Huawei Mate S

On paper, and in the flesh, the Huawei Mate S looks like a real contender in the flagship smartphone stakes. It's a fabulous phone to handle and use from a physical perspective, and it's packed with all the features you could possibly want, plus a few...

Although relatively unknown in some parts of the world, the Huawei Mate S is an excellent smartphone that brings together a lot of photographer-friendly features into a coherent, well-thought-out package. Although low light performance is less...

At €649 in Europe and about the same in green through Amazon US, the Huawei Mate S is aimed at the premium market, and it definitely looks the part. Of course, that alone hardly exhausts the list of requirements you bring to the store when you're ready...

Huawei Mate S is a great Android smartphone — it's beautiful and has every feature you could want — but it doesn't take advantage of its novel pressure-sensing tech, and it's not as cheap as many competitors.

Ultimately, though, the Huawei Mate S just doesn't do quite enough to stand out from the rest of its £400 competition. It's beautifully made and has decent performance and battery life, but it's trumped in almost every way by the Samsung Galaxy S6,...

Though Huawei's flagship Mate S has classy looks and a great camera, you can find better-performing top-end phones for less money...

Though Huawei's flagship Mate S has classy looks and a great camera, you can find better-performing top-end phones for less money...

Though Huawei's flagship Mate S has classy looks and a great camera, you can find better-performing top-end phones for less money...