Huawei Announces the Mate 8 for New Markets at CES Las Vegas

Huawei has just announced the addition of the ‘Mate 8’ flagship smartphone line to their Mate line-up. While it was announced and released in 2015, this flagship is ready to take the world by storm by going global.

Powered by an octa-core Kirin 950, with 4 cores clocked at 2.3GHz and 4 additional cores at 1.8GHz with an i5 co-processor, Huawei claims that CPU performance has improved by 100%, GPU performance improved by 120%, and power efficiency up by 70%.

With a 6″ display and a QHD resolution, the company states that the device has 95% color accuracy.

The smartphone uses a highly conductive DX19 material in its design in order to efficiently dissipate heat, the company claims.

The Mate 8 promises 2 days of continuous battery life with a 4,000mAh battery, a step above the rest of the pack as well as a massive improvement over its previous Mate 7 flagship phone. Huawei touts some impressive battery life stats for the Mate 8, stating that it can handle 17 hours of HD video. If the massive battery isn’t enough for you, the company has included a form of quick charging to quickly juice up your phone on the go.

The phone also includes an improved fingerprint scanner with additional security features. The new scanner unlocks at a much faster speed (100% improvement over the Mate 7), and comes with new software capabilities that allow you to hide your private photos/videos/documents behind a fingerprint lock. You can also stop prying eyes from opening your apps with a fingerprint lock, too. With a new secure keyboard app, full disk encryption (mandatory with devices launching on 6.0 Marshmallow), you can be assured that your device will remain secure.

Handsfree 3.0 allows you to use your phone from 3 meters away, which is an impressive distance to be able to speak out to your phone and not have the messages garbled up by noise. In addition, applications can use the new 3-microphone setup for omnidirectional recordings

Mate 8’s new document readjustment feature automatically crops and rotates images taken via the document scanner app included with the phone, much like Microsoft’s document app.

Want to take a screenshot of a long webpage or a big text message conversation? Huawei includes a long page screen capture system by default in the Mate 8.

You can also crop your videos by knocking with two knuckles on the screen.

The phone supports dual-4G SIM cards and also supports the most bands of any dual-SIM phone on the market. For users who travel, Huawei offers a Roaming+ Experience feature which speeds up the network search and automatically adds your home country code so you can easily call your home country without having to look up the international code.

The rear camera comes with “innovative OIS technology” and a sensor from Sony (14MP). It also comes with a new feature called IMAGESmart 4.0, which automatically enhances your photos. The Mate 8 enhances clarity in low-light conditions, reduces noise, and focuses almost instantaneously.

The device comes in a new color called ‘Mocha Brown’ that Huawei states is unavailable on any other smartphone. They believe they are standing out from the rest of the pack with these color options.

The Huawei Mate 8 will launch in a large number of countries, at 599 euros for the 3GB RAM + 32GB storage model and 699 euros for the 4GB RAM + 64GB storage model.

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