Apple Seeds First Beta of iOS 9.3.2 to Developers With Bug Fixes and Improvements

Apple today seeded the first beta of an upcoming iOS 9.3.2 update to developers for testing purposes, just over two weeks after the public release of iOS 9.3. iOS 9.3, the third major update to iOS 9, introduced Night Shift mode and other feature improvements. iOS 9.3.2 also comes a week after the release of iOS 9.3.1, a bug fix update that addressed an issue causing Safari and other apps to crash after a web link was tapped.

The iOS 9.3.2 beta, build 13F51a, is available for download immediately from the Apple Developer Center and may be made available to public beta testers later this week.

We don’t know what changes iOS 9.3.2 will bring to iOS 9, but according to its release notes, it focuses on under-the-hood performance improvements and fixes for bugs that have been discovered since the release of iOS 9.3. We will update this post with any changes that are found in the new beta.

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Apple Seeds First watchOS 2.2.1 Beta to Developers

Apple today seeded the first version of an upcoming watchOS 2.2.1 update to developers, just over two weeks after releasing watchOS 2.2, a significant watchOS 2 update that introduced new features like multi-watch support for iPhones and Maps improvements.

The 2.2.1 beta can be downloaded through the dedicated Apple Watch app on an iPhone by going to General –> Software update. To install the update, the Apple Watch must have 50 percent battery, it must be placed on the Apple Watch charger, and it must be in range of the iPhone.

It’s not yet clear what is included in watchOS 2.2.1, but Apple’s release notes say it includes bug fixes and performance improvements, likely for issues discovered since the release of watchOS 2.2. We’ll update this post with any new changes that are discovered in the watchOS 2.2.1 beta.

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Apple Seeds First Beta of tvOS 9.2.1 to Developers

Apple today provided developers with the first beta of an upcoming 9.2.1 update to tvOS, the operating system designed to run on the fourth-generation Apple TV. tvOS 9.2.1 is a minor update that comes two weeks after the launch of tvOS 9.2, a significant update that introduced a range of features from Bluetooth keyboard support and dictation to Siri search for the App Store and app folders.

tvOS betas are more difficult to install than beta updates for iOS and OS X. Installing the tvOS beta requires the Apple TV to be connected to a computer with a USB-C to USB-A cable, with the software downloaded and installed via iTunes or Apple Configurator.

As a minor 9.x.x update, tvOS 9.1.2 likely focuses on bug fixes and performance updates to address issues discovered since the release of tvOS 9.2. Any new changes found in the tvOS 9.2.1 update will be listed below.

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Apple Seeds First OS X 10.11.5 El Capitan Beta to Developers

Apple today seeded the first beta of an upcoming OS X 10.11.5 El Capitan update to developers for testing purposes, just over two weeks after releasing OS X 10.11.4, the fourth major update to the OS X 10.11 operating system.

The new OS X 10.11.5 can be downloaded through the Apple Developer Center.

We don’t yet know what improvements the fifth update to OS X El Capitan will bring, but like prior updates, it’s likely to focus on security enhancements, performance improvements, and bug fixes to address issues that have been discovered since the release of OS X 10.11.4. We’ll update this post with any changes that are discovered in the beta.

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Order Amazon Dash Buttons with Alexa – CNET

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Amazon is bullish on its newest platform, Alexa — not because it’s a genuinely cool product that’s only getting better with time, and not because it has made controlling the smart home easier or more accessible for all users. Instead, Amazon wants to take every last hint of friction out of its checkout process. The more convenient it is for you to buy something from Amazon, the more mindshare they get and the easier it is for them to make money.

Such has been the case with many of its products over the years. The Kindle made it easier to buy and read books. The entire Fire series of devices were built and sold at or near cost to put Amazon buying machines in your hand, backpack or purse. Now Amazon wants Alexa to be in every bedroom in America.

Last year, the company created connected buttons called Amazon Dash buttons which you can stick to surfaces around your house to reorder essentials when you were running low. Your favorite brand of laundry detergent, Vitamin Water, Burt’s Bees and dozens of other products are literally one button press away.

As if the Amazon hasn’t already made it easy enough to buy items from them, you can actually use your Alexa devices to order Amazon Dash buttons. There are now over 100 buttons to choose from, ranging from Quaker Oats, Slim Jim and Red Bull to Garnier, Gillette and Mucinex.

