After months of rumors and leaks, the announcement of Huawei P8 has not caught us by surprise precisely. The Chinese company recently celebrated the launch event for its new flagship in London, confirming many rumors in recent weeks.
Nothing Ascend, Huawei P8 to dry. It features an aluminum design with a profile of only 6.4 mm tight to the screen, measuring 5.2 inches. The camera comes with an advanced image sensor and optical image stabilizer. Inside features a HiSilicon Kirin 64-bit processor, 3GB of RAM, 4G connectivity and a battery of 2,680 milliamps. We tell you all the details of Huawei P8.
Display and Design
Huawei increases the size of the screen P8, slightly to 5.2 inches. However, passing fashion QHD resolution and stays in FullHD (1,920 x 1,080 pixels), achieving a more than acceptable density of 424 dots per inch besides that consume less battery.
To prevent equipment grow much, Huawei has set the screen to the edges as possible, but what stands out is the thinness. The Huawei anticipates P8 terminals as the Galaxy S6 or iPhone 6 with a profile of only 6.4 millimeters thick. As has become customary, the body is made of aluminum, which in this case also covers the rear. It will come in four colors: Mystic Champagne, Titanium Grey, Gold and Carbon Black which is the same as saying beige, gray, gold and black.
Camera and Multimedia
Huawei launches a new sensor RGBW with P8. It has 13 megapixels and combines three pixels (red, green and blue) with one white, getting 32% more light in scenes with high contrast and reduces noise up to 78% when shooting in low light. In addition, it is accompanied by an optical stabilizer reduces tremors up to 1.2 degrees. Huawei noted in the presentation that other models like the iPhone 6 Plus only compensate the tremors of 0.6 degrees. Huawei also includes an image signal processor that operates independently and is responsible for improving the white balance and auto exposure, while achieving more natural colors.
Huawei P8 camera also debuts new software features, like Auto Painting with light that manages to capture the trails of lights, like if we use a very long exposure on an SLR, but with the difference that the P8 us will show a preview before shooting. The Manager Mode allows you to link up to three smartphones Huawei P8 and record a scene from various angles simultaneously.
There are also interesting features in the multimedia section, as the speaker with DSP Hi6402 system that provides powerful sound to use as hands free or play music. Huawei also comes with Voice + function, which increases the volume of calls up to 58%, and an additional microphone that reduces noise up to 90%.
Power, memory and operating system
As we are accustomed, Huawei P8 processor is the house brand. Namely a HISILICON Kirin a 935 with 64-bit support. Consists of two groups of four cores Cortex A53 operating at 2 and 1.5 GHz respectively. The RAM is 3 GB, like most Android phones last generation.
The Huawei P8 comes in two versions with different capacities to choose from 16 or 64 GB. Both have the option to expand the memory with MicroSD cards 128 Gb maximum. The MicroSD is inserted into a multifunction slot, which also allows us to insert a second Nanosim card.
How could it be otherwise, the Huawei P8 comes standard with the latest from Android, namely version 5.0.2 Lollipop. The interface becomes more simple and intuitive; notifications can be read on the lock screen and no new security options among many other innovations. In this case, Huawei brings visual Emotion UI layer, with many customization options and some special functions. Huawei introduces new systems of gestures with his knuckles which has called Knuckle Sense and allow you to make screenshots giving two soft touches on the panel, as if we were knocking on a door. It also comes with an application that limits the power consumption of the installed tools and keyboard app allows phone calls to other countries without dialing the prefix.
Connectivity and autonomy
Being a mobile Huawei he could not miss a connection profile to match. As we have already mentioned, has two SIM slots, both compatible with 4G mobile networks. It also connects to 3G and WiFi mobile networks. Huawei includes WiFi + function, which will select the best networks to connect at all times, plus it features dual antenna to ensure more stable calls. It comes with Bluetooth 4.1, GPS antenna, DLNA, NFC chip, MicroUSB and headphone jack.
Huawei has embedded a battery of 2,680 milliamps in the small body of Huawei P8. The company says it has a duration in use of a day and a half, whereas if the use is becoming more intensive full day. The App consumption function firewall alerts you when an application is consuming more energy than it should and for longer limited autonomy as possible
Availability and reviews
The Huawei P8 will be available from May in two versions with different capacity and different price. The 16 GB model can be obtained by $ 500, while the 64GB edition will rise to 600 euros. Huawei is moving closer to the prices of the leading brands of Android, but so does the technology used, the design or duties. The P8 is a slim smartphone with premium materials and a unique technical profile of a high-end. The company remains true to the Kirin processors and offers a slightly larger, but with full HD resolution screen. The camera sensor with RGBW and optical stabilizer is one of the highlights, but made to order could rise to 16 megapixel resolution.