Hands-on Review:- Huawei Mate 8

DISCLAIMER

The opinion of this product is not to discourage the buyers for buying such product.

The opinion is just to state the pros and cons, with some introduction and specifications.

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1. Introduction

"More! More!" seems to be the right answers to the question "How big is too big?" as far as Huawei is concerned. That's why the Huawei Mate 8 is loaded with a massive 6" display, but you know what? It's about the same size as a 5.7" Nexus 6P or even a 5.5" iPhone 6s Plus.

In the hand, the Mate 8 felt a lot like the Nexus 6P, in fact, just with a larger screen (that's no coincidence, both phones are made by Huawei.


Besides the screen, the rest of the exterior is wrapped in metal that comes in several hues, including the unique Mocha Brown. The metal has different textures – the sides are micrometer-grade brushed metal while the back is bead-blasted smooth.


With the first Cortex-A72 cores in a chipset (four of them, plus 4x Cortex-A53) and Mali-T880, the Mate 8 should double the performance of the Mate 7 (neither Snapdragon nor Exynos chipsets have those yet). The chipset is wrapped in 6 layers of highly conductive DX19 material to distribute the heat away from the chipset.


The new 16nm FinFET manufacturing process allows for 70% better power-efficiency so Huawei is promising over two days of use. The 9V @ 2A charger will give you a full day's worth of battery life in just 30 minutes. Charging is done via regular microUSB 2.0 by the way, no USB Type-C here.
The camera takes a Sony sensor (IMX298) and puts it behind a f/2.0 aperture and arms it with OIS. It can correct up to 1.5° of shakes with its 3-axis motor (with help from famous stabilization gurus at LDS). It also features phase-detection autofocus.

The fingerprint reader

Additional security is provided by the special Huawei Secure keyboard, which always shows up when typing your passwords. You can install third-party keyboards as usual, but they won't get to see your password.


The screen can detect knocks with your knuckles, the default gesture is to capture a screenshot. You can do "long page" screenshots too, basically scrolling down to capture more than fits on the screen. A new feature is the detection of two-knuckle knocks, which capture a short video instead.
I’m quite impressed by the Mate 8 and we can't wait to put one through its paces. Oh well, perhaps once CES 2016 is behind our backs.

2. My experience (Read the Disclaimer above before reading the following)

Huawei mate 8 is impressive but I think 16 megapixel camera must come with 2160p video recording.One of the best flagship.

Design is personal taste. I like Huawei design more than that of other big OEM like Apple, Samsung, Sony, LG, etc, especially this Mate 8.


You should save money for snapdragon 820 powered phones....No point. You can’t max out the performance of the Kirin 950 anyways with day to day tasks, the Mali T880 may be more power efficient than the adreno 530 and it has a 1080P display. Unless you wanna wait until Google announces a phone with a 820 soc, it won’t be worth. If the makers don’t update their UI, then the phones will continue to be slow. The Nexus 6P, with the 810 V2.1 is already more future proof, than an S7 with an 820 or 8890. Software matters a lot more than a 40% improvement, when there’s really no visible real usage benefit, since it will be stuck in android marshmallow, and the 6p will be on 7.1.


Everyone for real no 4k great built and design is also great but no 4k for real and Huawei I don’t know overpriced I think I can get s7 for same price when the time comes but for real mate 8 seems perfect phablet it is cool big screened but super amoled 4 k is a bummer please Huawei add those for a boom device


Go for it.


You have to understand that when they say fast charging, it’s a standard of voltage and amperes altering rather than percentage increase, I believe fast charging is increasing the charging voltage form standard 5V to 9V or 12V depending on the standard... so a typical battery operates at 3.7V so this battery with 3000 mAh capacity has 3000mah*3.7V=mwh so 11.1 wh capacity. so a basic 5V charger with 1A outputs 5w (5Volts*1Amp=5watts) of power so it charges the above said battery example in just above 2hrs cause 5w * 2.2hrs = 11.1wh and a fast charging technology uses increased voltage to charge a battery faster than a standard charging, say the fast charging uses 9V with 1A output, it amounts to 9w, which amounts to 9w*1.2hrs=11.1wh so just above an hour to completely charge the above battery example... it does charge the battery faster but eventually degrades the battery life in the long run.... due to higher charging voltages..... This is just so people can understand how fast charging works...


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in 30 mins 37% of 4000mah = 1480mah
which is the typical battery capacity of iphone 5(1440mah)
so it charges iphone 5 completely in less than 30 mins do you still think its a typo... :)

I am absolutely in love with this phone,
 
Hmmm...

Like Mate S, here we have a device that is lovable (esp. if you go and grab one in your hand - trust me), BUT then you read weird things in the specs.


Let see (reading the specs from top down)...
 
