Charge Your iPhone With Huawei Ascend Mate 2 4G
The Huawei Ascend Mate phablet was released in China last year in February and in the rest of the world the following month. Now, at Consumer Electronics Show 2014 (CES 2014), Huawei unveiled Ascend Mate’s successor, the Huawei Ascend Mate 2 4G. The latest flagship from Huawei was announced during the company’s CES 2014 press conference and it comes with a feature that will surely please iPhone users: the Huawei Ascend Mate 2 4G will let you charge your iPhone.
One of the biggest problem for smartphone users is of course battery drain; Huawei however trusts that its latest flagship will have such long battery life that it can be used to reverse charge other devices with its own battery, thus fulfilling two roles: both a phablet and a mobile battery pack for other mobile devices. The new feature of the upcoming Huawei Ascend Mate 2 4G phablet was shown on stage during CES 2014 – the demo consisted of a Huawei Ascend Mate 2 4G charging an iPhone 5S (the latests high end smartphone from Apple), thus allowing Apple’s flagship to remain on for the rest of the day.
The Huawei Ascend Mate 2 4G phablet will be very similar to its predecessor, a huge phablet (a hybrid between a smartphone and a tablet) that was released with a 6.1 inch IPS display capable of a resolution of 1280 × 720 pixels, a 1.5 GHz quad core CPU, 2 GB of RAM and a 4050 mAh battery. The new Ascend Mate 2 4G comes with the same specs and 16 GB of internal storage (up to 32 GB via a microSD card), a 13 MP rear camera and a 5 MP front camera sensor. While the lack of a Full HD resolution might upset some users, the low energy demands of 720p will allow the phablet to run for a long period of time before needing to be charged.
Richard Yu, Huawei’s consumer CEO, said that Ascend Mate 2 4G’s battery is able, on just one charge, to allow users to either listen up to 100 hours of music, watch six movies, use the phablet for two days of intense 4G performance or 12 hours of constant web surfing. Or, as previously mentioned, you can use the phablet’s impressive 4050 mAh battery to charge your iPhone.
On stage at CES 2014 Richard Yu also mentioned that the Huawei 6.1 inch Ascend Mate 2 4G phablet will be released in the United States this March. This represents an important achievment for Huawei as it always found it hard to convince U.S. carriers to inldue the company’s premium devices in their offer. AT&T was mentioned as one of the carriers that will offer the company’s upcoming flagship. The huawei Ascend Mate 2 4G will run Android 4.3 and it will include the company’s Emotion 2.0 user interface on top of Android. Huawei’s Emotion 2.0 user interface was developed with a single goal in mind: to make it easy to use phablets with a single hand and it comes with support for floating widgets. Huawei did not mention any details about pricing and availability.
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