6.4 mm thin Huawei P8 officially announced, features Android 5.0 Lollipop

Huawei, the popular Chinese smartphone manufacturer, has officially announced the Huawei P8. It is the successor to the Huawei P7, and features a thin metal unibody design and a high-end hardware specifications. This device is just 6.4 mm thin, but features a metal unibody with special nano-coating which guards the device against water splashes and accidental damage. Also, the bezels are very thin, with a screen-to-body ratio of 78.3 percent, higher than the likes of Samsung Galaxy S6 edge and HTC One M9.

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It comes with a 5.2-inch IPS LCD display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, contrast ratio of 1500:1, and an ability to detect touches from knuckles.  It is equipped with a new Kirin 935 processor which combines eight ARM Cortex A-53 CPU cores, Mali-T628 GPU, and 3GB of RAM. The device will be available in two storage configurations – 16GB and 64GB, and also comes with a microSD card slot. This Android 5.0 Lollipop powered dual-SIM smartphone comes with 4G LTE (both SIM cards), Wi-Fi b/g/n, and Bluetooth v4.1 in terms of connectivity.

There’s a huge focus on camera, as the primary camera comes with a 13-megapixel sensor with autofocus, F/2.0 aperture, dual-tone LED flash, and optical image stabilisation. It is the first smartphone to feature an RBGW camera sensor to capture more light, but only tops out at 1080p video recording. The company claims that its camera can capture images which have DSLR like image quality. There’s an 8-megapixel camera on the front, but there are no details if it can recording 1080p videos.