Published on April 7, 2017
Lisa Gade reviews the $299 Huawei Ascend Mate2 Android smartphone phablet. This is an unlocked GSM phone with 4G LTE for AT&T and T-Mobile that has a 6.1″, 1280 x 720 IPS display and a 1.6GHz quad core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 CPU. Rather than being sold by carriers, Huawei sells it direct via their website and no contract is required. The phone runs Android 4.3 with Huawei’s Emotion UI 2.0 Lite UI, and it has 2 gigs of RAM and 16 gigs of internal storage. Other features include a microSD card slot, dual band WiFi 802.11AC, Bluetooth 4.0 and a GPS with GLONASS. It has a 13MP rear camera and a front 5MP camera.
