Huawei Mate 8 Price in UAE- Is It Worth a Buy?

Huawei launched Mate 8 in the year 2015. The company has been manufacturing exceptional and high-end smartphones since 1997. It is the world’s largest telecom infrastructure maker. Apart from smartphones, it also makes tablets, and smartwatches. Huawei 8 is a good phone that’s neither inexpensive not highly expensive. But should you buy it? Well, here is all about the phone you must know before making the decision.

Design and Display

Huawei Mate 8 is a touchscreen dual-sim phone. It is 157.1mm in height, 80.6mm in weight and 7.9mm in thickness. The phone weighs 185 grams and has an aluminum body which supports nano sim and has a hybrid tray. The phone comes with a non-removable Li-Po 4000 mAh battery that gives 528 hours of standby time and 98 hours of music play. Mate 8 comes with fast battery charging where you can charge your phone up to 37% in 30 min

It has the IPS-NEO display technology and LCD capacitive touchscreen with 16M colors and 16:9 aspect ratio. The screen size is 6 inches with 1080 x 1920 pixels resolution. The front panel is made of glass and has Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection. It has the fingerprint sensor and is available in various color variants like Space Gray, Moonlight Silver, Mocha Brown, and Champagne Gold.

Huawei Mate 8 Performance

Mate 8 has a 1.8GHz octa-core processor with Android 6.0 Marshmallow operating system that can be upgraded to 7.0 Nougat. The chipset used is HiSilicon Kirin 950 and Mali-T880 MP4 GPU. The phone has 3GB RAM and 32GB internal memory that you can expand up to 64GB using a microSD card. Its EMUI interface is polarizing to the users.

Huawei Mate 8 Camera

Its camera comes with Exposure compensation and ISO control. The back camera is of 16 MP with 2.0F aperture. It has amazing features like Face detection, Digital Zoom, Touch to focus, digital image stabilization, and auto flash. The main camera also has Dual-LED and dual-tone flash. It can click panorama and HDR images and you can record 1080p videos at 60fps, 1080p videos at 30fps, and 720p videos at 120fps frame speed. The selfie camera is of 8MP with 2.4F aperture and it can record 1080p videos at 30fps frame speed.

Huawei Mate 8 Connectivity

It has 802.11 a/b/g/n WiFi supported standards and GPS connectivity. It also has v 4.20 Bluetooth connectivity with FM, NFC, and USB connectivity as well. Mate 8 also has a 3.5mm jack for headphones.

Huawei Mate 8 Sensors

This phone comes with a handful of sensors other than fingerprint sensor. It has the Accelerometer, Proximity sensor, Gyroscope, and Ambient light sensor. However, it lacks a Compass/ Magnetometer, Temperature sensor, and Barometer. Therefore, this smartphone still leaves some room for adding more sensors and other useful features.