Huawei Mate 9 Big bold and still beautiful nine months later The Chinese companys flagship smartphone is still a great buy, though the competition has vastly increased in the nine months since its debut. Plenty can happen in nine months. A human baby gestates over the period of nine months, for example, or you can try to grow over four inches of hair. Nine months is also a good time to check in with a smartphone after its initial launch. Thats plenty of time for a device to effectively gestate within the general consumer populace. Its been nearly nine months since the Huawei Mate 9 launched globally. The phablet-sized device was Huaweis great big flagship of last year. It was deemed fast, with its homemade system-on-a-chip, and it offered great battery life and solid camera performance by way of its dual-camera system. But how has it aged since its debut? Lets check in with the Chinese companys enormous smartphone and how it fares against the current crop of competition. Its big Wide ...