Huawei Mate 8 Review

Huawei Mate 8

Huawei phones are amazing smartphones at the moment, especially Huawei Mate 8 which shows some maturity and handle the Mate7 predecessor's shortcomings. In Huawei Mate 8 you can find what you are looking for, a 6.0 inches full HD screen with a HiSilicon Kirin 950 processor
and a Non-removable Li-Po 4000 mAh battery which offers the sufficient power and longevity at a good price. Some people consider Huawei Mate 8 is the perfect formula as an android phone, but others complain it’s too big volume and too low resolution at a price that’s nearly more than the Google Nexus 6P.

    

Huawei Mate 8 Price

Huawei Mate 8 available colors

Huawei Mate 8 uses a 32GB dual-SIM for the model (NXT-L29) and a single-SIM for the model (NTX-L09) but the second SIM slot used for a microSD card. The single SIM (NTX-L09) model’s price is about $500 with two colors to choose first the Moonlight Silver with a white screen bezel, second the Space Gray with a black screen bezel.

The Huawei Mate 8 (NTX-L09) model is available with four colors Moonlight Silver, Space Gray, Champagne Gold and Mocha Brown.

Huawei Mate 8 Design

Huawei Mate 8 is bigger than Mate 7, but the styling is awesome with a thin side bezels “outside frame” and a plastic surround the chassis and the screen. There’s a black border around the screen with 2-3 mm width but not noticeable on the black model while it turned off or when the background is black, but very noticeable with a light background.

The Mate 8 has the same size as the iphone 6s plus, and because of it’s bigger screen cannot be used with one hand. The Mate 8 metal unidody has a curved back with chamfered edges, which makes it thinner.

At the Huawei Mate 8’s bottom there are two grilles, one of them for the loudspeaker. The Mate 8 still using the Micro-USB instead of the USB-C for better compatibility, also the Mate 8 provided with a fingerprint reader, which needs to be touched to wake the phone without pressing the power button first, in addition to a dual-LED flash. The phone arrives in a box contains a plastic shell case for protection and a screen protector.

The Mate 8’s screen is full HD resolution “367ppi” also has a great bright, colors, contrast and viewing angles provided with a good price.

Huawei Mate 8 Performance

The Mate 8 chipset is HiSilicon Kirin 950 which is the own design for Huawei. The Kirin 950 has eight cores, four are running up to 2.3 GHz “Cortex-A72 “at the maximum performance demand and the other four 1.8GHz “Cortex A53 “ cores are running for efficiency priority. The Kirin 950 supports quick real-time encryption and fingerprint scanning twice as fast as on the Huawei Mate 7. The Mate 8 offers three power plans (Performance, Smart and Ultra).

Battery life

The Huawei Mate 8 battery has large capacity (Non-removable Li-Po 4000 mAh battery). The Mate 8 phone supports fast charging so the battery can be recharged in 2.5h but the phone doesn’t support the wireless charging. The battery can last two days with ordinary use and a full day with heavy use.

Huawei Mate 8 Software

The Mate 8 runs on Marshmallow 6.0 and Huawei’s Emotion UI 4.0. EMUI which, supports a lot of features like the document scanner, waking up the phone on a different wallpaper every time and the split screen mode that lets you view two apps at once but not Gmail, YouTube or any Google apps.

Huawei Mate 8 Photo camera

The Mate 8 uses a 16MP camera with a Sony 1/2.8" sensor size which, has a lot of features such as focusing fast, touch focus, face/smile detection, panorama and high dynamic range (HDR). The Mate 8’s front camera is 8MP with accepted dynamic range and colors also supports good background blurring. The camera app has different beauty enhancements for using.

Huawei Mate 8 Video quality

The Huawei Mate 8 can record videos with good quality when using a resolution of 1080p at 60fps, unfortunately the Mate 8 doesn’t support the 2160p (4K) resolution. An Optical Image Stabilization system used while recording to get nice and steady video.

Huawei Mate 8 Verdict

The Huawei Mate 8 is a good smartphone. It’s high-end not perfect but fast and has a good battery life but there’s no microSD slot.