Huawei has announced the Mate 8, a flagship phablet that runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow. The Mate 8 features a 6-inch full HD display and Huawei’s new processor, the Kirin 950.
The 950 is an octa-core chip with four Cortex ARM A72 cores at 2.3GHz and four A53 cores at 1.8GHz. The Kirin 950 is aided by Huawei’s i5 coprocessor for low-power tasks, such as managing always-on sensors.
Huawei didn’t provide details about the Mate 8’s camera, but the phone offers some intelligent tools like voice controls, a firewall, a defragmenter, and mobile payment capabilities. The Mate 8 runs Huawei’s EMUI 4.0 skin.
Huawei said the phone will be revealed in full at CES in January and made available in China during the first quarter of 2016.
