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on our list of the five best devices that we saw at this year's Aoife 2015 in Berlin we take a look at one of the first devices that we got our hands on at the show the huawei mate s now the main s might be a bit of a refinement on the mate 7 but it is not as large as the made seven and brings all of the same power comes in with a 5.5 inch AMOLED display with 1080p resolution is powered by a high silicon Karen 935 and has 3 gigabytes of RAM however the mate s brings all of the great features that the mate 7 had which made it one of our favorite phones of the past year and puts it in an even thinner and sleeker package this is a pretty thin device considering just how large it is and how much it is able to do and it sits really nicely in the hand with the metal construction that we have come to love from plenty of the mate line the 128 gigabyte flash memory model comes with a new feature and that is force touch yes Huawei is sort of beating Apple to the punch here with a force touch iteration that uses the pressure sensors underneath the screen in order to perform a number of tasks not the least of which is actually weighing very small items but functionality kind of has a lot of possibilities with something like force touch in which you can just press down a little bit harder to make things happen on the phone now coupled the force touch one of the new features of this phone with all of the other great ones such as the fingerprint reader on the back that can actually be used to navigate the device somewhat and you have in the mate s one of the best devices that we probably weren't really expecting to see or love as much as we did here at Aoife 2015 and now we move into a tablet now considering that lenovo has created a lot of many different tablets some of which having some quirky or somewhat gimmicky features it's nice to see that in the yoga tablet 3 pro we now have the conglomeration of all of the best that the original yoga line was able to bring and that is of course the projector that can be made up to 70 inches large and is now placed in the area on the bottom that is housing the kickstand on which you can stand the tablet in two different variations so you can make it easier to use for media consumption this just might be the kind of tab you want especially when you consider its sound quality for speakers made by dolby 360 sound provide some of the loudest sound we've ever heard from a tablet not to mention being able to hear the left and right channel so well that sometimes depending on the audio you might hear the audio from behind you with a great sound experience a more than enough display experience especially considering the projector and the power to be able to go for a while we give one of our awards to the yoga tablet 3 by Lenovo though they did not have a flash of smartphone to show us here at IVA 2015 LG did have a few products that they wanted us to see one of them was the LG G pad to 10.1 bringing a larger screen to the LG G pad family and then there was the LG watch urbane lux a 23-karat gold cartier clasp designed version of the LG watch urbane that brought some real luxury in a lacquer case that really put luxury into the new SmartWatch but the device that we brought our award to for LG's line of products was for no roly keyboard that's right we gave LG an award for an accessory which is a fold-out keyboard that kind of packs together into what you can pretty much call a Bluetooth stack really this very sleek and very easy to maneuver device is a Bluetooth keyboard that also has some kick stands in the back for you to put up the LG G pad 2 or any other tablets or even smartphones on to and between those is a triple a battery slot of which LG claims the Rolly will be able to use for up to three months now slide out that keyboard and everything looks even better from there these actually have a actual drop to them of 17 millimeters that gives the Rolly keyboard the true feel of a keyboard without having to have one of those cases for all-in-one tablets this one can be used with basically any device with Bluetooth fold it up and roll it back out the Rolly keyboards just really fun to sort of toss around from time to time and it feels like one of the better accessories that we can have for plenty of our android-powered devices out there but flagship smartphones were a story at Aoife 2015 and they mostly came from Sony who after a few different naming conventions gone awry in the last year finally came back with a true new flagship and that is the Xperia z5 now while the z5 itself is one that we already liked and are happy to see because Sony puts out some pretty great devices they also had the z5 compact but the one that we gave our award to is the beginning of what could be a revolution in display technology the z5 premium now despite the snapdragon 810 underneath a new fingerprint sensor and a reconstructed camera module on the back at 23 megapixels what we're giving the award to is all of that coupled with a 4k display yes this 4k display on the z5 premium brings a new level of display technology with 806 PPI in this particular screen now we do believe that 4k quad HD 1080p all of these display technologies might prove a little bit lost on the general consumer and we wholly understand that but 4k on a smartphone is something that Sony can boast about starting and if anything it has started the conversation that plenty of other manufacturers in the next year are probably going to be speaking anyway so we give the z5 premium with its already great spec sheet an award for starting the conversation in what could be the future of our display technology without the galaxy note 5 we did not think that Samsung was going to take our hearts away here at E 4 2015 but we were wrong because they unveiled the gear s2 the update to last year's bangle constructed gear s this is now a round watch that takes on the visage of a real luxury watch in the case of the s2 classic and then a more futuristic looking wearable in the original s2 a 1.2 inch Super AMOLED display with 360 x 360 resolution stands out still despite being a little bit smaller than some of the much larger smartwatches out there Super AMOLED technology will be leveraged quite well here so you can get some pretty good battery life from it but of course we will save that for our testing but what we really love about this device is its new form of input this rotating and we label bezel on here is actually an input for you to go in and out of elements the same way that you would by swiping on the touch screen smartwatches have been eating something like this a new form of input and even with two buttons on the side it is that a rotating bezel that really changes the game in most cases you may not even need to use the touchscreen just to tap in the middle that's it in order to select where you are in order to navigate around and with Tizen at the operating system helm you can be sure that Samsung will try to put any and all functionality and features inside of this watch that they possibly can perhaps making it surpass that of even Android where the gear s2 is certainly one of the better smartwatches that we've seen because it tries to really think outside of the box and in some ways it already feels like it succeeds because its input is just already that much easier and that much more fun to use and it makes the SmartWatch actually easily intuitive for the new SmartWatch user connectivity like Bluetooth Wi-Fi and NFC will keep it relevant as well but really what we love about the gear s2 is that it thinks a little bit differently from the rest and that's where we give Samsung our reward for one of the best devices that we saw here at Aoife 2015 we hope you enjoyed all the coverage by android authority here at Aoife in Berlin and we invite you to subscribe to our channel if you haven't already so you can see all of the reviews for the devices you saw in this particular video if 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