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what happens when a luxury car manufacturer teams up with the Chinese smartphone maker well you get a phone that's both very sexy and all fully familiar hey guys it's Chris Colin Phandroid authority here with an unboxing and first impressions of the porsche design huawei mate 9 the box the porsche design mate 9 comes in is pretty hefty and you'll see why in just a moment lifting the lid reveals the beautiful porsche design mate 9 with its curved qHD display alongside a certification card emphasizing Porsches involvement in the design process portion while we have been working on this collaboration for four years and Porsches influence at least in terms of making a high-priced object of desire is clear but it's all highway underneath presentation is important here because other than a smaller higher resolution display additional few gigs of ram relocated finger scanner and more built-in storage looks at the only difference between the regular mate nine and the Porsche designed version both run the exact same software and all other specs are identical let's just take this top layer up and see what else is in the box now there's a lot going on here all very nicely presented for the high-flying type this phone is arguably targeted at there's some nice Porsche branded earbuds equipped with a traditional 3.5 ml jack rather than a USB type-c cable and there's a little micro USB to USB C adapter in case you want to keep using your existing USB cables there's also a couple of power bricks here both a European version and one for the UK these are both the new supercharged power adapters capable of 3.5 to 5 volt 5 amp charging that'll get you a fully charged four thousand milliamp hour battery in just 19 minutes there's also a USB cable with type a on one end and type C on the other and there's that nifty leather case with a darkened transparent window open it up and you'll see it's very nicely put together made of leather with a cutout on the back for the camera lens to peek out it's got porsche design stamped on the front below the window and the Huawei branding gets relegated to the rear as far as cases go it's one you might actually want to use if you get around to buying this phone finally there's a box containing manuals a sim eject tool and your warranty card of course now if you've already seen our mate nine hands on an emu i-5 article you'll know exactly what to expect from the software on the porsche design variant so we won't cover that here one of the most noticeable differences between the porsche design and the regular made nine is of course that curve display but it's worth noting that the curve is much less pronounced than it is on the galaxy s7 edge it's almost unnoticeable on the regular may 9 it's a 5.9 inch full HD screen but the porsche version drops the size of 5.5 inches but ups the resolution to qHD interestingly enough the emui software doesn't have any specific features directed at the edge screen below the display is the new capacitive finger scanner and home button it works just as quickly as all flyaway scanners and the lack of a physical click is a welcome change from Samsung's physical button navigation buttons are tiny illuminated dots with recent apps on the right and back on the left but you can change this in the settings or remove the capacitive keys all together and handle navigation purely through the home button via gestures other superficial changes between the Porsche and regular mate nines are a redesigned bottom edge with one following the familiar mate pattern while the Porsche zooms and iphone6 layout with a headphone jack on one side and speaker on the other the sensor layout at the top of the screen is a little different too and the earpiece is a little wider than on the normal mate 9 there's also an IR blaster up top in case you were wondering on the back things are different again with the fingerprint scanner replaced by a Porsche design logo and the dual LEDs and sensors sitting on top and below the camera array rather than on either side of it like on the mate 9 at this point it's hard to tell if these were conscious design choices or simply about making things different to the normal maintenance on version does away with plastic antenna caps found on the mate 9 and has antenna bands running horizontally across the phone instead just like a real Porsche you're going to find yourself cleaning this thing all the time because it collects finger smudges like a boss and they're much harder to wipe away fully then on a glass packed phone like the s7 the only other differences are that huge 256 gig of internal storage which negates the need for a microSD card slot and the addition of 6 gig of ram there's no denying the course design mate 9 is desirable it looks great performs great has a display we wish the regular made 9 had and delivers all the same benefits you find on the normal may 9 like fast charging onboard machine learning to keep your phone running faster for longer dual Leica cameras with two times lossless zoom 65 scenarios of accidental touch rejection and 50% smaller 4k video files but did why we really need to partner with Porsche designs to basically come up with a galaxy s7 edge somehow I don't think so the other problem is that by setting out to make the porsche design maintain the absolute best of the best it also has an astronomical price tag at 1395 euros it's double the price of the regular maintenance and will only appeal to a very limited group of people but that's exactly the point it wasn't made to be a mass consumer product just as Porsche cars aren't it's an object of desire no doubt but by scooping features like a qHD display and six gig of ram it also sort of gimp's the regular main line by comparison making it less desirable in the process the problem with that is that the may 9 is supposed to appeal to the masses what are your thoughts on the porsche design mate 9 if you had the cash would you spend it on this through 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