So the story goes like this. A few months ago I was having problems with my phone. The power button was stuck or something and I couldn’t wake up my phone at all, much less turn it on.
I sent it for repair but in the meantime I had no phone to use. And I cannot have no phone!
Fatty happened to have an older model Huawei that he wasn’t using because as you may know, he’s currently an ambassador for Huawei. They loaned him the phone to try out to see if he liked it before he took on the ambassadorship.
So I took on the Huawei.
The truth? I hated it.
I wasn’t used to the interface, and I didn’t like that the camera took a while to stabilize, resulting in a lot of blurry shots.
Being a grumpy old auntie, I griped a fair bit about Huawei on my Dayre. And Huawei read it. :X
When Fatty told me, I fully expected them to hold it against me, and I felt terrible cos I thought Fatty would get into problems, being their ambassador and all that. I totally did not expect their response.
They called me up and said:
We hear you. The Huawei you’re using is last year’s model and the latest Huawei is actually very much better, especially the camera! Will you accept a phone from us and give us a chance to change your mind about Huawei?
Social media win T___________T They handled it with so much class and turned this ugly situation into an opportunity to convert a hater (me wtf) into a fan.
By this point I was feeling very pai seh already at their gracious response. They didn’t even pressure me — they knew I really liked my previous phone brand and they told me it was no strings attached — if I didn’t like their new phone either, I didn’t have to work with the brand or even mention it.
Then they sent me this.
The Huawei Mate S in Rose Gold!!!!!!!!!!!!11111
The way to a girl’s heart is through pink gadgets. HAHAHAHA. 
It is super gorgeous la! I’d already long given up hoping that phone manufacturers will make a phone in this delicate shade of pink, my favorite. Not to mention a phone that I actually like using. I’ve been using this Huawei Mate S for a few months now and it’s really grown on me. Initially I wasn’t used to the interface but it’s not the phone’s fault wtf it’s just different for every phone ma. I’ve gotten used to it and so here’s what I like about this phone. 
The Fingerprint 2.o!!!!
I’m very noob and had never heard of a fingerprint sensor before this. In fact, I was using the phone for a couple of weeks until Fatty taught me how to enable the fingerprint 2.0 function. *shifty eyed*
With Fingerprint 2.0, I can wake up my phone super easily! Last time it’s either I tap in my passcode or just swipe. But passcode is damn mafan and swipe is like might as well don’t put security. The fingerprint sensor is impressively accurate and I love it. It’s the perfect compromise between convenience and security..
From checking my phone 10,000 times last time I now check it 20,000 times HAHAHA.
Besides that, the three things that matter the most to me in a phone are:
Battery
Camera
Hardiness
(Also Color, but this one straight win liao)
Battery is pretty decent! There are other phones around with bigger battery capacities but considering that this Huawei Mate S is only 2.65 mm thick, it’s pretty awesome. I think one charge can last me until about 12 hours with heavy usage. 
Hardiness also A+. Fighter and Penny have thrown dropped my phone at least 50 times already FML but it’s still working fine!
Now, camera.
Took this today at an event. Nubbad right? The Huawei camera is really really much improved from the previous model I used. I really like the “coloring” of its photos too — some cameras come off a bit yellow in dimmer lights which I don’t really like and the Huawei’s “coloring” is pinkish and not too yellow. 😀
This is my morning view. 😀 Took this photo using the Professional Camera mode. It emulates a semi pro camera and you can adjust the ISO, shutter speed, AWB etc. But I don’t know how to really use it HAHAHAHA I just set it to auto WTF. 
Penny moving around today. Pretty good considering she was really squirming around and babbling here.
One more of my pretty baby hehehe.
Panaromic function. Quite accurate and realistic!
The highlight for me is really the front camera though. 8MP and comes with a soft flash that doesn’t make you look like a ghost wtf.
This is Fighter and me with the flash on in a dim hotel ballroom. 
This is us without the flash in the same dim light!
Aaaand the phone’s inbuilt Beauty mode is sooooo nice. So much so that I hardly bring out my magic selfie camera anymore cos I just use my phone.
You can set as a default the level of brightness, skin smoothening, and even face narrowing you want and the camera will use that default across the board unless you edit it. 
So for those of you who say I still look young despite two kids…. you have been fooled by Huawei hahahahaah. I do not look like this in real life but I appreciate Huawei saying so. Hahahaha.
Again, thanks Huawei for the great phone. 🙂
For more info, check out their Facebook page here.
Comments (18)
Nooooo.. i don’t need a phone.. i don’t wanna buy.. but the camera makes me wanna own one ler… my Note 3 camera really cannot lor T_T
Now you have a new pink toy to play with =D You’ve proved that ranting on social media do works charm haha. I think if I do that it will be ignored or maybe even kena banned~ #TCRandom
Wow..so nice
Hi Audrey! How do you find the storage capacity of the phone so far? I just got really fed up with my current phone, forever notifying me of insufficient storage memory when I have installed a 32GB memory card (with 80% of it is unused).
I’m impressed with the flash function, it actually turned out better than the non-flash photo at the same time, same place. The soft flash is nice.
Ya the flash is very nice compared to a lot of other phones and cameras hor!
Oooh do you download a lot of apps? I haven’t had issues with it so far.
IKR 😀
Hahahaha no la won’t kena banned la!
For mommies I think it’s very important to have a good and reliable phone camera 😛 to capture all your baby’s cute moments!!
pink suit with u 🙂
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cool!! nice image
Owning this junk phone is embarrassing. This brand is for low class people.
I’ve been a long time time admirer of you, but I have to say my esteem for you has gone down after reading this post.
It’s honestly difficult to believe your husband is willing to tarnish his reputation by being an ambassador for someone like them.
I really love you guys and you seem higher class than this phone, so it’s just surprising you guys would stoop so low to a junk brand like this. You deserve better.
Hi Blush petal,
Firstly, I’m assuming you have never used a Huawei, or at least the Huawei model in question. I’ve precisely listed out the traits I liked about it while you’ve done nothing but call it junk without hard facts to back up your opinion. If you haven’t actually tried out the Mate S, you should before giving an opinion.
Secondly, I’ve been honest that I initially didn’t like the first Huawei I encountered but your lack of facts to back up your opinion just makes me wonder if you’re an Internet troll? I hope not.
Thirdly, your mistake is thinking I care about only “high class” brands. I associate myself with brands I like and those I think are good. I define the brands, the brands don’t define me.
I’m using Huawei (not the latest one though)as my work phone and iPhone6s as my entertaining phone, I’m wondering I’m which class ppl to you since I’m owning the “low class” phone and a “trendy” phone at the same time.
Gnah! Thanks to you I am now considering getting a Huawei, although the colour is not available in Germany, meh!
But now I am torn between the Mate S and the Mate 8 🙁 Slightly bigger screen but slightly less good camera.
What to do, what to do 🙂
Btw, I have been a long-time reader but kinda never commented. I guess I will change that 🙂
Simone**
Oh is the Mate 8 camera slightly worse? I hear the battery is better tho!
Reports say that the camera on the Mate 8 does have 16 MP but isn’t as good as it could be, blurry shots and no real depth, also in low light it fails.
Plus it has no AMOLED screen.
The battery is better, yes.
So I think I will go with the Mate S, however I wished I could get it in rosé gold 🙂