techview.co Updated:
2014-09-24 10:05:09
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Huawei have just announced the new Ascend Mate 7 at IFA 2014 and we've already been hands on with the latest phablet from the Chinese manufacturer. Let's take a closer look at some of the key features that make the Ascend Mate 7 a very interesting tablet...
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The Huawei Ascend Mate 7 is the latest flagship device from the Chinese manufacturer, but rather than replace the Ascend P7 it slides in above into the ever growing "phablet" market.It's the natural successor to the Ascend Mate 2, so you'd expect it to ca...
Great fingerprint scanner, Metal body...
It's pretty big, Performance doesn't sparkle...
The Huawei Ascend Mate 7 comes running Android 4.4 KitKat, but the Chinese firm as applied its own overlay. It's a new version of the interface, known as Emotion UI 3.0, and it's debuting on the Ascend G7 as well as the Mate 7. It's slightly less childish...
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techradar.com/au/ Updated:
2014-09-24 10:05:09
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The Huawei Ascend Mate 7 is the latest flagship device from the Chinese manufacturer, but rather than replace the Ascend P7 it slides in above into the ever growing "phablet" market.It's the natural successor to the Ascend Mate 2, so you'd expect it to ca...
Great fingerprint scanner, Metal body...
It's pretty big, Performance doesn't sparkle...
The Hauwei Ascend Mate 7 looks and feels like a surprisingly accomplished handset, and at it's attractive price point it can really give the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 a run for its money. I still have a few questions on the performance side of things, but th...
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We've been using the Huawei Ascend Mate 7 for three weeks now, which is since the day it was unveiled at the IFA trade show in Berlin. Despite originally thinking "blimey, a 6-inch phone" we've become accustomed to this behemoth living in our pocket. And...
Decent and giant screen, considerable battery life, excellent fingerprint scanner, ample Android performance, battery life can last for an age, competitive price point, metal body design feels premium...
6-inch screen means huge a handset, default theme is horrid (as are most downloadable ones), vibrate alert feeble, some software irks, battery life could still be better given 4100mAh capacity...
There's no escaping the Huawei Ascend Mate 7's physical size. This may be one giant phone, but it's also the embodiment of Huawei coming of age. It's big meets beautiful with premium design flair, a great fingerprint scanner, ample performance and a...
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v3.co.uk Updated:
2014-10-15 09:11:36
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Chinese firm Huawei has always had some pretty aspirational goals, regularly pronouncing that it eventually wants to dethrone Samsung and Apple as kings of the smartphone market, for example. While some scoffed at these claims a few years ago, it's unden...
Great design, powerful processor, above average battery...
Emotion UI makes needless changes that hamper performance and make the phone less user friendly...
The Huawei Ascend Mate 7 is a semi-affordable big screen smartphone that offers top-end performance, above average battery life and decent camera quality. However, detrimental software additions make it slightly unintuitive to use...
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What is the Huawei Ascend Mate 7? The Huawei Ascend Mate 7 is a very large phone, one whose display is close to tablet-like proportions. Gamers and those who like to watch videos on the way to work should have an instant interest in such a phone. And, con...
Decent value, Solid design, Huge, good-quality screen, Good battery life...
Software not great fresh out of the box, Some minor build issues...
The Huawei Ascend Mate 7 is one of the first 6-inch phones that avoids being a royal pain to use. The software is quirkier than a French art house film, but good performance elsewhere makes up for it.Next, check our our best mobile phones round-up...
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T3.com
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2014-10-16 04:23:35
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Fans of comically oversized smartphones will be feeling vindicated by Apple's decision to join in the phablet fun. But while the i Phone 6 Plus screen is a mere 5.5 inches, the Huawei Ascend Mate 7 is half an inch bigger and over £200 cheaper. It too is m...
Gigantic Full HD screen, Decent design and build, Long battery...
You need two hands to use it, Interface is underwhelming, Less pixels than rivals...
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knowyourmobile.com Updated:
2014-11-08 07:17:05
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I've spent a couple of weeks using Huawei's first foray into the world of phablets and here's my verdict on the Ascend Mate 7.When you've got a 6in display to fit in, the build of your handset is always going to be quite hefty. The Ascend Mate 7 is a larg...
Nice metal design, easy to hold, fantastic battery life, solid build, good value for money...
Awful UI, old version of Android, lots of bloatware, may be too big for some...
