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hey there it's James with the verge I'm here at Aoife in Berlin and I've got with me the huawei mate s Huawei's new flagship smartphone now this is a 5.5 Android device like many Android devices we've seen 5.5 inches seems to be the preferred screen size for everything from the Moto X play to the oneplus 2 but why waste big standout feature on this one is forced touch and then you won't recognize from Apple now force touch basically means a pressure-sensitive screen and you can do things with that like you know press harder to zoom into a picture or scroll faster through music or video now why always kind of unveiled this a bit of an attention grabber you know they're not putting it on all the main asses they're only putting it on certain models and I'm saying how many but it means they've might have stolen a march on Apple now Apple's got forced touch in the Apple watch and in that book but a lot of people think that it's also going to be coming to the next iPhone if so then why we might have beaten them to it so apart from forced touch what else is the main Escott well it's got very nice design they've really put a lot of effort into this now as we mentioned before when discussing this company and this smartphone it kind of is a little bit similar to other devices we've seen you know we have the shampoo dirt chamfered edges that you might have seen on sort of HTC One m9 as well as the camera at the back now this whole area looks very familiar to any HTC fans although unlike HTC One m9 this 13 megapixel camera has optical image stabilization as well as the 13 megapixel on the back there's also an 8 megapixel camera on the front there's three gigabytes of RAM powering this and instead of the usual Qualcomm Snapdragon processor there's actually a carryin optical now this might not be familiar to many people buying smartphones in the West but we've really liked the performance on it animations have been very smooth no stuttering no lagging so you know we have no complaints and so it's a very speedy little device there's also a fingerprint sensor right here on the back which is maybe one of the fastest we've used I mean just a touch and the screen lights up didn't light up there did it and also got a fingerprint sensor on the bat which might be one of the fastest being used goes from just a touch to lighting up pretty much instantly so that's impressive as well but for all the nice things about the may s unfortunately people in the US and the UK won't be getting their hands on it now are we is only is calling this a global smartphone but actually limited availability it's going to be in 30 countries though Japan Germany China Israel with a 32 gigabyte and a 64 gigabyte version they're going to be priced at six hundred and forty nine euros for the 32 gigabyte 699 for the 64 gigabyte