The rest has stayed the same. Underneath the immense 6" Full HD IPS touchscreen (with a 15.2 cm/6" diagonal in 1920 x 1080 pixels), lies a home-grown octa-core mobile chip, christened Kirin 925 (comprising an ARM Cortex A15 quad-core chip clocked at 1.8 GHz and an ARM Cortex A7 quad-core at 1.3 GHz). This is accompanied by an i3 coprocessor clocked at 230 MHz, as well as a 13 Megapixel photo-video camera on the back and a second 5 Megapixel camera on the front. There's also Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC, a fingerprint scanner and a 4100 mAh battery just as massive as the one before. As for the functioning of the dual SIM, Huawei has integrated the system it first used in the Ascend P7. It comprises a card slot which can house either a second SIM or a microSD—you have to choose.
 

We've managed to get our hands on the Ascend Mate 7 Gold. The mobile has kept its aluminium exterior, which, surprisingly, doesn't come across as flashy. It's actually quite tasteful and not too obtrusive.
 

As far as technical features go, we've already conducted several tests, particularly on the screen and its image quality. There have been very few, minuscule developments since the last model, but the result is just as conclusive: like the Ascend Mate 7, the Mate 7 Gold offers one of the best displays on the market, with a slightly better contrast ratio (averaging almost 1600:1) and natural colours: the grey and skin tones are among the most accurate currently on the mobile phone market (Delta E averages at 2.6).