When we talk about the lavish handsets of the Huawei, we come to the Ascend Mate series which has now been shrunk to the “Mate” moniker with the introduction of Mate 8. Undoubtedly, the Ascend Mate series was a stellar in performance and filled major gaps that other monikers of the brand did not pick as vestibule. The important agenda of the phone is have bold and bolstering presence. With a 6-inch screen and a heavy metal body, you may not like the idea of holding it, but you may fantasize keeping a giant like this for once.

Huawei Mate 8 Review

Mate 8 that is developed with Kirin 950 chipset brings a lot of room for better processing. With some new advance features in line, the display is same 6-inch 1080p when there is a fair department for QHD resolution as per the recent trends among competitors. The device dimensions are 157.1 x 80.6 x 7.9 mm which is very compact for display like this. However, it is 185g in weight which is the outcome of metal body, battery capacity and display diagonal. The camera has switched from more square to circular. The two circles at the back one is LED light and other is fingerprint reader.

Huawei Mate 8 Review

The Huawei Mate 8 runs on a Kirin 950 chipset manufactured on a HiSilicon. Further it uses Mali-T880 GPU for graphics. Just like Ascend Mate 7, Mate 8 performs best at graphics side. The dual Quad-cores comes with the Kirin 950. This chipset is power efficient as it is built on 16nm process. The Mate 8 is using a combination of Quad core 2.3 GHz Cortex A72 and Quad Core 1.8 GHz Cortex A53 that makes it a heck of deal in chipset market. With the most amazing chipset ever and spill of Android over it, Mate 8 is the best possible operating handset on earth. Further it has superfast 3GB RAM and 64GB internal storage expandable up to 128GB via microSD. The memory is just enough to play games and videos efficiently.

Huawei Mate 8 Review

The Huawei Mate 8 features a 16 MP rear camera with phase detection autofocus. It can capture image with the resolution up to 4,608 x 3,456 pixels. The dual LED light dual tone will help you to adapt to surrounding darkness. The Huawei Mate 8 has an 8MP front facer with the resolution of 3264 x 2448pixcels. You can also record video at 1080p at 60 fps.

Huawei Mate 8 has 4000mAh battery with Fast Charging. Connectivity options include 6 LTE (300/50Mbps), dual-band Wi-Fi a/b/g/n/ac, Wi-Fi hotspot, Wi-Fi Direct, Bluetooth 4.2 LE, NFC, GPS/A-GPS/GLONASS/Beidou, and microUSB. The Mate 8 runs on Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow with Huawei EMUI v4.0 on top.

Overall it is an amazing handset with full of life and specs that will make your days and nights go crazy.