The Huawei’s Flagship smartphone, Huawei Mate 8 already launched in CES 2016 few weeks back. Now the phone has been exclusively launched for the South East Asian market at the recent Huawei event held in Paragon Hall@Siam Paragon, Bangkok, Thailand.
Like the Nexus 6P from Huawei, the Mate 8 is a super impressive device. The All-metal Build Mate 8 designs to be 157.1 mm × 80.6 mm × 7.9 mm and weighs 185 grams. It will come in champagne gold, moonlight silver, space gray and mocha brown.
The Huawei Mate 8 sports a 6-inch Full HD IPS LCD display with a resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels resulting out a pixel density of 367 ppi. The display panel covers 95% of NTSC gamut providing excellent color reproduction and is covered by 2.5D curved diamond-cut glass. Like other high-end Huawei smartphones, the screen-to-body ratio is a stupendous 83%.
The Mate 8 will be launching in Nepal sometime around February, which will be a 4GB variant with 64GB internal storage and the price is expected to be around Rs.85,000.
Huawei Mate 8: Factsheet
| Size | Height: 157.1mm; Width: 80.6mm; Depth: 7.9mm; Weight: 185g (approx.) |
| Display | 6" FHD Screen 1080p (1920 x 1080), 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 |
| Operating System | Android™ Marshmallow 6.0 |
| Memory&Color | 3GB RAM + 32GB ROM (Moonlight Silver; Space Gray) 4GB RAM + 64GB ROM (Champagne Gold; Mocha Gold) |
| 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 support 720P 120FPS Slo-Mo recording Front camera 8MP, F2.4 Photos: max 3264 x 2448 pixels Video recording: 1080p, 30 fps |
| Audio | Audio decoding formats: MP3, MIDI, AMR-NB, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR-WB, WMA2-9, RA, PCM, OGG, and FLAC Audio file formats: MP3, MP4, 3GP, WMA, OGG, AMR, AAC, FLAC, WAV, MIDI, and RA |
| Video | Video decoding formats: 4K video, H.265, H.264, H.263, MPEG-4, MPEG-2, RV7-10, Xvid, VP8, WMV9 Video file formats: 3GP, MP4, WMV, RM, RMVB, and ASF |
| Image | Image decoding formats: PNG, GIF (static), JPEG, BMP, WEBP, and WBMP Image file formats: PNG, GIF, JPEG, BMP, WEBP, and WBMP |
| Emotion UI | EMUI 4.0 |
| Battery | 4000mAh (typical value) |
| In the box | Handset; Headset; Charger; USB cable; Quick Start Guide; Safety Information |
Article Last updated: November 23, 2025
