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what's up guys Juan here from Android Authority and today we're unboxing this guy right here this is the huawei mate S this was actually just announced yesterday by Huawei at the press event here in Aoife 2015 in Berlin so we're going to go ahead and unbox this guy take a look at it and show you what's in the box and also give you sort of a first impressions of what I think about the device so let's go ahead just get right into it all right so it's going to be kind of a faux unboxing here because I did already kind of play with it a little bit but it's going to give you the idea regardless so first thing you're going to see is the phone itself obviously and we're just going to lift that out and I'm going to set that to the side for just a second and see what else is in the box here so take out this little tray and in the box you're going to get the usual stuff here you have the micro USB cable for charging and syncing and then you also have the wall adapter here and then there's also a pretty nice set of earbuds here so and while we actually made a pretty big deal about these earbuds and they do look pretty nice sort of very Apple earpods but they're pretty nice looking earbuds regardless and then other than that you have a sim card removal tool and inside this box here there's actually a case so that's kind of nice that you get a case included with the phone so it's a flip cover case so pretty nice they included that you don't really see that too often with a lot of flagship or high-end devices so you get some really nice earbuds and a really nice case alright so here is the device itself so the first thing you going to notice is that it's completely made of metal so it's all metal unibody design and the first thing that I sort of thought of when looking at this phone was that I sort of looks like the old one m7 from a few years ago so it has sort of that same sloping curved metal back it has chamfered edges all around so there's chamfered edges on the backside chamfered edges on the front side and it's also extremely thin not the thinnest but it's pretty thin it's seven point two millimeters thin and it actually tapers down along the edges to two point six five millimeters so that is really thin and when you hold it it feels extremely nice to hold and it's also really easy to hold despite being a 5.5 inch smartphone so I really love the build quality it feels very sleek in the hand it doesn't feel slippery either for being a metal phone there's actually sort of a little bit of resistance seen to the metal backing and of course the chamfered edges also help out with that as well so I really like the handling with this it feels extremely nice and it doesn't feel slippery at all on the front of the phone you're looking at a 5.5 inch 1080p Super AMOLED screen and while we was quick to point out the contrast ratio so you're looking at 1.8 million to 1 contrast ratio and it's also very saturated as well as you would expect from a AMOLED screen and so far it looks really good it's a nice looking panel but one thing I will say from just having this device for a short while is that it doesn't get all that bright especially compared to something like the note 5 or the s6 it definitely isn't quite as bright so outdoor visibility might be a little bit of an issue with this device but otherwise the screen really looks great just to take a quick tour around the device you have your 3.5 millimeter headphone jack up top the power and volume keys are both on the right side where they're easy to reach and then on the bottom you have your micro USB and what looks like dual bottom mounted speakers but it's actually just the right one that is a speaker and the other one is a microphone and then on the left side you have a dual SIM tray so it is dual sim capable and you actually get LTE on both SIM cards which is really nice and a one of the sim cards can also one of these sim card slots can also be used as a micro SD card slot for extra storage so that's also pretty nice as well and then along the back you obviously have the camera optics there's a 13 megapixel sensor with an RGB W sin sir and a dual tone LED flash and also below the camera you have the fingerprint scanner and eye she really liked the fingerprint scanner on the mate s here while we was sort of touting its accuracy and its reliability and it actually is extremely fast you can sort of just basically tap the fingerprint scanner and it'll unlock your phone you don't even really have to hold your finger on to it so that's really how fast it is almost pretty much instantaneous so I really like the fingerprint scanner here it works extremely well and also has other functions besides just being able to scan your fingerprint you can also use it as sort of as a trackpad so if I swipe down on it it'll actually pull down the notification shade and I can swipe it back up as well so there's a lot of cool little gestures that you can do you can also swipe through photos in your gallery by swiping across the fingerprint scanner so that's also pretty cool as well so a lot of really cool things you can do with the fingerprint scanner there's a lot more functionality to it than just being able to scan your fingerprint now just to recap the internal specs really quickly you're looking at the high silicon here on 935 processor so Huawei's own in-house processor and three gigabytes of RAM so performance should be really good on this device and if history is any indication of always in-house chipsets are usually pretty good so and so far I really haven't had any issues it seems to be very smooth so everything from you know gaming and media and all that stuff that you want to do on this phone should run perfectly fine I don't think they're going to have any sort of issues whatsoever with these specs on this device storage wise you're looking at 32 64 or 828 gigabytes of storage but one thing to note about the hundred and twenty eight gigabyte version is that it actually comes with force touch as in apples force touch so you're going to be able to press a lot harder on the screen to do certain functions like being able to zoom in closer to an image without actually pinching a zoom so things of that nature but unfortunately I'm not able to show it to you guys because this is the 32 gigabyte version that I have here and the force touch version is actually going to be available only in certain market so you probably won't see it in the US for certain reasons that you can probably already guess with the software you're looking at android 5.1.1 with Huawei's emotion UI 3.1 on and if you've ever used emotion UI before you'll know exactly what to expect here it's a very colorful interface with a lot of very brightly colored icons and a lot of software tricks up and sleeve from a one-handed mode to motion control and dual window things of that nature and it also comes with Huawei's own knuckle sense technology which we first saw on the p8 so you can do things like draw letters on the screen to open applications like I can draw a C for example on the screen if I wanted to open the camera app or draw an e if I wanted to open the internet browser so anything like that and you can basically create your own gestures to open whatever apps that you want to open you can also double knock on the screen with two knuckles to start a video recording and double knock again to stop a video recording also inside is a pretty large 3000 milliamp hour battery and that should be more than enough to get the mate s through a full day especially considering the screen is only 1080p so I don't think battery life is going to be an issue on this phone but obviously we're gonna have to wait till we test is advise further to really see what the battery life is going to be like but 3000 milliamp hours sounds like it should be more than enough for the mate s it's going to be available within the coming weeks and pre-orders actually start on September 15 so you'll be able to get your hands on the mate s pretty soon here but this has been a quick unboxing and hands on first impressions of the mate s hopefully you guys enjoyed it if you did please give it a thumbs up down below we definitely appreciate it and also subscribe for more videos like this that button is also down below and stay tuned for more because we have more coverage here to Comic Aoife 2015 in Berlin and as always thank you guys so much for watching keep it tuned here to Android Authority because we are your source for all things Android