Huawei Mate 8

[Jorge-Vieira]

Huawei Mate 8 Images Leaked; Running Kirin 950 And Could Appear At IFA 2015

The last time we reported something that was related to Huawei Mate 8, we stated that the upcoming smartphone was going to feature the company’s own Kirin 950 (http://wccftech.com/kirin-950-specifications-confirmed/), along with other very impressive hardware specifications. Well now, turns out that we have been right so far, because the latest images leaked show how Huawei Mate 8 is going to look like when it is officially unveiled at IFA 2015.
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Huawei Mate 8 Reported To Feature 6 Inch QHD Display, Along With A Very Powerful Octa-Core Processor The latest image leak coming from CNMO (http://www.cnmo.com/news/504774.html) states that Huawei Mate 8 is going to be unveiled IFA 2015, which is going to be held in Germany later this year. Kirin 950 running inside the smartphone is going to feature the following octa-core configuration:


Quad-core Cortex-A72 (running at a max clock speed of 2.4 GHz)
Quad-core Cortex-A53

While Cortex-A53 is a powerhouse in its own league, Cortex-A72 is going to be the driving force behind all that processing power. Additionally, the source states that Huawei Mate 8 is going to come in not one, but two variants. The less expensive model is going to feature 3 GB of RAM plus 32 GB of native storage, while the 4 GB RAM variant is going to be running 64 GB of on-board storage. In order to do justice to the handset, we sincerely hope that the company decides to omit the 3 GB RAM variant from its lineup.






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Other specifications of the upcoming smartphone include a massive 6 inch display that will be rendering the QHD resolution. Due to the large screen size, we should expect the smartphone to house in a very large battery pack. While Kirin 950 allows a camera sensor with a maximum image capturing resolution of 42 MP, looks like Huawei is going to incorporate a 20.7 MP one instead. Supplementing the powerful rear camera sensor, which we are sure will be belonging to Sony, an 8 MP front camera sensor will also be present.
For now, this is all the info that we have. Hopefully Huawei manages to impress us once again with the release of its Mate 8. Stay tuned for more details.







Noticia:
http://wccftech.com/huawei-mate-8-ifa-2015-kirin-950/#ixzz3gjRr4KkW

[Jorge-Vieira]

Huawei Mate 8 Rumored To Come With Force Touch Technology

Update: Evan Blass just tweeted the following:

“I’m told that this is not a D-series — which is dead — and that the force touch feature has been pulled from this model.”
This indicates that Force Touch technology is not going to be present in Huawei Mate 8.
Chinese smartphone firm Huawei has already sold a very large quantity (http://wccftech.com/huawei-sold-48-2-million-units-h1-2015/) of mobile devices for the first half of 2015. With the amount of success that the company is enjoying, it knows that this success will not last long until the company ‘ups’ its devices with the latest tech. That being said, the latest rumor suggests that Huawei Mate 8 will feature Force Touch Technology, implying that Huawei also wants to incorporate the latest tech in its handsets like Apple.
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Huawei Mate 8 Has Also Been Reported To Feature The Company’s Own Developed Kirin 950 SoCWell know leakster evleaks (https://twitter.com/evleaks/with_replies) has spilled the beans that Huawei’s upcoming smartphone, which is most likely going to be Mate 8, might feature the Force Touch tech, which is the exact same technology that is present in Apple Watch, and will be present in the Cupertino tech giant’s iPhone 6s duo. When a Chinese smartphone firm has become quite a large success story in a short time span, it will be making strides to ensure that it stays that way.
Additionally, the handset has also been reported to be armed with a Kirin 950 (http://wccftech.com/kirin-950-specifications-confirmed/), which is going to feature none other than ARM’s Cortex-A72 cores coupled with Cortex-A53 ones, delivering the perfect balance between power and efficiency. The maximum clock speed of Cortex-A72 cores will be 2.4 GHz, and we will definitely see how it fares against Exynos 7420 and Snapdragon 820 (http://wccftech.com/snapdragon-820-hydra-cores-14-nm-finfet-q1-2016/).
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It was also said that Huawei will be looking to introduce two variants of its Mate 8 handset; one that will sport 3 GB of RAM, while the other will have 4 GB stacked underneath its hood. Furthermore, the handset is said to be a gargantuan one; possessing a display size of 6 inches with a QHD resolution. Coming to the leak at hand, while evleaks happens to be a seasoned leakster, we are still going to take this information with a grain of salt and wait for IFA 2015 to commence, where Huawei is said to unveil its upcoming flagship offering.
Hopefully, we will get to witness the Force Touch technology in action. Like always, we will have more updates for you in the near future, so stay tuned.







