Does not burn and does not swell. do not burn and do not wobble Huawei Mate 8 smartphone
Huawei Mate 8 is a stylish smartped for the business segment. Here you indicate both the technical characteristics and design of this device, as well as the dimensions of its 6-inch screen. The wide variety of this gadget was presented at CES 2015. It came to replace the latest iteration of smartphones. According to the words of Chinese retailers, they did not plan to re-shape the appearance of the device. This, rather, can be called a kind of work on improvements and updates to the old Huawei Mate 7.
How can we please you with the 8th model of Mate, as we will tell you about Huawei Mate 8.
Before we begin a detailed look at the Huawei Mate 8, let's briefly get to know the technical characteristics of this device:
| masa | 186 g; |
| Rosemary | 7.9 × 80.6 × 157.1 mm; |
| battery cover | 4000 mA ⋅ year, unknown type; |
| Volume of RAM | 3 Gb; |
| Observation of internal memory | 32 Gb; |
| screen | 6-inch, 368 ppi, 1080 × 1920; |
| cameras | head - 16 megapixel (with autofocus and photoshop), front - 8 megapixel; |
| sensors | bitmap scanner, microscope, compass, barometer, proximity and light sensors; |
| Navigation | Glonass, GPS; |
| drone-free interfaces | NFC, bluetooth 4.2, Wi-Fi Direct i 802.11 ac/n/g/b/a; |
| SIM cards | 2 nano-SIM cards; |
| zv'azok | LTE 1, 3, 7, 20 || UMTS 2100/1900/900/850 MHz || GSM 1900/1800/900/850 MHz; |
| Memory cards | micro SDXC volume up to 128 Gb; |
| sadly graphic | Mali-T880 MP4; |
| chipset | 8-core Huawei Kirin 950, 2.3 GHz; |
| OS | Android 6.0 + EMUI 4.0. |
Equipment
Huawei Mate 8 is sold in a beautiful black cardboard box, the front part of which is decorated with gold lettering of the model name.
Everything in the box is laid on top. At the top there is a special box for the Huawei Mate 8 itself. Below it are 3 boxes with accessories. The smartped is equipped with a bumper that can be attached to protect the ends, a set of documents, a clip for lifting the nano-SIM tray, a stereo headset, an electrical adapter with a power supply of up to 2 A, and a USB cable.
Design
A look at the Huawei Mate 8 smartphone is difficult without a detailed look at the design of the device. The device has a truly flagship design: 100% metal body, small-sized, for a 6-inch display. The case is only 7.9 millimeters thick, its matte surface is created using sandblasting.
The flat sides of the smartphone have the texture of rolled metal. The edges are decorated with shiny chamfers. Suvori robes look very stylish and noble. The phone is available in brown, black and silver colors. The assembly of the body is practically perfect, it does not deform and does not produce any sounds during various manipulations.
The front part of Huawei Mate 8 is covered with a very high 2.5D slope. The display occupies 86% of the front part. The fields below and in the mountains are decorated with tiny little ones that look like funny little circles, which can only be seen under the sun and only in the brightest light. In the field below there is the printer's logo, above which there are virtual control keys.
At the center above the smartphone display there is a speaker, the right hand from which you can use the front camera lens, as well as light level sensors.
Vikonana aluminum back cover of Huawei Mate 8 of unknown type. It has a specially customized plastic insert of the same color as the body I will install.
On the back panel in the center you can add a head camera, placed in an aluminum disk, decorated with glitter edging. On the left there is a light-emitting diode camera, under which there is a fingerprint sensor with a glossy bevel.
The right side of the smartphone is equipped with a food activation key and a “rocker” for adjusting the volume level.
The left side is equipped with an openable tray for 2 nano-SIM cards.
At the top end of the Huawei Mate 8 there is a 3.5 mm audio output and an opening for the microphone.
At the central part of the bottom end there is a micro-USB port, on the sides of which there are a pair of grilles symmetrically arranged, under which there are microphones and audio speakers.
It’s also a standard embellishment for Huawei smartphones - a pair of star-shaped gwents.
display
Mate 8 has a 6-inch IPS matrix with separate FullHD (1080 × 1920). The pixel density level should be set to 368 dots per 1 inch. Compared to competitors' devices, some of which have a value exceeding 500, Huawei Mate 8 looks weak, so we evaluate not the numbers, but the brightness of the screen itself. There may be some chips in the fonts, or pixelation here is impossible without a magnifying glass. This is not exactly the right approach in terms of image, but in terms of ease of use everything is excellent.
