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[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] JesseMT4G:
Just picked this up, on second charge and Marly like the phone. Without question the most fluid Android I have owned and I can't count all the Androids I've had over the last several years.

Display is awesome for a 1080 only display, but I can tell the difference between colors as I have an LG g4, Note 5 and S7edge I have compared it too, but is definitely not as good as the Samsungs. Then again it just could be unfair as ones LCD IIRC and the Sammy's aren't.

Speakers are meh at best. Mid volume is good, but go to high or max out and distorts ridiculously bad. Thankfully I don't listen to the speakers that much, only occasnially. Good thing is sounds fantastic through my bluetooth headphones. So-so on my deck in my car.... Give or take.

Love the feel and look of the device and fluidity of the emui software. By far my best experience. Work on the screen on this version, instead of the pro and better speakers and Bluetooth over all spectrums and this phone would blow the rest out the water.

Camera thus far not that good. Seems I have to really be in amazing lighting to get a real good pic. But just quick pics, not good. Samsung edge 7 way better, heck even my note 5 takes better pics. Need more time with it and maybe I'll get honed in better, I don't know. Not a huge picture taker anyway, but be nice to rip it out and snap some good pics.

For now, it will be my daily driver until the note 8 comes out.

My note 5 is still my overall favorite phone. Just the battery is terrrrrrible! Lucky to get 3 hours SOT and 12 hours on it now. Just unacceptable.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] DIESEL88:
I just recently purchased the mocha brown (beautiful color) mate 9 and i must say it is stunning. It handles whatever i throw at it like a boss!! Typical day from 8am off the charger to about 11pm is excellent battery life and that is with all day usage ( streaming netflix, youtube , gmail, etc.... And so on!! Not having to charge it the whole day--about 35% ,,,then it is in my reach on my bed somewhere,,,next day about 30% then charged as i ready myself for work the next day!! That's freakin awesome man!! Kudos to huawei for making not only a stellar device, but giving my looking for an outlet days a much needed rest. To add some spice the camera game is very sweet!!! Loving this device to the maxxx!!!! Huwaei --i got mad luv 4 ya!!!
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] def-g:
I find the camara outstanding!!! I've had Notes and LG's. This trumps both. Good luck.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] dannytgt:
I will give the Mate 9 a 9/10 overall it's maybe the best phone I've ever had. I was coming recently from a OnePlus 3 that I will give and 8.5/10 and from a s7 edge that I will put some 9 /10 also from an iPhone 6s that worth an 8.5/10 for me, all of them a great phones, only things I've have to complain about the OnePlus was the battery life but I loved the developer aftermarket roms and mods for the op3, for the s7 edge I've loved the battery life there was a huge difference between the s7 edge and the op3, and that curved display is simply beautiful. Maybe not fully functional but is beautiful. And about the 6s I've had to say, I never was an iPhone fan, but this phone impress me gratefully, perhaps the relatively small screen compared to op3 or edge, it's was very good, battery life was good too and performance was great, for the iPhone only complaints was obviously customization capacity.

I've have nothing to say about the cameras because I really don't use the camera for all of them I've think all have great cameras.

For the mate : The screen is excellent, performance is superb, for me its the most important feature on a smartphone , design is good, EMUI is good,can be better but is good. I don't have much complains about EMUI. Speaker sound is great, and the most outstanding feature of the mate and the feature that's make it almost unreachable phone in the big leagues is the battery life:simply out of this world.

Only things I'll will change: probably put physical buttons on the bottom, and so give the entirely screen free for use . Second, some features I've think must be an out of the box standard for any high grade smartphone like : double tap to wake, double gal to sleep, gestures with the screen off like changing songs and so on.

And finally third : custom roms and dev's support, its almost ausent, right now we had about 3 or 4 custom roms and all of that are almost stock, there is no lineage OS or aosp. Its almost null when you compare to op3 and s7 available custom roms.

