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big phones big specs big performance less than a year after a review of the mate eight were in Munich to go hands-on with its successor the mate nine Huawei is delivering an ambitious follow-up to last year's phablet i'll people familiar with the may 8 p9 or the Nova's will recognize this look we've got a 5.9 inch 1080p display cloaked in an aluminum frame the signature rear mounted fingerprint sensor returns we still have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack the bottom firing speaker is joined by the top earpiece to deliver stereo audio and we get 64gb of storage with the ability to add more via microSD we don't have word yet on which regions will receive dual SIM support what's new for this mate is the second-generation dual camera system expanding on hallways relationship with Leica a 12 megapixel color camera sensor with optical image stabilization is partnered with a 20 megapixel monochrome sensor attention has been paid to improving the depth perception for the mates wide aperture mode giving you pretty bouquet blur in the backgrounds of your photos and the extra resolution of the monochrome sensor should improve the camera zoom happily we have our second Huawei capable of shooting UHD video the mate 9 will be using h.265 compression to keep file sizes smaller and this image stabilization is respectably smooth also a new quad microphone array can automatically focus the directionality of your audio recording in camera or for the audio app will of course have more to report on the camera once we can tear into a real camera review but early impressions are very positive Huawei is looking to improve performance all around for hardware this phone is using the new keren 960 octa-core chipset with and improved GPU for better gaming performance our prediction like previous Kieran's it'll likely be one of the more powerful multi-core performers available the fingerprint sensor sees a refresh offering better depth scanning for better security and of course you can still pull the notification shade from a gesture Huawei will also be adding a secure hardware element to the chipset to give users a private locked folder for sensitive info emui is back in its fifth iteration and while in the past this has not been one of our favorite skins and interior looking better users can easily choose between a home screen only or home screen and app drawer configuration the top shade is no longer split between shortcuts and notifications and overall Huawei's menus have been simplified we'll have to test Huawei's claims about on device machine learning that the maintain will learn about your behavior over time to improve performance for the apps you use the most this could be a compelling addition to the Android ecosystem lastly the four thousand milliamp hour battery gets a speed boost the supercharge mode works in conjunction with the technology in the supplied charger to fully charge the whole phone in around 90 minutes another feature were very curious to test especially on such a large battery it's a big phone folks but doesn't feel as large as its screen might indicate slotting in nicely between the pixel XL and LG v 20 will have a lot more to say about this beast in the coming days as we put this monster through its paces but it looks like huawei is delivering an exciting option to wrap up 2016 as always thanks so much for watching be sure to subscribe to this channel for our full mate 9 coverage including our real camera review and help us out with some sharing on your favorite social networks for PocketNow i'm juan carlos fag now some gadget guy on Twitter and Instagram and I will catch you all on the next video