For months now, the Huawei Ascend Mate 7 successor – the Huawei Mate 8 (previously Huawei Ascend Mate 8) has been in the news. The giant sized (or phablet if you like) device was expected to debut at the IFA 2015 but the company only announced the Huawei Mate S.
Courtesy of the GFXBench benchmark database listing , a device found on there has the tendency to actually turn out to be the Huawei Mate 8 (listed as the Huawei NXT-AL10). It sports a 6-inch display with a resolution of (1920 x 1080) Full HD instead of the (2560 x 1440 pixels) QHD earlier reported.
As expected, the company used a Kirin processor but this time it is the 16nm FinFET produced Hi-Silicon Kirin 950 processor clocked at 2.2GHz (4 x Cortex-A72 cores clocked at 2.2/2.4 GHZ + 4 x Cortex-A53 clocked at 2.0 GHz). The chipset is paired with Mali T880 GPU, 4GB of RAM and 64GB built-in storage space out of which only 53GB is user available.
For photography, the Huawei NXT-AL10/Mate 8 has a rear facing 16-megapixels camera with Dual Tone LED flash and a front facing 8-Megapixels camera for selfies; both camera record 1080p video. The phablet runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow OS with Emotion UI (EMUI) ontop, tick the dots in terms of all connectivity including 4G LTE and NFC.
Huawei could released a lighter variant with 3GB of RAM and 32GB native storage space; the rest of the space should be the same. Both version could also pack a fingerprint scanner, microSD card slot, and there are possibilities that the display will have the Force Touch display touted on the Mate S.
In terms of pricing, the Mate S is expected to be priced at CNY 3,299 ($520) price tag for the 3GB RAM variant and the 4GB variant will carry a price tag of CNY 3,899 ($610).
Source: GSMArena