To place an order for a Dash button with your Alexa device, say, “Alexa, order a Doritos Dash Button,” or “Alexa, order a Bounty Dash button.”

Alexa will place the order for you, which will cost you $4.99. The Dash Button will arrive in a few days and once you configure the button and press it for the first time, Amazon will apply a $4.99 credit to your account.

Just to make it abundantly clear, Amazon has now made it easier to purchase the products it specifically designed to make it easier to purchase more products from them. Where does it end?

What’s the best combination of Alexa devices for your house? – CNET

It’s time to think big picture now that we’ve reviewed all three devices with Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant. What if you want to roll out Alexa to every room in your house?

A quick refresher: Alexa is the speech-recognition technology built into Amazon’s Dot, Echo and Tap smart speakers. Alexa is programmed to respond to a wide variety of voice commands. She can tell you the weather or the news, she can add an event to your calendar or you can use her to make a shopping list. Alexa can play music from streaming services such as Spotify, Pandora and, of course, Amazon Prime. She can also control an impressive list of smart-home devices. Thanks to an aggressive expansion plan from Amazon, Alexa gets support for new products and digital services weekly.

Meet the Alexa Family

• Amazon Echo: The original $180 Alexa device has a robust speaker for playing music, and an impressive wide array microphone that’s always listening. Say the wake word “Alexa,” even from the next room, and the Echo will hear you and respond.

• Amazon Echo Dot:The $90 Dot is one of two new members to the family. It’s essentially an Echo with the speaker chopped off and an added audio output port and a Bluetooth radio. It’s still always listening, and it will still play music on its own, but the sound quality is more like that of a smartphone. Thanks to the audio output and Bluetooth, you can connect it to your own speakers or home entertainment system.

• Amazon Tap: The third member of the Alexa family, the $130 Tap trades always-listening convenience for battery-powered portability. You have to hit a button to talk to the Tap, so you don’t need to use the Alexa wake word, but you still have access to all the same Alexa functionality once you start talking. The lightweight Tap can work like a typical, portable Bluetooth speaker. Connect it to the internet and it can stream music and let you use Alexa on the go.

In addition, Amazon has two other Alexa-related products:

• Voice Remote for the Amazon Echo: A $30 Bluetooth remote that connects to your Echo or Echo Dot, allowing you to give commands beyond standard listening range. You need to push the button on the remote to talk. It does not work with the Tap.

• Fire TV Voice Remote: Included in the $50 Fire TV stick bundle or as part of the full-sized $85 Fire TV, it allows you to control your TV with Alexa with the push of a button, similar to the Tap or the Voice Remote. It only works with your TV, so I won’t address this device when discussing how to best outfit your home with Alexa.

How Alexa devices work together

It’s surprisingly easy to add multiple Alexa devices to a single Amazon account. The Amazon Alexa app for iOS and Android walks you through the process. If you sync control of any smart home devices to one Echo unit, any other Echo products tied to the same account will also recognize them.

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The Tap and the Dot make a compelling combo.

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Thanks to an audio line-in on the Tap and the magic of Bluetooth, you can link the Tap to the Dot either over a cable or wirelessly. This combination gets you the better speakers and the portability of the Tap with the always-listening Alexa feature via the Dot. Buying both the Dot and Tap will cost $220, $40 more than a single Echo, but it gives you a more flexible set up with portability when you need it — and always-on Alexa convenience when you don’t.

Another way to extend Alexa is a single Echo and a Voice Remote. That will cost $210 and it will give you the best speaker of the set, plus an Alexa contact point in one room. The Voice Remote uses Bluetooth, and the range proved extensive when we tried it out in the CNET Smart Home. I placed an Echo on the top floor, went two floors down into the basement, and the Echo still responded to my command.

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The Voice Remote works with either the Echo or the Dot.

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The most affordable way to extend Alexa to multiple rooms is to buy the Echo Dot and extend it with the Remote. That setup will cost $120. This makes sense if you already have a speaker system for the Dot, or if you don’t care about using Alexa for music streaming.

