Huawei P8 : In Focus

Before I begin, I just want to give credits to my reliable source, GSMArena.com

Yes, like what I have said on my previous article, I'm going to make a seperate article just to focus on Huawei's newest flagship discussing it's features, improvements, and highlights. So Huawei P8 : In focus, after the jump.

So let's begin on its design. I mentioned on my previous article that Huawei P8 sports a full-metal unibody design like any other. Here is a fact, it took them a whole 810 minutes or approximately 13 1/2 hours just to carve the smartphone's frame from a solid aluminum. With that being said, we are rest assured that it is precisely made from scratch to perfection. They also made some really premium looking color choices to complete the package.

At the front of the device is the 5.2" Full HD IPS LCD display protected by a Corning Gorilla Glass 3. They made the bezels as thin as possible to make the device more compact despite of it's screen size. The display takes up to 78.3% of the front of the device vs. 70.8% and 65.9% of Galaxy S6 and iPhone 6 respectively. Speaking of the display, they made some special or should I say, new ways to interact with the screen. By just using your knuckles ! I think it's useful when you have sweaty hands. You can also take screenshots by double-tapping the screen and crop simultaneously by drawing gestures.

Let's proceed to the hardware, running inside the metal unibody is a HiSilicon Kirin 935 chipset that utilizes four ARM Cortex A57 cores clocked at 2Ghz and four Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.5Ghz with a Mali-T628 GPU. According to Huawei, the new chipset is 80% faster when it comes to CPU performance versus it's predecessor, the P7, and 100% increase in 3D performance.  Smoothness in operation is expected especially that it has 3GB of RAM.

Talking about the optics, well, Huawei also made some cool or usable things on it's camera. Like using world's first RGBW 4-color imaging. It promises up 78% less noise in darker places and up to 32% higher brightness on higher-contrasted images. It also features optical image stabilization for shake-free video recording. Selfies are handled by it's 8MP front snapper.

On the connectivity side, Huawei also made some improvements utilizing their latest technology when it comes to wireless connectivity. They used to tiny seperate antennas on this phone which results in making the device more compact but ensures seamless switching. It has dual-SIM slots, both of which are LTE capable. What's unusual is that the secondary SIM slot doubles as a microSD slot.

Huawei also made different accessories available for purchase and one of them is the "E-ink" flip cover which uses E-ink display, really helpful under direct sunlight and night time reading.

Lastly, it has 16GB and 64GB variants both which are called "Standard and Premium versions" respectively. For the 16GB variant, it is priced at €599 and for the 64GB variant, it is priced at €699. Huawei said that Europe, South Africa and Middle East would receive P8 first while others would receive as time comes.

So what are your thoughts regarding this phone ? is the price worth it ?, let me know by leaving your comments below