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With the puzzle games market seemingly filled to the brim with cartoon animals, improbable projectiles, dodgy physics engines and revamps of classics, you may find yourselves wanting a slightly calmer, simpler choice.


If so, you’ll be happy to know that the premise of Flow Free couldn’t get much simpler. Fill your grid by joining together dots of the same colour using a single path. Overlapping paths will cause them to break unless you carefully utilize the bridge in the position given to you.

The two modes provided are Free Play and Time Trial, both self-explanatory. In all likelihood, you will probably spend more time using the latter, seeing that Free Play gets rather homogeneous quickly once you get the hang of doing levels.

I get the impression that much effort has been put into tweaking the little things to improve the overall product. The graphic design is crisp and attractive, avoiding any unnecessary frills which would distract from the gameplay, which is itself as smooth and as slick as you’d like it to be. No buzzing, no annoying vibrations when you draw a path, no aliens or kung-fu masters which pop-up to congratulate you upon completing a level. Minimalist, efficient and effective.

The speed of the game varies with the grid size, with 5×5 to 7×7 ones offering a quickfire approach while larger grids require a good deal of forethought before execution, a more old-fashioned type of puzzle solving perhaps. Of course, whichever style you find more appealing is purely down to you, and this is credit to the subtle variety of the game.

I’ve always thought that the sign of a good puzzle game is that nothing feels wasted. The level design is intricate yet concise and clean, and completing it feels satisfying because of that. Like all puzzle games of course, the idea either clicks with you or it doesn’t, but with Flow Free having such a simple and accessible concept, I see no reason not to install it and give it a quick try.

Rating: 4/5

Upcoming Gran Turismo 6 2015 Car, Price in Pakistan, Review, Features, Pictures

The Chaparral 2X idea car was outlined by a group at General Motors in a joint effort with the Gran Turismo Vision GT venture and it was revealed at the LA Auto Show a month ago as the most historic dashing model the world has ever seen.

Key Features: 12.2-inch 2560 x 1600p display;
Quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor; Magazine UX
Manufacturer: Samsung

What is the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2?

The Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 is an expansion of the Note phone and tablet range. It’s a 12.2-inch Android tablet with a pressure sensitive S Pen stylus.

Samsung has packed the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 full of business apps to help give it a different angle to the new 12.2-inch Tab Pro. However, the stylus makes more sense than ever on a large screen like this, and it is a cut above its Tab-series brothers in a few respects.


The large screen, relatively heavy body and pricier-than-an-iPad Air £649 cost mean it’s not for everyone. But it’s a great tablet for the right person.

Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 – Design

Until last year, Samsung made glossy plastic tablets. Virtually all of its tablets and phones were made of shiny plastic, and it led to near-constant criticism of its top-end devices. They simply didn’t look or feel as expensive as they were.

Samsung’s answer to this is a new design, first seen in phones like the Galaxy Note 3 and shared by the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2. Glossy plastic has been switched for rubberised plastic with a leather-effect texture. To complete the fake ‘handmade’ look, there’s pretend stitching embossed into the edges of the back.

It’s not a look we love, but it comes across better here than in previous ‘leather’ tablets like the Samsung Note 10.1 2014 Edition. The Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 is better-built than its brothers, and is far stiffer than we expected from a Samsung tablet as large as this. Its outer shell may be plastic, but there’s a rigid metal cage underneath that stops it from flexing.

The rubberised finish is also grippier than glossy plastic or anodised aluminium.

However, before buying a Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 you need to think carefully about how you’ll use it. At 750g it’s too heavy to use in one hand, making it much less flexible as a portable tablet than an iPad Air or Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4. It’s large too – a 12.2-inch screen is larger than that of some small laptops.

The placement of the front soft keys and the central select button are not designed for one-handed use at all either. Samsung has sensibly given up any idea of trying to make a 12.2-inch tablet ultra-portable in the same manner as its phones. However, the buttons do respond to the S Pen stylus as well as a finger – the earliest Note devices’ buttons didn’t. The S Pen lives in a little hole on the tablet’s right edge.

Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 – Connections and Hardware

This is a tablet aimed at the rather vague target of power users, and this is seen throughout the hardware, not just in the large screen. Like the Galaxy Note 3, it uses a USB 3.0 port rather than the older, slower USB 2.0 type. It looks like a normal microUSB port with a half-formed twin attached. In the Note 3 we thought it was overkill, but here it fits in well – it’s not as if there’s not enough edge space to go around.

The Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2’s USB 3.0 port allows much faster file transfers, and faster charging over a USB 3.0 port on a computer. However, you’ll still want to use the charger if you can. USB 2.0 power output maxes out at 500mA, USB 3.0 at 900mA. The tablet’s charger is a 2000mA power source, and even with that charging takes a while.

This port is also MHL-compliant. Using an MHL adapter you can output the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2’s screen content to any display with an HDMI input.

Completing the trinity of basic geek-friendly hardware features is the microSD slot. You get 32GB storage (23GB accessible) as standard, but a covered memory card slot lets you add up to 64GB pretty cheaply.

The obvious missing thing here is a way to turn the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 into a laptop. There are no docking points on its bottom or its sides that might open the doors to a keyboard accessory that would turn the Note into a Android laptop.

If you want a laptop-tablet hybrid, this isn’t it. Look to the Asus Transformer Book T100 or the Transformer Pad TF701T instead. You can, of course, use a Bluetooth keyboard with the Note 12.2, though.

Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 – Screen & Sound Quality

The Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 has a 12.2-inch screen, as its name suggests. It’s a big, bright, widescreen display that offers a much larger video-watching, reading and drawing space than any previous Note tablet or phone.

On paper its very strong. This is a 2560 x 1600 pixel display – the same resolution as the 10.1-inch Note 2014 edition. And it is an LCD-type screen, rather than the AMOLED type used in Samsung’s Note phones.

Despite a solid screen resolution, the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 doesn’t offer that strong an impression of sharpness. It’s because of the kind of subpixel array used in the screen.

