Huawei Mate 8 expected to launch in January, 2016

Huawei Mate 8, after staying in speculations, finally went on sale in China earlier this month. While the high-end smartphone is still in rumors to make its appearance somewhere out of China – more specifically in US in early 2016 as the most recent update suggests that the Mate 8 will appear at the upcoming Consumer Electronic Show.

Throughout the year 2015, Huawei has established itself as a strong contender in the smartphones market against top manufacturers. With the launches of high-end smartphones such as Huawei P8, Mate 7, Mate S, and famous Honor Series Huawei has actually shown its capability to produce high-end smartphones as well as attract consumers for their competitive prices. Do not forget the achievement they have made with Google to launch the high-end version of this year’s Nexus device namely Huawei Nexus 6P.

Along with the Mate 8, it’s also expected that the Chinese manufacturer will also launch low-budget smartphone Honor 5x. According to our sources (which are not so clear) the Mate 8 will be launched in Pakistan sooner after the global launch and there will be a great event organised by Huawei Pakistan just like they have done for other high-end devices.

For curious readers, Huawei Mate 8 equips with the latest HiSilicon Kirin 950 SoC with 2.3 GHz Octa-core process and Micro core I5. It runs on the latest Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) with EMUI 4.0 and comes in 32GB+3GB or 64GB/128GB+4GB variants.16 Megapixels camera comes with optical image stabilization. Battery is 4000mAh. It’s 6″ phablet with around 78% screen to body ratio serving at FHD resolution of 1920×1080 pixels.

Honor 5x (aka Glory Play) costs only CNY 999 (approx. USD 155 or PKR 16,000/-)  and CNY 1399 in China (approx. USD 215 or PKR 23,000/-) for 2GB and 3GB variants respectively.

Mate 8 is currently selling in China from CNY 2,999 (approx. USD 462 or PKR 48,000/-) for 32GB variants and CNY 4,399 (approx. USD 680 or PKR 71,000/-) for 128GB variants. 64GB variants cost CNY 3,699 (approx. USD 570 or PKR 60,000/-) There is another most expensive variant named “Monarch edition” which costs CNY 6888 (approx. USD 1060 or PKR 1,10,000/-)