Huawei Mate S – Indulge yourself in joy this festive season

You can do Christmas the normal way, or you can do Christmas the Huawei with the revolutionary new Mate S.

The Mate S features new luxury-focused design packed with innovative technology to deliver the best possible Android experience.

Key features of the new phone include a floating 2.5D screen, a pressure sensitive touch system and a new battery technology to give the users the maximum usages from a single charge.

This is in addition to enhancements to the camera, the fingerprint reader and the touch controls introduced in previous models.

A closer look at the Mate S

Building on the revolutionary Huawei Mate 7 smartphone, the Mate S features a 5.5-inch 2.5D AMOLED screen complete with a new luxury-focused design packed with innovative technology to deliver the best possible Android experience.

The phone is equipped with Fingerprint 2.0, an upgraded version of the advanced chip level security and one-key unlock technology pioneered in the Mate 7.

It can also be used to control the notification bar, erase unread notifications, preview pictures, and hold and take phone calls.

Fingerprint 2.0 and Knuckle Control 2.0 – technology first introduced in the Huawei P8 – simplifies how users switch between app operations and take screenshots.

The feature offers users a new way to interact with their phone: drawing a “C” with their knuckle activates a camera, while double-clicking the screen with a knuckle records the screen in the form of a video.

The Mate S also comes equipped with a 13-megapixel rear camera complete with an advanced sensor with optical image stabilisation, dual color-temp LED flash lights, and independent image signal processor camera units, all of which combine to capture higher quality pictures faster.

The Mate S takes camera capabilities one-step further by offering an 8-megapixel front camera with soft, front lights to improve selfies.

Get the dual-SIM version

MTN will offer the dual-SIM version of the Huawei Mate S on its network.

This is the first time it will offer a high-end dual-SIM smartphone, catering for an increasing number of customers who have multiple SIM cards.

The LTE-compatible Huawei Mate S has a 5.5-inch AMOLED screen, 13MP main camera, fingerprint sensor, and a Hi-silicon Kirin 935 chip running off a 64-bit octa-core processor.

MTN will stock the 64GB version of the device.

The Huawei Mate S will be available on My MTNChoice 100 for R499 per month. Customers who take out a contract in November will receive an additional 30GB of data for the first month.

It is also available on PayAsYouGo for a retail price of R10,799.

The following infographic sums up the key features of the Huawei Mate S.

The specifications of the Huawei Mate S are also detailed in the table below.