The Huawei Ascend Mate has a whopping 6.1-inch HD display, which looked clear and colorful in my very brief time with the phone. It has an 8-megapixel camera, a front-facing camera, and a microSD card slot. The biggest spec on the sheet, though, is the whopping 4050 mAh battery, which Huawei claims can provide 48 hours of power.

I won't lie to you -- 6.1 inches is a massive handful. More than any other large-screen phone I've seen, this is much more tablet than phablet and it overwhelmed my hand -- for a phone. For a tablet, it's still on the smaller side.

For its part, the Ascend D2 is slightly smaller at a 5-inch screen, but it also has a 3,000mAh battery and that 1.5GHz quad-core processor. Also, it comes with a more powerful 13-megapixel camera. The standout feature, though, is this device's resolution. At 1080 x 1920 and 443 PPI, this device's screen specs are even more impressive than the S3's and iPhone 5's.

It said the Ascend D2 would have a high-definition screen with 443 pixels per inch compared with the most advanced Samsung and Apple phones, with resolutions closer to the 300 pixels per inch range.