Huawei may unveil the Mate 8 smartphone on November 26. A teaser which appears to be of the upcoming smartphone has appeared and shows the number ‘8’ along with a date of November 26. The new teaser has the same circuitry theme as the one found on the invite for the unveiling of the new Kirin 950 SoC. So it is expected that the new phone will be powered by the same processor.
Huawei is already tipped to unveil the Kirin 950 SoC on November 5 and it was expected that the company may unveil the new phone at the same time to show off the new processor’s capabilities. The processor was supposedly benchmarked on GeekBench in August and the results were pretty impressive. It managed to get a single core score of 1909 and a multi core score of 4970.
According to previous rumours, the Kirin 950 would have an octa-core processor. Four of those might be Cortex-A72 cores that are clocked at 2.4GHz while the remaining four may be Cortex-A57 cores. It is also tipped to support LPDDR4 RAM with a Mali-T880 GPU. The chipset has been tipped to be produced by TSMC using ts 16nm FinFET process.
Another leak shows two photographs which are supposedly taken by a Foxconn employee and show parts of the smartphone. The two images supposedly show the metal frame as well as the SIM tray of the device. The SIM tray shown in the image is possibly a hybrid SIM tray in which the second SIM slot can also be used as a microSD card slot.
Huawei unveiled the Mate S at the IFA in Berlin this year. The phone comes with a 5.5-inch AMOLED display with Full HD resolution with Corning Gorilla Glass 4. It is powered by a Kirin 935 SoC with 3GB of RAM. At the back of the device is a 13MP camera while there is an 8MP camera at the front. The device also comes with a 2,700mAh battery and runs EMUI layered over Android Lollipop. The Huawei Mate S is also the first smartphone to come with Force Touch technology.
Source: Mobile-Dad