Huawei Mate 8 launched during the South East Asia Huawei Event

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%.

It has a 16-megapixel rear camera and 5-megapixel front facing camera. It also has an accurate fingerprint sensor which has been said to be better than the Nexus 6P. Also, the 4GB RAM makes the device even with other android flagships available today but the new Kirin 950 chipset makes this phone a complete beast.The Mate 8 has Android 6.0 Marshmallow on-board. The battery here is a monster with 4000mAh of non-removable battery with charging time of 2.5 Hrs.

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