Huawei's Massive 6.1-inch Ascend Mate Hits the UK
How big is too big?
When Huawei announced the Ascend Mate at CES earlier this year, it boasted that the device had the world's largest phone screen. Indeed, this 6.1-inch device is more tablet than it is phone. Nevertheless, if massive phones are your bag, then the Ascend Mate should be right up your alley (provided you don't have something like a Galaxy Note 2 already).
The Ascend Mate is now available for purchase in the United Kingdom. Vodafone today revealed that the phone is officially in stock, having revealed plans to stock the device earlier this month. You can pick it up for free on a £25 a month plan with 600 minutes, unlimited texts and 500 MB of data. If contracts don't do it for you, you can buy the phone on Pay-As-You-Go for £300.
Powered by Huawei's Hi-Silicon 1.5 GHz quad-core processor, the Ascend Mate runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. Alongside an 8-megapixel camera and a 4050 mAh battery, the device offers 32 GB of internal storage, 2 GB of RAM, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, and Huawei's own Emotion UI. We went hands on with the Ascend Mate at CES and found it a little on the large side (as is evident from the photo below). Check out our hands on in the video!


Though it's a bit unwieldy as a phone, it saves you from needing an extra device. I think it's a great idea for folks who routinely carry their tablet in addition to their phone.
Huawei Asend Mate
http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/23/huawei-ascend-mate-review/
Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 has AC wifi better at games
http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/16/samsung-galaxy-mega-hands-on/
Wikis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei_Ascend_Mate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Mega
Use either a headset w/mic or bluetooth .
I'm 6'5" and Galaxy Note 2 fits me quite comfortably. A bigger phone? I dunno... I already find mine a bit uncomfortable to type with one hand on a 5.5" screen... The one-hand-keyboard-mode is not really usefull because it simply shrinks the keyboard so your thumb can reach the characters.
One thing i really think should exist in android 4.1 is to add more homescreens than 7. Its a bit cool to have a homescreen for a specific task and i feel like i could use a couple more. 10 or 12 would be sweet