The unique touch surface of Huawei Mate 8 can recognize 10 one-hour messages. You can handle the device with mittens if you want and without special handholding, but, at any time, you can accept it or you can send a call.
The maximum brightness of the screen is 490 cd/m2, and the lowest brightness is 49 cd/m2. Due to the presence of a special wind scanner and the presence of a polarizing filter, users can use the device comfortably Eat in bright light.
The lowest level of the black field is 0.33 cd/m2, which is very bad for the Republic of Kazakhstan. The level of contrast is at the same level - 1310: 1. The use of RK, and not more than the current AMOLED, has led to the fact that the brightness of the contrast image is more pleasing, less great than on a small screen.
The situation with the color of the screen of Huawei Mate 8 is the same. Gamma reaches a value of 2.11, which is not fatal against the standard of 2.2. However, the average DeltaE improvement of 5.37 is not encouraging. This difference is explained by the fact that the color girth completely exceeds the sRGB norms.
The color temperature of the Huawei Mate 8 screen is 7500K, which is “colder” than the standard 6500K. This is not critical, once configured, you can easily switch color profiles, adjusting them to your taste.
Miraculously, I look at Wikonian in the strictest traditions of IPS: however, with proper attention to the perpendicular, the color does not matter, and the contrast drops slightly.
sound
Regardless of the pair of decorative grilles placed on the lower end of the Huawei Mate 8, there is only one speaker under them, the borderline loudness of which is not surprising. The microphone angle is 125°, which is extremely important with a close-range connection.
In headphone settings there is an option to enhance DTS sound. The sound quality in the headphones is good. The Music add-on can create files in the FLAC format.
You can listen to the radio through an FM tuner; to operate this track, connect a drone headset that functions like a short-haired antenna. The presence of 3 microphones allows you to clearly record sound from an additional voice recorder with a highly effective noise suppression system in the special “Interview” and “Zustrich” modes.
cameras
The main camera of the Huawei Mate 8 has a 16-megapixel Sony IMX298 sensor, the limiting aperture of the lens is f / 2.0. The LED photographic lamp is designed to illuminate the photographed object in continuous and pulse modes.
With the vertical orientation of Huawei Mate 8 on the main screen, you can see camera settings icons, go to the menu for switching modes and changing cameras (head / front).
In the line of the lower edge there are 5 lines for special lifting modes:
- “Hourly break”;
- "Video mode";
- "Photo mode";
- "Embellishment";
- "Svetlo."
The alternation between these modes occurs using an additional horizontal scroll across the surface of the screen. Below are a row of icons for clicking on the menu of all filters, special effects and going to the gallery, as well as the shutter key.
There are 9 items in the special shooting modes menu:
- “Research of texts”;
- "Audio notes";
- "Upgraded";
- "Watermarks";
- "Autofocus";
- Prof mode;
- “Night winter”;
- Panoramic special mode.
The pro mode provides a manual option for setting photo-taking parameters, such as the appearance of icons, scaled by size. Behind another similar scale, you select parameters for your own adjustments, including: white balance, focus type, exposure compensation, brightness, ISO sensitivity level. If necessary, this scale can be turned off without any need by clicking the arrows.
For help, go to the main menu of video and photo shooting parameters, you can adjust the proportion of frames and resolution. Other points are related to all the additional capabilities of autofocus, freezing of screen and physical keys.
The Huawei Mate 8 camera can miraculously take pictures in auto mode in good lighting. Bad frames can be removed during night photography. In the most flexible minds, for highly effective borrowing, it is best to use a professional mode. In the special mode called “Light”, for clear capture you need special accessories - a tripod and a clamp.
The head camera is designed to take panoramas at high distances and has a very good exposure option around the taken frames. However, this program is not designed to collect from the middle and foreground all objects that were quickly moved.
In the “Focus” special mode, you can take photographs in a special, original, SPECIAL FORMAT. This whole system consists of several photographs, which allows you to turn on correction of the photo shooting distance and record photographs in separate files while working with captured photographic material.
