Huawei Mate 9: do you really want a 5.9in phablet?
by Samuel Gibbs from Technology | The Guardian on (#208QH)
Large-screened smartphone hopes to fill the gap left by Samsung's exploding Note 7 and solidify Huawei as a premium handset manufacturer
Huawei's new smartphone has a massive 5.9in screen. But just how big do you really want your smartphone to be?
Phablets - smartphones with screen sizes over 5.5in - have become more and more popular, showing a trend migration from their Asian origins to the US and Europe. Even Apple, famous for smaller smartphones, launched a phablet in 2014 with the iPhone 6 Plus. But few phablets have stretched their screens beyond 5.7in.
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