The edges on the sides are very thin, less than 3mm. The whole entourage of the screen features the Moonlight Silver color. The PHABLET is fine with 8 mm thick. With 157mm dimensions of 81 mm and a weight of 185g, it's hard to forget that the 7 Mate in hand. The 185g are feeling well and the dimensions also with a one-handed. I find it difficult to use it like that, most of the time I use both hands.
Aesthetically, its unibody shell Metal / Aluminum is the most beautiful effect by giving a premium finish. To the touch, it was a feeling of "cold" that makes us forget the usual plastic other mobiles. The tour of the rear frame and have a light gray color. As you might expect, the 4100 mAh battery is not removable. Regarding the MicroSIM and MicroSD ports, they are still placed them on the left side of the mobile. There are two racks which open by inserting the tip into the small holes provided to be able to place the cards. I personally am not a fan, but unibody forces, we have no choice.
For the finish, nothing to say, we are dealing with a high-end mobile. All is well assembled, no play between the elements, no burrs. Just a personal complaint with the side buttons, I think they move much laterally.
At the interface level, the biometric fingerprint sensor on the back of the mobile is really a nice touch. He really responds well. While pressing his finger to the fingerprint is recognized, otherwise it does not. Besides this sensor can be used to lock some personal items in the phone.
Once on the home pages with the theme of origin, one is enchanted by the EMUI 3.0. This theme with this Gold & Black atmosphere is really sublime. Its icons are standardized in terms of form, but diverse in content. They are simple but original and with that golden dominance.
The themes are customizable. One can also download more themes thanks to the application that provides access to themes created by the owners Mate 7. The themes are categorized and the number is still quite limited, but expected to increase over months.
For the transition from the home pages or menus, nothing to say, it really is very fluid, no stutters or slowed. To specify that the integrated battery optimiser is set to normal. It is a great and good change when moving from an LG G3, which quite laguait after screen unlock, or even simply by implementing exit. It seemed downright micro-freezes.
The top notification bar is divided into two parts. If we click on the left, this place classical page notifications with time, the available updates and other information. If you click right on shortcuts, you can access a page with shortcuts connectivity as WiFi, Bluetooth, and information such as battery status or enter the general settings.
In terms of changes home pages, for example to add a widget, you must pinch the screen with two fingers. We then have a menu is displayed or the current home page and the other on each side, and below, a list of changes icons. You can change the wallpaper, add a widget, the transition effect between pages and the arrangement of icons on the pages.
To add or delete a page, you have to pinch / depart the screen with three fingers. You can access a dedicated menu which are shown your current home pages.
After in reproaches, in full knowledge of course cause is the lack of applications dedicated menu but that goes with EMUI interface. All applications are installed on the home pages. One can of course create folders to organize these applications by category.
For the multimedia part, he read out the MKV, but unfortunately is not compatible with the AC3 audio codec, like my old Samsung Note 3, which is disappointing because it is one of the most widespread. For information, this audio codec is included with my LG G3, so the compatibility or not is decided by brands. And of course, it does not support either the DTS. And it is somewhat ironic, given that there is a DTS mode sound settings.
Aside from that, it is very nice to watch a movie with such a picture quality on a large screen 6 inches a beautiful definition, bright colors, good contrast. Small flat for night crossings, where blacks are not perfect.
To the touch ergonomics, you set the brightness on the left side of the screen in slidant up and down, and you adjust the volume on the right side in the same way.
To advance or rewind the movie, you slidez from left to right on the screen or on the bottom progress bar. To go to a specific location, you click on the progress bar, and viewing directly the moment. Everything is very responsive, no lags, dropped frames dead time, you see directly the desired passage.
I think the sound communication is quite low, despite the volume to maximum, it'll still in a quiet environment, but in a noisy place you will hardly hear the caller. Occasionally, there are some unpleasant crackling.
EDIT 12/14.
For missing handy options: In NPC, the HDR mode is disabled by default. You can not activate and save default. For those who are accustomed to using the HDR mode, it will therefore enable every time. While on my LG G3, the latest activation / deactivation HDR mode was kept in memory.
There 's no option to add a data Location data limit which informed when we arrived at this limit. For example, you put 2.8Go limit as if you were entitled to 3GB of Datas given. Once in 2.8Go you were warned that you had reached almost 3GB. Of course, if you use the dedicated application on your operator, you can watch your conso follow. For info, visit Sosh, I get an sms to tell me that I have reached 80% of my Internet cons.
In the music player, there is no equalizer to adjust the sound as desired.
At bugs: The Facebook widget never updates itself. It remains on updating the statutes. For the facebook widget that's good. I had never been to update the application. There I put all the 4h, and like magic, there has status on the widget.
For recording movies, they automatically cut after 11min16s on my Moonlight Silver model. It is rather strange and compelling for those who often filmed many videos. After I do not know if there is the mine that has this bug duration or if it's a known bug of the Huawei Mate 7. This is a problem on my Moonlight Silver model, because after Experiment with my copy Obsidian Black, I can say that it is not affected by this problem, it records videos that well exceed 11min.
Protection of privacy.
Let's say it's a guest mode. With this function you can hide some applications albums from your photo gallery, and contacts, as well as associated messages. Please specify that you must have saved contacts on the phone memory to be able to hide them. Only those contacts that appear when you want to add private contacts.
First, you set an administrator password, so for you. Of course, with this password, you have access to everything. It is also used to unlock the mobile, instead of using the sensor footprints. To access the Privacy menu to configure guest mode, you will be asked to enter the Administrator password. After you select the items you want to hide.
Then you choose a guest password. If you lend your phone to someone, you type the Guest password to unlock the phone. In this mode, the person will not have access to applications, photo albums, contacts and associated messages you have hidden in Administrator mode.
+ Points:
The large 6-inch screen with IPS-NEO
The hull Unibody Aluminum makes Premium
Fluidity of the interface EMUI
Customize with themes
The fingerprint sensor
The AFN good enough 13 Megapixels
Points -:
The absence of Applications Menu
The racks for the MicroSIM and MicroSD
No removable battery
The AFN bug for video (only concerns my Moonlight Silver model)
Flash not very powerful
Small Version Comparison Obsidian Black and Moonlight Silver:
We will say that the Black is classier and discreet ... but also more sensitive to fingerprints and dust than white. For the painting side, it's more clear on white. It must then consider the entourage of the chassis and monoblock shell in the back, because in the end, for the black or white, it is limited to the front end, top, bottom and side edges very fine . For the chassis and the entourage, you can see that the gray is darker on the Black white version.
Suddenly, slight preference for the darker colors for the background, most happening eventually everywhere. I do not forget to report that with the black, the large 6-inch screen looks even more impressive when it is off, as limit, it can be confused with the rest of the front, this is accentuated by the edge very fine side. One might think that only the screen on the front panel. We will say that this effect is net arrested by the unsightly logo Huawei downstairs. What is this mania for the manufacturer to its brand name on the front, especially since it is already in the back with a bonus, in addition to the logo.
