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Huawei makes it big with Mate S: recognizes finger pressure and load in 10 minutes – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published on September 2, 2015 at 20:47.
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BERLIN – The smartphone is an extension of the person, touch technology “make the connections” . The slogan used by Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei Consumer BG to present new handsets Chinese house IFA (the presentation was staged in reality far from the halls of the Fair and in the heart of old East Berlin) makes good l ‘ idea of ​​one of the strands that characterize the 2015 edition of the important event of the European consumer electronics.

And that is to mobile devices that offer more and more personalized user experience, which is in the bank obsessive attention to detail in terms of design and takes the form of “add on” functional (many of which related to the tactile component) that promise to precisely use advanced and innovative (although in some respects an end in itself) of the device. If one of the first ads of weight Ifa there are two smartphones, the Huawei Mate S and Xperia Sony Z5, it is not surprising that much. The digital life and smart technology that promises us can only pass – as well as from TV, refrigerators, stereos, visors and so on – even by phone. Obviously intelligent.

metal body and compact size by phablet
The new flagship of the Chinese producer, the Mate S, comes with an aesthetic marked by the elegant curve of the body unibody metal reflection (the edges offer a double cut made with the diamond) and a thickness in the thinnest part is reduced to just 2.65 mm. The screen size is “phablet”, 5.5-inch full HD resolution (401 ppi and level of color saturation equal to 105%) and this peeps coating with Gorilla Glass technology of the fourth generation. The overall dimensions are smaller than those of the iPhone 6 Plus, and precisely 149.9 mm tall by 75.3 mm wide.

The first “experiment” interface Force Touch
Among the strengths of the S Mate, at least among those emphasized by Huawei, is the fingerprint sensor Digital on the back of the unit. Discounted at best in terms of sensitivity and speed of recognition echo a series of gesture capabilities (own technology Fingerprint Sense 2.0) that allow you to manage some operations (open the curtain of the notifications, scroll through the images in the gallery, taking selfie, respond calls and others) using the sensor as a sort of touchpad.
At the software level the other new entry is Knuckle Sense 2.0, namely touch functionality related to the use of the knuckles to better manage activities such as for example the video recording, playback of music files or access to the camera. The real news, for nothing so exalted in the presentation, is support for touch feedback technology, announced as one of the pluses of the new iPhone 6S. Huawei has built-in S Mate and the results are those of a system able to detect the pressure of the finger, the zooming of an image of the gallery or to define shortcuts on one of the corners of the smartphone to launch the default app. We are the first experiment of this technology and it shows but the feeling is that there is a world of possibilities to explore, starting with the already present, to turn the phone into a scale to weigh small items.

Royalty Professional
The digital camera boasts a 13-megapixel sensor in four colors, with optical stabilizer, sapphire crystal and processor dedicated ISP. It is once again on the software that Huawei has been working to make its smartphone different from the others and make it a device to be used with manual settings can offer a wide range of controls, filters in series and settings already balanced for shooting in black and black. The front camera of 8 megapixels, however, is distinguished by an LED to light (glare-free) face during selfie in low ambient light.
In no particular order, further advantages declared (and untested) of Mate S are the wireless printing capabilities with standard Mopria, the battery life of more than one day and the chance to secure a charge for two hours of talk time in just 10 minutes. The mobile network connectivity is of course LTE and is pendant to support Dual Sim gives you the freedom to utilize a second phone card (always 4G) slot otherwise dedicated to accommodate a microSD card. The remarkable presence of three directional microphones to better manage call sessions.

In pre order from mid-September
Huawei confirmed costs for its new jewel and the feeling is that perhaps have shot up: the Classic version with 32 GB of internal memory will in fact list (mid month taking pre-orders for the Italian market) to 649 euro and one with 64 GB to 699 Euros. The luxury model with touch feedback technology and 128 GB of storage space will come on below and is taken for granted that it will cost significantly more.



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