Huawei auctioning off Porsche Design Mate 9 for charity

Huawei is auctioning off a limited-edition Mate 9 smartphone co-created with Porsche Design to support cancer research. The device is one of one of the only three Porsche Design Mate 9 smartphones available in Australia, and all proceeds from the auction will be donated to Tour De Cure, a charity that contributes to cancer research, support, and prevention projects.

At time of writing, the current bid is sitting at $1,000. Internationally, the Porsche Design Mate 9 retails for €1395 (approximately $1955). The auction ends at 12pm on Friday. You can check it out here.

In addition to a graphite finish and a customised user interface, the Porsche Design Mate 9 is slightly beefier than the regular variant sold in Australia. Improved specifications include a Quad HD display, 256GB of expandable storage, and 6GB of RAM. Oddly, the Porsche-inspired model has a home button / fingerprint reader combo and a headphone jack on the bottom, while the regular Mate 9 has a rear-facing fingerprint reader, no home button, and a headphone jack on the top.

Otherwise, the Porsche Design Mate 9 features the same internals you'll find in the standard model: a Kirin 960 octa-core processor, dual rear-facing camera co-engineered with Leica, and 4,000mAh battery said to last up to two days.

You can read our review of the regular Huawei Mate 9 here.

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Alex Choros is the Managing Editor of WhistleOut Australia and an award-winning journalist. He's been writing about consumer technology for over a decade and is an expert on the Australian telco sector, to the point where he knows far too many phone and internet plans by heart. In addition to leading the WhistleOut editorial team, Alex is responsible for ruining the office Sonos with his troubled taste in music.

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