Huawei brought out their big guns on their IFA appearance, with the launch of premium Huawei Mate S, price around P33,900 pesos for P12k, the mid-tier Huawei G8, which costs around P20,800 pesos.
The Huawei Mate S is Huawei’s mysterious and well anticipated smartphone, its the follow-up to the Mate 7. The Mate S possesses all the redeeming features of the Mate 7, namely, the all metal body and its 5.5-inch, 1080p LCD screen. The Mate S is said to feature a Force-Touch display functionality.
The Mate S will be powered by an in-house Kirin 935 chipset, with a dual quadcore processor. For the phone’s camera,the Mate S will sport a 13MP rear camera with OIS features and an 8MP front-facing camera with LED soft light.
The Huawei G8, not like the Mate S, ain’t exactly much of a mystery. Being made official a few weeks prior to IFA. The G8 made an appearance simply to serve up a few updates regarding the phone’s pricing on Europe.
The Huawei G8 has a 5.5-inch, 1080p HD screen, a 13MP rear camera with dual-LED flash, a 5MP selfie shooter and chip powered Snapdragon 615, with an Android 5.1 Lollipop.
The Huawei Mate S is priced at 649 euros or around P33,900 pesos for the 32GB standard variant, while the 62GB premium variant is priced at 699 euros or around P36,500 pesos. The Huawei G8’s official price on Europe is 399 euros or around P20,800 pesos.
We’ll wait for upcoming news regarding these new line-ups from Huawei. Please leave your comments and suggestions on the comments section below.
Huawei Mate S specs |
Huawei G8 specs |
| 5.5-inch AMOLED, 1080p, 401ppi | 5.5-inch IPS, 1080p LCD, 401ppi |
| 7.2mm thickness, 156g weight | 7.5mm thickness and 167g weight |
| Cornings Gorilla Glass 4 | Scratch- resistant |
| 3GB of RAM, HiSilicon Kirin 935 chipset | 2GB of RAM(for the 16GB variant), 3GB of RAM(for the 32GB variant), Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 |
| 32/63/128GB internal stoage | 16GB and 32GB internal storage |
| 13MP rear camera, 3096p, OIS, dual-LED (dual tone) flash, Force touch display (Optional) | 13MP rear camera, 3120p, dual-LED (dual-tone) flash |
| 8MP front-facing camera, LED flash | 5MP front-facing camera |
| dual-SIM(Optional), WiFi ac, Blueetooth 4.0, GPS, FM Radio | dual-SIM, WiFi ac, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, GLONASS |
| Android. 5.1.1 Lollipop, Emotion UI 3.1 | Android OS 5.1 Lollipop, Emotion UI |
| 2700mAh battery | 3000mAh battery |
| Luxurious Gold, Mystic Champagne, Titanium Grey | Black, white, Gold |
| P33,900 for the 32GB variant and P36,500 for the 64GB variant price as of September 5 | P20,800 price as of September 5 |
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