Rather than using uniform rows of red, green and blue pixels, the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 has rows of red, green, blue and white pixels. It increases power efficiency, but dramatically decreases how sharp a screen appears. It’s down to the uniformity of the rows of pixels – consecutive rows are shunted by a subpixel, causing straight lines to look fuzzy. It also has a patterning effect on block colour/white areas.

This pixel arrangement is part of the PenTile family, and it lets the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 increase brightness with less power consumption than rival RGB screens. And top brightness is indeed pretty searing. Whether you prefer the pure image quality of RGB (as seen in the iPad Air) or better efficiency is down to your own taste. But we’d opt for image quality every time – especially in a tablet with design/arty potential like this.

We saw this symptom in the Note 10.1 2014 Edition and didn’t see it as a big problem, but here the lower pixel density makes it more apparent.

The backlight in our review sample is also inconsistent. In a darkened room it’s extremely clear where the side-firing LEDs that light the screen live, and when viewed from certain angles, the screen greys as the backlight’s separate presence becomes all too obvious.

This is a good screen, but ultimately we’re a little disappointed. We wanted a great one - and we deserve one for £650.

Another important feature for the home tablet is speakers. The Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 makes a good start with stereo speakers – there’s a driver on each end.

Side-firing drivers give a distinct stereo image when the tablet is held out in front of you. However, the sound quality isn’t particularly remarkable. Like most tablet speakers that haven’t had some serious work put into them, they sound a little thin and lacks the lower-end warmth and power that makes a speaker more enjoyable to listen to.

Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 – Screen Multi-tasking

As well as having a larger screen than any other Note tablet, the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 tries harder to make its screen inches work for you.

Some of basic interface tweaks include reworking the Android home screens layout in order to make better use of space. The Google Search bar is sensibly relegated to a small corner of the bottom-left rather than taking up the whole length of the screen, and there’s no persistent app shortcut bar. Samsung has made the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2’s home screens into zones that are as customisable as possible, rather than plastering each with everyday ‘essentials’. It’s a sensible choice.

The Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2’s multi-tasking skills are more attention-grabbing, though. In the other Note phones and tablets, a feature called Multi Window lets you open two apps at once on-screen. With this tablet you can open four.

Not all apps can be opened in Multi Window, but most the basics can - the browser, email, YouTube, S Note and more. Some third-party apps work, but it is a case of hit and miss.

These apps are then scaled to the size of the window, and you can also choose how much room each gets. It works remarkably well – and is very usable. Forgetting the coding wizardry needed to make this work for a second, it’s not that surprising. Each quarter of the display is roughly equivalent to a 720p display in resolution, and the 12.2-inch work surface offers plenty of space.

The only issue is finding a use for this sort of multitasking. A classic quartet might be the browser, a video player (MX Player works with Multi Window as well as the default player), your Gmail and S Note, a note-taking app. Why? Use your imagination.

This sort of intensive use is a bit at odds with the more relaxed way most of us use our tablets. But Samsung has successfully taken tablet use to the next level with the Note 12.2, if that’s what you’re after.

The Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 also offers a slightly more casual way to use multi-tasking. Using the stylus and a feature called Pen Window, you can draw a box on the screen and load up most Multi Window-compatible app in it. This has uses that are a little less of a tablet stretch than quad-add multitasking. You could, for example, look up a game walkthrough online while playing a game or bring up your email while watching a video.

Like other Samsung tablets, there’s also a more traditional app switching menu, accessed using the left soft key.

Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2: Software and Performance

The Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 runs Android 4.4 with the TouchWiz interface laid on top. It’s pretty similar to what we saw in the Note 10.1 2014 Edition, but with a few elements given a spruce-up so they look less ugly.

As ever Samsung’s custom interface is less than beautiful. However, Android on large tablets never looks or feels perfect, and Samsung has made some sensible changes. 

The notifications bar is also different from the norm. There are nice, big feature toggle buttons up at the top, and the usual notifications below. We’d ideally like to see Samsung make better use of the screen space here, but it is certainly clear regardless.

The Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 also has a pair of extra home screens that you won’t find in Samsung’s previous phones. You access these by swiping beyond your normal home screens.

Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 – Magazine UI

These are pages of Samsung’s new Magazine UI, used in addition to the standard Android home screens. They arrange your favourite content as sharp, stylish-looking blocks that are reminiscent of Windows Phone (or the touch interface of Windows 8) and Flipboard, a hugely popular news aggregation app.

You can choose all sorts of blocks including feeds from websites, your Twitter account, your email and your calendar. And they can be arranged in all sorts of ways.

Tapping on one of them takes you to another screen that shows you all the content from that source, again arranged attractively.

In pure functional terms, Magazine UI works very well. However, its auto opt-in prescriptive nature is entirely contrary to what the best tablets are all about – the Nexus 7 2 and the various iPads are blank slates you can fill with whatever you want. The Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 is a bit like moving into a lovely new flat only to find it comes with a live-in butler who asks you if you need anything every five minutes.

Some people will love Magazine UI, we’re sure, but the assumption that everyone who buys a tablet like this will have a remote interest in such an interface is overly presumptuous. And a symptom of Samsung’s OCD-tinged approach to including every feature it can think of.

Unlike some other, smaller Samsung tablets, though, the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 doesn’t feel cramped, cluttered or particularly confusing if you forget Magazine UI exists. But it does reinforce that this is not a tablet for those just getting into gadgets.

Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 – Stylus

Where we’re keen on Samsung doing its best to get the most out of something is with the S Pen stylus. A few crucial right moves make the stylus a great asset rather than a naff add-on. They’re pretty much the same as Samsung’s other Note products, so we’ll be brief:

• The S Pen slots into the body so you’ll only lose it once a week, not three times a day
• It uses pressure sensitive digitiser rather than ‘dumb’ capacitive pen, making it worthwhile
• There’s palm rejection, meaning when the stylus is close to the screen you can rest your hand on the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 without it counting it as a touchscreen prod
• The nib is rubber rather than plastic, and has a bit of give, making it feel more natural to write with
• There’s no battery in the stylus

The S Pen is a great piece of hardware, and one of the few things that sets Samsung’s tablet line-up apart from the rest. This particular tablet doesn’t introduce many brand new stylus software features, but the current bunch is pretty good regardless.

