These are the Groundbreaking Features of Huawei's Metal Powerhouse Mate 8!

By Vijaykumar

| Updated: Tuesday, December 8, 2015, 17:17 [IST]

Huawei has managed to gain the ranking of third-largest smartphone maker in the world this year. The China-based smartphone maker has release a number of compelling devices this year, including the Nexus 6P running the latest Android 6.0 Marshmallow.

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.

Huawei is all set to excite the smartphone world once again, with the launch of Mate 8, the successor of last year's Mate 7. The company has unveiled the Mate 8 last month, and has not disclosed the pricing of the handset, but will go on sale in China. The global variant will be unveiled at CES 2016.

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Well, according to a new report, Huawei smartphone chief, He Gang, has confirmed that the Mate 8 will be launched on December 9. However, there is no word on availability of the global variant.

Huawei Mate 8

Huawei Mate 8 features a 6 inch full HD IPS display with a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels along with Corning Gorilla Glass 4. Earlier, it was rumored that the display will come with Force Touch sensitivity similar to the iPhone 6s 3D Touch display.

Huawei Mate 8

The smartphone is powered by its very own 64-bit Kirin 950 chipset running at a clock speed of 2.3GHz Cortex-A72 quad-core and 1.8GHz Cortex-A53 quad-core and is paired with Mail T-880 GPU.

Huawei Mate 8

Huawei says that the i5 co-processor in the Mate 8 supports number of sensors like speech recognition, low-power consumption MP3, all the functions of a sensor hub, fused location provider navigation and also reduces location-based power consumption.

Huawei Mate 8

Huawei Mate 8 comes in two RAM variant: 3GB and 4GB of RAM. It is available in three storage models: 32GB, 64GB, and 128GB internal storage and an option to expand storage up to 128GB using a microSD card slot.

Huawei Mate 8

The smartphone to sport a 16 megapixel camera featuring a Sony IMX298 sensor, with aperture of f/2.0 and Optical image stabilization (OIS) with LED flash. While, it holds a 8 megapixel front-facing selfie shooter with Sony IMX179 sensor and aperture at f/2.4.

Huawei Mate 8

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

Huawei Mate 8

The Huawei Mate 8 is packed with a bigger 4,000mAh to juice up the device, which the company says to provide up to 18 hours of talk time and 22 days of standby mode.

Huawei Mate 8

The smartphone is made out of metal. It sports a fingerprint scanner on its back and features dual-SIM (Nano SIM), both SIM slots supports 4G LTE connectivity.