The front camera is equipped with an 8-megapixel sensor and a lens with strictly fixed photofocus without photoshoot. Its light intensity is f/2.4. She copes well with photographing self-portraits, clearly, clear photographs with competent color reproduction in daylight.
Memory and memory card
The smartphone comes in two versions: with 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of internal memory and with 3 GB of RAM and 32 GB of internal memory.
We are looking at the Huawei Mate 8 with 32 GB and 3 GB of RAM. With 32 GB of internal memory, no more than 24 GB are available. Let me remind you that the protests in due time Mate 7 Mav is less than 16 Gb. The memory of the Mate 8 can be increased by inserting a 128 GB micro-SD / XC / HC memory card instead of another SIM card (the previous model had 64 GB). In addition, supported by special USB-OTG technology, it is possible to connect and flash drives.
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Huawei Mate 8 works with a pair of nano-SIM cards in Dual stand-by mode: these two cards carry only one transmission. In this way, during the hour of activity on each other’s SIM card is deactivated. With SIM cards, the smartphone works according to the standard scheme, although there are no special features here.
The Huawei Mate 8 smartphone supports NFC, bluetooth 4.2 LE, Wi-Fi standard 802.11ac in addition to standard n/g/b. Є support for LTE category 6, standard data transmission with speed up to 300 Mb/s. On the territory of our country there are no problems with LTE; there are necessary ranges.
Mate 8 supports navigation systems such as BeiDou (China), Glonass, GPS-A, GPS. The phone functions seamlessly in navigation mode - it instantly alerts satellites. Connecting with 20 satellites with 6-meter accuracy takes Mate 8 15 seconds. By the way, this 6-inch smartphone can be used by car owners in the navigator box.
An hour of autonomous work and productivity
This smartped contains an unknown battery, the capacity of which is 4000 mA ⋅ year. At extremely intense temperatures and 75% brightness, the device can be washed all day without recharging.
With normal operation, the smartphone can last for approximately 30 years, and when the energy-saving mode is activated, it can last more than 2 days.
In addition, a fully charged battery of the discussed smartphone allows you to:
Watch videos at borderline brightness for 10 years;
Play in “important” graphical video games (for example, in “WoT”) - 5 years;
The smartphone supports quick charging, which allows you to charge the battery 70% in 30 minutes.
Together with Mate 8, there was the debut of the new 8-core HiSilicon Kirin 950 chipset, created using the 16-nm process technology by the Taiwanese company TSMC. It has 4 powerful ARM Cortex-A72 cores with a frequency of 2.3 GHz and 4 Cortex-A53 cores with a frequency of 1.8 GHz.
Clear processing of graphic data is ensured by the fast ARM Mali-T880 MP4 with 4-conductor units with a frequency of 900 MHz.
The operation of the fingerprint scanner and other sensors is ensured by the Smart i5 processor. The new ISP, designed for image processing, has an integrated LTE modem on the chipset, which supports Cat.6, and a dual-channel LPDDR4 / LPDDR3 memory controller.
The productivity of the Kirin 950 processor is 100% higher, compared to the Kirin 925, which is superior to the previous version of the smartphone, energy efficiency is 70% higher, and the graphics speed has become stronger by 126%. Regardless of the price, the new processor is closely compared to Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 and Samsung Exons 8890.
Operating system
The Huawei Mate 8 smartphone operates on Android 6.0 OS with EMUI 4.0 shell. Huawei, as before, “shoveled” the entire Android, trying to refine it and make it more functional. The device supports Smart Dial and Russian language, it has a lot of customization of phone behavior, firmware programs for greater privacy, starting with notes and ending with a file manager.
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Having carried out a detailed examination of the Huawei Mate 8, we can say that it is truly a balanced smartphone, entirely worthy of its flagship status. A heavy filling does not require this device to function autonomously for three hours.
Other advantages of this flagship include a compact and beautiful body, narrow frames around the screen, a pop-up camera with an optical stabilization system, and a fingerprint scanner that quickly works.
The only downside is that the Huawei Mate 8 is priced at $800. The screen size is low for a flagship smartphone and the lack of a nearby memory card slot is not a big deal.
Video review of Huawei Mate 8
This view is perfectly complemented by the video review of the Huawei Mate 8. It will allow you to fully understand what this smartphone is and how it is suitable for you.
