The Huawei Mate 9 has been one of the most talked-about smartphones in the last couple of weeks. The phone has been leaking like crazy in the last couple of weeks, and the company has finally introduced the device in Munich, well, two handsets. Huawei has announced both the Huawei Mate 9, and the Huawei Mate 9 Porsche Design. The two devices share some of their internals, though they look a bit different, and unlike the regular Mate 9, the Mate 9 Porsche Design comes with a curved display, while it is also smaller and more powerful. We’ve already covered the initial announcements of these two devices, and are here to take an in-depth look at the Mate 9 Porsche Design specifications, read on.
First and foremost, it is worth mentioning that the Huawei Mate 9 Porsche Design is made out of metal, just like the Mate 9, though unlike the Mate 9, this is a limited edition smartphone. As you can tell be its name, Huawei partnered up with Porsche in order to release this smartphone. The Huawei Mate 9 Porsche Design comes with a home button below the display, which doubles as the device’s fingerprint scanner. The Huawei Mate 9 Porsche Design sports a 5.5-inch QHD (2560 x 1440, 534ppi) curved AMOLED display. This phone, much like the regular Mate 9, comes with the HiSilicon Kirin 960 64-bit octa-core processor clocked at 2.4GHz, which is Huawei’s home-baked processor, and it is made using a 16nm manufacturing process. This SoC, ships with the Mali-G71 MP8 GPU. The Huawei Mate 9 Porsche Design packs in 6GB of RAM and 256GB of expandable native storage.
The Huawei Mate 9 Pro comes with a hybrid dual SIM setup, which means there are two nano SIM card slots available inside of this device. Speaking of storage, you can expand this device’s storage using the second SIM card slot which acts as a microSD slot as well. The 20-megapixel (Monochrome) and 12-megapixel (RGB, f/2.2 aperture, OIS) camera sensors are available on the back of the Mate 9 Porsche Design, we’re looking at Sony’s sensors and Leica’s lenses here. These are the same sensors that Huawei included in a regular Mate 9 handset, just in case you were wondering. You’ll also find a 4,000mAh battery on the inside of this smartphone, and it is not removable, but it comes with fast charging, so-called SuperCharge fast charging which will charge up this handset from 0% to 100% in 90 minutes, says Huawei. Android 7.0 Nougat comes out of the box here with Huawei’s Emotion (EMUI) 5.0 skin, which is Huawei’s newest Android skin, and this is the first device it is available on. The Huawei Mate 9 Pro measures 152 x 75 x 7.5mm, while it weighs 169 grams. The Huawei Mate 9 Porsche Design comes in Graphite Black color variant only.
