Huawei has launched the Huawei Maimang 4 in China; the device is the basically the Huawei G8 with the Snapdragon 616 processor instead of the Snapdragon 615 processor. The device is the first ever to use the SoC.
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 chipset on the Huawei Maimang 4 is a 64-bit one, has 8 Cortex A53 cores with 4 of them clocking at 1.7GHz and the other 4 at 1.2GHz. It uses the same Adreno 405 GPU as the SD 615 and comes with an integrated X5 LTE World Mode Modem and Full 1080p HD support.
Asides the change in chipset, everything else seems to be the same. The Huawei Maimang 4 sports a 5.5-inch FHD display, either 2GB RAM/16GB ROM or 3GB RAM/32GB ROM, Dual SIM slots, a microSD card slot, 5MP front facing camera, 13MP rear facing camera, Android 5.1 Lollipop OS with EMUI ontop and backed by a 3000mAh battery which could provide almost two days of constant usage.
It is not uncommon for Huawei to released a device to suit different markets. The company launched the Huawei P8 Lite in two chipset versions – Kirin SoC and Qualcomm Soc version; of recent the device has launched under a new name in Latin America as the Huawei G Elite.
Source: Qualcomm.
