I've actually have the Mate 9 in my cart right now with Evine.com. Does anyone by chance know if the one on Evine is indeed a US model? It simply does not state anywhere whether is the newly released US based model nor does it state the opposite of it being the international model either. I've even called Evine to get clarification but of course they said they weren't sure either. I'd like to use Evine to take advantage of their value pay method. I buy lots of phones and test them out but the Mate 9 is rather on the higher end price side so in this case using the value pay method would be quite beneficial to me being that the price is almost double that of my Honor 8 that I use as my daily main device. The specs in the Mate 9 are indeed impressive and on paper it appears to be a little superior to my Honor 8. I've been wanting a 5.7 inch screen for my second other number I have so the 5.9 is grsat! I'll actually use it a lot for wathing movies on. If anyone happens to know that for a fact that Evines device is a US model, please let me know. I'm definitely sold on this device and I really hope that some you will know and share that with me. Thanks a bunch to all and Happy New Year as well. Any feedback on this I can definitely assure you that it will be deeply appreciated. If it is a US model, I will also write a detailed and honest review on it here too.