Huawei Mate 9 Porsche Design Costs Upwards Of INR 1 Lakh

Well, that was one barrier that was waiting to be sped past!

Huawei on November 3rd launched two of its Mate 9 variants in Munich — the Huawei Mate 9 Porsche design and the pure Mate 9.

Well, Huawei believes that with the Mate 9 Porsche Design, the customers would in for a refined, luxurious user experience.

First, let me just break the price of the Mate 9 Porsche Design and then go on to the features that make it ‘amazing’. The limited edition, designer smartphone will be available exclusively in a Graphite Black colour and is priced at EUR 1,395 (roughly Rs. 1,03,000).

Richard Yu, CEO, Huawei Consumer Business Group, also quoted while launching both the new devices (though his comment was mainly for the Huawei Mate 9 Porsche Design smartphone), “We identified a new type of luxury consumer is emerging. One who needs a smartphone that matches the special demands of their successful, global lifestyles. Porsche Design is synonymous with excellence in innovation, unique design and perfection. The Porsche Design Huawei Mate 9 sets a new benchmark in design and performance and delivers a revolutionary smartphone experience that will enhance even the fastest-paced business and personal lifestyles”.

Let’s see what he’s on about.

The specifications on the Huawei Mate 9 Porsche Design are evidently superior and more powerful than on the vanilla Huawei Mate 9. The Porsche Design sports a 5.5 inch QHD display with a resolution of 2560x1440 pixels and a pixel density of 534 ppi as opposed to the larger 5.9 inch Full HD display with a pixel resolution of 1920x1080 pixels and 373 ppi pixel density on the Mate 9.

The internal memory on the Porsche Design is a gargantuan 256 GB which is way more than Mate 9 at 64 GB. The RAM in Porsche Design is of 6 GB which is powerful enough to support a mini-server grade PC.

There are a lot of similarities between the two devices too.

Huawei Mate 9 and the Mate 9 Porsche Design use the Hisilicon Kirin 960 octa-core processor and same Mali G71MP8 graphics processor. Both the smartphones come with the same Android version — Android Nougat. Both come with a fingerprint sensor.

In fact, if one sits down to write out the common specs on both the devices a lot of the spec sheet would look identical. Even the battery that sustains them is exactly the same — a 4,000 mAh unit with a fast charge feature that supports quick charging in limited time.

The star highlight on this Mate 9 Series duo is the dual camera setup which is a pretty common feature found on high-end phones these days. That said, the cameras in Huawei Mate 9 duo are fairly top-end. The rear camera with 20 megapixels is the primary camera which comes with a monochrome colour sensor though the secondary rear end camera is a 12 megapixel shooter and can support the RGB colour spectrum. The cameras come with Leica Optics and support Phase Detection Auto-Focus, laser auto-focus, dual LED flash, and multiple other smartphone photography modes. The front camera for the selfies is an 8 megapixel unit.

Huawei Mate 9 is available in an abundance of colours: Space Gray, Moonlight Silver, Champagne Gold, Mocha Brown, Ceramic White, Black and is priced at Euro 699 (~ INR 51,266).

There is no official news about the Indian launch date of these devices. In fact, when one reflects upon the kind of limited elite niche users that the phone targets, it is highly unlikely that Huawei would launch its Mate 9 Porsche Design costing over 1 lakh in India, anytime soon.

On the launch of these devices in Munich, Richard Yu, Chief Executive of Huawei’s Consumer Business Group, expressed his desire to become the world’s second-largest maker of smartphones in two years. In the third quarter of 2016, Huawei was the world’s third-largest smartphone maker with 33.6 million shipped devices that constitutes a 9% market share as per research firm Strategy Analytics.

If this tremendous performance is taken into consideration then definitely Huawei is on its way to become the world’s second-largest maker of smartphones in two years.

Not just that, Huawei also intends to compete with Apple which is currently ahead with 45.5 million devices. “We are going to take them (Apple) step-by-step, innovation-by-innovation”, Yu said, adding that he expected to improve Huawei’s position along the lines of technology shifts.

Originally published at Chip-Monks.