Huawei's massive and impressive Mate 9 will be coming to the U.S. this month.
Huawei's indomitable quest for world domination continues this week as it has announced its latest oversized flagship, the Mate 9, would be coming to the U.S. on January 6 for a very agreeable $600 through various online retailers including Amazon and Newegg.
The phone, which has been available in parts of Europe and Asia since December, has been met with considerable praise, with our Alex Dobie saying, "In a world without the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, the Huawei Mate 9 is now the best big-screened Android phone you can buy."
The fact that Huawei can put out phones of this quality underscores just how far it's come in the past year. Most of that is thanks to the new EMUI 5, which provides a far superior user experience to anything we've seen in earlier Huawei phones. And because the UI is so much improved, the rest of the phone shines through.
One thing that wasn't included in the previously-released versions of the Mate 9 was Amazon Alexa support, which will come in a forthcoming update, according to ZDNet. It's unclear how Huawei plans to integrate Alexa into the phone — perhaps offering it as a stand-in to Google Assistant in a hands-free form — but after seeing it debut on a refrigerator and countless other gadgets at CES 2017, it will be interesting to see how it functions on a handset. The Alexa-enabled version will reportedly be sold as a separate model from the one launching this week, but details are scarce at this point.
The "regular" Mate 9 will be available starting January 6 at Amazon, Newegg, Best Buy and B&H Photo in separate grey and silver models.
At the Mate 9 announcement in Las Vegas, it was said that Leica, the famous camera company with which Huawei has an ongoing relationship to improve mobile photography, will open an "innovation center" at its German campus and, employing several Huawei engineers to improve the camera hardware and software experience in smartphones.
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