Buy the Huawei Mate 9 now

The Huawei Mate 9 is now available in South Africa.It is said to be the smartphone of the smartphone era.The Mate 9 comes in a standard version and a Porsche Design version, with the latter featuring higher specs and a higher price.

The devices feature a Kirin 960 chipset – which Huawei said delivers “the fastest computing performance” – and SuperCharge technology.

The Mate 9 also features EMUI 5.0 and a Leica dual-lens camera with 12MP RGB sensor and 20MP monochrome sensor.

“The Mate 9 series debuts the premium Kirin 960 chipset with Huawei’s Machine Learning Algorithm to deliver a fast and smooth experience,” said the company.

The Kirin 960 is the world’s first chipset to feature an ARM Cortex-A73/A53 Octa-core CPU and Mali G71 Octa-core GPU, added Huawei.

Technical Details

Huawei Mate 9
Operating system Android 7.0
Dimensions 156.9 x 78.9 x 7.9 mm
Weight 190g
Display 5.9″ 1080p LCD
Rear camera 20MP + 12MP dual-camera
Front camera 8MP
Processor Kirin 960
RAM 4GB
GPU Mali G71
Storage, internal 64GB
Storage, external MicroSD
Battery 4,000mAh
Cellular HSPA, LTE