Chinese giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. recently launched its new Honor 7 smartphone in China last month, and now plans to release the new successor to the Ascend Mate 7 phablet by September.
Recently, a video had surfaced on YouTube confirming the existence of the Huawei Mate 8 device and providing a glimpse of the phone's metal build and fingerprint reader.
PC Magazine reports that the Mate 8 is expected to be unveiled at the upcoming IFA 2015 event that will take place in September. A recent report by Softpedia says otherwise, claiming there's a possibility the Chinese company might not unveil this new phone this year, and might announce a new variant instead.
In addition, it was revealed last month that the Huawei Honor 7 is already scheduled to make its way in the U.K. market on Aug. 27.
Here's the difference between the two new Huawei smartphones in terms of the specs and features.
Both phones are known to have fingerprint scanners and will run on the new Android Lollipop operating system (OS). The Huawei Honor 7 sports a 5.2-inch display screen with a 1080 x 1920 pixel resolution, while the Mate 8 is rumored to sport a larger 6-inch display screen with a 1440 x 2560 resolution.
The Honor 7 packs a HiSilicon Kirin 935 processor, 3GB RAM, and either 16GB or a large 64GB internal memory. The Mate 8, on the other hand, is expected to come with a HiSilicon Kirin 950 processor, 4GB RAM, and 64GB built-in memory. Another version of the Mate 8 will also be available, according to rumors, offering 1GB less RAM (3GB) with 32GB memory.
For the cameras, the Honor 7 comes with a 20-megapixel rear-facing camera and an 8-megapixel front-facing camera. Meanwhile, the Mate 8 is speculated to have a slightly different 20.7-megapixel camera on the back and the same 8-megapixel camera on the front.
The Huawei Honor 7 is powered by a large non-removable 3,100 mAh battery, according to GSM Arena. For the Huawei Mate 8, it's still unclear how big its battery will be.
