Huawei Mate S is the first smartphone with a Force Touch screen

A lot more tangible is the 2.5D Gorilla Glass 4 that covers the display.

The Huawei Watch sports a 1.4-inch, 400 by 400 pixel full circle AMOLED display. However, I’ll have to wait and see whether these figures hold up in our Expert Reviews calibration tests when I get back to the office.

With rumors swirling that Huawei will be one of Google’s manufacturing partners on a new Nexus smartphone, the Mate S is likely to attract more attention than it might otherwise have found. It’s not going to break any benchmarking records but as a total package it’s an appealing-looking option at the premium end of the smartphone market. This includes a rear fingerprint sensor which you can use to swipe through your picture gallery, activate your notification menu or take selfies with as well as unlock the phone from sleep mode. The rear-facing snapper has a resolution of 13 megapixels with a four-colour RGBW subpixel array – just like the Huawei P8 – and the camera is equipped with a dedicated “DSLR-class” image processor chip and optical image stabilisation.

Huawei’s “Spotlight” feature and camera app are straight rips. You will be notified for an estimated weight of the object. Throw in what the company calls the “world’s most advanced” heart rate sensor and we’re left with what could be a great mobile health tracker (though you probably shouldn’t wear this thing to the gym). From “hard pressing” the base of the screen to bring up app shortcuts and multitasked applications, to zooming on portions of photos, to being able to (very impressively) use the screen as a set of weighing scales, Huawei has found some fresh uses for the tech, now that it’s paired with a big screen. The feature offers users a new way to interact with their phone: drawing a “C” with their knuckle activates a camera, while double-clicking the screen with a knuckle records the screen in the form of a video. Interestingly, Huawei has places the physical button at 2 o’clock rather than 3 and this seems to make sense meaning you don’t need to twist your wrist as much to push it (the wrist not wearing the device).

You’ve got to hand it to Huawei. Huawei skipped a 2K screen because it was too tough on the batteries. But those features would hardly be enough to make a phone stand out in 2015. The Chinese OEM of Android smartphones announced its latest release, the Mate S that came packed with the new Force Touch-like technology.

“The all metal device is also 4G LTE ready, and includes dual SIM compatibility, enabling, as Yu said, the ability to combine your “work phone” and “your life” phone” together. Considering all the new technology in the Mate S, it is not surprising that the phone isn’t among Huawei’s budget offering. Actually does look pretty good! The Mate S has a 2,700mAh non-removable battery.