Noticia:
http://wccftech.com/huawei-mate-8-force-touch-tech-rumor/#ixzz3iK3sfRnC

[Jorge-Vieira]

Huawei Mate 8 Is Finally Official – Here Are All The Details You’ve Been Wanting To Know

For months, we have been covering all the corners of Huawei Mate 8, the company’s flagship smartphone and now packing powerful hardware, the handset has finally been announced. Let us look at all of its details.
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Huawei Mate 8 Packs Impressive Firepower And Comes In Several Models With Their Pricing Details Listed Below Huawei Mate 8 has a humongous 6 inch 1080p display, with 83 percent of that display covering the front side of the smartphone. For a long time, we have focused our attention on its internals, and why would we would we not, when a 16nm FinFET Kirin 950 chipset (http://wccftech.com/post-kirin-950-announcement-benchmarks-thrash-living-daylight-exynos-7420/) is rocking an octa-core processor, and that too running Cortex-A72 cores instead of the less powerful and might we add power hungry Cortex-A57 cores.
Since it is a flagship phone and will be released later next year in international markets, Huawei Mate 8 will be running Android Marshmallow 6.0 ‘out of the box’ with its interface being the company’s Emotion UI 4.0. Huawei has followed in the footsteps of Apple once more (first with the Force Touch tech) by incorporating an IntelliSense i5 sensor hub. The rear side of the handset packs a 16 megapixel rear Sony IMX298 sensor, along with useful features like dual-tone LED flash, phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF), optical image stabilization (OIS) and uses Huawei’s own ISP. Supplementing the primary camera is an 8 megapixel front-facing camera.
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Before you ask, yes there is a fingerprint scanner, but it is present at the rear side, which is not so bad considering that when you grip the phone in your hands, that natural grip will allow you to unlock your smartphone with extreme ease. There is also a Bluetooth 4.1 chip, an 802.11ac Wi-Fi adapter, and of course a Cat6 LTE modem. Providing all the necessary amount of power is a massive 4,000mAh battery. After all, there are some advantages of using a large screen size for the device.
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Now, let us come to the pricing of the smartphone. Firstly, Huawei Mate 8 comes in Champagne Gold, Moonlight Silver, Space Gray and Mocha Brown colors and will be available at the following prices:


3GB RAM + 32GB storage model: 2999 yuan or $469 USD (compatible with China’s LTE network)
Standard 4G version with 3GB RAM + 32GB storage model: 3199 Yuan or $500 USD
4GB RAM + 64GB storage model: 3699 Yuan or $579 USD
4GB RAM + 128GB storage model: 4399 yuan or $688 USD

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The phone is available to order in China, and will officially go on sale from December 9th. As for international markets, it will be introduced at CES 2016, and will be available from Q1 2016. What did you guys think of the latest flagship from Huawei? Impressive right? Let us know your thoughts.

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Component
Hardware specifications

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Component

Hardware specifications


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Chipset
Kirin 950


Processor
(2.3GHz 4 x ARM Cortex A72 + 1.8GHz 4 x ARM Cortex A53) with Mali T880 GPU


RAM
Available in 3GB and 4GB RAM models


Screen size
6 inches


Resolution
1080p


Software
Android Marshmallow 6.0


Interface
Emotion UI 4.0


Battery capacity
4,000mAh


Bluetooth
4.1


Wi-Fi
802.11ac


LTE connectivity
Cat6 LTE (300Mbps/50Mbps)


Rear camera sensor
16MP Sony IMX298


Front camera sensor
8MP


Which colors are available?
Champagne Gold, Moonlight Silver, Space Gray and Mocha Brown


Pricing details
3GB RAM + 32GB storage model: 2999 yuan or $469 USD (compatible with China’s LTE network)
Standard 4G version with 3GB RAM + 32GB storage model: 3199 Yuan or $500 USD
4GB RAM + 64GB storage model: 3699 Yuan or $579 USD
4GB RAM + 128GB storage model: 4399 yuan or $688 USD

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Noticia:
http://wccftech.com/huawei-mate-8-official/#ixzz3sbcFnxSd

[Jorge-Vieira]

