Mate Pro retails for £899 in UK from Carphone Warehouse, where you can also get it on contract.
The cameras on the back of Mate Pro are in square design whereas Note 9 has two cameras with underneath.
Mate Pro is one of the first phones in the western market to have in-screen fingerprint sensor, pretty cool futuristic feature that works very well.
But Mate Pro lacks jack, something Note 9 still has..
The processors are different, with Huawei's Kirin 980 in Mate Pro and Note with Snapdragon 845 in the US and Samsung's own Exynos 9810 in other regions.
The camera on Mate Pro are nuts, with angle, ultra-wide angle and telephoto lenses combining for plethora of amazing results.
Note 9 has iris scanning tech that works in the same way, and it's slower and the phone reverts to the sensor for biometrics..
Mate Pro ships with Android Pie and with Huawei's EMUI skin which changes the look of plain Android quite considerably.
Note Samsung Experience skin is bit more polished out of the box and at the time of writing Note 9 is on Android Oreo 8.1.
But Mate Pro has astonishing cameras and is phone with little more allure than Note 9...
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