Software (ease of use, features, etc) - Huawei Mate 9 Real Life Review

When you hand your phone to granny to take a photo of you, can she get the job done? Rate this thread to express how you deem the Huawei Mate 9's camera software. A higher rating indicates that the software is easy to use, fast, uncluttered, and inclusive of advanced features for when you need them.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

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i am a big fan of emui, there's not much more to say, great design, very smooth, many useful functions, app drawer is back, only thing: i miss the option to hide applications from the homescreen (drawer) like in earlyer emui versions.
and the theme variety is also very little for emui and it changes not much from the system ui, i hope there will be more soon.
the camera software was a bit confusing at the beginning, but now i get used to it and everything is clear now. i wish there would be some more modes like, landscape, snow, beach, night, firework and so on like on xperia devices.
and the hdr function is not very convincing, i don't notice andy difference between normal and hdr, normal photo looks a bit hdr, and hdr looks a bit hdr but nothing more...

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What is Carrier Aggregation?
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bym007 said:
What is Carrier Aggregation?
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First Google result: "An LTE-Advanced technology which combines multiple spectrum bands – it's the technological equivalent adding extra lanes to a highway, allowing for higher-speed data traffic"

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Governa said:
First Google result: "An LTE-Advanced technology which combines multiple spectrum bands – it's the technological equivalent adding extra lanes to a highway, allowing for higher-speed data traffic"
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Thanks for google result. But I was looking for a layman explanation really.
How does it affect or improve my experience ?
Some call it granny answer too .

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bym007 said:
Thanks for google result. But I was looking for a layman explanation really.
How does it affect or improve my experience ?
Some call it granny answer too .
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That IS a layman explanation. Quoting: "it's the technological equivalent of adding extra lanes to a highway, allowing for higher-speed data traffic"
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Governa said:
That IS a layman explanation. Quoting: "it's the technological equivalent of adding extra lanes to a highway, allowing for higher-speed data traffic"
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It sounds like a battery hog to me, by opening extra channels on your LTE.
A bit like MIMO on WIFI.

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bym007 said:
It sounds like a battery hog to me, by opening extra channels on your LTE.
A bit like MIMO on WIFI.
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LTE is also having MIMO nowadays ya...most mobile operators have deployed this to get more throughput.

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Its a good UI but it can be better. It have some flaws as no double tap to wake, double tap to sleep, offscreen gestures.

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The camera UI could be improved slightly as things like the zoom x doesn't change orientation when you use the phone in landscape rather than portrait.

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bym007 said:
What is Carrier Aggregation?
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Nice to know this phone has this feature! Trust me it's not a bad feature.

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Governa said:
That IS a layman explanation. Quoting: "it's the technological equivalent of adding extra lanes to a highway, allowing for higher-speed data traffic"
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He/she doesn't know what a highway is! lol

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Mate9 SW
I had this phone for almost half year and it was awesome. Big screen, smooth EMUI, perfect camera, performance really high. Only one bug this phone had, and seems only in my case. When I turned bluetooth screen freezes and you cant do anything, unless you reboot it with power button. Of course I set up a fingerprint unlock and then after phone turned on i had to input password (that i know which is it) and phone wouldn't accept it. That lead me to hard reset and frp unlock etc. After some research I found that that could happen to some phones that are unlocked from network carrier.
Also one cons of big phones is that whenever you go at the bar or restaurant everyone can see what you doing on your phone. So i went from Mate 9 to P10 Plus a small resize of phone

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I like the EMUI, but i have a question about GPS. with other brand of the phone, i can enable location service based on the wifi or date, at the same time disable GPS. when using the map, i simply enble the GPS from the drop down menu. and disable it once i finished using the map. however, with Mate 9, i have to go to the setting to enable the GPS if using the map, and if i disable it via the drop down menu, then it also diable the location service. is there is a way around? basically i want permentally enable the location based on the wifi or data, but only tougle on of off GPS when using the map. thanks