Attendees at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) witnessed the unveiling of the smartphone with the largest screen in the world – the Huawei Ascend Mate at the show. The Huawei Ascend Mate features a huge 6.1-inch HD display, a 1.5GHz Hi-Silicon quad-core processor and a 4050 mAh battery. Together with Huawei's proprietary Quick Power Control (QPC) and Automated Discontinuous Reception (ADRX) battery efficiency technology and fast sharing technology, the Huawei Ascend Mate is proof that bigger is better.

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, Huawei Ascend Mate also provides dual MIC noise reduction technology, Dolby sound system and stereo recording. Huawei Ascend Mate has a screen-to-body ratio of 73 percent – which the company claims to be the highest in the industry – to maximise user’s viewing pleasure for emails, documents, video or games. The 6.1-inch HD IPS+ LCD screen has a resolution of 1280 x 720 for unsurpassed clarity and colour accuracy and ‘Magic Touch' to provide enhanced screen responsiveness even with gloves. The Ascend Mate is slim and stylish, designed to fit comfortably in a single hand at just 6.5mm thin at its narrowest part.

Huawei Ascend Mate 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, videos and other files two to three times faster than other smartphone users in a Wi-Fi environment.

"The Huawei Ascend Mate breaks barriers to deliver a supercharged entertainment, communication and creative experience for all your personal and professional needs," said Richard Yu, CEO, Huawei Consumer Business Group. "The Huawei Ascend Mate is an industry-leading smartphone and showcases our innovation as we continue to make great technology available to more people globally."

Huawei Ascend Mate features a 4050 mAh battery and Huawei's Hi-Silicon 1.5GHz quad-core processor. With Huawei's QPC and ADRX smart power-saving technology, the smartphone provides up to two days of ordinary usage on a single charge. It has the fastest battery charging capability of smartphones in its range, which saves over 30 percent of battery charging time.

Together with global roaming functionality, the Huawei Ascend Mate supports five frequency bands, making this smartphone perfect for international travellers. Its dual-antenna design supports high power data transmission and is optimised with maximum ratio combining method to increase network reception by up to 2.5dB and providing an increase of 20-30 percent of overall network coverage.

The smartphone is available in crystal black and pure white colours and will be on sale in China in Feburary 2013.

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Liquid Image's Ego Mini action cam

GoPro ain't the only name in the action camera game, and here at CES Unveiled we've just got a look at Liquid Image's latest mountable cam -- the Ego Mini (that's it on the right, pictured next to the first-gen Ego). It shoots 1080p video at 30 fps or 720p at 60 fps, and is WiFi enabled, so you can livestream if hooked up to something with internet access. Obviously it's pretty small and light (as well as waterproof), and we saw it nestled inside a motorbike helmet, and in various mount configurations, like four cams pointing in all directions for 360-degree recording, and two side-by-side for 3D video. In camera mode, it can shoot 12-megapixel stills with a continuous photo-taking mode if you want something in-between full video recording.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/06/liquid-image-ego-mini-hands-on/

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