Huawei Mate 8 With 6-Inch Force Touch Display And Kirin 950 CPU Coming This Month [Rumor Roundup]

By Vijaykumar Meti

| Updated: Tuesday, November 3, 2015, 14:57 [IST]

Huawei the company behind the high-end Nexus 6P, is now alleged to launch its latest flagship smartphone - the Mate 8. The new smartphone is said to rival the iPhone 6s with its Force Touch sensitivity features and is said to come with more durable design.

The Huawei Mate 8 has been frequently rumored in the last few months. Information claims that the Mate 7 successor will be a powerful device, better than the Google Nexus 6P and the iPhone 6s Plus with features like Force Touch sensitivity display measuring 6 inch at Quad HD resolution an much more.

We have jotted down all the features and the benchmark result of the Huawei Mate 8 that has been leaked and rumored so far. Have a look at the slider below to know more.

Display

The Huawei Mate 8 is expected to features a 6 inch Quad-HD display with a resolution of 2560x1440 pixels along with Corning Gorilla Glass 4. The display is rumored to have Force Touch sensitivity similar to the iPhone 6s 3D Touch display.

Design

The smartphone is rumored to come with more durable design, that aims to rival the iPhone 6s and the Google Nexus 6P by Huawei.

Processor

Under the hood, the Huawei Mate 8 is rumored to be powered its very own 64-bit HiSilicon Kirin 950 processor clocked at 2.4GHz using four Cortex A72 cores and four A53 core and paired with Mail T-880 GPU.

RAM

The Huawei Mate 8 is said to come in two variants: 3GB and 4GB of RAM depending on the internal storage.

OS

The Huawei Mate 8 will run on the latest Android platform: 6.0 Marshmallow modified by the company's Emotion UI 4.0, out of the box.

Camera

The latest benchmark test reveals that the smartphone will carry a 15 megapixel camera on the back and a 5 or 8 megapixel front-facing camera. The rear camera can take pictures at a maximum resolution of 4068x3456 pixels. However, earlier rumors claims that the smartphone to flaunt a 13 megapixel rear camera.

Storage

The Huawei Mate 8 is likely to come with two storage models: 32GB and 64GB internal storage along with a microSD card slot to expand up to 128GB.

Battery

The Huawei Mate 8 is reportedly to come with a bigger 4,000mAh to juice up the device.

Release Date

There are many rumors saying that the Huawei will announce the Mate 8 this month. Several reports claims different release date. However, a teaser shows that the company is expected to hold an event on November 11 to launch the Mate 8.