Today in Shanghai Huawei officially introduced to the world its most advanced smartphone: Huawei Mate 8. A 6-inch display is embedded in a metal housing, and the heart of the device is a fragrant new Kirin 950.
Huawei Mate 8 is one of these smartphones, whose specification was known long before the official release, but today we have a confirmation of its various components by the manufacturer. The 6-inch display will work in an FHD resolution - and therefore Huawei still did not bend under the pressure of market producers choosing the optimum solution: a high performance at a relatively long battery life.
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A flexible and user-friendly Huawei EMUI 4.0 installed in the smartphone is based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow. The housing is made of high quality aluminum and the display covered with 2.5D glass. Huawei Mate 8 is available on the Chinese market, but in our part of the world in all its glory the smartphone will be shown at CES 2016 and on the market it will appear - according to the today's announcement - in the first quarter of next year in the following colours: champagne gold, moonlight silver, space gray and mocha brown.
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In its latest smartphone, Huawei received a very good ratio of the screen size to the front panel. The display occupies 83 percent of its surface. In Huawei Mate 8 there is for the first time used Kirin 950 CPU designed on the basis of the TSMC 16 nm FinFET plus technology. It has a set of 4 high-performance A72 cores operating with a clock of 2.3 GHz, 4 economical A53 cores with a clock of 1.8 GHz. SoC can handle if necessary memory eMMC 5.1, dual-SIM, LTE Category 10, WiFi 802.11 ac, Bluetooth 4.2 Smart, USB 3.0, NFC. Huawei Mate 8 will be sold in three versions with different sets of memory:
- 3 GB RAM + 32 GB flash ROM for 3199 yuan (approx. 472 euro, $ 501)
- 4 GB RAM + 64 GB flash ROM for 3699 yuan (approx. 546 euro, $ 579)
- 4 GB RAM + 128 GB flash ROM for 4399 yuan (approx. 649 euro, $ 689)
Source Android Central
