Category: HUAWEI

Huawei Enjoy 5S with 5-inch HD display, 7.6mm metal body, fingerprint sensor announced

Huawei Enjoy 5S

Huawei has introduced Enjoy 5S, an enhanced version of the Enjoy 5 that was introduced back in October, in China. It has a 5-inch HD display, runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with Emotion UI 3.1 Lite, has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera, similar to the Enjoy 5, but this is powered by a faster 1.5 octa-core 64-bit MediaTek MT6753T processor, has 7.6mm slim full metal unibody design and also comes with a fingerprint sensor. Continue reading “Huawei Enjoy 5S with 5-inch HD display, 7.6mm metal body, fingerprint sensor announced”

Huawei might make the 2016 Google Nexus 7 tablet

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2015 has been the year of the smartphones for Google as they unveiled two Nexus smartphones instead of one. However, tablet fans were disappointed since there was no new tablet released this year especially for those who wanted a new Nexus 7. New rumors indicate that we will see a new Nexus 7 in 2016 and that it will be made by Huawei.

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Huawei Honor Band Z1 goes on sale in India for Rs. 5499

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Huawei launched the Honor Band Z1, sleep and fitness tracking band in India last month. It has a 1.06 inch (128 x 128 pixels) OLED display, looks like a smartwatch and shows time. It has brushed metal bezel around the dial and doesn’t have any physical buttons. It works with both Android and iOS devices, shows message notifications and incoming call alerts. Continue reading “Huawei Honor Band Z1 goes on sale in India for Rs. 5499”

Huawei Mate 8 with 6-inch 1080p display, Android 6.0 and fingerprint sensor announced

Huawei Mate 8

Huawei has announced Mate 8, the company’s latest smartphone in the Mate series at an event in China, as it promised. It packs a 6-inch 1080p display with 2.7mm ultra narrow frame, 83% screen-to-body ratio and 2.5D glass, is powered by a Octa-Core HiSilicon Kirin 950 SoC with IntelliSense i5 sensor hub and runs on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) with Emotion UI 4.0 on top. It has a 16-megapixel rear camera with Sony IMX298 sensor, dual-tone LED flash, phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF), optical image stabilization (OIS) and uses Huawei’s own ISP. It also has an 8-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Huawei Mate 8 with 6-inch 1080p display, Android 6.0 and fingerprint sensor announced”

New Huawei device appears on benchmark listing – Could be the Honor 5X Plus

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While the Huawei Mate 8 is just a few hours away from its November 26th announcement, we now have a new benchmark listing of a mysterious Huawei device. The listing could very well be that of the Huawei Honor 5X Plus.

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Official Huawei Mate 8 photos surface online

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The Huawei Mate 8 is shaping out to be a beast of a smartphone. Now, with these newly surfaced photos, the smartphone seems to be even more interesting as it has a nice sleek design with a high screen to body ratio.

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Huawei Mate 8 with Kirin 950 SoC, 4GB RAM surfaces in benchmarks and live images

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Huawei Mate 8 codenamed NXT-AL10 has appeared on AnTuTu revealing most of its specifications. It will be powered by Huawei’s latest Kirin 950 Octa-Core SoC that was introduced earlier this month. In AnTuTu, the 4GB RAM variant scores 79131 points, beating its competitors. It scores roughly between 76,000 and 79,000 points, according to AnTuTu. Kirin 950 has up to 2.3 GHz quad-core ARM Cortex 72 CPU + up to 1.8 GHz quad-core ARM Cortex A53 GPU and Mali T880 GPU.

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Google Nexus 6P Benchmarks

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Google announced the Huawei-made Nexus 6P smartphone back in September, and it was launched in India last month, starting at Rs. 39,999. We brought you the unboxing of the smartphone recently, here we have its benchmarks. It is powered by an Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 64-bit 20nm processor that has four bigger ARM Cortex A57 cores clocked at 1.96GHz per core and four smaller ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.56GHz per core and has Adreno 430 GPU. It has 3GB RAM, packs 5.7-inch Quad HD AMOLED display and runs on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow). Check out the synthetic benchmark scores.

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Huawei demos next-gen Quick Charging tech that can charge 3000mAh battery to 48% in 5 minutes

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Huawei’s Watt Lab, which belongs to the Central Research Institute demoed next-generation quick charging technology at the 56th Battery Symposium in Japan that allows new lithium-ion batteries to charge 10 times faster than normal batteries, reaching about 50% capacity in few minutes. Continue reading “Huawei demos next-gen Quick Charging tech that can charge 3000mAh battery to 48% in 5 minutes”

Google Nexus 6P Unboxing

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Google announced the Huawei-made Nexus 6P smartphone in September, and it was launched in India in October, priced at Rs. 39,999 for 32GB and Rs. 42,999 for the 64GB variant. It went on pre-order across India through retail stores and Flipkart from October 14th and it was shipped to customers starting from last week. It is the successor of the Motorola-made Nexus 6 that was introduced last year. We already brought you the photo gallery and hands-on impressions of the Nexus 6P, here we have its unboxing.

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Huawei Honor 4X gets a new update, brings SOS feature, Diwali Theme and Stagefright fixes

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Huawei released Android 5.1 (Lollipop) update for the Honor 4X smartphone in India last month. Now the company has released another minor update for the phone that adds new SOS feature, Diwali Theme and also brings fixes for Stagefright vulnerability. Continue reading “Huawei Honor 4X gets a new update, brings SOS feature, Diwali Theme and Stagefright fixes”

Huawei P9 Max with 4GB RAM, Kirin 950 SoC surface on AnTuTu

A new smartphone from Huawei dubbed as P9 Max has surfaced on AnTuTu benchmarks. As per the listing, the P9 Max is powered by Huawei’s own Kirin 950 SoC.

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Huawei G7 Plus with 5.5-inch 1080p display, 3GB RAM, fingerprint sensor announced

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Huawei announced the G8, a new smartphone in the G Series at the IFA. Now the company has released (Via) the same phone as the G7 Plus in some markets such as China, Vietnam and Thailand. To remind you, the smartphone packs a 5.5-inch 1080p screen, is powered by a 1.5GHz octa-core Snapdragon 616 SoC, runs Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with Huawei Emotion UI 3.1, has a 13-megapixel rear camera with dual-tone LED flash, 5-megapixel front-facing camera, comes with all-metal uni-body build and a fingerprint sensor 2.0 on the back. Continue reading “Huawei G7 Plus with 5.5-inch 1080p display, 3GB RAM, fingerprint sensor announced”

Huawei Kirin 950 Octa-Core 16nm SoC with Mali T880 GPU announced

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Huawei has announced Kirin 950 SoC at an event in Beijing today. It is an Octa-Core SoC with four ARM Cortex A72 Cores that can be clocked up to 2.53 GHz and four ARM Cortex A53 Cores that can be clocked up to 1.8 GHz. It is based on ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture so it can alternate between the Cortex A72 or A53 cores depending on the type of tasks. It has support for Category 6 LTE networks and is built on 16nm FinFET process. Continue reading “Huawei Kirin 950 Octa-Core 16nm SoC with Mali T880 GPU announced”