Yesterday, Huawei launched the Mate S. It’s a power house of specs and decent hardware.

The pricing is aggressive and with base models starting at 32gb, 64gb and 128gb for the force touch model.

Comes in 4 colours with the antennas hidden by design.

A big song and dance was made about the camera. See other post for camera shots. .

The new sensor is a skilled and easy to magage.

– 4G for both sims.
– Waterproof
– Dual sim with base mode at 32gb
– Incredibly fingerprint sensor
– Great cameras
– Hisilicon Kirin 935, Octa Core: Quad 2.2GHz + Quad 1.5GHz–
Storage32GBRAM3GBRear – – & – Camera13MP with AF, BSI, F2.0, OIS, Dual color-temp LED flashesFront Camera8MP, FF, BSI, F2.4, LED soft lightSensorsAccelerometer, Compass, Gyroscope, ALS, Proximate, HALLGPSCompatible with GPS/ Beidou/ GLONASS/AGPSAdditionalNFC, FMBattery2700mAh (Typ.) 2620mAh

Despite all the tricks jt really is a great pocket rocket. The fingerprint scanner works super fast. It really is comfy to hold in the hand.

I’ve got lots of tests to do but so far its seems a good phone. The force touch version was fine to demonstrate but not show off too muxh.