Huawei Reported To Be Developing Its Own GPU, Along With Another Component

Huawei is known to incorporate its own mobile SoCs in its lineup of smartphone and tablets, with the latest one being its Mate 8 (http://wccftech.com/huawei-mate-8-official/), which features the company’s powerful Kirin 950 (http://wccftech.com/post-kirin-950-announcement-benchmarks-thrash-living-daylight-exynos-7420/). In addition to developing its own mobile operating system named Kirin OS (http://wccftech.com/huawei-reported-form-platform-kirin-os/), the Chinese tech company has also been reported to produce its own GPU, along with another component that is going to be present inside its upcoming iteration of smartphones and tablets.
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Huawei Reported To Developing Its Own Custom GPU, Along With Memory Chips For Future Mobile Devices According to a Chinese source, Huawei is being reported of producing its own mobile graphics processor. Until now, the company has been using graphics processors belonging to the likes of ARM and Snapdragon, but it looks like the company wants to stop relying on them completely. In terms of mobile chipset manufacturing, the company is following in the same road as Samsung, and Apple, with the latter also being reported to rely less on Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR GPU and more on its custom designed one (http://wccftech.com/apple-inhouse-gpu/). Naturally, the mobile processor is going to be based on the ARMv8 architecture and being developed by the company itself means that the interface of its future smartphones and tablets are going to play along with its quit nicely.
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As for the subject of its own mobile processor, there are difficult obstacles that stand in the way of Huawei, particularly fact that the market share of Google’s Android mobile platform is too much for the company to ignore. Certainly, over saturation of the mobile operating system is definitely forcing the Chinese smartphone manufacturer to pay a small amount of focus on its own mobile platform but with the lack of applications present, we highly doubt that it will fare any better than Samsung’s Tizen, which is only now starting to get popular since the company has stamped an affordable price tag on the devices that are running it. Huawei could choose to release both mobile operating system variants, or incorporate a dual-OS function altogether (while this is only possible through an x86 architecture processor).
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The production of its own memory chips is a whole new mystery altogether and while details are scarce, it is possible that the company partners up with semiconductor manufacturing firms ranging from Samsung to Micron, thus finding another way to reduce dependency on other firms. We will continue to provide you with timely updates on this report, but for now, what do you think of Huawei’s decision? Let us know your thoughts right away.
Source (http://news.mydrivers.com/1/462/462236.htm)







Noticia:
http://wccftech.com/huawei-reported-to-be-developing-its-own-gpu-along-with-another-component/#ixzz3uruYznMH

[Enzo]

Com o preco que eles cobram agora pelos telemoveis, já têm guito de sobra para fabricarem componentes próprios.

[Jorge-Vieira]

The Huawei Mate 8 Review
(http://www.anandtech.com/show/9878/the-huawei-mate-8-review)

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It’s been over a year since we reviewed the Huawei Ascend Mate 7 (http://anandtech.com/show/8655/the-huawei-ascend-mate-7-review) and Ascend Mate 2 (http://anandtech.com/show/8031/huawei-ascend-mate-2-review). For many people and including ourselves at AnandTech these were among one of the first experiences with Huawei as a smartphone device manufacturer. Ever since our review of the Honor 6 (http://anandtech.com/show/8425/huawei-honor-6-review) I kind of fell into the position of being the main editor in charge of Huawei device reviews and thus experienced first-hand the company’s efforts in the high-end as well as their increasingly visible expansion into western markets.

http://images.anandtech.com/doci/9878/P1030800_575px.jpg (http://images.anandtech.com/doci/9878/P1030800.jpg) The Mate 8 is the successor to the Ascend Mate 7, and in a similar fashion to the P8 last spring the phone drops the Ascend name in favour of better establishing the Mate brand for Huawei's large premium phablet models. The Mate 8 is in a lot aspects an evolutionary design over the Mate 7, but at same time comes at the moment of a generational shift brought forth by the adoption of the new Kirin 950 SoC. With help of the new chipset and other improvements we’ll see that Mate 8 not only manages to raise the bar for Huawei but also to deal blows to competing devices in several aspects, making the phone a worthy candidate in the upcoming 2016 smartphone generation battle.
Introduction & Design So let’s dive in for a comprehensive look at what Huawei has managed to bring this year for the Mate series and determine its strengths and possible weaknesses.

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Huawei Mate 8


SoC
HiSilicon Kirin 950 (http://anandtech.com/show/9762/hisilicon-announces-kirin-950-huawei)
4x Cortex A53 @ 1.8GHz
4x Cortex A72 @ 2.3GHz
Mali-T880MP4 @ 900MHz


RAM
3-4GB LPDDR4 @ 1333MHz


NAND
32GB / 64GB / 128GB NAND
+ microSD


Display
6” 1080p JDI IPS-Neo LCD


Modem
2G/3G/4G LTE Cat 6
(Integrated HiSilicon Balong Modem)


Networks

(NXT-AL10
Model)
TDD LTE
B38 / B39 / B40 / B41


FDD LTE
B1 / B2 / B3 / B4 / B5 / B7 / B8 / B12 / B17 / B18 / B19 / B20 / B26


UMTS
850 / 900 / AWS / 1900 / 2100
( B19 / B8 / B6 / B5 / B4 / B2 / B1)


GSM
850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900




Dimensions
157.1 (h) x 80.6 (w) x 7.9 (d) mm
185g weight


Camera
Rear Camera w/ OIS
16MP ( 4608 × 3456 )
Sony IMX298 1/2.8" w/ 1.12µm pixels
F/2.0 aperture, 27mm eq.


Front Facing Camera
8MP ( 3264 × 2448 )
Sony IMX179 1/3.2" w/ 1.4µm pixels
F/2.4 aperture, 26mm eq.


