With the success of the Huawei P9's Leica-branded camera, the company is bringing similar technology to its Honor brand. The Honor 8 has a 12MP dual-camera setup, with one camera taking monochrome images, but there's no Leica-branding here. This should mean that the Honor 8 doesn't pass through Leica's tests, the way the P9 did.
Huawei chose a metal and glass construction for the Honor 8, with a slick metal frame on the side and glass on the front and back of the phone.
There's a slight curve on the front, with 2.5D glass, for aesthetic purposes. It is also a dual-SIM, dual-4G smartphone, with a hybrid SIM slot.
The USB-Type C port is quickly becoming the norm, and the Honor 8 has one too, plus a headphone jack!
The Honor 8 runs on Huawei's own HiSilicon Kirin 950 SoC, which had been used on the Huawei Mate * (not in India) earlier. It is marginally slower than the Huawei P9's Kirin 955 SoC.
The Honor 8 has a 5.2 inch FHD display, with 424 ppi pixel density. It has 4GB of RAM, and 32GB of internal storage. The phone runs on EMUI 4.1, layered over Android 6.0 Marshmallow.