The stylus can be used wherever you need to input text, as the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2’s custom keyboard has a separate OCR mode that lets you write – rather than tap. It’s generally slower than typing with your thumbs, but character recognition works quite well unless you have truly terrible handwriting.

When not handwriting, Air Command is the main way to access S Pen features. It pops up when you hover the S Pen over the screen an inch or closer and press the button on the pen itself.

Functions on this radial menu include partial screengrabs, writing notes on the screen, the universal search and two more interesting ones – Action Memo and Pen Window.

Action Memo gives you a post-it sized scrap of note paper. Write something on it and it’ll be OCR’d into standard text that you search the web with it or email to someone.

Pen Window is a multi-tasking feature we referenced earlier. You draw a Window on the screen and can then run a mini version of a core app within it – a browser window, a calculator, video player or your email being obvious examples.

These extra stylus bits turn the S Pen from a stick into a tool.

However, it’s also useful as simply another way to navigate around the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2. For the most part it works just like a finger when prodded on items – it can flick through menus, run apps, be used to play games and so on.

There are also a few stylus-optimised apps included. The most important are S Note, the versatile note-taking app that can even be made to sketch out presentations, and SketchBook Pro. This is a fantastic drawing app that shows off the stylus’s benefits for creative types. It supports pressure sensitivity, Photoshop-style layers and plenty of brush customisation. It’s one of the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2’s best apps.

Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 – Performance

All this was true of the Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition. However, that tablet was beset with performance issues at launch that we haven’t experienced with the Note Pro 12.2.

Performance is pretty great generally, with little lag and plenty of power on tap. The Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 version we’re reviewing uses the Octo core Samsung Exynos 5420, clocked at 1.9GHz. This is the chip used in the Wi-Fi only version of the tablet. The 4G version uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 instead.

They’re fairly evenly-matched processors, and both version of the tablet have 3GB of RAM. This is the most seen in any mainstream Android tablet or phone, as of February 2014.

In the Geekbench performance test, the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 scores 2,712 points. That’s roughly on-par with the fastest Snapdragon 800 tablets and phones. It has enough power to play top-end Android games. However, you will find that not all games are optimised for the tablet’s super-high resolution screen. Real Racing 3 looks blockier than you might expect, for example.

Still, that is not Samsung’s fault.

Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 – Camera

The larger a tablet gets, the less keen we are to use it as a camera. You need to shed your dignity to use the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 as a compact-replacer, but its camera is actually pretty good.

It’s very fast to focus and there’s virtually zero shutter lag. Tablets often treat their cameras as afterthoughts, and this tends to result in slow performance, making the things frustrating to use. In daylight, sharpness and photo ‘pop’ are both great. Some of that sharpness is down to processing, but when it results in photos that good a good deal better than those of other tablets, we don’t care much.

The Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 also has a very effective HDR mode, which melds multiple shots in order to make scenes with trickier lighting easier to shoot. Once again, the tablet is much closer to smartphone levels than what we might usually expect from a tablet.

We found the camera’s close-up shots a little soft, but we doubt many people of you will want to buy a Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 to take macro photos.

For the spec fans out there, the camera has an 8-megapixel 4:3 aspect sensor - of the usual 1/3.2-inch size. The lens has an f/2.4 aperture with a focal length of 32mm. The front camera shoots at 1080p resolution and is pretty good too.

You get most of the same modes as Samsung phones like the Samsung Galaxy S4 as well. This includes drama shot, which takes multiple exposures for some natty action photos, panorama and the face-smoothing Beauty Face. Theyre most frivolous, but theres some fun to be had with them.

Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 – Battery Life

The Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 has a 9,500mAh battery that is non-removable. That’s bigger than the iPad Air’s 8820mAh battery or the Note 10.1 2014 Edition’s 8220mAh battery.

Stamina is, as you would hope, very good. With brightness set to 40 per cent we got 13.5 hours of SD-quality video playback off a charge. That’s even better than the 10.1-inch model.

Good stamina makes this a tablet you can rely on, even if it is just around the home – where the Note Pro 12.2 thrives. However, charging the battery does take quite a while. It takes a good few hours with the bundled 2A charger, and will take forever plugged into a laptop.

Other things to consider

We are not a business technology website and have therefore not focused hugely on the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2’s inbuilt business apps. However, Samsung considers them an important part of the tablet.

Perhaps the most important is Knox. This is a security system designed to let tablets and phones be used within large companies’ corporate networks. It offers far greater security than Android, and is a great addition given how fiddly some third-party BYOD security packages for Android are.

We haven’t spent a great deal of time with the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2’s other business-focused apps, but they enable things like WebEx virtual meetings and remote access to your work computer through the tablet. These are things that can be provided in other tablets with third-party apps. But having them all centralised under the Samsung banner is a bonus.

The tablet also has an IR transmitter, letting you control your home entertainment gear with the tablet, using a third-party app.

Should I buy the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2?

The Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 is not a tablet suited for most people. It’s big, it’s relatively heavy and it’s quite expensive.

However, this is an area without many rivals. If a 10.1-inch screen isn’t big enough and a pressure sensitive stylus is a must, this is actually a very successful tablet. The Samsung UI remains overwrought in places, but looks better than before and works pretty well on the big screen. And the S Pen works better than ever before thanks to the increased screen space.

We’re not convinced it’ll actually be that much more useful than an iPad Air for many people using a tablet for the more social side of business – presentations, displaying data at meetings and so on – but the more PC-like features such as quad-app multitasking should prove indispensable for some. And while the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 is not light, it is lighter than any 12-inch laptop and certainly thinner at just 8.6mm thick.

Verdict

A 12.2-inch tablet is not the right choice for 90 percent of tablet buyers. However, good build quality, decent specs and the always-handy S Pen make this a good buy for arty types or business users not satisfied by an iPad Air.

Monster Crew: Smash and grab the loot in this endless platformer!