Alexa out of sync

Although adding multiple devices to your Alexa app is seamless, you can’t combine two Echo devices to create a stereo or surround sound audio setup like you can with Sonos speakers. In fact, putting two Alexa devices too close together can be annoying.

If you tell the Echo in your kitchen to play a song, the Dot in your living room might also hear the command, and then you get both speakers playing the same tune, but without syncing up. That means you have to think strategically if you want to set up Alexa in always-listening mode throughout your home.

The guidelines below will help you plan for complete coverage with minimal overlap, but if you want always-listening Echoes closer together, you can program them with different wake words in the settings of the app. “Alexa” is the most popular, but you can also use “Echo” or “Amazon.”

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Recommended setup by house size

As always with planning out a smart home set up, your best bet is to start small with one or two Alexa devices to see how you and your family will really use them. Build out only once you get a feel for them.

Small homes, apartments (one floor; up to 1,000 square feet)

One always-listening Alexa device should cover it. Put either an Echo or an Echo Dot in a central spot in the room you inhabit most often, and you’ll rarely be out of shouting distance. Both can pick up your voice through one closed door. Buy a Voice Remote if you have lots of interior doors, or to minimize yelling.

Space constraints will make it hard for multiple people to issue commands to two always-on Alexa devices without stepping on each other’s toes. If you need a second speaker, use a Tap to minimize overlapping commands.

Medium homes (one to two floors; 1,000 to 2,500 square feet)

How to make the most of Alexa

• How to craft custom Alexa commands using IFTTT
• How to set up a recurring alarm with Alexa
• How to fix connectivity issues with the Amazon Echo

Most of the time, one Echo or Dot will be sufficient if you place it in a central room in a medium-sized home. If you feel the need to provide one or more of your kids with an Alexa device for playing music, use a Tap. You can also use a Tap to take with you to work in the garage or out to the patio. Use a Voice Remote for any peripheral areas where you don’t care about music, but you still want to issue commands to Alexa.

If you want a more general rule of thumb, plan to put two walls, two doors or one floor between your Echoes or Dots to avoid conflicting commands. Those wide-array microphones are great most of the time, but they can also be frustrating if you have multiple family members who want to play their own music at the same time.

Large homes (two floors plus; more than 2,500 square feet)

Follow the same rule of thumb as for medium homes. In general, you’ll want to keep it to one Echo or Dot per floor. If you have a wide home, you should be fine setting up an Echo in your living room and a Dot in your family room as long as two to three walls separate the two spaces.

You might also need to strike a balance between the hearing range of the Echo or the Dot when it’s quiet and when you’re playing music or you have the TV on. Alexa’s effective listening range shrinks proportionally to the volume of any background noise. It gets worse for those with quiet voices.

The best way to mitigate the problem is with the Voice Remote. Place an Echo in the living room at one end of your main floor. Hook a Dot into the entertainment center at the other end, then place a Voice Remote in any areas in between and you’ll always be able to give voice commands.

As with medium homes, the Tap is a good solution for anyone who wants a different music choice in a room close to an always-listening device. And in general, Taps are better for moving between garages, patios and areas where you only want to play music on occasion, though it’s not too much of a hassle unplugging and replugging the Echo or the Dot.

Huawei P9 Release Date, Price and Specs – CNET

Selfies, photos of pets and sweeping panoramic shots whenever you find yourself more than four floors above sea level — it seems every day there’s a new use for the cameras stuck to our smartphones. Chinese tech firm Huawei hopes it can sell you a phone based on the imaging prowess of its newest toy, the P9, which sports two cameras and the prestigious Leica brand.

Huawei has only announced European pricing, with the P9 starting at 599 euros, which converts to around £485, $680 or AU$900, and its big brother the P9 Plus costs 749 euros, which is about £605, $850 or AU$1,125. The UK appears in the first wave of countries where the P9 will go on sale on 16 April — networks EE, O2, Three and Vodafone have all said they will sell it. It will likely only be sold online in the US and Australia.

Two cameras will make for better photos, Huawei asserts.

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Aperture prowess

The P9’s headline feature is its dual-camera system, which stares out from the back of the phone’s aluminium frame like two beady eyes. Both cameras have 12-megapixel sensors, but bring different abilities to the photography party — one is an red, green and blue (RGB) sensor, while the other is black and white. Huawei claims that these two cameras working in tandem will bring more light to your photos, and offer better contrast.