1) I am all in for the huge screen, but I don't care about the "but is enough DPI for your eyes" discussion (so you can see with MY eyes?) and now accept QHD as the de facto for large screen flagships. 1080p, no.


2) They seem to have forgotten (!?!?!?) the force touch that is also supposedly coming for the 128GB Mate S, which although I saw demos, I don't think they will release (both the S force-touch and the S 128GB version). Where is force touch?
(note that I don't actually care about this feature and find it stupid - yet, they promised it, so where is it?...)


3) Emotion UI... Does it still lack app folder? (!!!). Also, knuckle-sense (or how they call it): Stupid. Really now. Have it since it is already implemented (and doesn't hurt), but don't advertise it. :D


4) Kirin 950... Yes it supposedly flies. But 1080p makes this, way more easy.


5) Camera seems to be top spec, but "I am not buying" it before seeing tests, since the optics are questionable. Who makes them and with what expertise.


6) WHERE IS 4K capture?


7) ...f/2.0 and 1/2.8" sensor size are not top spec actually. They are just ok.


8) microUSB 2.0 is yesterday news. Yes it is a "practical choice" but we need to move on (and I have).
 
That said, based on my experience with Mate S, we are talking about TOP BUILD quality (makes the iPhone seem cheap actually!) and fantastic (possibly the best) fingerprint sensor.

I don't know. Certainly good enough device to sell VERY well worldwide and allow Huawei (who are a giant in electronics anyway) build more "international-spec'ed" devices...

3. Specification

Also known as Huawei Ascend Mate8

NETWORK

Technology GSM / HSPA / LTE

2G bands GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - SIM 1 & SIM 2 (optional)

3G bands HSDPA 800 / 850 / 900 / 1700(AWS) / 1900 / 2100 - NXT-L29, NXT-L09

4G bands LTE band 1(2100), 2(1900), 3(1800), 4(1700/2100), 5(850), 6(900), 7(2600), 8(900), 12(700), 17(700), 18(800), 19(800), 20(800), 26(850), 38(2600), 39(1900), 40(2300) - NXT-L29 LTE band 1(2100), 2(1900), 3(1800), 4(1700/2100), 5(850), 6(900), 7(2600), 8(900), 12(700), 17(700), 18(800), 19(800), 20(800), 26(850), 28(700), 38(2600), 39(1900), 40(2300) - NXT-L09

Speed HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE Cat6 300/50 Mbps

GPRS Yes

EDGE Yes

LAUNCH

Announced2015, November

Status Available. Released 2015, November

BODY

Dimensions 157.1 x 80.6 x 7.9 mm (6.19 x 3.17 x 0.31 in)

Weight 185 g (6.53 oz)

SIM Nano-SIM - NXT-L09
Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by) - NXT-L29

DISPLAY

Type IPS-NEO LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

Size 6.0 inches (~78.0% screen-to-body ratio)

Resolution 1080 x 1920 pixels (~368 ppi pixel density)

Multitouch Yes

Protection Corning Gorilla Glass 4 - Emotion UI 4.0

PLATFORM

OS Android OS, v6.0 (Marshmallow)

Chipset HiSilicon Kirin 950

CPU Quad-core 2.3 GHz Cortex-A72 + quad-core 1.8 GHz Cortex A53

GPU Mali-T880 MP4

MEMORY

Card slot microSD, up to 128 GB (uses SIM 2 slot)

Internal 32 GB, 3 GB RAM - NXT-L09, NXT-L29
64 GB, 4 GB RAM - NXT-L29

CAMERA

Primary 16 MP, f/2.0, OIS, phase detection autofocus, dual-LED (dual tone) flash

Features 1/2.8" sensor size, geo-tagging, touch focus, face/smile detection, panorama, HDR

Video 1080p@60fps, 1080p@30fps, 720p@120fps

Secondary 8 MP, f/2.4, 1080p

SOUND

Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones

Loudspeaker Yes

3.5mm jack Yes

COMMS

WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, DLNA, WiFi Direct, hotspot

Bluetooth v4.2, A2DP, EDR, LE

GPS Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS

NFC Yes

Radio FM radio

USB microUSB v2.0, USB Host

FEATURES

Sensors Fingerprint, accelerometer, gyro, proximity, barometer, compass

Messaging SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email

Browser HTML5

Java No - Fast battery charging: 37% in 30 min
- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
- DivX/XviD/MP4/H.265/WMV player
- MP3/eAAC+/WMA/WAV/Flac player
- Document editor
- Photo/video editor

BATTERY 

Non-removable Li-Po 4000 mAh battery

Stand-by Up to 528 h (3G)

Talk time

Music play Up to 98 h

MISC

Colors Champagne Gold, Moonlight Silver, Space Gray, Mocha Brown

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