Battery
4000mAh (15.2 Whr)


OS
Android 6.0
with EmotionUI 4.0


Connectivity
802.11a/b/g/n/ac dual-band 2.4 & 5GHz
BT 4.2, microUSB2.0, GPS/GNSS,
DLNA, NFC


SIM Size
NanoSIM +
NanoSIM (w/o microSD)


MSRP
3GB + 32GB
China: ¥2999-3199 (USD~479, ~449€) - Europe: 599€


4GB + 64GB
China: ¥3699 (USD~591, ~554€) - Europe:699€


4GB + 128GB
China: ¥4399 (USD~703, ~659€) - Europe: N/A

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At the heart of the Mate 8 we find HiSilicon’s new Kirin 950 SoC. We were lucky enough to be one of the few western media outlets able to attend the SoC’s launch event (http://anandtech.com/show/9762/hisilicon-announces-kirin-950-huawei) in Beijing earlier in November and deliver an in-depth look at what the new chipset promises in terms of improvements over past Kirin generations. As a short overview, the Kirin 950 is a big.LITTLE SoC with the first mobile implementation of ARM’s Cortex A72 cores in a quad-core configuration clocked in at 2.3GHz, accompanied by a quad-core Cortex A53 at 1.8GHz acting as the little cluster. Graphics is powered by a Mali T880MP4 GPU with a frequency of 900MHz. Past Huawei devices’ major weak-points were related to the choice of SoC and as we’ll see shortly in the dedicated SoC section we’ll see that HiSilicon was able to fulfil and even exceed some of our expectations of both ARM’s new Cortex A72 as well as the Kirin chipset as a whole.
In terms of memory the Mate 8 comes in either 3 or 4GB RAM variants, depending on whether one chooses the 32 or the larger 64GB and 128GB NAND storage models. Expandable storage is par for the course as we have a combo-dual SIM slot with the choice of either employing a second (2G only) nanoSIM or to use the slot as a microSD card expansion.
Going over the design we see a front exterior that doesn’t change all that much when compared to the Mate 7, with only subtle details being able to give hints that this is a new model. Keeping the same form-factor, the Mate 8 maintains a fairly large size coming in at 157.1 x 80.6 x 7.9mm. Even though the device is large, it’s able to sport a very good screen-to-body ratio for the large 6” 1080p JDI Neo-IPS screen. The top and bottom bezels particularly make the Mate 8 quite short compared to other devices of similar screen size.

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Mate 8 vs Mate S - Mate 7 vs Mate 8
http://images.anandtech.com/doci/9878/P1030823_575px.jpg (http://images.anandtech.com/doci/9878/P1030823.jpg) A rather disappointing continuation of the Mate 7 design is the reintroduction of a ~2.5mm thick inactive black border around the screen that is found on all colour-variants of the phone. This creates a quite distracting window-frame effect on the lighter coloured models. I wish Huawei had been able to get rid of the distracting feature or at least chosen to keep the front all black for all colour models.

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Mate 7 vs Mate 8 It’s on the back and sides where we see the Mate 8 diverge from the Mate 7’s features as there are several design language changes for the various components. First of all the square trio of camera lens, LED flash as well as fingerprint sensor have now become circular. The finger-print sensor saw the biggest design change as the is no longer a visible metal rim around it and is now similar to the one found on the Mate S and Nexus 6P. Previously the feature on the Mate 7 was described as being used to detect one’s finger while the device and fingerprint sensor were asleep, something the new models either are able to camouflage away or outright no longer require. The Mate 8 also was able to dispose of the small gap above the camera which served as an antenna line for the NFC coil, all while still keeping NFC funtionality.

http://images.anandtech.com/doci/9878/P1030809_575px.jpg (http://images.anandtech.com/doci/9878/P1030809.jpg) The main camera is now powered by a Sony IMX298 16MP sensor module with OIS and an F/2.0 aperture optical lens system. This is a normal Bayer RGB sensor as opposed to last year’s main usage of the RGBW IMX278. Huawei also drops the usage of an external Altek ISP and instead relies on the Kirin 950’s new ISP capabilities. The front camera remains the same IMX179 F/2.4 8MP module as found on the P8, Mate S and Nexus 6P which I found to take excellent front-facing shots.

http://images.anandtech.com/doci/9878/P1030847_575px.jpg (http://images.anandtech.com/doci/9878/P1030847.jpg) The top and bottom of the phone is no longer wholly composed of plastic covers that go over the sides of the device, but is now composed of aluminium separated by antenna lines on the sides and with a plastic lid on the back side. In a sense this design stands out less than the antenna lines on the Mate S and may be the rationale behind the choice. On all sides we find a coarse brushed metal finish (actual brushed metal) that gives the device much firmer grip than other devices but is also harder to clean if dirtied by fine elements.

http://images.anandtech.com/doci/9878/P1030794_575px.jpg (http://images.anandtech.com/doci/9878/P1030794.jpg) The speaker is moved from the back of the phone onto the bottom, much in the same layout as found on the P8 and Mate S. Also the same as the previous designs who introduced this new layout, there’s only one speaker to be found as the other grill only serves for aesthetical symmetry and the main microphone.

