Huawei P8 and P8 Max: a smartphone next to a nearly tablet
Huawei announces its new products in the field of smartphones with the expected P8, next to which we find the great and particular P8 Max.
Old Billingsgate, London: This is the location chosen by Huawei for the launch of its new top of the range, in respect of which have already been disseminated several news during the past weeks. Last year Ascend P7 had pleasantly surprised the audience with a design certainly very nice and technical specifications that had nothing to envy to the most well-known devices.
Despite being a Chinese company the event begins with a punctuality that rivals the best Swiss watchmakers. Party suffered the introductory video in which a mysterious superhero uses the new smartphone to capture the light of a whole city. An indication of the capabilities of the camera? We’ll find out soon. That of light seems to be a recurring theme. On stage, the godmother of the event dressed in red as the range, company logo, introduces Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei Consumer Business Group.
A brief review of previous generations and then a video introduces the news of the day, all of the new Huawei P8. The CEO happens then the head of the division of Huawei Design that tells us how it was made the new smartphone flagship Chinese company. The frame is made entirely of brushed aluminum with a polished edge. Design Premium and Modern Look, these are the pillars of the philosophy followed by Huawei in the realization of this P8: the emphasis is on the fact that the smartphone is completely flat, without protruding like cameras so instead we see more and more often in the terminals of competition.
If we were to summarize the results of these studies, we could say that the design of the new Huawei P8 is in our eyes a mix between that of an iPhone and a Sony Xperia Z3. The size, despite the display of a well-half inch larger are exactly the same as an iPhone 6. The case is made entirely of aluminum, and the thickness is only 6.4 mm. For creating the body of this Huawei P8 takes 810 minutes of milling.
Four colors will be available: Mystic Champagne, Prestige Gold, Titanium Grey, Carbon Black. The display is a 5.2-inch IPS full HD resolution. The interface has been revamped and is generally clean and sober. Within this smartphone are a processor octa-core: it is a model Hi Silicon Kirin 935 64-bit production of the same Huawei, with 3 GB of RAM memory.
So let’s talk about the camera. The introduction anticipates that the innovations will not be related to the amount of megapixels but the photo quality in adverse light conditions. To obtain good results with low light conditions, the new P8 offers an optical stabilization with a mechanical able to make an excursion double that of the iPhone.
The sensor is the world’s first 4-color RGBW, with a pixel dedicated to the white color that leads to a 38% more brightness and a noise reduction of over 78%. The camera of the new P8 will then have an image processor independent quality comparable to that of a DSLR camera. The megapixels are then only 13 but the quality of the images obtained should be very high.
Interesting function Director Video Mode that lets you connect Huawei P8 to other 3 smartphone and shoot the same scene from different angles to get a professional fitting. Guests will find a new instrument linked to Selfie, called Perfect Selfie, which takes a series of pictures and chooses the one in which subjects are the best expression.
Great news regarding the connectivity with the technology Signal + that thanks to a double antenna allows to recover the signal and connect to networks much more quickly. Interesting news for commuters who travel frequently on high speed with a connection speed WiFi networks increased to never lose the signal when changing cell.
Adding even a technology that improves the switch automatically between the different networks and hotspots registered, in order to stay connected and not waste time in research networks.
New solutions also as regards the Roaming through the instrument Roaming + that allows a connection of up to three times faster with foreign networks thanks to a special database network easily recognizable once away from home.
Dual slot also as regards the Sim card. We will have a slot with the ability to insert a Nano Sim or a MicroSD memory card slot, and a second to the dwelling for a second Sim format Nano. Both Sim will have the ability to connect to 4G LTE networks.
News also as regards the usability and the interface. What is the new frontier after the multi-touch? The answer is the second Huawei Knuckle screen that allows you to take screenshots and capture portions of the screen using the knuckle of the finger.
The battery, as stated during the event should be able to guarantee 2.3 days of autonomy, thanks in particular to an improved management of the app in the background in addition to a battery with high capacity from 2,680 mAh. Interesting the accessory and-ink, a cover equipped with a screen e-ink ideal for reading text that is applied to the back of the screen.
Huawei P8 will be proposed in the Standard version, with 16 GB of storage memory and 3 GB of RAM, priced at $530; for version Premum the figure rises to $630 as well as the amount of memory storage that goes to 64 GB. Huawei also unveiled P8 Max, model that incorporates the technical specifications of P8 combine them with a display of 6.8 inches diagonally always of Full HD with a 4,360 mAh battery well capacity. Always will be proposed in two versions: Standard on 32 GB of system memory to $688.
