Finally, two new devices Huawei Mate 9 and Lenovo P2 are now available via carrier Three UK. The Huawei Mate 9 is available in Space Gray color option and is available on contract starting with £31.00 a month and £99.00 upfront. Both the devices are not available without contract on the retailer website. The Lenovo P2 having a beast 5000mAh battery is available for £18 monthly and nothing upfront. The Huawei Mate 9 is available with 64GB inbuilt storage option while the Lenovo P2 is available with 32GB inbuilt storage capacity.
The Huawei Mate 9 was launched back last year with a 5.9-inch full-HD display with 2.5D glass and 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution. It has an aluminim unibody design and is powered by a octa-core Huawei Kirin 960 processor with Mali G71 GPU. It has 4GB of RAM with 64GB inbuilt storage capacity that is further expandable with microSD card. It was announced with Black, Space Gray, Moonlight Silver, Champagne Gold, Mocha Brown and Ceramic White color options.
It runs on the Android 7.0 Nougat based Emotion UI 5.0 out of the box and supports hybrid Dual-SIM. It features a 20-megapixel Monochrome + 12-megapixel RGB Dual rear cameras with Leica lenses, f/2.2 aperture, dual-tone LED flash, Laser AF, OIS and an 8-megapixel front-facing camera with f/1.9 aperture. It is backed up by a 4000mAh battery with fast charging feature and connectivity options includes 4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11ac (2.4GHz/5GHz), Bluetooth 4.2 LE, GPS and NFC. The Huawei Mate 9 comes with a fingerprint scanner available on the back. It measures 156.9 x 78.9 x 7.9mm and weights 190 grams.
The Lenovo P2 was announced at IFA event last year and was launched in the Indian market earlier this month. It comes with a 5.5-inch Full HD AMOLED display with 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution and will be powered by a 2GHz Octa-Core Snapdragon 625 processor with Adreno 506 GPU. it comes with 3GB/4GB RAM and 32GB / 64GB internal storage capacity with microSD expandable storage capacity slot. It runs on the Android 6.0.1 (Marshmallow) and supports Dual-SIMs.
It features a 13-megapixel rear camera with dual-tone LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. This device is backed up by a 5100mAh battery with fast charging enabled and comes with 4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 LE, NFC connectivity options. A fingerprint sensor is available on the front panel on the physical home button of the device.