Overall it's a really great phone and like I've said before it's worth the price, I planned to have it for a while or until OnePlus 5 came to market.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] aheeejd:
How about hate? Well, I can't say that because I did love the device. 2 months ago I bought what was supposed to be 128 GB but when I got it it was a 64 GB. But I got some money back so ok there. But this weekend Sat exactly I got the infamous bootloop. Couldn't fix it, junk. 2 months & $400 down the drain. That's my story.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] kolembo:
Ooo, you know...I was watching youtube on another phone tonight and then switched to The Mate 9.

I hadn't realised it....but the external stereo sound is VERY good!

It is.

Much better than everything else except the HTC Boom Sound.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] Kewinykw:
My previous phone were mate 7 and note 5. Mate 9 is stronger and better than mate 7, but the whatsapp notification delay never improve since mate 7, the phone so called bezel less but the black border really annoying. Same design since mate 7, a bit boring on it. Body slightly heavy, 190g.

Im using the 6/128gb version, very smooth, smoother than Note 5 at least. Battery is amazing. Web browsing and downloading speed is a lot faster.

Overall 8/10
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] Maro74:
I'd give it a 9/10.

Some of the reviews online are hilarious - saying the Antennae inserts "look cheap". I haven't held anything that felt as quaility for a long time.

Stepping up from the Nexus 5X, it's a very good phone.

I miss the Google Now homescreen and some other oddities - Can't seem to find how to turn off the Chime when you put the charger in (Very annoying as I go to bed later than the my GF and it wakes her up).

Battery life is a bit less than I'd expect - hoping EMUI 5.1 addresses that.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] leo72793:
Put phone on silent. Plug in. Turn back on volume.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] Maro74:
That's a daft fix though. Should be a setting - I'm on call and need volume on for calls without turning the screen on.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] r3al_0g:
I have a oneplus 3 and thinking of changing phones. the Mate 9 has caught my eye and based off the comments made by everyday user it seems to be a wonderful device. can a power user tell me how well this phone performs under load? i dont need benchmark results i need real world results. Any major heating issues etc etc?

thanks in advance.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] vagelis74:
I had an OnePlus 3T before mate 9,the 3T it's a power full device but the cons off mate 9 it's the battery life, camera, screen I miss the updates off oxygen OS beta every 15 days but mate 9 it's better device smooth and quick like opo 3T
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] r3al_0g:
Thanks for your response. I will be getting the mate 9 tomorrow. I enjoy have the 1+3 but I have grown tired of it. The custom roms r all basically the same some with added features I hardly use some more stable than others. I always revert to stock oos after a couple days. I feel I need a change to something fresh and the mate 9 I think will scratch that itch.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] vijer:
The only thing that could make this phone better:

Let owners remove any crapware. If we can get a third party app that works better we should be able to remove the stock app and apps we will never use.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] p51d007:
This is my 3rd Huawei device

Mate2

Mate8

Mate9

Yeah, I'm a fan!
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] grinch247:
I love this phone 10+
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] tboooe:
+1...I am now very much a Huawei fan. I will be picking up the Mate 10 next year once prices drop a bit.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] vijer:
You can say that about every phone.

If you are rooted you can use LuckyPatcher to remove almost all the crapware. Most of the rest you can disable.

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I've had: iPhone 3G, Samsung S3, LG G3, Samsung Mega 6.3, Oppo J7, and now the Mate 9. The Mate is almost a 10.

