Huawei’s line of new flagship smartphones — the P8 and the P8 Lite — have arrived in the country! Both smartphones share the same design and construction language, but greatly differ in its internal hardware and price, with the P8 bearing more than half of what the P8 Lite is currently priced at.
Aimed for the camera-centric individuals, the P8 highlights a lot of new photography features enclosed in a sleek, elegant body with a 5.2-inch display, and is powered by a 64-bit Octacore Kirin Chip and 3GB of RAM, and Android Lollipop skinned with Huawei’s own EMUI 3.1.
Huawei P8 specs
- 5.2-inch Full HD IPS display, 1920×1080, 434ppi
- 2.0GHz Octa-core Huawei Kirin 930/935 chipset, 64-bit
- 3GB RAM
- 16GB, 64GB internal storage
- expandable via microSD
- 13MP rear camera with OIS, Dual-tone LED Flash,
- DSLR-level Independent Imaging Signal Processor (IISP)
- 8MP front-facing camera
- Dual-SIM, Dual Standby, Dual LTE
- 4G LTE Cat.4, 3G HSPA+
- Huawei Signal+, Huawei Roaming+
- Dolby Digital Plus Audio
- Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, hotspot, Bluetooth 4.0 with A2DP andLE, GPS with A-GPS and GLONASS, FM Radio
- EMUI 3.1 over Android 5.0 Lollipop
- 2680mAh battery
- 144.9 mm x 71.8 mm x 6.4 mm
Its little sibling, the P8 Lite, sports an HD display, a lesser octa-core Kirin processor, and 2GB of RAM. Like the P8, the P8 Lite has EMUI skinned all over Android Lollipop and boasts LTE Cat.4 connectivity.
Huawei P8 Lite specs
- 5.0-inch IPS display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3@ 720 x 1280 pixels, 294ppi
- 1.2GHz 64-bit octa-core HiSilicon Kirin 620
- Mali-T450 MP4 GPU
- 2GB RAM
- 16GB internal storage
- 13MP rear BSI AF camera with Dual LED Flash
- 5MP front camera
- Expandable up to 128GB via microSD
- Dual-SIM, Dual Standby, Dual 4G LTE Cat.4
- WiFi 802.11 b/g/n/a/ac, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC, GPS with aGPS, GLONASS
- Huawei Signal+, Huawei Voice+, Huawei Roaming+
- EMUI 3.1 over Android 5.0 Lollipop
- 2,200mAh Li-Po battery
- 143 x 70.6 x 7.7mm, 131 grams
The Huawei P8 will retail in stores for Php 21,990, while the P8 Lite will bear, of course, a lighter price tag set at Php 9,990.