Huawei unveiled Ascend P7 Arsenal Edition recently, today Huawei has confirmed its plans to launched a Ascend P7 smartphone with scratch-proof sapphire screen protection after some rumors. The upcoming iPhone 6 is rumored to feature sapphire screen protection. Kyocera recently unveiled its plans to launch a smartphone with sapphire screen. Xiaomi is reportedly working on using sapphire glass for its limited edition phone.
Several luxury smartphones use sapphire glass, but we are yet to see it in other smartphones. Using sapphire display will increase the smartphone’s cost, but we are yet to hear details about its pricing. Huawei plans to sell the limited edition smartphones in its Chinese online store starting September, according to Engadget.
The upcoming Ascend P7 will have similar specifications as the original P7 that includes a 5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) full HD IPS touch-sensitive display, 1.8 GHz quad-core Kirin 910T processor with Mali-450 MP4 GPU, Android 4.4 (KitKat) with Huawei own Emotion UI, 13-megapixel rear camera with Sony’s BSI sensor, f/2.0 aperture and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera.
It is not clear if we can expected Huawei to showcase it at the IFA 2014 next week, where it would unveil new devices, including the Ascend Mate7 smartphone with a fingerprint scanner.