Look at an off-contract flagship phone these days and you can expect to pay $600 or more, so the [company]Huawei[/company] Ascend Mate2 is 50 percent or more less expensive. Then again, while the phone has plenty of good features, itâs not a flagship phone if you first look at the chip powering the device. Huawei chose a 1.6 GHz [company]Qualcomm[/company] Snapdragon 400 for the Ascend Mate2, which in terms of silicon is a bit dated as the chip debuted in early 2013.