Back in October, reports of a new phablet being developed by Chinese manufacturer Huawei made the rounds.
Huawei's Ascend Mate was rumored to be a 6.1-inch phablet, with a full 1080p HD screen, a 1.8GHz quad-core processor, and 2GB of RAM.
On Wednesday, those reports gained a bit more credibility when Huawei's senior vice president Yu Chengdong revealed the company's plans to release a large-scale phablet in 2013.
Bigger, better, thinner
Chengdong announced the news on Weibo (the Chinese version of Twitter), where he described the in-development device as more powerful and thinner than its closest competitor, the Galaxy Note II.
Though Chengdong doesn't officially call the device the Ascend Mate, there are enough similarities between device he describes and the one revealed in those October reports to make the connection.
Ironically, Chengdong's Weibo account revealed he was sending the outburst from a Galaxy Note II, which he claimed to be using as research to make Huawei's phablet even better.
Though there's still not a firm release date or price lined up for the Huawei Asend Mate, Chengdong did relate the phablet would be cheaper than the Galaxy Note II when it does finally arrive.
TechRadar asked Huawei for more info and will update this story when and if they respond.
Source : techradar[dot]com
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