Huawei's first foray into phablets does an all round impressive job. A good looking design with a great build quality nails the outside of the handset. With offerings from Apple and Samsung tearing up the phablet rulebook in 2014, Huawei's handset has...
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androidaustralia.com.au Updated:
2014-11-13 01:38:18
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Over the last few years, Huawei has been increasing its market share steadily by increasing it's smartphone shipment at over 60% annually. Huawei shipped roughly 32 million units in 2012, 52 million unit in 2013 and are on pace to ship an estimate 80 mill...
While we still have to do an in depth review of the Huawei Ascend Mate7, the lack of bloat-ware and amazing hardware does make the look like Huawei has a winner on its hands. The UI while a pain point, will appeal to first time Android users switching ove...
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It's all the fault of Samsung. We had a tablet market and a phone market with a rather clear distinction between the two. Phones were small, tablets were large and in between we had the Dell Streak with its immense 5” screen that everyone looked at and sa...
Excellent fingerprint sensor, The screen – bright and vibrant, Battery life, Design...
Old version of Android, Too much bloatware, Almost impossible to use one handed, Micro SD slot hard to access...
The Huawei Ascend Mate 7 is a good looking, solidly built handset than has more than a touch of quality. It feels nice in the hand, is well balanced, has a great screen, plenty of storage options and features galore.On the slightly less than positive sid...
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cybershack.com.au Updated:
2014-11-20 07:03:23
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Phablets are a slippy slope. Less than half a year ago I was perfectly content with my iPhone 5 and its tiny screen. Slowly but surely, screen size kept increasing, rising to from 4-inches to 5, from 5 to 5.5, from 5.5 to 5.7. Now I'm sitting here with my...
Fantastic fingerprint reader, Great build quality, Excellent value...
Software is a little cumbersome, User interface can be inconsistent...
Huawei's Ascend Mate7 is a solid effort that goes toe-to-toe with flagships from Samsung, Apple, LG and Sony. If you're in the market for a new smartphone, it's definitely worth considering the Mate7, especially if you're looking at an outright purchase...
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fatducktech.com Updated:
2014-11-29 03:23:54
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The Huawei Ascend Mate 7 did something I did not expect. It took me by surprise.By surprise specifically because while Huawei's long made decent but not stunning phones in the entry and mid-level ranges, it's never before produced a premium phone that's b...
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Huawei has taken off the gloves with its Mate7 phablet. The 6-inch smartphone wraps a bevy of cutting-edge tech in a coat of metal armour and tops the recipe off with simplistic software inspired by none other than Apple.The Mate7 is all screen. The front...
Well implemented finger scanner, Long lasting battery, Metal body, Dual-SIM capable, Performance hardware, Undercuts rivals on price...
Camera performance, Heavy at 185 grams, Awkward to make calls...
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Not that long ago, Huawei was considered a bit of a third-rate phone manufacturer; only good enough to make cheap handsets for the operators to brand. But for the past two years, the Chinese firm has taken great pleasure in proving us all wrong. As well a...
The 6" screen—big, good resolution, great picture quality, Superb design and buildquality, System is very fluid, Emotion UI interface—customisable and works well, 4Gcompatible, Great media player, Perfect integration of the fingerprint scanner...
No UHD4K filming, The battery life is good, but given the size of the battery, we'd have expected better, The graphics chip is likely to quickly become outdated...
Huawei gets better with each model, but the Mate 7 is verging on perfection. We might bemoan the battery life—the immense capacity led us to hope for much better—but it still lasts a perfectly acceptable amount of time. As for the rest, the build-quality...
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Huawei might be the worlds third largest smartphone manufacturers but they are still yet to become a household name in Australia. When they first entered the smartphone market in Australia they were exclusively targeting the pre-paid market. The last 18 m...
Solid build, Large display, Finger-print scanner, Elegant design...
Huawei sign/charging port not centred, Large display means large phone, Launcher/default apps difficult to change...
The time of the phablet is now. Everyone is doing it, even Apple. Huawei have made a good fist of their new entry into the phablet range. The Huawei Ascend Mate 7 is a big, broad, beautiful phablet. If you can look past the Huawei name and microUSB port b...
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pcauthority.com.au Updated:
2014-12-11 02:55:46
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There's not much this stunning device doesn't do to impress. The 6-inch screen fills almost all of the chassis, trumping the similarly sized, but smaller screened Galaxy Note 4. It's as good an Android implementation as you'll find, stacking it up well ag...