Finally we’ve found a uniquely stylised game which is fresh and original in multiple different ways.  Keep reading to hear more…

Gameplay

You play as Frankenstein and need to run through the spooky infested halls whilst destroying pretty much everything (and not killing yourself in the process!).  You’ll keep running forever and one tap the screen will make you jump.  Tap again and you’ll stomp down destroying anything below.  Most likely you’ll find some coins in the process but otherwise you can pick up a lot of loot just lying around in the stage.  But hey… it’s way more fun to just destroy everything!

In essence this it very much like Jetpack Joyride – for those of you who haven’t heard of this game: Jetpack Joyride is probably one of the best endless runner games around and its addition of micro reward missions and upgrade packs have made it an incredibly addictive game.  Monster Crew has adapted this winning formula and put it into their own platform game.  The fundamental game differences are that Monster Crew is broken up into short levels which go from right to left as well as the classical left to right, and it is ultimately a platformer where the enemies are trying to attack you.  There’s also an energy bar instead of the insta-kill style of Jetpack Joyride.

Mini mission fun

Let’s be honest… prancing around endlessly through medieval hallways can get tedious quite quickly.  So sets of mini target missions are placed into the game to help to break up the monotony.  These small objectives vary from collecting coins to smashing targets and keep you entertained through the repetitive corridors.

Story Fun

Upon completing a pack of mini missions you’ll get a new story set as well as more targets.  These little comic sketches are pretty damn awesome – the fab graphics and great stylisation breathes more life into the game and makes it very entertaining.

Game extras

The upgrades for your character, Frank, are set at quite expensive levels.  But aside from these powerups there are also bonus cards which you can use to boost your abilities within a level.  You can strategically cast these at the beginning of every level in order to maximise on coin collection.  Unfortunately, like a deck of cards, you’re randomly assigned a hand and you can’t just stick to the cards you find helpful.

Rating: 4/5 Monster Crew is a great twist on an endless runner game.  It has the game structure of Jetpack Joyride but with more variety and complexity.  It’s got a slight money grabbing feel which tarnishes it’s name and could deter you from coming back to keep playing.

Monster Crew Tips and Tricks:

• Many objects can be be destroyed – even the ones which don’t look like crates.
• Focus on surviving longer to get better rewards.  This means that you should not be too greedy and focus on avoiding the enemies and obstacles.
• Very often running into one enemy can cause you to lose alot of energy because it’s very difficult to leap over them after the initial collision… so really focus on avoiding enemies.
• If Frank is moving from left to right, and you’re right handed then there’s a tendency to tap on the right of the screen.  If this is the case, then tap slightly higher on the screen so you’re not obstructing your vision.  Otherwise try tapping with your left hand instead.
• There seems to be no way to see your inventory/deck of cards, so the simplest suggestion is to not use them until you’re sure the benefits will have great impact.  It may seem like you’re accumulating cards unnecessarily, but otherwise you’ll be drawn into an endless spending cycle.
• Focus on completing the missions to get more reward bonus cards.

Affordable middle tablets have become very popular over the last few years. Initially it was mainly the smaller tablets that fell in the affordable range, but there are now more and more ‘big’ tablets with a price tag of around 250 euros. Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 (10.1) is one of them, and so it is time to make a review of this tablet

Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 (10.1.) – Specifications

	Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 4
Screen	10.1 inch 1280 x 800
Digitizer	No
Processor	Qualcomm Snapdragon 1.2GHz 400
RAM	1.5 GB
Storage Memory	16 GB
MicroSD	Yes
HDMI	No
USB	Yes, microUSB 2.0
GPS	Yes
3G / 4G	No
Bluetooth	Yes, 4.0
NFC	No
Cameras	1.3MP webcam and 3MP camera
Battery	6800 mAh Lithium Polymer

The list of specifications is not very impressive, but at the same time it ticked all the boxes of the list of specifications that you would expect from a modern tablet. Add to that the price tag of just over 260 euros and you have a handsome tablet for a good price

Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 (10.1.) – Hardware and design

Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 (10.1) is available in two different versions; black and white. This review is a black version uses only the white version is also recognizable as a Samsung product with a milk-white front and back. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 (10.1) is made of plastic, and glass. Of course there’s glass on the front and thus the display protected. Surrounding the display are again almost symmetric edges (short edges are slightly less wide) and Samsung are the standard buttons also incorporated back to the front of the tablet. A physical home button with two touch-sensitive buttons for back and multitasking we see on the front again. Where normally those buttons light up after handling this the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 (10.1) does not.

The back of the tablet is made of plastic and has, again inherited typical Samsung finish to give. leather impression Fake stitching it back roads left though. At the back of the Galaxy Tab 4 (10.1) this time is the camera without LED flash, processed and on the sides of the tablet you will find include stereo speakers, microSD card reader and buttons for on / off and volume., the place where the front and back of the tablet is coming together moreover, with a silver frame that the Galaxy Tab 4 (10.1) a net that gives upscale appearance.

Display

This is the fourth generation of Samsung Galaxy Tab and the screen since the first version never really changed. The 10.1-inch display is called a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels, which results in a less than impressive pixel density of 149 pixels per inch. This is undoubtedly one of the components making Samsung the price of Galaxy Tab 4 (10.1) has managed to keep within bounds but meanwhile we still expect something more, too cheap Samsung tablets.

The pixel density makes sure that you can distinguish the individual pixels on the screen and you do not optimally sharp lyrics will see, and that there is some level of detail is lost in the images and photos. Also, it is thus less than full HD so is there anything of the image is lost when playing movies. This does not mean that the screen is unusable, it is for most applications really sufficient. But only meet minimum course is not a qualification should be. Strived

Incidentally, color, contrast and viewing angles well organized, but it pales screen course in a direct comparison with a screen like that of the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 . tablet offers a reasonably natural view contrasting with nice black levels and excellent viewing angles for normal use. brightness is not particularly high, but the tablet is used in some brighter light environments well.

Connectivity

The offer of connection is again very standard and basic. has Wifi chip with support for 802.11 a / b / g / n signals, including signals in the 5GHz spectrum. That’s worth an extra plume. Naturally, this tablet also features Bluetooth 4 , 0, a microSD slot to expand cheap (up to 64GB supported) Memory and there is a MircoUSB connector for connecting to a computer or, more importantly, a charger.

