 Hey there, it's James with The Verge. I'm here at IFA in Berlin and I've got with me the Huawei Mate S, Huawei's new flagship smartphone. Now this is a 5.5 Android device like many Android devices we've seen. 5.5 inches seems to be the preferred screen size for everything from the Moto X Play to the OnePlus 2. But Huawei's big standout feature on this one is Force Touch, a name you might recognise from Apple. Now Force Touch basically means a pressure-sensitive screen and you can do things with that like press harder to zoom into a picture or scroll faster through music or video. Now Huawei's kind of unveiled this as a bit of an attention grabber. They're not putting it on all the Mate S's, they're only putting it on certain models, they're not saying how many, but it means they might have stolen a march on Apple. Now Apple's got Force Touch in the Apple Watch and the MacBook, but a lot of people think that it's also going to be coming to the next iPhone. If so, then Huawei might have beaten them to it. So apart from Force Touch, what else has the Mate S got? Well, it's got very nice design. They've really put a lot of effort into this. Now as we mentioned before when discussing this company and this smartphone, it kind of is a little bit similar to other devices we've seen. We have the chamfered edges that you might have seen on HTC One M9 as well as the camera at the back. Now this whole area looks very familiar to any HTC fans, although unlike HTC One M9, this 13-megapixel camera has optical image stabilisation. As well as the 13-megapixel on the back, there's also an 8-megapixel camera on the front. There's 3GB of RAM powering this and instead of the usual Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, there's actually a Kirin Octa-Core. Now this might not be familiar to many people buying smartphones in the West, but we've really liked the performance on it. Animations have been very smooth, no stuttering, no lagging, so we have no complaints. It's a very speedy little device. There's also a fingerprint sensor right here on the back, which is maybe one of the fastest we've used. I mean, just a touch and the screen lights up. It didn't light up there, did it? And also got a fingerprint sensor on the back, which might be one of the fastest we've used. Goes from just a touch to lighting up pretty much instantly, so that's impressive as well. But for all the nice things about the Mate S, unfortunately people in the US and the UK won't be getting their hands on it. Now Huawei is only, is calling this a global smartphone, but actually limited availability. It's going to be in 30 countries though, Japan, Germany, China, Israel, with a 32 gigabyte and a 64 gigabyte version. They're going to be priced at €649 for the 32 gigabyte, €699 for the 64 gigabyte.
 Hey there, it's James with The Verge. I'm here at IFA in Berlin and I've got with me
 the Huawei Mate S, Huawei's new flagship smartphone.
 Now this is a 5.5 Android device like many Android devices we've seen. 5.5 inches seems
 to be the preferred screen size for everything from the Moto X Play to the OnePlus 2. But
 Huawei's big standout feature on this one is Force Touch, a name you might recognise
 from Apple. Now Force Touch basically means a pressure-sensitive screen and you can do
 things with that like press harder to zoom into a picture or scroll faster through music
 or video. Now Huawei's kind of unveiled this as a bit of an attention grabber. They're
 not putting it on all the Mate S's, they're only putting it on certain models, they're
 not saying how many, but it means they might have stolen a march on Apple. Now Apple's
 got Force Touch in the Apple Watch and the MacBook, but a lot of people think that it's
 also going to be coming to the next iPhone. If so, then Huawei might have beaten them
 to it. So apart from Force Touch, what else has the Mate S got? Well, it's got very nice
 design. They've really put a lot of effort into this. Now as we mentioned before when
 discussing this company and this smartphone, it kind of is a little bit similar to other
 devices we've seen. We have the chamfered edges that you might have seen on HTC One
 M9 as well as the camera at the back. Now this whole area looks very familiar to any
 HTC fans, although unlike HTC One M9, this 13-megapixel camera has optical image stabilisation.
 As well as the 13-megapixel on the back, there's also an 8-megapixel camera on the front. There's
 3GB of RAM powering this and instead of the usual Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, there's
 actually a Kirin Octa-Core. Now this might not be familiar to many people buying smartphones
 in the West, but we've really liked the performance on it. Animations have been very smooth, no
 stuttering, no lagging, so we have no complaints. It's a very speedy little device. There's
 also a fingerprint sensor right here on the back, which is maybe one of the fastest we've
 used. I mean, just a touch and the screen lights up. It didn't light up there, did it?
 And also got a fingerprint sensor on the back, which might be one of the fastest we've used.
 Goes from just a touch to lighting up pretty much instantly, so that's impressive as well.
 But for all the nice things about the Mate S, unfortunately people in the US and the
 UK won't be getting their hands on it. Now Huawei is only, is calling this a global smartphone,
 but actually limited availability. It's going to be in 30 countries though, Japan, Germany,
 China, Israel, with a 32 gigabyte and a 64 gigabyte version. They're going to be priced
 at €649 for the 32 gigabyte, €699 for the 64 gigabyte.