A very impressive 'budget' premium device at a most reasonable asking price...
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Fancy a big phone with a huge price? Huawei may have the handset for you, and it may even have a leg up on quite a few of its colossal competitors.Huawei's latest handsets is the Mate 7, a big phone that joins Huawei's “Ascend” range of phones, and aims t...
Decent screen; Excellent build quality, relying on metal; Excellent battery life; High-speed 4G LTE, with support for Category 6 LTE in the box; Comes with a microUSB to USB converter in the box; Comes with a screen protector preinstalled; Includes a wind...
Fingerprint reader can be hit and miss depending on hand size; Lockscreen should support other music players, but doesn't seem to; If you use nanoSIM, you won't have a microSD slot available to you; If you use two SIMs, you won't have a microSD slot avail...
Huawei's first serious phablet is a hit as far as value goes, packing so much in it's hard not to see the work the manufacturer has put into this product.From the excellent build quality in a phone running two days of battery life, to the amount of extra...
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Great for consuming content, thanks to its gigantic 6" screen with thin bezel and soft navigation buttons. The fingerprint sensor is no gimmick and feels really solid in handHuawei Ascend Mate7 Review – Not many Australians know about Huawei (or even how...
Huawei Mate7 is a huge phone, made specifically for consuming content at the best way possible. Thanks to its 6″ screen display, watching videos, reading books, checking on stats, and playing games simply look and feel better. The phone itself looks luxu...
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Despite the theatrics if you pause 28 seconds into the trailer it briefly compares the device to the iPhone 6+ (from a cosmetic point of view) and it looks pretty similar in our eyes, both in terms of size and the thinness of the casing!Yet the device's s...
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digitalversus.com Updated:
2015-03-20 05:18:05
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Huawei hasn't really messed with the design of materials; we've still got the same exemplary finish and a screen that covers 80% of the façade. This makes it very easy to handle, despite its size. (It's actually the same size an an iPhone 6, although the...
Large 6" screen with decent resolution and very good picture quality, Faultless design and construction, System is brilliantly fluid / Emotion UI runs well and is easily customisable, 4Gcompatibility / DualSIM (just 4G for the second), Good media player...
No UHD/4K video, Good battery life, but should be better given the enormous battery capacity, Graphics chip might be a little underpowered for future titles, You have to choose between a second SIM or microSD...
A Mate 7 but beefier and better. The Acend Mate 7 Gold might not have addressed the slight problems we encountered on the Mate 7, but the performance of its already sterling features has been bolstered. For starters, it's now dual-SIM, a pretty unique att...
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Huawei has never been a high-profile maker of flagship smartphones and tablets in Australia, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have some excellent devices — you just have to do a little research to find them. The Ascend Mate7 is a 6.1-inch monster running...
Beautiful, big 6-inch screen, Genuinely useful fingerprint sensor, Great battery life...
Relatively fragile construction, Occasional annoying Emotion UI quirks, Superfluous gesture controls...
LikeBeautiful, big 6-inch screen.Genuinely useful fingerprint sensor.Great battery life.Don't LikeRelatively fragile construction.Occasional annoying Emotion UI quirks.Superfluous gesture controls.The Huawei Ascend Mate7 makes its 6-inch screen more than...
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China does smartphones well; we know that much is the case from our quick peeks into the world of Xiaomi and Oppo. There's another big player that has been around in Australia for longer, though, and it has a brand new flagship phablet. Huawei's Mate7 pa...
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whistleout.com.au Updated:
2015-06-13 09:23:15
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90 / 100The term phablet is losing its appeal, but the pocket-busting smartphone cum tablet devices seem only to be raising in popularity. If you're in the market for a Big Phone, you've never had as many options. Samsung's Galaxy Note is in its fourth it...
It's big, beautiful and packs a massive battery: the Huawei Mate 7 is among the year's best phones. It's remarkable just how much Huawei can pack into this package and still manage to keep the price significantly lower than similar products from the bigge...
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mobilephones.com Updated:
2015-10-17 05:51:26
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Delivering one of the largest visual platforms in a smartphone, the Huawei Ascend Mate 7 has a 6” FHD In-cell display, which by design has great wide viewing angles. The first surprise is that in the hand, the Mate 7 doesn't feel anywhere near as big as i...
