Hold on, maybe we better qualify this before we continue. Huawei are going to be showing off their new Mate 8 phablet from January 2016 at CES before launching it in China and then the rest of the world. So you’ll first see it in the silicon in January next year. Buying it… that might take a bit longer.
One of the two SIM slots (which both support LTE, look you) can be used as a microSD card slot, which is good news for storage hogs. Also included is a fingerprint reader, which will live near the camera.
Huawei’s Mate 8 will sport a 16MP sensor from Sony, with an f/2.0 aperture as its main snapper, while the front-facer will be a selfie-tastic 8MP cam. The body is made from aluminium and it looks, from available images, to have a textured back in a series of colours. Android Marshmallow is the operating system of choice, with Huawei’s EmotionUI 4.0 overlay.
The Huawei Mate 8 looks like another solid phablet from the company but we’re wondering whether it has what it takes to stand toe-to-toe with the competition in 2016. The specs sound okay now but will they stay that way compared to what else is coming?
Source: Huawei