Speakers

The speakers are incorporated on the sides of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 (10.1). Due to the screen size of 10.1 inches is more than enough room to get. Genuine stereo effect audible The speakers are very nice for a tablet and as long as you do not cover the speakers accidentally with your hands (they are, after all, on the side where the tablet handling), the sound is perfectly adequate for playing games, watching a Youtube video or listening to music via Spotify. For serious use, so watching a movie or longer listen to music, of course there are better options in the form of the 3.5mm headphone jack or Bluetooth 4.0 connection.

Cameras

The cameras are about the only part of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 (10.1) that does not score enough. Where the rest of the hardware is always with the narrowest of margins as does the cameras are just not as good. Not even with the best will in the world and knowing that this tablet is nice affordable. I maintain that it would be better to save the camera on the back road costs to show up and give out. something more to a webcam for both a more than optimal lighting conditions is needed to make something usable plates get.

Battery Life

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 (10.1) has a fairly large battery of 6800 mAh, which is very positive, because you can without any problem a full day. Recharging is via a standard microUSB port and I have several chargers can be used as a charger, positive so without any problem Playing some games, browsing the Internet and social media I could easily an hour or 10 forward with the tablet. Looking at the competition that is certainly a positive point

Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 (10.1.) – Software

Samsung products come with Samsung software. That should really not be a surprise anymore. Under the layer of Samsung simply turn the Galaxy Tab 4 (10.1) course on Android, namely Android 4.4.2 KitKat. At the time of writing about the most recent version available. Of course carries the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 (10.1) also Google’s approval so you have access to all the standard Google apps and services, including the Play Store and Google Now.

Samsung’s TouchWiz interface is quite famous so just about every user of a Samsung tablet considering buying is aware of this skin, and perhaps attaches even some extra value to the skin. because Samsung has quite a few skills Learn to handle in this skin. Personally, I recently become a fan of the multi-screen capability that has Touchwiz, it is quite possible to run. two apps side by side Just about every interface element is adapted and looks slightly unlike standard Android. Yet most matters still to be found in the same place or returned to a logical alternative. way I personally do fan of the place (below left) which is the default Google search bar installed.

In addition to the adaptations of all small and large interface elements Samsung also distinguished itself often Delivery of a large number of apps. Fortunately they abandoned it lately, at least in the way in which these actions are accessible to users. Samsung offers users still cool actions 50GB Dropbox space or free trial periods for various services / newspapers / streaming media services, but those actions are now housed under a special Samsung Apps app where users can therefore choose which action or not self- used (and installed) is. Where the Galaxy Tab S a special widget is available to promote these actions we see these additional widgets not return the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 (10.1) . The range of activities also varies by model, with the more expensive Galaxy Tab S tablets, there are some trial subscriptions extra available

Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 (10.1) – in use.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 (10.1) is clearly based on casual use. terms of specifications and price A power-user who wants more in the Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab NotePro line choice, but for example, a family with this Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 (10.1) as a second or perhaps third Screen are service needs do satisfy the tablet fine. As Samsung puts it, it’s an awesome device to any TV to watch on the couch (with headphones), or to use for a recipe app in the kitchen.

Despite the disappointing resolution to me was so concerned it well suited for watching TV and Youtube videos, reading, I would recommend less again. The screen is not necessarily very restless, but I notice that my eyes get tired more quickly when reading, for example, compared with a higher resolution retina display iPad mini.

Performance

The performance is the final component that is approached in this review, and again scored Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 (10.1) again sufficient. tablet is fast and does not feel anywhere always go smoothly, but the tablet is very constant and stable. So although it takes a little longer to start a game always eventually start it. As his games once they are loaded anyway useful. A modern game like Modern Combat 5 is running fine, and that says a lot about the power.

Casual games may therefore not a problem. The browser feels quickly sat down, even if you use that in (splitscreen) with another app. It is primarily the interface where you can sometimes see a few frames thinks too little. Samsung chooses all kinds of small animations that make the skin unnecessarily heavy, and so things just what langzamen feel

Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 (10.1) -. Conclusion

In principle, this is the perfect tablet for Dutch culture it is a real 6 Just slightly better than adequate, but we walk in school usually is not much harder than necessary. And a 6 in the Netherlands enough. It is unfortunate that Samsung was not just a little bit more ambitious and a prettier screen was installed in the tablet than it was just point been better. However, the Samsung also earned some bonus points because all those good marks do work together very well, and therefore more than the sum. Also in view of the price you have to say that Samsung has the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 (10.1) is a great product on the market as a premium brand. Short, thick enough for this model from Samsung.

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Key Features: 6-inch 1,920 x 1,080 pixel IPS screen; HiSilicon Kirin 925 CPU; 13-megapixel main camera with LED flash
Manufacturer: Huawei

What is the Huawei Ascend Mate 7?

The Huawei Ascend Mate 7 is a very large phone, one whose display is close to tablet-like proportions. Gamers and those who like to watch videos on the way to work should have an instant interest in such a phone.


And, contrary to what the name suggests, it’s definitely phone-sized: the screen is six inches across, not seven.

As is so often the case with Huawei phones, you need to fiddle with the Huawei Ascend Mate 7 to iron out a few weird tweaks that have been applied. But with a little effort, this is one of the best large-screen phones money can buy. At £400, it’s a good lower-cost alternative to the Samsung Galaxy Note 4.

Huawei Ascend Mate 7: Design

Huawei is not a master of design. Often its inspirations are all-too apparent, and the original motifs it devises tend to be a little wonky. But it’s getting better, and the Mate 7 is certainly one of the best Huawei phones yet.

The Huawei Ascend Mate 7 has a look very similar to the HTC One Max. It’s imposing, mostly metal and has a fingerprint scanner on the back. A paragon of simplicity it is not.

However, aside from a slight lack of originality the design is remarkably good. Here’s the important bit – for a 6-inch screen phone, it’s very easy to use.