http://images.anandtech.com/doci/9878/P1030795_575px.jpg (http://images.anandtech.com/doci/9878/P1030795.jpg)http://images.anandtech.com/doci/9878/P1030802_575px.jpg (http://images.anandtech.com/doci/9878/P1030802.jpg) A large ergonomic improvement is found on the sides of the device as the new 2.5D glass screen is no longer surrounded by a raised plastic edge but instead uses the same hard compound filling between the glass and metal body. The back also has a curvature of a larger radius, which together with the 2.5D glass gives the impression of a thinner device although the Mate 8 isn't any thinner than the Mate 7 at its maximum thickness.

http://images.anandtech.com/doci/9878/P1030810_575px.jpg (http://images.anandtech.com/doci/9878/P1030810.jpg) My sample was a 32GB silver variant, so I can only comment on the finish of this model; I found that the new anodized aluminium finish to be quite hard to clean as dirt was very easy to stick to the grain of the metal. The positive side of this characteristic was that the device was much better to grip than the comparatively smoother finish of the silver Mate 7, with the gunmetal grey of the Mate S representing a happy medium between both designs.

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Toda a review:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9878/the-huawei-mate-8-review

[Jorge-Vieira]

Huawei's Mate 8 6-inch Phablet Coming To North America, We Go Hands On

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Huawei’s recent success in the North American market is an unlikely of a success story as can be. It's a brand with no consumer cachet here, blessed with a name that many still have trouble pronouncing (it’s “wah-way”). However, it is one of the biggest smartphone OEMs globally, hugely successful in its Chinese home market, and its presence in European markets has been growing. Its biggest achievement so far, though, was the vote of confidence Google gave Huawei by picking it to be the manufacturer of one of its two Nexus phones this year.
Back in November, Huawei announced the latest phone in its Mate series of phablets, the Mate 8. These phones are usually only sold in China, and a handful of other Asian and European markets, but flush with the reception that the 6P received (http://www.tomshardware.com/news/google-huawei-nexus-6p-hands-on,30656.html), it looks like Huawei thinks that the U.S. market is ready for a Huawei-branded premium device. Today’s CES announcement marks the global launch of the Mate 8 (which Huawei is optimistically dubbing the “ultimate high-end smartphone”), including North America.
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Along with a U.S. release, the other big story of the Mate 8 is its SoC. Huawei is like the other giant on the Android OEM phone block in that it also makes its own SoCs, and the Mate 8 is powered by the new 16nm FinFET+ HiSilicon Kirin 950 chip. This is one of the first SoCs that uses ARM’s powerful new Cortex-A72 microarchitecture (http://www.tomshardware.com/news/armv8a-cortex-a72-16nm-mali-t880,28497.html), which is expected to be one of the best performing mobile CPUs of 2016.
Huawei was kind enough to let us get our hands on a Mate 8 before today’s announcement, and in the short time we’ve had it, we’ve been able to run our full suite of performance tests on it. Right now, we are giving you a first look at the Mate 8 and also a teaser as to its performance, which (spoiler alert) is impressive to say the least.
Specifications
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HUAWEI NXT-L29
HUAWEI NXT-L09


Size
Height: 157.1mm; Width: 80.6mm; Depth: 7.9mm; Weight: 185g
Height: 157.1mm; Width: 80.6mm; Depth: 7.9mm; Weight: 185g


Colors
Moonlight Silver; Space Gray; Champagne Gold; Mocha Gold
Moonlight Silver; Space Gray


Display
6-inch FHD 1080p (1920 x 1080) Screen, 368ppi

16.7M colors, color saturation (NTSC) 95%, High contrast 1500:1
6-inch FHD 1080p (1920 x 1080) Screen, 368ppi

16.7M colors, color saturation (NTSC) 95%, High contrast 1500:1


CPU
HUAWEI Kirin 950 (64-bit,16nm FinFET+), Octa-core (4 x 2.3 GHz A72+ 4 x 1.8 GHz A53) + i5 co-processor
HUAWEI Kirin 950 (64-bit,16nm FinFET+), Octa-core (4 x 2.3 GHz A72+ 4 x 1.8 GHz A53) + i5 co-processor


GPU
Mali-T880 MP4
Mali-T880 MP4


OS
Android Marshmallow 6.0 with EMUI 4.0
Android Marshmallow 6.0 with EMUI 4.0


Memory
3GB RAM + 32GB ROM or 4GB RAM + 64GB ROM
3GB RAM + 32GB ROM


Network
4G TDD LTE: Band 38/39/40
4G FDD LTE: Band 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/12/17/18/19/20/26
4G TDD LTE: Band 38/39/40
4G FDD LTE: Band 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/12/17/18/19/20/26/28


Dual SIM
Dual SIM Supported
N/A


GPS
GPS/A-GPS/Glonass/BDS
GPS/A-GPS/Glonass/BDS


Connectivity
Wi-Fi 2.4G/5G, a/b/g/n/ac with Wi-Fi Direct support
BT4.2, support BLE
MicroUSB (High Speed USB)
Wi-Fi 2.4G/5G, a/b/g/n/ac with Wi-Fi Direct support
BT4.2, support BLE
MicroUSB (High Speed USB)