iPhone 3G - 3

Samsung S3 - 5

Samsung Mega - 5

LG G3 - 6

Oppo J7 - 4

Mate 9 - 9
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] CPUdream:
This is my first Huawei device
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] seanejames:
10/10 much better than my Nexus 6P...
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] prestonmcafee:
9 for me. This is a seriously great phone. I've had it a month and never had to recharge during the day, even with long days (flying NYC to CA). I quit carrying the battery charger, external battery because I never need them; I just charge overnight. It has a headphone jack., which I use frequently. I think the screen looks quite good, can read in direct sunlight. I read a lot of kindle books, and this screen works well for me, especially the size. It is fast and smooth. The camera is amazing, taking quite sharp photos even in dim light. With the spigen case, my drops haven't harmed it. The fingerprint reader works very well. I don't like some aspects of EMUI, and would rather run apps than get the features I use and those I don't embedded. I wish for more frequent updates, which Huawei recently promised. We will see if they live up to the promise of Android Oreo one month after the Mate 10 comes out, which means it should be updated by the end of November. At $400 (a month ago), it provides fantastic value.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] warpspeed86:
Doesn't work on CDMA in the US. GSM only (AT&T and T-Mobile)
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] Icetea:
mate 9 is nice, but at my opinion, i think my LG5 is better.

Pros for G5:

* changeable battery

* wide angel second cam

* higher screen resolution

* FM Radio

* better fingerprint sensor

* better camera pictures

Pros for Mate 9:

* bigger battery

* bigger screen size

But after i have given my G5 to my wife, i have to live with it (until i’ve found a better device).;)
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] Swan Princess:
I dispute the points of a better fingerprint sensor, camera and exchangeable battery in the G5 pros. With a screwdriver you can replace the Mate's battery and its fingerprint sensor, I doubt it's possible to find a faster one out there. Camera quality? Highly subjective!
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] Icetea:
so this was the reason, i wrote "at my opinion". ;)

BTW: as i saw here, it seems, that they have used glue to fix the body! So it is to tricky for me to change the battery. I had tried it on my old Honor 7. The result was, i had to order a new backside for it.

and one question please: how many mah your battery show after charging? I get only 3900mah shown at my app not 4000mah as written in the technical descriptions.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] Zalophus:
Pros: Great battery, dual SIM, fast processor, minimum bloatware, type c connector, Android 7.

Cons: few after market items (car chargers, cases, etc.), not water resistant, no wireless charging, still no OREO update.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] Addymore:
Great battery....

Great camera...

Oreo update...

I just the miss the P9 way of full dual sim support....
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] Dedzdedz:
Have to say i wasn’t expecting this. Had the mate 8 in past and it was not a pleasent experience, last week i was in the market for a phone (current phone was iphone 6 (great phone) ), finally yesterday i found this deal, mate 9, 3 year warranty, brand new 350€, went for it and woow, what a great phone, love the feel of the phone, it is very snappy, awesome fhd screen! Just updated to oreo. This was my last time using the iphone 6 ?[emoji123]

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[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] kanej2006:
Mate 9 is quite good but performance is poor especially in the graphics department. My other phone having Snapdragon 821 outperforms my Mate 9 in gaming.

However, for general use, movies and such it is quite snappy.

Screen is ok, black levels are quite good but colour could be punchier. Side by side next to Amoled, colours are weak and washed out. Poor colour accuracy.

Camera is this phones strong point, very good camera.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] Dedzdedz:
"side by side next to amoled, colours are weak and washed out. Poor colour accuracy" Are you serious? You do know Amoled screens tend to be over saturated?
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] kanej2006:
I am referring to something like a Samsung Galaxy S8/S9. They have near perfect colour accuracy. Even if over saturated there are options in the display options to select a different mode to reduce the saturation and get near perfect calibration.

And yes, the Huawei Mate 9 has poor colour accuracy. Check any review and you will see every review saying the colour accuracy is poor even if manually calibrating the colour, you cannot get it near perfect. Check GSMArena for example.

Here is what they say with regards to the colour calibration:

It's not as great in color accuracy, where it manages an average DeltaE of 5.2 with a maximum of 9.5 in its default display mode. White and shades of grey are off the most, leaning heavily towards blue. The Warm setting brings the average DeltaE to 4.6, but whites do remain bluish.

You get a color wheel in the display settings where you can adjust the color reproduction to your liking, but you'd be unable to get rid of the blue cast. Not to mention that fiddling with those controls without a reference will more likely bring you less accurate results.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] Dedzdedz:
Well you are a good reader. What do your eyes tell you? C'mon s8 and s9? This is a last quarter of 2016 flagship.

