While not being very consistent to rumor mill and making news go mad about it, Huawei Mate 8 is official with a bit of silence in its announcement. The company did not air much fanfare which is strange for the flagship phablet that is third largest in the industry.Huawei Mate 8 runs on a Kirin 950 chipset, with octa-core CPU and Mali T880MP4

Huawei Mate 8 Goes Official

GPU. Further it packs 6-inch FHD IPS display.For those who are still not familiar with Kirin 950 chipset, it comes with four high-power Cortex-A72 cores, clocked at up to 2.3 GHz and an additional four power-saving Cortex-A53 ones, working at 1.8 GHz.

Interestingly it comes with i5 coprocessor that “supports speech recognition, low-power consumption MP3, all the functions of a sensor hub, fused location provider (FLP) navigation, and reduces location-based power consumption,” the company said in a press release. Carved out of aerospace-grade aluminum and 2.5D curved diamond cut glass, the Mate 8 will hit the market with rear-mounted fingerprint sensor. Camera-wise, the smartphone carries Sony’s latest IMX298 16MP sensor at the rear and an 8MP front facer.

The Huawei Mate 8 packs 4000mAh battery and comes in three storage versions i.e. 3GB/32GB, 4GB/64GB, and 4GB/128GB, with cost at around $480, $590, and $700, respectively. Color options are Champagne Gold, Moonlight Silver, Space Gray, and Mocha Brown.

The handsets boots next-generation EMUI 4.0 OS based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow, and brings features including voice controls, a power-saving firewall, a defragmenter, and eRecovery.

For now the device will only sell in China while its international availability will be determined in CES next year.