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last year saw while we introduced its first all-metal big-screen smartphone in the form of the mate 7 which brought a stylish design and a unique single touch fingerprint sensor fast forward a year and while I introduced the maitre sir Aoife bring in an updated design and the second generation of its fingerprint sensor but how do these two devices compare hey what's up everybody is near of here friend rarity bringing you a quick look at the huawei mate s versus the ascend mate 7 although it has a frameless display the mate 7 is definitely one of the largest smartphones on the market and even though I've got large hands I find it quite difficult to use in one hand with the mate s Huawei's made its latest flagship smaller and more manageable which results in a much improved in hand experience Huawei says both smartphones have frameless displays and while this is somewhat true both devices also come with an on screen bezel where the active pixels actually stop and the screen continues the back of the mate 7 is slightly curved and a key change in the mate s is the depth of the curb with new flagship curving a lot more this results in the mate s feeling a lot better in the hand and it's also allowed Huawei to make the handset just two point six five millimeters thick at its thinnest point although it's worth noting is 7.2 millimeters thick in the middle both devices have the power and volume keys on the right along with the SIM tray on the left on the mate 7 the sim and microSD card trays are separate while on the mate s they've been combined into one tray just like on the honor 7 beneath the camera on the back while is also at the fingerprint Center and while some people may not like the fact that it's located on the back the center is position so it sits where your finger naturally does when you're holding the phone in your hand up top we put the headphone jack and microphone while at the bottom both devices have the micro USB 2.0 port neither smartphone has an IR blaster which is unfortunate but all smartphones seem to be dropping this quite useful feature another key changes in the display technology with the mate 7 sporting a 6 inch IPS display and the mate s a smaller and more vibrant 5.5 inch AMOLED panel both screen sport Full HD resolution and while there are better quad HD and 4k displays on the market Full HD is more good enough for most users while the mate7 screen is certainly no slouch the switch to AMOLED means the may test is a lot more immersive and offers more vibrant and set saturated colors and deeper blacks while we've also made a luxury version of the mate s which comes through the world's first force touch smartphone display but this will only be available in certain markets and has a limited feature set overall while the mate s screen certainly isn't the best on the market it does offer an impressive experience and is likely to be enough to satisfy most users like most flagship devices both the mate s and the mate 7 equipped with a range of features that we've come to expect from the very best devices on the market both hands are powered by wires own optical Kirin processor and while the mate7 uses the older Kirin 95 clocked at 1.8 gigahertz the mate s uses the newer Kiran 935 with a higher clock speed of 2.2 gigahertz the mate 7 comes into storage versions the entry-level which we have has 2 gigabytes RAM and 16 gigabyte storage while the premium version comes with 32 gigabytes of storage and 3 gigabytes of RAM the mate s comes with 3 gigabytes of RAM as standard and either 32 gigabyte 64 gigabytes or 128 gigabyte storage if you're after the forced touch display this is limited to just 128 gigabyte model but whichever model you do buy you can expand it using a micro SD card on the back both have Huawei's trademark OneTouch square fingerprint sensor and this is where a year has made a really big difference that mate 7 just lets you unlock your phone by tapping sensor but in the mate s while have not only made this feature faster but also added gesture support as far as phablets go battery is a big part of the experience and while the original phablets bought large batteries we've noticed companies making smartphone batteries smaller in general Huawei is no different and the mate7 has a 4100 milliamp hour battery that is simply outstanding while the may s burns are much smaller 2,700 milliamp hour the big battery on the make 7 means it takes a long time to charge to full but Huawei has improved this and quit charging on the mate s means that you can charge an entire battery from empty in under two hours both handsets offer expandable storage and while we says the microSD card slot also doubles up as a secondary SIM card slot on the mate7 however our version doesn't have dual sim support but this is available in selected markets on the mate s dual SIM is included in all variants by default and this lets you use two SIM cards at once each with their own 4G LTE connection while ways using a quite clever dual antenna system to get around its metal build and this means the handset can intelligently switch between antenna depending on which is offering the best reception as a result high data speeds a reliable connection and great cell coverage all come as standard on the huawei mate s if there's any area where Huawei does itself no favors it is the software and it's also where these two devices differ quite considerably a key criticism of Huawei is a lack of future platform upgrades and a year after launch the mate7 is still using KitKat with the lollipop update absolutely nowhere to be seen the mate s runs the lollipop update with emotion UI version 3.1 out-of-the-box and while this is the same version of the EMU I found in this years without a p8 the bugs and glitches found in the PA are no more and while we is also tweaked and added a few new features emotion UI also comes with new themes that change accents and UI colors to match the color of the handset you have yes while way is particularly slower updating its devices and you're probably going to be waiting a while for the marshmallow update on the mate s but the software experience is a lot better than on past Huawei devices it's a smooth interface and aside from a missing app drawer and a fair amount of pre-loaded bloatware it's actually pretty usable the camera on the mate 7 was something of a letdown as the lack of stabilization meant you had to keep the handset completely still to ensure the final image wasn't blurry both of these devices offer 13 megapixel sensors but the addition of oh is in the mate s means this is a smartphone camera that mostly keeps up with some very good competition they say that cameras are about more than just megapixel and this is certainly true with the mate S which shows just what Oh is can do to overall images produced now most if not all the images you capture are sharp and vibrant and effective stabilisation means you can now leave the shutter open for as long as a quarter of a second and still have Kris photos the front of the mate 7 sports a 5-megapixel selfie camera that can take 720p video while the may test brings a much better 8 megapixel sensor that can shoot Full HD video and has a soft light to help lighten the scene while a selfie flash certainly isn't new it does make a massive difference to the selfies you take and any you do take can also be tweaked using huawei's Beauty level modes the 32 gigabyte mate s has a price of 649 euros in Europe or 469 pounds in the UK while the mate 7 has dropped in price significantly and can be picked up for around 280 pounds for the 16 gigabyte version the 32 gigabyte version of the mate s comes in either titanium gray or the mystic champagne silver version we've got while the 64 big version comes in either luxurious gold or cobalt pink almost half the price of the mate s the mate 7 is certainly an interesting smartphone but the mate s does have enough improvements to warrant the additional cost if you can afford it so there you have it a quick look at the huawei mate s and the ascend mate 7 and what a difference a year makes what do you think the changes that Huawei is made in the year that's passed let us know your views in the comments below give us a thumbs up if you liked this video and hey don't forget to subscribe because we are your source for all things Android see you next time