Huawei Unveils Mate S Smartphone

An official of Huawei displaying the new handset

The Huawei Consumer Business Group yesterday unveiled the Huawei Mate S smartphone, the new flagship device in Huawei's Mate series of mobile products in Berlin.

The product's ergonomic design and innovative technology deliver a premium Android experience that surpasses industry expectations once again.

'Our goal in designing the Huawei Mate S was to develop a smartphone that offers a personalized experience rather than a commoditized one,' said Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei Consumer BG.

'The Huawei Mate S is based on insights we gathered about human interaction - most notably that touch is a natural action we take to understand and interact with our world.

The Huawei Mate S redefines how we incorporate touch technology into our smartphones, taking a revolutionary approach to touch screen control and ushering in a new era for human-machine interaction.'

A new era of touch that redefines the user experience with the Huawei Mate S, Huawei has re-imagined how people interact with their devices, adding innovative touch features that enhance ease of use, functionality and creativity.

On the Mate S, every touch provides an opportunity to do more.

Fingerprint Sense 2.0 is an upgraded version of the Huawei Mate 7's advanced chip level, showcasing security and single-tap unlock technology.

The Fingerprint Sense 2.0 is faster, more sensitive and has more accurate self-learning functions to improve recognition speeds by 100 percent.

However, in the Mate S, the fingerprint sensor does much more than unlock the phone or secure payment applications.

Users can now control notifications, scroll through photos, take selfies, answer phone calls and even dismiss an alarm quickly by simply using the fingerprint sensor.

Its Knuckle Sense 2.0 advances the Knuckle Sense technology first introduced in the Huawei P8 by providing a host of new features and functionality at the tap of a knuckle.

It quickly switches between apps by drawing a shortcut letter on the screen - pre-programmed shortcuts include drawing a 'c' to activate the camera, 'm' to listen to music or 'e' to surf the Internet.

Users can also create and store their own personalized knuckle shortcuts for anything from WeChat to WhatsApp.