Huawei Mate 8, which should be launched as Huawei Mate S, previously known as Mate 7S, leaks yet again. We are following the path of this fella for quite a while but it will be all over in few day at the IFA event in Berlin.

According to the latest reports the Huawei Mate S is indeed the company’s next flagship and should be introducing a Force Touch display. We got some glimpses of the device throughout the past few weeks, but today we have something better – live pictures of the device sized up next to an iPhone 6.

The new Mate S looks a lot like its Mate 7 predecessor – it’s big, made out of metal and has the signature fingerprint scanner below its main camera. The sensors and the selfie camera placement doesn’t match the recently leaked photos and retail postings, but they do look the same as on the TENAA’s images we saw earlier.

There is a chance we are seeing two different devices – Mate S, Mate 7S, Mate 8 – or just market-variations of one and the same phone – the Mate S.

The Mate S is rumored to pack a 6″ Quad HD Force Touch display and run on either the most powerful and still upcoming Kirin 950 chip or the already available Kirin 935 SoC. The handset is also reported to pack a 20.7MP main camera and an 8MP selfie shooter, 3 or 4 GB RAM, a fingerprint sensor, LTE Cat.6 connectivity, a massive 4,500 mAh battery, and a brand new Emotion 4.0 UI on top of Android Lollipop.

Note that we can’t verify the authenticity of these photos, so you should take them with a grain of salt. We’ve seen the Honor 7 before marked as a MOBILE PHONE, so it sounds like a good sign to us, but the position of the front camera and the rear logo speak otherwise.

The official announcement should happen on September 2 in Berlin.

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It would be fair to say that Samsung infuriated an entire continent a couple of weeks ago, when it unveiled the new Galaxy Note5 and announced that it won’t be available in Europe, at least not this year. A few of our own editors have called it a bluff here at the office, and they may well be right.

One of our readers has been digging around customs and certification sites as has stumbled upon an SM-N920F version of the flagship phablet. In the past the “F” suffix has been reserved for the European version of Samsung’s phones, for example the Galaxy Note 4 and Galaxy S5. Alternatively, the “F” could indicate the global variant once the Asian and US carrier-specific models are excluded – effectively the same thing.

Either way, the said SM-N920F version has been spotted on Bluetooth.org – the authority that certifies new devices as compliant to the connectivity standard. Meanwhile, import database listing in India shows that parts for the same variant (specifically front camera assembly) have entered the country, coming from Korea. So, by now we’ve established that an European version exists.

The icing on the cake comes from an article in Korean media focused on the device’s price, which is lower than previous generations in its home country. What’s interesting to us, however, is that it does mention an August 28 European launch date.

Whether the lack or postponement of a European launch was a marketing stunt on Samsung’s part, or the Korean news sites have it wrong, remains to be seen.

Thanks to Dennis Soleymani for the tip!

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The new Motorola smartwatch is closing in, online shops have already started listing the second generation, both sizes too. One is a 46.5mm (essentially the same as the current model). Size hasn’t been listed for the other one, but since it’s cheaper we can assume it’s smaller.

The 46.5mm Moto 360 2nd gen with cognac leather band runs for SEK 3,800 ($460/€400), while the smaller one with dark or light stainless steel strap is SEK 2,900 ($350/€305). The big one is set to ship on September 8 and the watches will arrive in a few days. This means an IFA announcement and near immediate launch.

That sounds pricy, but it’s basically how much the current Motorola watch costs, it’s just that electronics are more expensive in Sweden.

In case you haven’t heard, the second generation Moto 360 will keep the flat tire design, but add lugs for the wrist strap and move the crown button to the 2 o’clock position (similar to the Huawei Watch). The different sizes will come with different batteries too – 375mAh for the big one (up from 320mAh for the current model) and 270mAh for the small one.

Thanks for the tip, Kuzy!

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