[VIDEO] Hands-on: Huawei Mate 8 and its massive 4,000mAh battery

Huawei unveiled the Huawei Mate 8 at its press conference in Las Vegas today. Despite the phone being available in China since December, it will now see a global launch, as long as you consider “global” as anywhere outside the United States.

The phone features a 6-inch display and runs on Huawei’s own Kirin 950 octa-core processor. According to Huawei, this new processor should boost performance 100 percent over the previous version, with GPU performance seeing a 125 percent boost.

The camera features a 16MP rear-camera, with a Sony IMX298 sensor. The front-facing camera is an 8MP front-facing camera with what Huawei calls a “beauty algorithm”, which is supposed to make taking gorgeous selfies effortless.

Huawei also made sure to mention the phone’s 4,000mAh battery should be able to last two days on a charge with only a 30-minute charge session providing a full day’s worth of battery power.

Here’s the quick and dirty on the specs for the phone, which comes in four colors, including champagne gold, moonlight silver, space grey, and mocha brown.

• Display: 6″ 1920x1080p LCD screen (368ppi)
• Operating System: Android 6.0
• Processor: HiSilicon Kirin 950
• Storage: 32GB/64GB/128GB
• Memory: 3G RAM for 32GB model / 4GB RAM for 64GB/128GB
• Camera: 16MP rear camera / 8MP front-facing camera
• Battery: 4000mAh battery
• Connectivity: Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.2

We found it odd that Huawei would take the opportunity to announce a flagship device like this at US trade show, versus something more internationally centered like Mobile World Congress. No word on when, or even if, we’ll see the Huawei Mate 8 launching here in the US, but we suppose that could be reserved exclusively for Huawei’s budget “honor” line.

Huawei Mate 8 leak reveals a beastly specs sheet

Metal unibody, spacious 6.0-inch display, a super fast fingerprint reader and nice 13MP camera, the Huawei Mate7 is definitely a tough device to top. However, the Chinese OEM is definitely trying its best and the Mate 8 does look mightily impressive.


We have already seen a few leaks of the upcoming phablet, some of which even complete with photos. But, information about the already announced Mate S seemed to often get mixed into the leaks. A new source, however, now promises the full scoop on the device and its specs sheet.
As previously thought, the Mate 8 will have a spacious 6.0 inch 1440p display and the OEM's new custom Kirin 950 chipset. It promises to deliver unprecedented power thanks to a 16nm FinFET production process and a big.LITTLE architecture. The four Cortex-A72 cores are clocked at 2.4 GHz, while the extra four Cortex-A53 ones run at 2.0 GHz and should easily top the Samsung Exynos 7420 and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810.

The bundled GPU is also pretty impressive – the ARM Mali-T880 and it should also be joined by an i7 coprocessor and a Tensilica Hi-Fi 4 independent audio chip. A promising collection of silicon indeed. The rest of the specs sheet includes 3GB or 4GB of RAM, bundled with 32GB or 64GB of onboard storage, respectively.

A preliminary price tag is also know and it sound very attractive for such a high-end unit: CNY 3,299 ($520) for the 3GB one and CNY 3,899 ($610) for the more powerful one. As for availability the Huawei Mate 8 is still said to arrive before the end of the year, perhaps in late November or early December.

Huawei Mate 8 prototype leaked on video (VIDEO)

New Huawei phone with the model number M200-UL00 has just leaked on the Internet in a short video.

On YouTube argues that it is a Huawei Mate phone 8, whose presentation that will be held on 2 September, Huawei has already sent invitations teaser. Huawei Mate 8, according to rumors should be characterized by a 6-inch screen resolution of 1440 x 2560 pixels and Lollipop Android platform. As far as hardware is expected Kirin 950 SoC products that Huawei and while one variant have 3 GB of RAM and 32 GB of internal memory, the second version of the phone will have 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of internal memory. Other features speak of a 20.7-megapixel camera at the rear and an 8 megapixel camera on the front, as well as the battery of 4100mAh.