Introducing Huawei Mate 8

[AlTech]

 At the heart of the Mate 8 lies HiSilicon's new Kirin 950 SoC. We attended the chipset's launch in Beijing just a couple of weeks ago and for the curious readers they can read a more in-depth look of the SoC in ourannouncement piece. To recap the new SoC is a big.LITTLE design with 4x Cortex A53 running up to 1.8GHz serving as high-efficiency cores and 4x Cortex A72 high performance cores running at 2.3GHz.

 

 

From the data that we've been presented with by Huawei and HiSilicon it looks like the new Kirin 950 has made very large strides in terms of power efficiency, so that'll be definitely a factor in the Mate 8's battery life. Indeed, with a similar 4000mAh battery and an efficienct SoC, Huawei promises that the Mate 8 will be able to last 30% longer than the Mate 7, a device which already topped our battery charts but due to the inefficiency of the SoC wasn't quite able to match up to its own predecessor at the time, the Mate 2.

On the GPU side we see a Mali T880MP4 running at up to 900MHz, while this is by no means a slouch, it'll fall only in the mid-range in terms of performance against 2016 devices as we'll see the competition using Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 or Samsung's Exynos 8890's with configurations employing much more powerful graphics processing abilities. This is somewhat alleviated by Huawei's choice of keeping a 1080p resolution on the device's 6" IPS LCD screen.

 

Opinion - Super sexy but not going to buy it.

 

http://anandtech.com/show/9818/huawei-launches-the-mate-8-kirin-950

[Misanthrope]

Assuming they don't do something stupid like little memory and no microsd slot or 4k screen, I'd love to try it.

[DaRk0]

Looks nice, but I'm happy with my OnePlus Two.

[ShadowCaptain]

Eh doesnt seem like anything too special 

[That Norwegian Guy]

Still waiting for the Huawei smart watch. Not in the market for a new phone.

 

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[AlTech]

Still waiting for the Huawei smart watch. Not in the market for a new phone.

 

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Speaking of which I saw the Huawei mate S and the huawei smartwatch ad the other day in a train station. Damn the smartwatch was cool! the mate S looked better than the mate 8 too.

[Albatross]

That's a really nice looking phone.

[AlTech]

That's a really nice looking phone.

I digress ( i think that's how you spell it) The MAte S looks worlds better IMO.

 

[Albatross]

I digress ( i think that's how you spell it) The MAte S looks worlds better IMO.

 

 

 

That don't mean this looks bad. :angry: :angry: :angry:

[That Norwegian Guy]

Speaking of which I saw the Huawei mate S and the huawei smartwatch ad the other day in a train station. Damn the smartwatch was cool!

 

Yeah, and the waiting is almost over

Should be here tomorrow according to the stores in Norway.

[simson0606]

IGN: the huawei m8 8 is gr8 r8 8/8

[WolfDeville]

I'm not going to buy this.... because I own a Z3. If I was looking for a phone however, I'd definitely consider this.

 

You should change the poll question to "Would you buy this phone"

[CTR640]

I don't have a smartphone at the moment and this one caught my interest. I want to buy it.

But the Huawei P8 Max also got my interest and I'm thinking wether one of those two I want to buy.

[Trixanity]

The phone does a lot right but they need to bump up the core count on the gpu. I would also expect usb-c by now. For me, the size is too big as well. I mean my lg g2 (5.2") already falls out my pockets occasionally.

But props for doing decent NAND tiers and including micro SD slot. Battery size is good but in a way I figure with the size they could have made it even larger in capacity.