At least compare it to an s7. Yes it is not the best screen on the market but for an fhd screen at 5.9 inches it does a pretty good job.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] Deacon68:
Deacon

I'm very happy with the phone. To be honest I'm even surprised. It's better then what I have expected. It does everything I need it to do even more.

Moreover, there will be always a better phone on the market. Don't be a sheep. Be satisfied with it if is serving it's main purpose.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
You're a power user. Can the Huawei Mate 9 keep up? Rate this thread to express how "healthy" the development scene is for the Huawei Mate 9. A higher rating indicates available root methods, kernels, and custom ROMs.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] forrestcate:
The activity on this thread answers the question. Not much.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] nighthawk626:
It's the best phone out right now and not to mention the ridculous low price for specs. but not much development. Still a keeper
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] trace1er:
I haven't even rooted the phone, don't feel a need to. I used to root to change dpi and block ads. Now Nougat has built in dpi settings, and i just use Adguard. Plus Android Pay will work, so that's nice.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] straycat:
No machine with locked out bootloader will keep strong developement. I'm a little dissapointed.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] jcrompton:
Man I stay confused on this forum ..... I thought the bootloader was unlocked or could be easily ???
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] straycat:
Bootloader is locked out. It can be unlocked with a code from Huawei. This may seen easy but an unlocked bootloader from start should be more easy.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] jcrompton:
It took five minutes to unlock my bootloader ...... Same amount as it took to unlock my HTC phones

Where many Samsung phones NEVER could unlock

I still don't understand
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] fix-this!:
unlocked or not you still dont have full system write. these devices dont get much if any development because huawei doesnt release proper source. thats why I returned mine.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] opasha:
Full system write working for me. Use the boot.img here in post 29: https://xdaforums.com/mate-9/develo...ocker-root-t3546650/post70927374#post70927374

EDIT: sorry, missed that you returned yours :).
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] erikclaw:
Im thinking of getting this phone. The specs seem great. Have a 6P now but have had a lot of issues with it in the past few months.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] vickytommy:
thanks
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] enotar:
Just got the phone and I am impressed. A keeper for me with what there is. All is perfect and I am comming from Samsung where you need to mod everything. The mate is is fantastic!
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Would you say that the Huawei Mate 9 is "fast" in day-to-day use? A higher rating indicates that you think the Huawei Mate 9 exhibits fantastic performance. Like, is it as fast as your tears when you watch The Titanic?

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
OMG! Kim K posted another selfie with tons of cleavage! Rate this thread to express how quickly apps launch on the Huawei Mate 9. A higher rating indicates that even the most intensive apps launch quickly and without hesitation, even if they are no longer in RAM.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] gee2012:
I`ve owned the Mate 9 for over 2 weeks now and i can honestly say that in user experience this is the most reponsive phone ever. Apps, widgets, games it doesn`t matter, everything opens quick and snappy and operates without any lag. I`ve also had the Galaxy S7 Edge but the Mate 9 is much more resposive imo, has a lot less bloatware (wich can also be uninstalled) and after the latest update it is working even better.

As said opening apps , gaming and multi-tasking is a joy to use on this phone so far and it doesn`t slow down a bit.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] Csetoue:
You do not own it anymore? Changed to which phone?
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] gee2012:
No no, i haven`t sold it. Heaven forbid to depart from this device :) I like it much to much.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] MarcelMAH:
How can you remove the bloatware? (without root)
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] gee2012:
You can remove most of the extra pre-installed apps in /settings/settings/ without any issue.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] MarcelMAH:
I get this All the time...
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] gee2012:
Just press OK and the app (and others too) and it will dissapear from your applist and from the menu.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] ekerbuddyeker:
It's VERY fast at launching apps. I ran it side by side to an iPhone 7 plus and it consistently wins
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] dannytgt:
More responsive phone I've had ever used. Even than an iPhone 7, s7 edge an op3.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] p51d007:
Just picked up a 9, to replace my 8, which replaced my 2.

