Huawei announces gigantic 'phone': the Ascend Mate

Huawei has popped out two new Android phones...but one borders on the ridiculous.

The Ascend Mate is a 'phone' in the loosest sense of the word, given it packs a 6.1-inch HD screen, which takes up a good 73 per cent of the front of the phone to give a more edge-to-edge display.

>It comes with a stonking 4050mAh battery to fire all those pixels , and apes Nokia with Magic Touch, allowing you to use the phone through gloves. And continuing with that similarity theme: there are pop up windows that float over your current app, so calculations and notes are possible.

Power control is handled by something cleverly named 'Quick Power Control', which Huawei claims can cut 10 per cent of power through smart connection management.

Losing the quad

The Ascend D2 has been dubbed as the 'world's most powerful smartphone' by Huawei as it seeks to continue efforts to establish itself as a brand in its own right.

It features a pin sharp 443 PPI display, thanks to a 5-inch size coupled with a 1080x 1920 resolution.

There's a MP camera on the back with decent low light ability, and a very similar construction to that on the iPhone.

To power that high res screen a whopping 3,000mAh battery has been plugged in under the hood, which apparently charges 25 percent faster than the S3 despite the larger power pack.

And for the clumsy among us, it's even dust and water resistant, which seems to be something of a theme for smartphones in 2013.

We don't have prices yet, but we do have some lovely release dates: the Ascend D2 will launch in February and the Ascend Mate will and land globally in March.