That’s not all those two snappers are good for. Having two cameras lets the phone do a better job of gauging how far you are from your subject. That lets you whack on a wide aperture mode that will give your photos extra depth of field — blurring out the background to put more emphasis on your subject. Better still, you can tweak the focal point of images after they’ve been shot, and add some interesting filters, such as one that keeps your subject in colour but turns your background to black and white.

Huawei’s camera tricks are certainly intriguing, but plenty of smartphones make bold claims about their camera powers, and not all of them walk the walk. Leica is a respected photography brand, but it hasn’t actually built these cameras. Huawei says they were designed in collaboration, but that it handled manufacturing itself. I certainly enjoyed my brief time with the P9’s camera and its many aperture-related tricks, but stay tuned for the full review, when we’ll put really put these twin cameras through their paces.

Playing it safe

Huawei hasn’t risked much with the design of the P9, opting for the same aluminium look that we saw on last year’s P8, with a pleasing, rounded finish. The look still puts us very much in mind of a certain fruit-flavoured smartphone, but apart from a lack of daring, we didn’t find much to dislike about the design during our very brief hands-on.

Also reminiscent of Cupertino’s finest is Huawei’s software, EMUI, a version of Android Marshmallow that removes the app tray, so all your apps appear on home screens.

There are no surprises with this aluminium design, which looks similar to last year’s P8.

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The P9 charges using USB Type-C, which is the latest USB standard. It’s lovely to be up to date, but if you’ve got existing Micro-USB chargers hanging around, expect to consign them to a dusty drawer — they won’t fit the P9. The upside is USB-C is reversible, so you’ll never have to fiddle about getting the plug in the right way up.

On the back of the P9 there’s a fingerprint sensor. Not all phone fingerprint sensors are created equal, so here’s hoping this one is able to identify our prints quickly and accurately.

Plus size P9

The P9 Plus has a bigger battery, bigger display and will likely come with a bigger price tag too.

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The P9 has a 5.2-inch display, but if you crave something larger, Huawei’s also going to be selling the P9 Plus. This bigger mobile is largely the same, but has a 5.5-inch screen, a little more RAM, twice as much storage, and the front-facing camera is able to autofocus. It also has more battery power, in acknowledgement of the fact that the bigger display is likely to suck down more juice (there’s also more space behind that screen to cram in cells). There’s also a premium version of the P9, called the P9 Deluxe, that goes for 50 euros more (about £40, $55 or AU$75), packs extra RAM and storage, and comes in gold or white.

Huawei P9: Other key specs

• 5.2-inch, 1080p display (5.5-inch, 1080p on the P9 Plus)
• Supports microSD cards up to 128GB
• 32GB of on-board storage (64GB on the P9 Plus)
• 3,000 mAh battery (3,400 mAh on the P9 Plus)
• 3GB of RAM (4GB on the P9 Plus)
• P9 colours: gold, rose gold, grey, silver
• P9 Plus colours: gold, grey, white

Latest Facebook update is all about live video

Facebook is going all-in on the current live video trend. It is rolling out a new update to its Android and iOS apps that adds new ways to livestream video from the social network, along with additional ways to share and interact with those videos.

The update adds support for livestreaming within Facebook Groups and Facebook Events. The company states:

Live in Groups allows you to broadcast to just the people in the Facebook Group – so you can go live in your family group, or share a workout plan in a fitness group. Live in Events means you can go live from a birthday party to allow those that can’t make it to join the fun, and a performer can go live backstage to the people who’ve RSVP-ed to the event to give them a sneak peak. You can even use Events to schedule a live Q&A session. We hope this new ability to both broadcast and watch live video within Groups and Events enables people to connect more deeply with their closest friends, family and the communities of people who share their interests.

If people want to offer their opinions on the video as it is being streamed, they can do so with the new Live Reactions emoji:

Using the same reactions we launched in News Feed, viewers can select Love, Haha, Wow, Sad or Angry, and the reactions animate right on top of the video. Live Reactions appear in real time and disappear quickly so broadcasters and other viewers can get a sense of how people are feeling at different points during the live video – it’s like hearing the crowd applaud and cheer.