Huawei Mate 8 smartphone - review
Another desktop with additional features. Behind the scenes, there are a number of add-ons installed with the Chinese interface (Phone, browser, social media, navigation), which, however, can be easily removed. Instead of the Google Play store, a HiApp store is installed here, which is not allowed to install or update any recommended add-ons, because they will all be in Chinese.
Drive installation of Google services. Google Play Store can be easily searched in HiApp and installed. And then the services you need are installed from the Google Play Store.
One service that I was unable to install from the Google Play Store is the synchronization of Google contacts. This add-on was easily installed via GApps Installer (Google services installer).
The stench is easy to spot.
The list of startups has a “Clear” button (restore programs from memory).
The design of the shell and icons, as Huawei calls it, can be changed within very wide ranges. The axis, for example, is one of these topics - in a completely different style.
The shell supports a two-window operating mode.
From the lock window, you can immediately click on the camera. Also, by swiping the gesture from bottom to top, the corporate panel of actions and add-ons appears.
View of the extensions panel on the blocking window when the audio track is running.
Rozmova. Є recording mode.
Testing the speed of the channel for 4G showed the speed of the robot. The speed of Wi-Fi was also at maximum.
The brilliance of the telephone call was a garne, the subscriber felt much better. The noise reduction system worked completely effectively. Audio The sound of the new speaker is surprisingly clear: good volume and good bass. Myst Nail2 stud headphones are good: full and clear sound, decent highs and good bass.
The oversized Plantronics BackBeat Pro headphones in drone mode are not particularly good: the sound is more volumetric, but slightly dull, bad bass, which does not rise to the surface, and the highs are not visible at all.
Tanks saw 58 FPS. 
fine-tuning The setup, as you might expect from Huawei, is already wide-ranging and varied. 
Setting up two SIM cards. One of them is 2G / 3G / 4G, the other is just 2G. However, 4G / 3G can be used for any card.
Switching mode between Wi-Fi and mobile communications. Before speaking, a cool thing: when it is turned on, the smartphone does not cool down until the Wi-Fi stops working, but switches to the mobile Internet.
The working screen can be switched to a simple mode with great icons and simple settings.
Adjusting the display. You can change color temperature, viewing modes, typeface and font size.
Setting up information.
Information about skin conditions.
Finger control. With this help you can also take photos and videos, respond to calls, silence the alarm, and access the notification panel. Before speech, the scanner works well and recognizes normally. (Also, as you say, blame the problems on recognition with bare hands.)
Adjustment of on-screen buttons.
Management
Access rights manager.
Improved energy supply.
Memory.
The smartphone received a 128 GB memory card in exFAT without any problems.
Memory clearing functions.
As always, we are encouraged by the most powerful forces.
Gesture with a brush of your finger - you can also touch it manually.
Winter modes.
Adjusted.
Attach photographs. (All clickable.) Booths with emergency lighting. 
A beautiful sleepy day. 
In the premises. 
Sleepy day. 
Frowning. Short boards. 
Nich. 
Placed with poor lighting. 
Evening 
Selfie with front camera. 
Well, here’s a video example.
I need to say that the camera was thoroughly interrogated. Now it compares favorably with other flagships. You sacrifice a little for speed and speed, especially the Galaxy S6 edge + and LG G4, but not much. In general, the camera is completely decent, it is possible and necessary to clean up. Discomfort, as I experienced with the Mate 7 (although the camera there was not at all bad), is not something to worry about here. The pictures are bright, intense, the white balance may not be crap, the exposure is within reasonable limits (and it’s easy to correct). Focuses well, focusing on sharpness is not too difficult (similar to S6 and LG G4). Before speaking, here the camera can still be resumed (and removed immediately, as specified) from sleep mode when the volume rocker is pressed. System data and speed code Data on CPU-Z.
AnTuTu test. The highest index. First place in the table.
Test from Geekbench.
Well, a PCMark test. Before speaking, the Galaxy S6 edge + has 5260.