Sensors
Fingerprint Sensor, G-Sensor, Gyroscope sensor, Compass, Ambient Light Sensor, Proximity sensor, Hall sensor, Barometer
Fingerprint Sensor, G-Sensor, Gyroscope sensor, Compass, Ambient Light Sensor, Proximity sensor, Hall sensor, Barometer


NFC
NFC supported
NFC supported


Audio
Bottom-facing speakers
Bottom-facing speakers


Camera
Main camera
16MP 1/2.8" Sony Exmor RS IMX298, 1.12 μm pixels, f/2.0 with OIS (optical image stabilization), Dual-tone flash, PDAF+CAF auto focus

Video recording: 1080p, 60 fps
support 720P 120FPS Slo-Mo recording

Front camera
8MP, f/2.4
Photos: max 3264 x 2448 pixels
Video recording: 1080p, 30 fps
Main camera
16MP 1/2.8" Sony Exmor RS IMX298, 1.12 μm pixels, f/2.0 with OIS (optical image stabilization), Dual-tone flash, PDAF+CAF auto focus

Video recording: 1080p, 60 fps
support 720P 120FPS Slo-Mo recording

Front camera
8MP, f/2.4
Photos: max 3264 x 2448 pixels
Video recording: 1080p, 30 fps


Battery
4,000 mAh (non-removable)
4,000 mAh (non-removable)


In the box
Handset; Headset; Charger; USB cable; Quick Start Guide; Safety Information
Handset; Headset; Charger; USB cable; Quick Start Guide; Safety Information

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The specification charts we were provided show two models of the Mate 8, and it’s not clear in which markets each model will be available. The model we’ve been playing with is the dual-SIM NXT-L29 with 3 GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage. This model is optionally available with 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage, and it's the model on sale in China as far as we know.
Beautiful Premium All-Metal Design Design-wise, the Mate 8 uses the unibody aluminum construction that Huawei has basically perfected. Its design language should be familiar to anyone who’s seen a Nexus 6P, complete with the circular fingerprint reader. The Mate 8’s screen is a lot bigger, though, at 6 inches, which is pushing the upper limits of what’s considered acceptable to North American consumers. However, the Mate 8 also has super-thin bezels and an incredible screen-to-body ratio of 83%. This makes the Mate 8 shorter that the 5.7-inch 6P. When using it, it never feels like you’re using a phone with such a big display.
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In contrast to most current flagship smartphones, the Mate 8’s screen is only 1080p, although in the end we couldn’t see much difference between this display and that of all the QHD phones we’ve been using. The Mate 8’s 368ppi clearly demonstrates that once you get about 350ppi, you don’t really notice the pixels.
Huawei Continues Its Photographic Excellence Before we get into a performance preview of the Mate 8 and Kirin, the other significant component of the Mate 8 is its camera. It uses Sony’s brand-new Exmor RS IMX298 sensor (and is the only phone that does, so far), a chip that is philosophically quite different than the Google-mandated 12MP IMX377 sensor used in the Nexus 6. The 377 favors a lower MP count with a big sensor to create large (1.55 μm) pixels than capture more light. The size of these pixels is large enough that Google dispensed with OIS on the 6P.
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The IMX298 is more of a traditional smartphone camera sensor, smaller in size with smaller pixels, so OIS is a necessity, and found on the Mate 8, along with fast-phase detect autofocus. Although we haven’t been able to put the camera through its paces properly, our first impressions are positive. It's also important to note that the physical camera hardware is only half the story when it comes to final picture quality. The ISP (image sensor processor) also plays a big role, and Huawei apparently assembled a team of 300 engineers and spent $98 million to ensure that the ISP in the Kirin 950 was up to snuff. At first glance, it looks like that was money well spent.
How Does It Perform? http://media.bestofmicro.com/K/K/550244/gallery/Huawei_Mate_8-System_PCMark_Performance_w_600.png (http://media.bestofmicro.com/K/K/550244/original/Huawei_Mate_8-System_PCMark_Performance.png)
Very well, actually. The first result above is PCMark’s Work Performance that measures overall system performance by running a series of realistic workloads. In this test, the Mate 8 and Kirin 950 outperformed every device we’ve tested so far, including the pre-release Snapdragon 820 in the Qualcomm mobile development platform we tested (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/snapdragon-820-performance-preview,4389.html).
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When you look at the individual PCMark test scores, the Mate also does very well.
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The Mate 8 has a huge 4,000 mAH battery, and Huawei claims that it “delivers industry-leading power efficiency offering over two days of normal usage.” We believe them. Looking at the results above, the Mate 8 clearly outlasts every phone we’ve tested.
There is one negative aspect we want to point out now: Its Mali-T880 MP4 GPU isn’t particularly powerful, especially for a premium flagship phone. This isn’t due to its architecture, because like the A-72 CPUs, it’s brand new. It is the result of Huawei deciding to go with only a 4-core GPU in the 950. That means that despite its incredible overall system performance, the Mate 8 isn’t exactly a mobile gaming powerhouse, and this does explain the choice to stick with a 1080p display.
It Comes With Marshmallow but… Let’s get the good news out of the way first. The Mate 8 does run Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Unfortunately, it isn’t stock Android, like on the 6P. It uses a new version of Huawei’s standard E Emotion UI (EMUI), and it’s clear that this UI is more designed for its home market. Like many Chinese OEM OSes, it blends elements of iOS and Android, so there is no application drawer, all your program icons reside on your homescreen, and it uses its own notification system, instead of the standard Android one introduced with Lollipop.
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This is the one aspect of the Mate 8 that I can’t get behind, and while EMUI is by no means an unattractive UI, and is packed with some useful and intelligent features that go beyond the functionality of standard Android, I still found myself installing a third-party launcher to make it usable for me. Because we were testing a unit running pre-release software, we have encountered some bugs and issues, but it would be unfair to ding Huawei for this. Beta software isn’t supposed to be perfect, so we can’t pass final judgment on the Mate 8’s software until we’ve played with the final version.
Color Us Impressed Our initial thoughts about the Huawei Mate 8 are very positive. This phone shows that the Nexus 6P wasn’t a fluke and that Huawei is capable of producing a world-class smartphone without having to partner with Google. The Mate 8 is blisteringly fast thanks to its Kirin 950 SoC, and it has excellent battery life and a great camera. Our only reservations about it so far are to do with its EMUI, but seeing as we were testing out a Chinese market model running unfinished software, we’re sure that Huawei will address many of the issues we have with it. Don’t expect EMUI to come with an app drawer anytime soon.
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Presently, we don't know the Mate 8’s pricing, nor when it will be coming to North America. Hopefully, we’ll know more soon on that front.



