Huawei unveils world's largest screen 6.1-inch smartphone

BANGALORE, INDIA: ICT player Huawei launched a new smartphone, Ascend Mate, touted to have the largest screen in the world, at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

The Ascend Mate features 6.1-inch HD display, a 1.5 GHz Hi-Silicon quad-core processor and a 4050 mAh battery. It also comes with Huawei's Quick Power Control (QPC) and Automated Discontinuous Reception (ADRX) battery efficiency technology and fast sharing technology.

The smartphone has a screen-to-body ratio of 73 per cent - again touted to be the highest in the industry. The 6.1-inch HD IPS+ LCD screen has a resolution of 1280 x 720 and is 6.5mm thin at its narrowest part.

Together with global roaming functionality, the handset supports five frequency bands, has dual-antenna design and is optimized with maximum ratio combining method, to increase network reception by up to 2.5dB.

Operating on Android 4.1 and featuring an 8.0-megapixel AF rear-facing camera with HDR and 1.0-megapixel HD front-facing camera, it also provides dual MIC noise reduction technology, Dolby sound system and stereo recording. It features an Augmented Reality navigation application to help reach your destination, ‘smart reading' functionality allowing quick reference to dictionaries, Wikipedia and Google Search pages, and ‘swift sharing' to upload pictures.

Available in crystal black and pure white, the Huawei Ascend Mate will be on sale in China in Feburary 2013.