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Huawei's Ascend Mate7 impressed no end when it was launched during AfricaCom last year, and I was curious to see whether the favourable first impressions would persist.Now that the smartphone has arrived for review, in the cold light of day as it were, th...
Beautiful screen, Elegant Design...
Very large, not quite portable...
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chip.com.my Updated:
2016-11-19 06:04:47
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Ever since they made it into the smartphone scene, Huawei has become one of the fastest growing manufacturers in the world. They've garnered quite a following as well as they have managed to produce affordably priced smartphones that come with features an...
Large 4,100mAh battery, Solid design, Good performance, Good front and rear cameras, Large and brilliant display...
Might be a little unwieldy for some, Speaker is tinny, Nonremovable ba...
While some may consider it to be still a little pricey, we find that for what it offers, the Huawei Ascend Mate 7 is actually quite a good deal as it is still much cheaper than most flagships out there. Of course, if you have a little more spare change...
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klgadgetguy.com Updated:
2016-11-19 06:04:47
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HTC. Huawei. Taiwan. China. Similar but different.As a longtime user of the HTC phone series with more than 4 phones worth of experience, I was delighted to have received the HTC One Max… or was it? The “device” greeted me as how a HTC One Max would, with...
Great Design, Strong Performance, Longlasting battery life, Brilliant hidden features, Smooth and neat with EMUI, Added security with Finger Print sensor, Speaker Quality is Loud and clear...
– Too big/ slippery for small hands, – Taking longer time to charge the battery, – Photos sometimes get oversaturated...
The Huawei Ascend Mate 7 is a great phone if you are looking for a smartphone with a large screen either for gaming or watching videos and a long lasting battery life. However, some might think that having a huge phone in your pocket is disturbing. Clearl...
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Huawei released several phablets in the past two years with the Ascend Mate being one of the more notable ones. However for consumers, its offerings were never really considered flagship worthy as they lacked finesse, high-end specs and a compelling suite...
Good design and build quality, Nice UI and features, Solid battery life, 4G LTE CAT 6 support, Best fingerprint sensor implementation on an Android phone...
Camera performance could be better, Phone may be too big for some, Slippery back...
With the Mate 7, Huawei has finally positioned itself as a premium handset maker. It's certainly a valiant effort, although there is certainly room for improvement in some areas.Huawei has demonstrated that it is capable of churning out phones with great...
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tbreak.ae Updated:
2016-11-19 06:04:48
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I’m not a huge fan of the oversized phones, so when the latest offering from Huawei, the Ascend Mate 7, a 6″ screen full-HD device came across my desk for review, I was skeptical...
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Huawei wants to leave a good impression in the handset market and the Ascend Mate7 is looking to be the smartphone that will make that happen. Check out our full review of the Huawei Ascend Mate 7 below.The Ascend series is Huawei's official brand for the...
Great performance, Good display, Very long battery life, Dual-SIM, Dual-LTE capability, Functional fingerprint sensor, Huge expandable internal storage, Hefty serving of DDR3 RAM, Affordably priced for its category...
Can get warm pretty fast, A bit hefty and heavy-set...
The Huawei Ascend Mate7 has so many things to brag about. Among them is the premium build, dual-LTE capability, huge battery, powerful hardware — all in an affordable price. It's by far the phone that has the longest battery life we've ever tested.We coul...
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wovow.org Updated:
2016-12-22 20:25:48
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Chinese company Huawei has officially unveiled the Huawei Ascend Mate 7, the new phablet from six inches to hit the market to succeed Huawei Ascend Mate 2 launched earlier this year 2014. The Mate 7 (or Mate7) is a large mobile that features aluminum hous...
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It's been about a month now since the Huawei Mate 8 landed in Malaysia, and it has gained quite a buzz due to how fast and “lag-less” it was due to the new Kirin 950 SoC chipset. That being said, it's been only a year since the Mate 7 came out and if you'...
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The Ascend Mate 7 is the Huawei flagship from 2014. Sporting octa-core processor with 2 cores, it features a 6 inches display with fingerprint scanner on the back.Here are the specification list of the Huawei Ascend Mate 7: -1. AppearanceOur review unit o...
As a 2014 flagship device from Huawei, the Ascend Mate 7 comes with impressive performance as well as long battery life. The addition of the fingerprint sensor also largely improves the security of the whole device. However, the only down point of the Mat...