A handful of clever choices ensure this, and while not exactly a surprise, it is a relief after the Huawei Ascend P7, which seemed to value being thin over being enjoyable to use day-to-day. That phone missed the point. This one gets it, or at least seems to.

The first important bit is that the Huawei Ascend Mate 7 is clearly as much all-screen as the company could manage. Bezels are super-thin and there’s very little expanse above or below the display. 

For empirical evidence – the Mate 7 is just 0.5mm wider than the 5.5-inch Samsung Galaxy Note 2. Granted, you’ll find much greater differences compared to phones of 2014 such as the LG G3, but clear effort has been put into making the phone as manageable as possible.

It’s not just the width, but the height too. This phone is thinner, shorter and less wide than its predecessor the Ascend Mate 2.

To make this possible, the soft keys are built into the software, and despite the current trend for front speakers, the Huawei Ascend Mate 7 keeps its one on the rear to ensure it doesn’t add more bulk. The result is a phone thats 7.5mm less tall than the HTC One Max, a phone we found to be flat-out too big at the time.

The Huawei Ascend Mate 7 is big, but not too big. Now that phones are that bit thinner, bezels that bit smaller, we’re at last finding 6-inch phones that we don’t wish we could shrink down.

Huawei has also put the soft keys towards the centre of the screen to make them easier to reach, and it works. Obviously, the Huawei Ascend Mate 7 remains a handful, but this is among the most accessible 6-inch phones to date.

It also feels good. About 85 per cent of the back is anodised aluminium, with just a couple of plastic bungs on the end to house the antennas, which would have trouble transmitting through metal. Build quality isn’t quite Apple-grade on closer inspection – in our sample the ‘volume up’ key lost its clickiness after a few days of use, but we assume this is an unfortunate fault with our sample (it is labelled an Engineering Sample, so this seems likely).

Much like the soft keys, the power button is placed within reach of your digit (right thumb in this case), and the phone’s super-slim 7.9mm body adds to how breezy this phone feels to use. Yes, we’ve complained about Huawei’s obsession with slimness in the past, but in a 6-inch phone, cuts to every dimension are appreciated.

Huawei Ascend Mate 7: Fingerprint scanner

After first noticing the similarities with the HTC One Max, we were worried about the Huawei Ascend Mate 7’s fingerprint scanner. The HTC’s was so particular it became a nightmare to use.

In another unexpected win for Huawei, the Mate 7’s fingerprint scanner is, as of October 2014, the best you’ll find in a phone outside of the Apple Touch ID sensor. It’s miles better than HTC’s fingerprint scanner and far better than the Samsung one used in phones like the Note 4 and Galaxy S5.

First, the Huawei Ascend Mate 7 does not make you move a finger over the scanner, just place it on there. And it scans your entire fingerprint when calibrating, rather than just the central part.

As such it’s able to be much more forgiving of fingerprints placed at an angle or non-centrally. I still experienced plenty of ‘non-recognised fingerprint’ messages, but it automatically rescans without any extra interaction required within a fraction of a second. It easily achieves the main fingerprint scanner goal of outpacing a typed-in passcode, which the HTC One Max and Samsung Galaxy S5 fail at, in our experience.

The scanner also sits in just about the perfect position for your forefinger, and is recessed by a full millimetre or so, making blind operation a doddle. It works without getting near the power button too. Huawei rarely shows the big players of Android how things are done, but it certainly has with the Ascend Mate 7’s fingerprint scanner.

Other less interesting aspects of the phone still worth noting include that it uses dual pop-out trays for microSIM and microSD cards on the left edge. You get a reasonable 16GB of storage in the phone, but a memory card slot boosts up its media cred several notches. 

Huawei Ascend Mate 7: Screen

The lead attraction of the Huawei Ascend Mate 7 is its screen. More specifically, its screen size.

While the screens of ‘standard’ high-end phones have teetered over the 5-inch mark, the Huawei Ascend Mate 7’s 6-inch model still seems huge.

This is also the first Mate-series phone to really impress with its screen quality as well as size. Previous Mate models used 720p resolution displays, but the Huawei Ascend Mate 7 has a Full HD one.

While this resolution has been surpassed by a small handful of phones including the LG G3, the 368ppi pixel density this affords the Huawei Ascend Mate is easily enough to appear very sharp indeed.

The IPS LCD screen type used here gives a fairly similar screen character to LG’s best too. You get pretty decent colour accuracy, enough to convince the eye if not a professional colour calibration tool. There’s some control over the colour too. You can choose how warm or cool it looks using an easy slider in the Settings menu, giving the display a yellower (warm) or bluer (cool) character.

Viewing angles are great as well, with more-than-acceptable brightness loss from an off-angle perspective. There’s a bit of backlight bleed in the top millimetre of the screen, which may be a result of cutting down the area above the screen, but it’s minor and not too distracting.

The potential elephant in the room here is the Galaxy Note 4. Its display offers better blacks and far greater pixel density thanks to its QHD-resolution panel. We also expect it to bring slightly better colour accuracy in the right mode. But with an RRP £230 higher, these comparisons breeze past the Huawei Ascend Mate 7 without denting our opinion of it.

It is a fantastic canvas for games and video, better than 5-inch phones by virtue of its size. An extra inch may not sound like a lot on paper, but it’s a big difference in person.

We can’t give this praise without emphasising that we’re happy to dole it out because the phone hardware isn’t a pain in the backside to use, unlike so many earlier giant-screen phones. Finally, 6-inch phones are starting to make sense.

Huawei supplies the Huawei Ascend Mate 7 with a plastic screen protector attached, one that’s guaranteed to be bubble-free unlike the one you might try to apply yourself. It’s rather good as it doesn’t have the mottling effect so many screen protectors can burden your phone with. But it’s arguably a bit unnecessary.

The Huawei Ascend Mate 7 uses Gorilla Glass 3, the same scratch-resistant layer used in many (or even most) high-end phones. It’s less likely to get scratched than the phone’s aluminium back.

As the protector appears to cause zero image quality compromise, you might as well leave it on until it starts looking tatty. We’d given it a few little nicks within a week, mind.

