Hands-on with Huawei P8 and P8 Lite

Huawei Pakistan has launched its flagship smartphone Huawei P8 in the country yesterday. It’s all about Light Painting with a smartphone. It costs you much lower than other high-end devices.

During the Huawei Pakistan event yesterday night, we had a chance to get our hands on with the latest flagship phone, the Huawei P8. There was a sibling and affordable version of this phone with lesser features, the P8 lite.

In our first impressions, the Huawei P8 and the P8 Lite were really good. Their build quality is impressive with metallic body costing at Rs. 49,999/- and Rs. 25,799/- respectively.

Huawei P8

The flagship Huawei P8 weighs 144 grams and features 5.2 inch IPS display with Full HD resolution of 1920 x 1080 protected by Gorilla Glass 3. Under the hood, there is a Kirin 930 SoC with an Octa-core CPU (Quad-core 2GHz and another Quad-core 1.5GHz). 3 GB of RAM and  16 GB Internal storage with micro SD card up to 128 GB. It runs on Android 5.0 Lollipop and backed up with a 2680 mAh battery.

More importantly it comes with 13 MP Rear camera & 8 MP Front camera with exclusive features like light painting, trailing lights, silky water, start track, sparkling rain with fire etc. The rear camera is equipped with an optical image stabilizer (OIS) and dual LED (dual-Tone) flash.

Huawei P8 comes in Titanium Grey, Mystic Champagne, Carbon Black and Prestige Gold.

Huawei P8 Lite

The affordable Huawei P8 Lite weighs 131 grams features 5 inch IPS display with HD resolution of 1280 x 720 protected. Under the hood, there is a Kirin 620 SoC with an Octa-core CPU of 1.5GHz. 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB Internal storage with micro SD card up to 128 GB. It runs on Android 5.0 Lollipop and backed up with a 2200 mAh battery.

P8 Lite also comes with a 13 MP Rear camera but 5 MP Front camera. P8 Lite does not come with optical image stabilization but there is dual LED flash with the primary camera.

Huawei P8 Lite comes in black, white and gold colors.