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Huawei Mate 8 Review

    See other variants reviews Score: 76.6 / 100

Huawei Mate 8 is a great quality Android phone, featuring an enormous 6 inches multi-touch capacitive screen, a high-tech processing unit speeding at 2.3 GHz, and 2 cameras, a 16 MP back camera and an 8 megapixels front camera. We will get a better idea about this device's specifications when we get into deeper details.

This cellphone feels much lighter than what one would think about a device this size. Talking about its body design materials, this cellphone is mainly made of metal. This phone is just 0.31 inches thick, making its way into the thinnest phones podium. This cellphone is quite a compact phone, taking into account that it features a 6 inches display and it is just 6.19" long. This phone is offerred in a variety of color variations like black, gray, brown and gold.

Huawei decided to build this cellphone with a HiSilicon Kirin 950 system chip, which holds an extremely fast 2300 megahertz processing unit with a big 4 GB RAM memory. A good point of the Huawei Mate 8 is the 128 GB inmense internal storage and an SD extension slot, which allows the user to store hundreds of applications and even the heaviest games currently available without worrying about how much storage is left.

This cellphone features two cameras, a 16 megapixels back facing camera and an 8 mega-pixels front side camera. It can also capture 1920x1080 Full HD videos at 60 fps. In addition, the camera features a few good characteristics like optical image stabilization, flash, face detection shooting and geo tagging.

The Huawei Mate 8 includes an amazing 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) 6-inches display, giving this cellphone a great image quality. This display uses IPS LCD capacitive technology, and has multi-touch detection.

The Huawei Mate 8 has Wi-Fi connection (which can be shared with other devices acting as a wireless modem), LTE-A 4G , the fastest data connection and 3G fast connection type, over HSPA, HSUPA and EDGE technologies. This device supports dual sim to be able to to use two different carriers or phone lines at the same time.

The Huawei Mate 8 features a big capacity 4000 mAh Li - Polymer battery, enough to provide this cellphone with an incredibly long battery duration. Huawei says this cellphone has a talk time of 18 hours and a stand by time of 528 hours.

This phone also includes a wide variety of interesting features as NFC (to trigger actions, transfer data or make payments by holding your cellphone close to another NFC device or tag), Bluetooth (4.2), GPS Navigation and FM Radio, and plenty of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Barometer and Compass.

This phone is being sold for about $ 460, which is somewhat expensive for this kind of cellphone. It doesn't matter whether you are looking for a gaming cellphone, want a cellphone to mostly use social networks and internet browsing, want it for work or want it to take plenty of pictures, you will probably be very happy with it.



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Specifications

Device Type:Phone
Brand:Huawei
Operating System (OS):Android 6.0
Variant:See other variants reviews
Also Known As:Huawei NXT-TL00
Dimensions:6.19 x 3.17 x 0.31 inchesMetric15.72 x 8.05 x 0.79 cmImperial
Weight:6.53 ouncesMetric185.12 gImperial
Colors:Black, Brown, Gold and Gray
Materials:Metal
Price:$ 460.00

Display

Screen Type:IPS LCD (16M colors)
Size:6 inchesMetric15.2 cmImperial
Resolution:1080 x 1920 pixels (Full HD)
Pixel density:367 pixels per inchMetric144.49 pixels per cmImperial
Touch screen:Capacitive, Multi-touch

Hardware

Chipset:HiSilicon Kirin 950
Processor:ARM Cortex-A72 and ARM Cortex-A53, 64-bit (Single-Core 2300 MHz)
RAM Memory:4 GB
Graphics Processor:ARM Mali-T880 MP4
Internal Memory:128 GB
SD Card Slot:microSD, microSDHC, microSDXC (up to 128 GB)

Battery

Battery type:Li - Polymer
Removable:Yes
Capacity:4000 mAh
Stand-by Time:528 hours
Talk Time:18 hours

Camera

Back camera:16 megapixels
    Aperture:f/2.00
    Flash:Yes
Front camera:8 megapixels
Max video resolution:1920 x 1080 (60 fps) (Full HD)
Camera features:Face Detection Shooting, Geo Tagging and Optical Image Stabilization

Networks

Wi-Fi:Yes
    Mobile Hotspot:Yes
SIM Card Type:Nano SIM
Dual SIM:Yes
LTE (4G) Bands:700 (band 12), 700 (band 17), 800 (band 18), 800 (band 19), 800 (band 20), 850 (band 5), 850 (band 26), 900 (band 8), 1700/2100 (band 4), 1800 (band 3), 1900 (band 2), 2100 (band 1), 2600 (band 7)
UMTS Bands:850, 900, 1700/2100, 1900, 2100
GSM Bands:850, 900, 1800, 1900
Technologies:LTE-A (4G), HSPA, HSUPA, EDGE, GPRS and GSM

Other Features

Bluetooth:Version 4.2
GPS:Yes
NFC (Near Field Communication):Yes
Radio:FM Radio
Sensors:Accelerometer, Barometer, Compass, Gyroscope, Light Sensor and Proximity Sensor