Definitely 2014 is the year of phablets. Sometimes you can really think that most new FlagShip Smartphones get towards the 6inch mark with their devices. The chinese Huawei definitely has some Experience with producing phablets and positioning themselves very stronly with the Huawei Mate Ascend 7 Series.

Huawei presented today the Ascend Mate 7 on the IFS. The Ascend Mate 7 is so far the largest phablet from the very popular Huawei Phablet series. Actually Huawei has been one of the first companies to offer phablets for affordable prices with the Ascend Mate Series. The Only Problem? The Ascend Mate 7, priced at 499 Euro, can be hardly called a Budget Phablet from Huawei

Huawei Ascend Mate 7 Specs

Display: 6-inch 1920 x 1080p display
Processor: 1.3GHz/1.8GHz octa-core big.LITTLE CPU
ROM/RAM:16GB ROM/2GB RAM and 32GB ROM/3GB RAM variants
Rear Cam:13 mega-pixel f/2.0 rear camera
Front Cam:5 mega-pixel front camera
Battery:4100mAh battery
OS: Huawei’s UI 3.0 (Basis Android v4.4)

The Huawei Ascend Mate 7 will launch this quarter in Europe. There will be two different versions of the Ascend Mate 7 Phablet: The first one with 2GB of Ram and 16GB of ROM and the second one comes with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of ROM. Most impressive is the very strong 4100 mAh battery, that you would need also for a 6inch screen. On previous models, you could charge your other Devices with the Ascend Mate, we are not sure yet if thats still possible.

At least at launch the lower spec version will be priced at 499 Euro and the higher spec version at 599 Euro. We are not quite sure what the strategy is for that pricing. While Huawei makes surely good devices, they face direct competition from other chinese smartphone makers like Xiaomi, Meizu others. With those prices they come close to competiton with Samsung and Oppo. We think the pricing might be too high for a smartphone like the Huawei Ascend Mate 7.

What do you think of the Huawei Ascend Mate 7 phablet? What do you think of the pricing? would you buy one?