The Huawei Mate 8 gets certification from the FCC, US release expected right after CES 2016

Announced last November in China, Huawei’s upcoming Mate 8, a sequel to the company’s feature-packed phablet the Mate 7 has been certified by the FCC. With the FCC chores done, Huawei is set to fulfill its promise to bring more news and details about the new phablet at CES 2016 which is a few weeks away from now and has suggested the a US release of the phablet is imminent.

The handset bares a model number NXT-L09 and should sport the same hardware and design as with its Chinese variant. The Huawei Mate 8 features a large 6-inch full-HD IPS display with 1920 x 1080 resolutions with a super thin bezels. It comes with Huawei’s own Kirin 950, an 8-core chipset with four cores of Cortex-A72 running at 2.3 GHz and four cores of Cortex-A53 at 1.8 GHz. It also includes a Mali-T880 Graphics processor and an i5 co-processor. Whatever the purpose of getting the Mate 8, Huawei offers the handset in two formats with one having 3 GB of RAM while the other, more premium build is equipped with 4 GB of RAM and will be available in a handful of different storage options.

Taking advantage of that powerful specs, the new Mate 8 comes equipped with a 16 Megapixel Sony IMX298 imaging sensor and features an f/2.0 aperture, 1.12um pixel size, Phase Detection Auto Focus (PDAF) and an Optical Image Stabilization (OIS). While the back camera is loaded with features, the front camera also makes sure that it can handle more than what users might expect with an 8 Megapixel Sony IMX129 image sensor with an f/2.4 aperture for a perfect Selfie and a high-quality, high-resolution video call capabilities.

Like the Mate 7 and the Mate S, the new Mate 8 will include by default a built-in fingerprint sensor for online transactions and unlocking the handset which heighten the level of security of the device. It runs on the latest Android 6.0 Marshmallow with Huawei’s proprietary EMUI 4.0 user interface on top and is maintained by a 4000 mAh embedded battery that promises 18 hours of talk time and 22 days of standby. It includes primarily a 4G/LTE wireless network connectivity and has adopted the new Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11ac also known as WiFi 5G and Bluetooth 4.2. Other connectivity options are yet to be revealed soon as Huawei will showcase the new handset at CES 2016.

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