As early as the beginning of 2012, Huawei formulated a new overseas market strategy in order to get rid of the low-end and cheap brand image and enter the more lucrative high-end smartphone market. However, it seems that the situation is not as smooth as expected. Although the Ascend D1 Quad XL can be considered as a high-end machine, the market response is not particularly good due to the slow launch and lack of high-quality products. In CES 2013, Huawei launched two products, Ascend D2 and Ascend Mate, which are undoubtedly aimed at the tablet phone market developed by Samsung Note series.
In this article, we will compare Samsung Note2 and Huawei Ascend Mate from various aspects. Although the 5-inch mobile phone is not new since HTC Butterfly opened the 5-inch 1080P standard, there is no exception that the previous 5-inch mobile phones have positioned themselves as mobile phones rather than Phablet. But Ascend Mate seems to be aiming at the tablet market to compete with Note2! Who is better and who is worse, let's have a look!
screen
Samsung Note2 uses a 5.5 inch, 720P resolution improved Super AMOLED screen, with a PPI of 267, and improved color contrast, brightness, and sub-pixel arrangement. With the power saving feature of AMOLED screen, it can be said that the current 1080P and 440+pixel density smart phones are also in the ascendant.
In contrast, Huawei Ascend Mate has a more "huge" 6.1 inch IPS screen, but the resolution is still at 720P. If Note 2 was released earlier than the 1080P screen. It's hard to say that Huawei's 6.1 inch machine still uses 720P resolution. Many of the machines that have been released now use the 1080P as the standard configuration of the flagship machine. Is it possible that Huawei has not positioned the Ascend Mate as the flagship machine? In addition, it remains to be seen how consumers react to the 6-inch tablet. Is it a "Phablet" mobile tablet or a small tablet? All of this needs to be tested by the market.
▲ The display effect of large screen mobile phones is still very impressive
Of course, I have to say that the 6.1 inch screen can provide a great experience for browsing the web and watching videos. However, it will be a big challenge for the general public to use this giant to make phone calls. When Samsung launched the Note generation, the market generally had such concerns, but the good sales of the Note series broke such concerns. However, it remains to be seen whether consumers can accept Huawei's 6.1 inch market reaction.
Appearance design
The overall design style of Note2 is similar to S3. The fuselage is the same smooth plastic shell, and the frame and four corner arc are very similar to S3. Although they are all plastic bodies The body of Note2 is very solid. Note 2 The three dimensions are 151.1 x 80.5 x 9.4 mm, and the weight is 183g. This is a relatively standard tablet phone, and the size is between the phone and the tablet.
▲ Note 2 is very similar to S3 in design style
The overall dimensions of Huawei Ascend Mate are 163.5 x 85.7 x 9.9 mm, which means that it has increased in length, width and thickness compared with Note2. The feeling of foreign media is that Mate's grip is closer to Nexus 7, and most operations can be completed calmly only with two hands. Single hand control is already very difficult. This also confirms the previous concern that the positioning of Ascend Mate has become blurred due to size problems, and whether the tablet is a small tablet depends on the user's response.
Internal configuration
Note 2 uses Samsung Exynos 4412 quad core processor, A9 architecture, maximum 1.6GHz frequency, and the GPU is ARM's Mali400, with 2G RAM. This is still the top configuration of Android when A15 architecture processors are not widely used.
Huawei Ascend Mate uses Huawei's HiSilicon quad core with 2G RAM. In terms of internal storage, Huawei Mate has its own 16G storage space and does not support microSD expansion. Samsung Note2 has a lot of options. With 16 GB/32 GB/64 GB versions and microSD expansion, it can have up to 128 GB of storage space. Note2 is obviously much better in this respect.
Storage capacity, battery life
In addition, compared with Note2, Huawei Mate does not support NFC. As for cameras, the main cameras of both are 8 megapixels. For the front camera, Mate is only equipped with a 1 million pixel sensor, while Note 2 has a 1.9 million pixel front camera. In terms of battery capacity, Ascend Mate has the only advantage over Note2, which should be due to the advantage of large body. The battery capacity of Mate has reached 4050mAh, which is much higher than the 3100mAh of Note2.
software system
At first glance, both are equipped with Android 4.1 system. However, Samsung has shown more powerful advantages in ROM customization. Note 2 has some functions of S-Pen, as well as a series of small functions such as Air View, Picture in Picture, etc. In addition, it can also realize multi task windows on the same screen. At present, Huawei's Emotion UI is in its infancy, and more new functions need to be developed. In particular, considering that the 6.1 inch large screen can not achieve multiple tasks on the same screen, people will feel disappointed.
summary
There is no doubt that Samsung's Note series is still the leader in the field of tablet phones for the moment, thanks to Samsung's early discovery of the market and its long-term efforts. As a challenger in the field of tablet phones, Huawei also released its own tablet phone Ascend Mate for the first time. At least we think Ascend Mate can challenge Note more than LG Opimus series. In addition, I have to mention that I hope Huawei will do its marketing faster this time. Last year Ascend D1 Quad XL was released on the MWC in February, but it was only launched in September, a seven month gap between them. At last, consumers' attention had shifted to other products. Of course, we do not want this history to repeat itself on Ascend Mate.
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