Huawei today announced its latest addition to its smartphone lineup: the Huawei Mate 8. The latest flagship phone from the company comes with a 6-inch Full HD display that is housed inside a body made entirely out of aluminium and features a screen-to-body ratio of 83 percent.
Huawei boasts that the Full HD screen on the Mate 8 features a “wider color range” that covers 95 percent of the NTSC gamut.
Under the hood, the Mate 8 is powered by Huawei’s Kirin 950 chipset — an octa-core chip that features four A72 cores clocked at 2.3GHz and four A53 cores running at 1.8GHz. The new chipset also comes with a new LTE modem and an always-on i5 co-processor. You can find more details about the Kirin 950 chipset here.
On the software front, the Mate 8 will launch with a fresh new version of Huawei’s Emotion UI that is now based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Chinese OEMs are traditionally slow in updating their skins to the latest version of Android, so it is refreshing to see Huawei releasing a flagship device that is already running Marshmallow. Some of the new software features present in the latest version of EMUI 4.0 include voice controls, a firewall, eRecovery, and more.
Despite being unveiled today, the Mate 8 will go on sale in China only in Q1, 2016. Huawei will also be providing more details about the handset — including its price — at CES next year.