Guess you could say I'm kind of hooked on the Huawei phones like I was the HTC phones in the pre smartphone era.

Other than slow to get official updates, which really doesn't bother me, because the OS, for what I use it for has been

so dang blame stable, I don't really care.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] p51d007:
I went from a Mate2, which I loved, to a Mate8, which I loved, to a Mate9, which is amazing.

I don't know how they keep increasing the response, and snappy feel, but they do.

LOL, I've still got the 2, and "in the day" it felt snappy, now it feels a bit slow.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
You're busy and don't have time to wait, which is why you need to stop reading this thread and get back to organizing your Pogs. Rate this thread to express how the Huawei Mate 9 performs when multitasking. A higher rating indicates that the Huawei Mate 9 keeps many apps in memory so that they don't need to reload, and that when moving between apps, transitions are smooth and performance is excellent.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] Ashk91:
Coming from Samsung (touchwiz crap) , I'm glad to see a phone that is only 50% of ram occupied, comparing to Samsungs 70-85% occupied ram
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] salespalace:
ram usage displayed here, shows that the oneplus 3t is a lot better due to its 6gb ram.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhhgJ3NcQS0
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] Tuffcheez:
One plus 3t finger press bias I see. But it needs the handicap. :)
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] Ashk91:
He may be right, the emui homescreen sometimes loads
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] salespalace:
He might be biased but for me, ram management is top 3 in importance, especially as one of the main reasons I want to move on from the moto x style is it's awful ram management.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] mscion:
Clearly this video shows that 6GB ram is better than 4GB ram. Would have been nice if the the comparison included the 6GB version of Mate 9. For example, with an extra 2GB memory, if app is taking up 250MB (maybe on the high side), you can hold 8 more apps in memory without significantly impacting performace. Since Mate 9 appears to be a little faster the 6GB version might edge out Oneplus 3t. Hopefully someone can do such comparison. Regardless both are great phones. Just depends on what meets you needs.
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] Csetoue:
This looks like very artificial circunstances. I wont be opening 5 game apps simultanely.

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[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] Ashk91:
It's not that good, 2.4 gb ram left but apps still need reloading after opening 3 more apps
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] denzel09:
Here my problem with ram management: https://xdaforums.com/mate-9/help/multitasking-problem-t3568950
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Some phones exhibit choppy scrolling, especially when navigating long web pages when multiple apps are running in the background. Rate this thread to express how you smooth scrolling feels on the Huawei Mate 9 under such conditions. A higher rating indicates that scrolling is always buttery smooth, even when you're reading a 10,000 word article on "how to kiss a girl".

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] swordstool:
The only choppy scrolling I've experienced so far (3 days of use in the US) is with the Twitter app Talon. I'm using the international version (MHA-L29).
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] Megatruong:
Compared to the Nexus 6p, it's bad. Especially in instagram. I cannot stand how choppy it feels. I love the phone but this issue is a deal breaker
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] Esterra:
Hmm, interesting, i came from 6P to M9 few days ago.

On Nexus i was using pure nexus rom+elementalx kernel, on stock governor settings, when i put phones side by side, this Mate 9 performed better- opening apps, scrolling in chrome, google+ ,instagram, he only app that is stuttering a bit is facebook as always, but that app is crap due to low optimizations. 6P feels very smooth on fresh rom install, but after i set up few basic apps, use for a day, or go through few charges, it slows down very much, compared to Mate 9, who has much crap stock apps,e.t.c. Most stock apps like stock messenger and keyboard i replaced with google stock ones.:good:
[Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review] Governa:
I've mentioned this in another thread, on my device the only app with massive scrolling lag is Google Play Games, everything else is buttery smooth.

I use Instagram via Hermit so can't really comment on that one.