about storage either as the Porsche
boasts 256GB of the stuff.Raw performance is all well and good, but you need the software to make using the phone feel fast and responsive. That’s where the new and improved EMUI 5.0 software comes in which, together with Android 7.0 Nougat, is lightning fast.
Both versions of the Mate 9 offer a new and improved version of the Leica engineered dual-camera setup we saw on the Huawei P9
earlier this year. A 12 megapixel RGB sensor alongside a 20 megapixel
monochrome sensor work together to produce bright and detailed shots.
First impressions are great, but we’ll need to test if further to give a
final verdict.The
Porsche Design Mate 9 is a seriously impressive phone - but with a
eye-watering retail price of 1350 Euros (around £1250), I suspect most
of us will have to give this one a miss.The limited edition Porsche Design Mate 9 is expected to be available in Europe from December and the rest of the world in the new year.
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