Add fairly good outdoors visibility to the Huawei Ascend Mate 7’s good image quality and you have a great little media phone. One of the best at the price.

Huawei Ascend Mate 7: Speaker

Speaker quality is also surprisingly decent given the phone only has a single mono speaker outlet on the back. It tries much more than most to provide a bit of mid-range body, avoiding the quite reedy sound that often comes out of single-speaker phones.

We put the Huawei Ascend Mate 7 up against the Samsung Galaxy S5, which has a similar single, rear-mounted speaker and found Huawei’s phone to be beefier-sounding, less tinny and better-equipped to deal with ambient noise.

A good deal of this seems to be down to Digital Sound Processing (DSP). There’s clear evidence of compression in quieter bits of audio – to be clear we’re talking about a ‘studio’ compression effect, not the kind of compression that turns a CD into a 64kbps MP3. It’s can be used to alter the perception of loudness of audio to good effect, especially when dealing with cruddy speaker drivers, as it is here.

It’s loud enough, but the Huawei Ascend Mate 7 falls down a bit when you switch it to silent mode. The vibrate function is unusually weak, meaning you’ll need to manually check your phone to ensure you don’t miss anything if you turn the volume down.

Huawei Ascend Mate 7 – Software and apps

If you’ve read the earlier parts of this Huawei Ascend Mate 7 review, it’ll sound like we’re onto a winner. However, that’s not the impression you get when first booting up the phone.

Its default interface is dreadful, possibly the worst we’ve seen from a ‘known’ phone maker. Its incredibly tacky-looking, decked out in gold ‘bling’ icons and wallpapers. Software is frequently the worst element of Huawei’s phones, and at least to begin with it is here.

The Huawei Ascend Mate 7 uses Emotion UI, the custom Android interface seen in most other Huawei phones. It’s one of our least-favourite custom takes on Android because it alters a lot in normal Android, but generally doesn’t demonstrate good taste in doing so.

The default UI is a prime example.

However, finally Huawei has got off its backside and properly implemented its themes system for a Western audience. Emotion UI has supported themes for years, but in the phones we’ve seen you’ve only had direct access to a few inbuilt ones, needing to scout out others from an obscure Chinese (and Chinese-language) web portal.

In the Huawei Ascend Mate 7, the ability to download new ones has finally been properly integrated. You have access to loads, and the majority are better than that which the phone uses by default. Wonders never cease etc.

These themes alter the wallpaper, the icon style and the Huawei Ascend Mate 7’s lock screen, changing its personality quite radically at times. There’s plenty of fiddling to do if you fancy. Within a few minutes we found a nice and simple one.

However, all of them get rid of the separate apps menu you normally see in Android. Everything app and game you download has to be arranged on your homescreens, demanding a bit more active curation than most other phones.

We’ve complained about this style many times in the past, and it remains contentious. However, it’s not as bad in a 6-inch phone like the Huawei Ascend Mate 7.

25 icons fit comfortably on each homescreen, meaning everyone should be able to fit their daily-use apps within a homescreen or two. The phone also supports folders, further cutting down how much you have to juggle homescreens. 

Huawei Ascend Mate 7 – Performance

The biggest point to note, though, is that the Huawei Ascend Mate 7 does not suffer from the frequent performance glitches we see in the Huawei Ascend P7.

It really is quite nippy, something we’ve not been able to say about recent Huawei flagships.

We hope that part of this is down to improved optimisation in the often-faulty Emotion UI, but the Huawei Ascend Mate 7 also has a seriously fast processor. It’s a HiSilicon chip, produced by a Huawei subsidiary.

The HiSilicon chips we’ve seen to date have routinely underperformed next to Qualcomm Snapdragon rivals, but the Kirin 925 chip here is arguably competing with the Snapdragon 805 – which we’re yet to experience in a phone, as of October 2014.

The Hisilicon Kirin 925 has four Cortex-A15 performance cores clocked at 1.8GHz and four Cortex-A7 cores at 1.3GHz. In true Hisilicon fashion, this is not a particularly up-to-date setup. The Exynos version of the Galaxy Note 4 uses a similar setup but with the newer A53/57 64-bit cores.

In six months, the Hisilicon Kirin 925 is going to be looking quite musty, but for the moment it offers very compelling performance. For example, in the Geekbench benchmark the Huawei Ascend Mate 7 scores 3285. That compares favourably with the Snapdragon 805 and Snapdragon 801 scores we’ve seen – the Snapdragon 801 Galaxy S5 scored 2843 when tested concurrently.

It has loads of power, especially when you consider it’s significantly cheaper than the smaller-screen flagships from the biggest names. Its roughly on-par with what we expect to see from upcoming Snapdragon 805 phones.

If there is going to be a 64-bit Android app revolution, the Ascend Mate 7 won’t really be part of it (its a 32-bit CPU), but to be honest it probably won’t kick in until this phone is starting to look very old anyway.

Native 64-bit support is only coming to Android with Android L. The Huawei Ascend Mate 7 uses Android 4.4.2 at present.

Huawei Ascend Mate 7 – Apps and Games

The GPU used by the phone is the Mali T-628 MP6, the same GPU used in the Exynos version of the Galaxy Note 3. AnTuTu reported the GPU as a much weaker Mali T-624, but results suggest this is a mis-reporting. Despite the high benchmark scores, the Mali T-628 is actually a bit less powerful than the Adreno 330 used in the Snapdragon equivalents.

Just as important as raw power is the extra ultra low power chip that monitors the phones sensors while the screen is off. Its this chip that means you can use the fingerprint scanner without turning on the phone, without causing serious battery drain. Of couse, lots of power comes in handy when gaming too.

We’ve been gaming even more than usual with this phone – that screen positively wills you to – and have found that the Ascend Mate 7 has enough power to tackle top-end 3D games. Ramping Dead Trigger 3 up to it highest graphical setting still brings good performance (the game now offers a user-selected graphics setting).