Noticia:
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/huawei-mate-8-phablet-hands-on,30860.html

[Jorge-Vieira]

Huawei Mate 8 Has Already Sold More Than A Million Units

Huawei Mate 8 might be a huge smartphone, but that has not stopped it from being a problem for several consumers out there as the phablet sized handset has done immensely well, considering that it was announced (http://wccftech.com/huawei-mate-8-official/) not so long ago.
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Huawei Mate 8 Garners More Than A Million Unit Sales – Chances To Be Released Globally Looking Very Bright Indeed Huawei’s CEO, Yu Chengdong, has stated that over a million units of the smartphone have already been sold in China. With its impressive specifications and its huge screen size, it comes as no surprise that Huawei Mate 8 is a device that would be coveted by Android handset enthusiasts. While the price of the device is on the higher side of things, the internals and the overall design and aesthetics pretty much make up what you will end up paying for the smartphone. Now even though the device has done really well, we are not sure how well P9, the company’s upcoming handset, is going to perform once it has been officially announced.
We did report that that upcoming smartphone could be launched in three variants and would sport more RAM than a laptop (http://wccftech.com/huawei-p9-6gb-of-ram/), but we are not sure if these would eventually become the primary selling points of the Android powered handset, considering that having 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM is already a mouthful for some consumers out there. If you think about it, Huawei Mate 8 and P9 are powered by the same SoC, Kirin 950 (http://wccftech.com/post-kirin-950-announcement-benchmarks-thrash-living-daylight-exynos-7420/), meaning performance across the board is going to be maintained if you remove the extra amount of RAM out of the equation. So how exactly do we believe that the device is going to do well once it is officially announced?
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Well, for starters, Huawei P9 is most likely going to be sold in three variants, and just like its predecessor, P8, it will cater to a whole class of consumers in both screen size, and battery life and pricing. The Chinese manufacturer will have to make sure that it follows an effective pricing strategy otherwise we could be seeing the exact opposite sales results from the upcoming handset. Regardless, we have faith in Huawei and its strategy in overtaking Samsung as the number one Android smartphone manufacturer in the world.
Now for the other question; if Huawei Mate 8 ends up coming to the United States, would you consider purchasing one? Let us know your thoughts right away.
Source (http://www.gadgetzarena.com/news/huawei-mate-8-surpasses-million-sales-china-within-month/)







Noticia:
http://wccftech.com/huawei-mate-8-sold-one-million-units/#ixzz3wZtg2RxV

[Jorge-Vieira]

Huawei Mate 8 Review: Examining ARM's Cortex-A72 And HiSilicon's Kirin 950


Huawei Mate 8 Introduction And Specs
Huawei may not be a household name here in the US, nor does the brand name roll off the tongue easily for many Americans, but you might be surprised to learn that the Chinese networking and telecommunications manufacturer is the 3rd largest smartphone supplier in the world, behind Apple and Samsung. Much of that global market share comes from China, but the company has been making significant inroads here in the US with devices like Google's Nexus 6P (http://hothardware.com/reviews/nexus-6p-review), which is a Huawei private labeled device.