Users can also pick from one of five video filters to change the look of the video, and Facebook says that a future update will allow users to draw and doodle directly on the stream. A new icon will be added to invite friends to join users to watch live video together, and a dedicated section of the app will be added to showcase trending live and non-live video streams.

All of these features will be rolled out “over the coming weeks” to the Facebook app, so they may not appear immediately

Huawei announces the P9 and P9 Plus with dual Leica cameras

Huawei is betting a partnership with Leica will help their new cameras stand out in the crowd.

Dual-lens smartphones have been a hot topic over the last couple of months, and Huawei is hot on LG’s heels with an impressive pair of new smartphones to show off exactly that. To help drive these selling points home, Huawei has stamped the Leica brand on the back of the phone and offered up some Leica-styled imaging modes in software. Dubbed the P9 and P9 plus, Huawei’s new phones aim to demonstrate the company’s design and engineering prowess side by side with the ability to do something unique and impactful with smartphone photography.

Huawei has worked hard to position these phones as top-tier devices, and they are priced as such.

The two big focus points for Huawei in announcing the P9 and P9 plus are the evolution of their industrial design and the new partnership seen in the camera. Rather than a brand license like we’ve seen from other smartphone manufacturers in the past, Leica and Huawei claim a collaborative effort aimed at delivering ” an uncompromising commitment to imaging excellence”. To deliver this, the P9 and P9 plus offer a pair of 12MP sensors behind Leica SUMMARIT lenses. For the P9, those cameras sit on the other side of a 5.2-inch 1080p display powered by a Kirin 955 and a 3,000 mAh battery. Huawei has split the P9 into two versions, one with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of onboard storage, and one with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of onboard storage. The 5.5-inch P9 plus is packing a slightly larger 3,400 mAh battery, and comes only in a 4GB model with 64GB of onboard storage.

Huawei has worked hard to position these phones as top-tier devices, and they are priced as such. The 3GB P9 will be available on April 16th for €599, while the more capable 4GB version will run you €649. If you’re looking for the larger P9 plus, Huawei plans to make it available on the same day for €749.

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Huawei P9 Debuts in London with Dual Camera Lens, Reinvents Smartphone Photography in Collaboration with Leica

New Huawei Flagship Device Combines Groundbreaking Innovations and Exceptional Design, Setting a New Standard in Smartphone Photography

London – April 6, 2016 – Today at an exclusive launch event at London’s Battersea Evolution, Huawei Consumer Business Group unveiled the much anticipated Huawei P9 and P9 Plus. Created in collaboration with Leica, the dual-lens P9 sets a new standard in smartphone photography.

The Huawei P9 is the first smartphone co-engineered with the global iconic brand, Leica Camera AG. The P9’s dual-lens camera takes smartphone photography to the next level, allowing people to capture both vivid colors and striking black and white images. Huawei’s new B3 Talkband wearable wristband also made its global debut.

A groundbreaking moment for event guests included a first look at an exclusive trailer of the new Huawei P9 TV commercial starring Henry Cavill and Scarlett Johansson, Global Product Ambassadors for the Huawei P9 series. Showcasing the connection between two global stars in Shanghai and Hollywood, the trailer symbolizes the partnership between Huawei and Leica and the intersection of color and black and white. Cavill was joined at the P9 launch by iconic photographers Mary McCartney and David Guttenfelder from National Geographic as well as BBC Global News CEO Jim Egan, Condé Nast Chairman and Chief Executive Jonathan Newhouse, Vogue China Publisher Anita Chang and Huawei UK Board Members Sir Andrew Cahn and Dame Helen Alexander.

“Huawei is excited to give P9 users the best smartphone photography experience by leveraging the unrivalled capabilities of Leica, the leader in the world of imaging for more than 100 years,” said Richard Yu, CEO, Huawei Consumer Business Group. “Consumers around the world use their smartphones to take billions of pictures each year, making photography critical to user experience. P9 users can now capture images with unmatched clarity, richness and authenticity, with a masterfully designed and powerful smartphone that looks and feels incredible.”

Reinventing Smartphone Photography Integrating the design values and engineering excellence of Huawei and Leica in a smartphone photography system co-engineered by the two companies, the P9 brings together best-in-class hardware and software, from optical lenses, to sensors, to image processing algorithms, empowering users to capture the highest-quality images.