The real big-hitting benefit for gaming, though, is the screen. A good 6-inch display is much more involving for the sorts of games that can feel a little cramped on a 4.5-inch display. It also gives your thumbs much more room to move without cramping the screen in games that use virtual sticks.

In a slightly old-fashioned move, Huawei has teamed-up with Gameloft and pre-installed five of its games on the Huawei Ascend Mate 7. However, you’re not really getting something for nothing – they are either demos or free games anyway, often requiring extra assets to be downloaded.

A few essential apps come pre-loaded too, things like Facebook and Twitter. However, aside from a bunch of little utilities apps there’s not much bloat.

You get things like an FM radio, a ‘mirror’ app and a magnifier, which uses the rear camera set to close-up focus in order to work as a sort of digital magnifying glass. The quirkier bits are automatically filed away into a Tools folder, though.

Huawei Ascend Mate 7 – Camera

The Huawei Ascend Mate 7 has a 13-megapixel camera main camera with a chunky LED flash.

It’s a pretty good setup that’ll do the job for day-to-day photography out on the street. You get pretty good levels of detail in sunlight and even in darker conditions – despite lacking HDR, the Huawei Ascend Mate 7 manages to hold onto detail fairly well in lower-light conditions.

While there’s clear processing/sharpening going on at pixel level and the edges of the frame get a bit scrappy-looking, you can get great levels of fine detail in the right conditions.

However, it’s not perfect. We did notice that in tricky higher-light conditions, the Huawei Ascend Mate 7’s photos can end up looking quite desaturated – almost monochrome in the worst cases.

While things like this are common in phone cameras, we’ve come to rely on HDR modes a bit to patch them up. The Huawei Ascend Mate 7’s is far from the most effective we’ve seen, though. It’s not the go-to fix-all it is in the best examples.

This phone is a middleweight contender in the phone camera world, but when the Huawei Ascend Mate 7’s camera is far from its star feature, that’s not a bad result.

Huawei has kept the modes on offer fairly simple too. You get Panorama, Beauty mode (which de-wrinkles your crows’ feet), HDR, burst mode and Watermark. There aren’t too many crazy processing filters, as you get in Sony’s phones.

It has a go at the post-focus modes attempted by other phones at present too, and this gets a spot as one of the main camera modes – right on the front page. However, as is generally the case with this kind of shooting, you’re much better off just taking normal photos in the vast majority of cases.

On the front is a much better-than-average 5-megapixel camera. With good light youll get loads of detail in your selfies. However, for low-light indoors shots, that the camera uses a pretty tiny sensor is very evident – the noise is much clearer than in a high-grade 2-megapixel selfie cam.

Huawei Ascend Mate 7 – Battery Life

The Huawei Ascend Mate 7 has a gigantic 4,100mAh battery. For some extra context, the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 ‘only’ has a 3,220mAh unit.

As you’d hope from a unit of this size, the Huawei Ascend Mate 7’s stamina is very good. You don’t need to be terribly careful to get two days’ use out of the phone, and for a spot of purely anecdotal evidence, the battery was at around 50 per cent at 11:30pm on one night, which got me through to about 5:30pm the next day before needing a charge – with some web browsing in-between too.

It does seem as though Huawei has taken a rather ‘brute force’ approach to the Huawei Ascend Mate 7’s battery efficiency, probably because the HiSilicon Kirin 925 isn’t all that power-efficient by itself compared to the best from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon range.

For example, you actually have to specify apps that can run when the screen’s turned off. Everything else will be blocked. This may become a problem for those not intending to take a diploma course in how to use the phone’s settings menu, as it’ll limit what apps will be able to ping you push notifications.

Our standard video test supports this too. Youll get 12 hours of 720p MP4 video playback off a charge, with the backlight set to mid-level.

Thats a great result, but not the sort of earth-shattering one you might expect of a phone with such a giant battery. We got more out of the Sony Xperia Z2, for example.

Huawei Ascend Mate 7 – Call Quality and Connectivity

The Huawei Ascend Mate 7 HiSilicon Kirin 925 processor may need some concessions to bring great battery life, but the phones core hardware otherwise covers most of the connectivity basics we expect from a £400 phone.

You get 4G, with wide-spanning support for the UK’s networks. In the OnePlus One (also Chinese), band 800 support was missing, but it is here, ensuring you can get 4G from all the main networks. It’s Cat 6-compliant too, meaning it can handle speeds of 300Mbps.

NFC is here too, along with the standards of Bluetooth 4.0, GPS and Wi-Fi Direct. There are a couple of missing bits, though. Wi-Fi support only goes up to N standard, not AC, and there’s no IR transmitter.

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This means those who rely on ac to get Wi-FI coverage in the further reaches of their lofty mansions (or those with poor quality routers), may notice patchy Wi-Fi, and you can’t use the Huawei Ascend Mate 7 as a universal remote.

Should I buy the Huawei Ascend Mate 7?

The Huawei Ascend Mate 7 is one of the first phones we’ve tested that justifies having a giant 6-inch screen. It’s not that the software offers extra functionality to make those extra inches work – it’s not Galaxy Note 4-grade in that regard.

Rather, the screen is high-quality enough to seem better all-round than the 5-inch screens of more expensive phones, and the body isn’t so big and awkward it feels like wielding a chopping board as a phone.

You still need to consider whether you’ll appreciate the larger screen size over a smaller body, though. Things like games and films look fantastic on the Huawei Ascend Mate 7, while offering the phone-style convenience that you don’t get with something like the Nexus 7. But pulling the phone out for a quick snap really doesn’t feel as nimble as it would with a smaller phone.

It’s all about where your priorities sit. Screen size needs to be near the top. But if it is, this is one of the best-value options. There are no serious compromises in the hardware by current standards, and while there are plenty of Huawei quirks to raise an eyebrow at, many can be patched up. And when the Huawei Ascend Mate 7 costs more than £200 less than the Galaxy Note 4, that’s not a bad compromise.

Verdict

The Huawei Ascend Mate 7 is one of the first 6-inch phones that avoids being a royal pain to use. The software is quirkier than a French art house film, but good performance elsewhere makes up for it.