Further, like Samsung and Apple, Huawei (http://hothardware.com/tags/huawei) has access to significant manufacturing capabilities, including their own semiconductor design house called HiSilicon, which is a wholly owned subsidiary. In fact, what's unique about the product we'll be looking at today is that Huawei and HiSilicon are the first manufactures to build an SoC based on ARM Cortex-A72 technology, which is ARM's highest performance 64-bit processor core. HiSilicon's Kirin 950 is an octal-core chip with four ARM A72 cores at 2.3GHz and four ARM A53 cores at 1.8GHz (dubbed the i5 co-processor for sensor processing, etc.) along with an ARM Mali T880 graphics core.

And so, as you'd expect, in addition to how the new Huawei Mate 8 handles and performs as a whole, we were very interested in how the new Kirin 950 system on a chip performs -- and that's exactly what we'll show you on the pages ahead.


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Before we dig into the particulars, here's a quick video walk-around of the Mate 8, in live hands-on action...



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Huawei Mate 8 (NXT-L29)


Specifications & Features

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Size
Height: 157.1mm; Width: 80.6mm; Depth: 7.9mm; Weight: 185g (approx.)


Colors
Moonlight Silver; Space Gray; Champagne Gold; Mocha Brown


Display
6" FHD Screen
1080p (1920 x 1080), 368ppi
16.7M colors, color saturation(NTSC) 95%, High contrast ratio: 1500:1


CPU
HUAWEI Kirin 950 (64-bit,16nm FinFET+), Octa-core (4 x 2.3 GHz A72+ 4 x 1.8 GHz A53) + i5 co-processor


Operating System
Android Marshmallow 6.0 With Emotion UI: EMUI 4.0 Interface


Memory
3GB RAM + 32GB ROM or 4GB RAM + 64GB ROM


Network
4G TDD LTE：Band38/39/40
4G FDD LTE：Band1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/12/17/18/19/20/26
3G UMTS: 800(B6,Japan)/800(B19,Japan) /850/900/AWS/1900/2100MHz (Band6/19/5/8/4/2/1)
2G GSM:
SIM1:850/900/1800/1900MHz
SIM2:850/900/1800/1900MHz


Dual SIM
Dual SIM Supported


GPS
GPS/A-GPS/Glonass/BDS


Connectivity
Wi-Fi 2.4G/5G, a/b/g/n/ac with Wi-Fi Direct support
BT4.2, support BLE
MicroUSB (High Speed USB)


Sensors
Fingerprint Sensor, G-Sensor, Gyroscope sensor, Compass, Ambient Light Sensor, Proximity sensor, Hall sensor, Barometer


NFC
NFC supported


Camera
Main camera
16MP, F2.0, OIS (optical image stabilization), BSI CMOS
Dual-tone flash, PDAF+CAF auto focus
Digital zoom, up to 4x
Timelapse recording
Photos: max 4608 x 3456 pixels
Video recording: 1080p, 60 fps
Supports 720P 120FPS Slo-Mo recording
Front camera
8MP, F2.4
Photos: max 3264 x 2448 pixels
Video recording: 1080p, 30 fps


Battery
4000mAh (typical value)


In the box
Handset; Headset; Charger; USB cable; Quick Start Guide; Safety Information


Pricing
Currently as low as $629 on Amazon (http://amzn.to/1KG4Ywf)

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The Mate 8 comes in two base flavors, one with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage and another with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage, and a variety of colors including moonlight silver, seen here, space gray, champagne gold, and mocha brown. Unfortunately for now, the device isn’t sold in the US on any major carriers. However, it does have all LTE and UMTS carrier bands supported, and it is unlocked, so any SIM should work in the device.



Other notable standouts for the Mate 8 are Huawei’s EMUI 4.0 interface skinned over Android 6 Marshmallow (http://hothardware.com/tags/marshmallow) and the Mate 8’s massive 4000 milliamp hour battery. The former has its pluses and minuses. Regardless, the device is still one of the few smartphones currently, other than pure Nexus devices, with an Android 6 setup, something that even Samsung has just gotten around to (http://hothardware.com/news/samsung-galaxy-s6-series-finally-receives-android-60-marshmallow-update) for their Galaxy S6 lineup.


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Another significant area of concern might be the Mate 8's 6-inch 1080p display, which on the surface might appear to be relatively low-res compared to the 2K to even 4K screens that are showing up in high-end handsets these days. However, as you'll note, this display is capable of reproducing 95% of the NTSC color gamut, which is much wider than the sRGB color space. In short, don't let its resolution fool you, the Mate 8 sports a really nice display, along with virtually off of the latest technologies like 802.11ac WiFi and Bluetooth 4.2, though USB-C didn't make it to the party. Regardless, let's get a closer at the rest of the package look...






Toda a review:
http://hothardware.com/reviews/huawei-mate-8-review#OWDFFFZbiFfLfmZa.99