Key to the P9’s superlative imaging capabilities is a dual-camera design that fully unleashes the power of Leica’s optical lenses, renowned for precision and attention to detail, and subject to the industry’s most stringent quality screening requirements. The RGB camera on the P9 specializes in capturing color, while the monochrome camera is outstanding at acquiring picture detail. The two rear cameras of the P9 work in tandem to enable users to create images of superior detail, depth and color. The P9 truly excels in low-light conditions, as the dual-camera design guarantees more light and detail can be captured.

Each picture taken by the P9 carries the unique emotional resonance and timelessness that are the hallmarks of Leica, as users may choose between three film modes: Standard, Vivid Colors and Smooth Colors, depending on their personal preferences. With meticulous calibration of the P9’s camera parameters, each film mode faithfully renders the authentic color and style of Leica. By selecting the monochrome mode, P9 users can use their devices as a true monochrome camera to capture powerful and evocative black and white images of superior quality. Deploying Huawei’s Hybrid Focus technology, the P9 captures images with superior speed, accuracy and stability. The P9 supports camera focusing based on three methodologies – laser, depth calculation and contrast – and automatically selects the one that yields the best result in any given environment.

The wide-aperture photography feature on the P9 allows users to experiment with innovative visual effects to create unique images and content. The P9 makes it easy to adjust the camera aperture to create bokeh and other depth-of-field effects, while keeping the main object in sharp focus.

“Leica and Huawei share an uncompromising commitment to imaging excellence, and our partnership will put outstanding photography into the hands of more consumers around the world,” said Oliver Kaltner, CEO, Leica Camera AG. “We are deepening our collaboration to give users a more optimal smartphone photography experience.”

Taking Industrial Design to a Higher Level

The P9 is a masterpiece of state-of the-art industrial design, with the same minimalist design DNA as earlier products in Huawei’s acclaimed flagship P-series of premium smartphones. Each P9 device is a perfect construct of superior-grade 2.5D glass and an aerospace-class aluminum, with diamond-cut edges rounded out by carefully balanced curvatures.

The 64GB version of the P9 comes in a stunning and unique Haze Gold finish, setting new industry standards in industrial design, with the use of techniques including brushed hairlines and metal polishing at micron-level precision to create a translucent metal surface. Additionally, the Ceramic White version of the P9 is smoother than the painted bodywork of premium cars, reflecting and refracting light to present different shades of awe-inspiring colors as ambient conditions change.

Power and Performance

The P9 is equipped with the power, connectivity and speed that today’s high-end smartphone user expects from Huawei. With a 5.2-inch 1080p display, the P9 is powered by the new Kirin 955 2.5GHz 64-bit ARM-based processor for leading-class mobile performance. The 3,000mAh high-density battery offers P9 users outstanding mobility and battery life.

Huawei is also unveiling the P9 Plus, featuring a 5.5-inch Press Touch display and a larger 3,400mAh battery. The P9 Plus also offers dual-IC Rapid Charge, giving users six hours of talk time after a 10-minute charge.

Leveraging Huawei’s industry-leading capabilities in telecommunications, the P9 and P9 Plus offer unrivaled new features including a virtual-triple-antenna architecture, designed for users who need robust and seamless connectivity to cellular and Wi-Fi networks to fully harness the power of the mobile Internet no matter where they are in the world.

The P9 and P9 Plus also protect users’ privacy and information security with Huawei’s world-leading biometric fingerprint recognition technology. The enhanced fingerprint sensor allows users to personalize and safeguard their devices by significantly lowering the possibility of fraudulent or accidental device access, while also ensuring users can quickly and securely access their smartphone.

Huawei P9 and P9 Plus specs

The Huawei P9 and P9 Plus are officially official. Two phones. Two rear cameras on each phone, Leica-certified, no less. And as you’d expect from Huawei, they’re packed with the latest tech the Chinese manufacturer has to offer, including an updated Kirin 955 processor, some of the best fingerprint security in the business — and all in a footprint that shouldn’t leave you wishing you had a smaller phone.

So let’s get to it. These are the official specs for the Huawei P9 and the larger P9 Plus: