Huawei Mate 9 Specs & Price: Launched in the US With Pre-installed Amazon Alexa [How to Get]

At CES 2017, Amazon's voice-based virtual assistant Alexa can be seen everywhere from inside different gadgets to the different cars. Alexa is now coming to smartphones also; Huawei on at CES 2017 launched its Mate 9 flagship in the US, and also said that Alexa will be pre-installed in the smartphone from early 2017.

The Mate 9 with pre-installed Alexa will become available to buy at $599 in the US starting January 6 via Amazon, Newegg, Best Buy, and B&H Photo. Device is coming in Space Grey and Moonlight Silver colour options.

With this move Huawei Mate 9 will become the first smartphone to feature inbuilt Alexa, which will be accessible in the form of a pre-installed app. Those consumers who purchase the smartphone before that date will get the app via an update. However it is still uncertain on if the app will come to all regions where the phone has been launched or not, reports NDTV.

The company said it will work with Amazon to develop "rich voice activated consumer experiences". The company's EMUI 5.0 customisation, which is based on Android 7.0 Nougat, is also claimed to be intelligent, it is very good in learning the user's habits over time to streamline the interface and system resource allocation.

The arrival of Alexa on Huawei Mate 9 will allow you to give a set of commands like setting alarm, make to-do lists, and pull weather and time, among other tasks. It also will allow some smart home automation control, based on the devices compatible with Alexa.

To recall, the Huawei Mate 9 was launched in other markets in November. It has a 5.9-inch full-HD (1080x1920) display, a 4000mAh battery and a fingerprint scanner mounted at the back.

The smartphone is coming equipped with a Kirin 960 processor, and 4GB of RAM plus 64GB of inbuilt storage. The Huawei Mate 9 packs a rear dual-camera set with one being a 20-megapixel shooter and the other being a 12-megapixel one. It has an 8-megapixel front-facing camera.