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Gearburn • 9 Nov 2015

Huawei Mate S hands-on preview: middle child syndrome

By Andy Walker, former editor

When we first gained word of the Huawei Mate S at IFA 2015, it definitely sounded like the Chinese company was leaping bounds beyond the Mate 7 and the P8 — two fabulous phones in their own right. Generally, that’s what an S version of your product should be: a step above and beyond its predecessor in generally every way.

But the Huawei Mate S doesn’t force me to ignore its two stablemates, or the the iPhone 6S, for that matter, what is arguably the best example of an “S” phone.