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Huawei one of a number of Chinese manufacturers that ascended in 2014 to not just compete, but stand up and be counted in Australia. With products like the Ascend Mate7 a lavish gold, 6” smartphone that is thin, powerful and has great battery life, it's a...
While nothing official has been announced, this phone likely will get Android 5.0 Lollipop and that may mean they need to rethink the current gold UI. It'd definitely be possible to keep the gold colour in the UI to match the hardware, while still adherin...
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Hot on the heels of Huawei's announcement of the Ascend Mate7 at IFA 2014, it's the perfect time to take it out for a spin. There's much about the latest Huawei flagship that sets it apart from the crowd – it's got a very large, 6-inch screen, a metal bo...
Metal and sturdy construction, Industryleading fingerprint scanner on the back, Attractive, lagfree interface, Recordsetting battery life, Support for a large number of LTE bands...
The camera could use some work – shots often suffer from improper exposition and color abnormalities, Minimum brightness is too high for comfortable viewing in dark environments, Lacks 4K UHD video recording...
The Huawei Ascend Mate7 isn't for everybody. Certainly, the 6-inch screen will put off a sizable portion of potential customers, as that's obviously way into phablet territory. On the bright side, however, the Mate7 is a really compact device relative to...
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We review Huawei's Ascend Mate 7, a massive, well-specced premium phablet packing a fingerprint scanner and a very unique interface.After churning out plastic fantastic mobiles for yonks, Huawei has finally decided to up its game and produce a gorgeous me...
Strong performance, Sharp Full HD screen, Neat UI tweaks, Decent battery life...
Niche audience, Battery takes ages to charge, Photos sometimes oversaturated, Cluttered desktops...
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The Ascend Mate series, it's fair to say, hasn't dazzled us yet, and it takes more than a "me too" approach to make a great oversized smartphone. Earlier in 2014 the Ascend P7 arrived and was the best Huawei device to date, with a premium design and high-...
Huawei is back with another crack at the oversized smartphone, and it might be the Chinese manufacturer's best device yetHuawei has been stepping up its game of late, with modern Android devices that are significantly better than its earlier offerings. Th...
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Our Huawei Ascend Mate 7 could certainly be seen as a response of the fast-growing Chinese manufacturer to Apple's iPhone 6 Plus plagued by Bentgate and software issuess. 6-inch phablets can normally be carried around easily in a pocket, but not be used w...
Light, Elegant, solid aluminum casing, Slim bezel, Bright, viewing angle screen with outstanding color reproduction, Lightning fast CPU performance, Very good GPU performance, Stylish, useful UI, Phone manager app, Very good primary camera for a smartphon...
Cannot be used with one hand, one-hand feature defect, Assessed storage throughput low, Browsing could be smoother, Lack of an app drawer needs getting used to, Mono speaker too inferior for multimedia...
Huawei Ascend Mate 7.In total, Huawei's iPhone rival made a very good impression in the test. Apart from the graphics unit that we "only" see in the upper range, it provides premium-range performance. The minor weaknesses that we could measure are more th...
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The Galaxy Note series started the phablet craze in 2010, when the first-generation Note shocked us with its gigantic for the times, 5.3-inch display size, but fast forward to these days, and we're seeing 5 to 5.2-inch devices becoming the norm for flags...
The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and the Huawei Ascend Mate7 are two of the best options on the market right now, if you're looking for a smartphone with a large screen. With this in mind, the 6-inch Mate7 may be a bit too steep of a form factor for some, with i...
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We review Huawei's Ascend Mate 7, a massive, well-specced premium phablet packing a fingerprint scanner and a very unique interface.After churning out plastic fantastic mobiles for yonks, Huawei has finally decided to up its game and produce a gorgeous me...
Strong performance, Sharp Full HD screen, Neat UI tweaks, Decent battery life...
Niche audience, Battery takes ages to charge, Photos sometimes over-saturated, Cluttered desktops...
The Ascend Mate 7 is one of Huawei's finest premium devices to date, but of course that 6-inch hulking beast isn't for everyone. If your priority is rocking a massive Full HD screen, the Mate 7 should satisfy. The camera isn't top of its league but it's r...
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Huawei's continued attempts to break into Western markets has been slowly showing some results, helped along by the fact that the Chinese company has some fantastic devices on offer. Following a string of solid mid-range smartphones, Huawei unveiled its l...
Great industrial design, Big display brings good experience, In-house performance package is fast and reliable, Battery life is where it should be, Camera quality is good, especially with a nice 5MP front shooter, Fingerprint reader is a very welcome surp...
Size is pretty unwieldy for even large hands, Speaker quality is average, Camera modes sometimes are useless (HDR in particular), Without an app drawer, Emotion UI not for everyone...
8.7 A great fingerprint reader is just one portion of what turns out to be a great package in the Huawei Ascend Mate 7...
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It's been a while since I got the Mate 7 at IFA in Berlin and I have been using it on an off since then. As a new member of the AnandTech crew I still had to get the proper equipment to be able to go through our test bench on my own. After lots of delays...
Having spent plenty of time with the Mate 7 I think I've build quite a good opinion of the device. Huawei's new flagship remains polarizing as it offers some quite positive aspects while carrying some big compromises. Huawei again impressed me with their...
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Huawei has manufactured its first premium phablet in the Ascend Mate7, an excellent piece of mobile tech that, as Huawei has become wont to do in recent months, finds a good balance between high-quality components and a better-than-usual price tag (in par...
Reliable metal body, Exceptional displaytodevice ratio, Functional fingerprint reader, Great battery life...
Screen can get too dim, Main camera is not uptodate, Battery isn't removable...
The Ascend Mate7 may not be on the bleeding edge in every regard, but it's still a smartly constructed phablet that will satisfy most power users' needs without totally busting their bank account in the process. Anyone who picks it up will be pleased wi...
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When thinking of buying the latest large-screened smartphone, many probably only consider Apple's iPhone 6 Plus or the Samsung Galaxy Note 4. Granted, these are two of the best devices you can get today and thus have received a ton of attention from the m...
Massive, greatquality display sits inside a premium aluminium shell with small bezels. Generally good performance with fantastic battery life. Decent value for money.
Camera is mediocre, even in good conditions. Doesn't match the top end devices in performance.
When I received the Ascend Mate 7 on my doorstep a few weeks ago, I didn't really know what to expect from the Chinese OEM that has been long associated with budget handsets. A few weeks later, using the Mate 7 as my daily driver, I've actually come to qu...
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Huawei's never quite been synonymous with premium handsets – at least, not in the United States. But that doesn't mean that the company is incapable of making them, and we were reminded of that at IFA 2014 when the company unveiled the Ascend Mate 7. The...
Topnotch build quality, Responsive and smart fingerprint scanner, Excellent battery life, Strong call performance...
Slow software in some cases, Big screen not taken advantage of with software, Lack of support for wireless charging or WiFi ac, Unimpressive speaker...
Sitting around the same cost as other large form factor devices like the Galaxy Note 3, it's hard to say whether or not this device is worth buying right now. It's certainly better-built than the Note 3, though software is subjective and the multi-tasking...
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Marketed as a great phone with an excellent battery life, at an affordable price (a recurring Huawei theme), the Huawei Ascend Mate 7 ($600) is one of the most desirable phone in China right now, and has been out of stock for some time, while Huawei is sc...
With the Mate 7, Huawei goes further away from playing the pure “value” game and enters high-end territory. A $600 price puts it less than $100 from the Galaxy Note 4, $150 below the iPhone 6+ and $50 above the Galaxy S5 – this is not always an obvious po...
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The other specifications are pretty much what you expect from a top end device. You get a 5.5 inch 2K screen, a 2.5Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 Soc with 3GB RAM, Sony Exmor214 13MP rear camera and 3,000 mAh battery which is removable.So, if you are looking...
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When the average Joe prepares to buy a cellphone, he either cannot afford a flagship phone or believes that a phone that costs around 200 USD may not be good enough. In other words, choosing a cellphone is like deciding what to eat for lunch and dinner. H...
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The X5Max is no slouch on the specs either. It does not offer the flagship grade chip, but packs a reasonable an octa-core Snapdragon 615 with the 4 cores clocked at 1.7 GHz (Cortex-A53) and another 4 cores clocked at 1.0 GHz (Cortex-A53). In addition, th...
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InternetThere are editions for China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom, all of which are 4G-supported (the Telecom edition has a baseband). There is also a open-channel edition. This version is granted access by the Kirin 925's baseband to networks...
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All-metal handsets are not too common but last year, Huawei announced its Ascend Mate 7 and delivered its first all-metal device. This year, Huawei revealed the Honor 7, which brings an updated all-metal build and an experience that's definitely been insp...
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