It looks like the best smartphone on the market is working right now. Well, from a purely practical point of view, it’s clear that the device is even better than a Swedish one: everything burns out and starts up smoothly and without any hiccups, there are practically no lags. Using a smartphone is even more comfortable. Hour of autonomous robot Remember, Mate 7 showed a very good hour of battery life. What happened here. Internet. The display brightness is set to a comfortable 50% without auto-adjustment. All non-drone types of communication are turned on, and the page is updated in the browser every 30 seconds. Almost exactly 12 years - perhaps the same as with the Mate 7 (and its platform is not as productive). Video. The settings screen is at a comfortable 10th level of brightness of the player (maximum - 15th), is in the “At the fly” mode, in MX Player a TV series with hardware decoding is playing in a loop. 10 years 10 years - good, but Mate 7 is alive and well. Reading. The display screen is at a comfortable 30% brightness without auto-lighting, the AllReader automatically turns the side, and the “Flying” mode is turned on. 18 godin 24 hvilini. Synthetic test. With the screen at a comfortable brightness and with non-drag modes enabled, PCMark ran a test of mixed modes: surfing, photo processing, video, reading, and so on, in order to emulate a good engagement of the smartphone with various standard activities. The axis is right. Look, it’s really cool, the Galaxy S6 edge + has 7 years and 41 hours. This test means that the smartphone is wiped every day with the most active use.
Purely practical, until the evening of the first day, due to extreme anxiety, the smartphone lost 70% of its charge. And, with one charge, you can live for up to three days - in the all-inclusive mode. If you do the optimization (change the drone link and coordinate assignments, but you don’t need to turn on automatic synchronization), you can live up to five days. Also, the energy saving in the cleanup mode is well optimized Nya: for a night we met 2-3 hundredths of charge. So after an hour of autonomous work, everything is even better here. The smartphone supports charging in 9V / 2A mode. At a charge of up to 50%, the smartphone can be charged in literally 50 hours, and a full charge from scratch takes 2 years or 45 hours. Caution during work and practice In the process of testing, I did not find any serious glitches, although sometimes it happened that the Play Market seemed to crash at startup. Noticeable heating of the back cover did not appear when important applications were running. There was only one serious glitch. I was unable to install the Epic Citadel game: when I tried to download it from Google Play, Google Play got virused at the moment of downloading. And nothing helped here: neither tried to download via 4G, and not via Wi-Fi (in some cases it helped), nor did I reset the system outside. I don’t even know why this toy didn’t work out here. All other games and programs installed without any problems. What skills can I earn here? The device came out today. A strong platform, a flexible package, a very clear display, an excellent hour of autonomous operation, cameras that are not top-end, but overall high quality. If this model is compared to the price of the Galaxy S6 edge +, then in Russia the Mate 8 starts at 35 thousand, and the S6 edge + - Somewhere around 42 thousand, then S6 edge + is 1.2 times more expensive. Compared to S6 edge + Mate 8:
- support for another SIM card or memory card; larger display (although we remember about the on-screen buttons) with similar dimensions; maybe a different platform; significantly less than an hour of autonomous work; a little louder sound in the headphones; a little bit of a camera; Less effective design.
Shortly after the announcement of its 6-inch flagship phablet Ascend Mate 7, Huawei introduced its new device - the Mate 8 smartphone. The new product had a premium design and one of the most sophisticated fillings today. Report review of the new device from Huawei in our today's material.
Design and construction
Huawei positions its new smartphone as a gadget for business people, and it enhances the design of the device. Such a smartphone will definitely be out of place in the crowd of an expensive suit at a presentation or negotiation.
From the other side, the device in its rather large metal body looks to be heavy, not only because of the all-metal body, but because of its dimensions: approximately 16 cm in depth and 8 cm in width with a vase of 185 g.
It is clear that the manufacturer is trying to avoid increasing the size of the device: the smartphone has a huge frame, and the 6-inch display does not allow the Mate 8 to easily and comfortably fit into any kind of casket.
In a metal case, the phablet has visible plastic inserts at the bottom and at the bottom to solve the problem of signal shielding.
The front panel is completely covered with dry Corning Gorilla Glass 4. Under the screen there are physical or physical keys all day. The buttons appear only when the screen is on and are visible when they are not needed, for example, in games or when watching videos. This decision allowed us to spare a couple of precious millimeters of the body.
On the right side panel there is a food button, as well as a thickness adjustment dial.
On the left side of the case there is only one slot, then this slot can accommodate 2 cards - nanoSIM and microSD. If you need to install 2 SIM cards, you will have to sacrifice a microSD card. Samsung often tries to achieve the same steps in its smartphones, otherwise similar compromises in top-end devices are a little boring.
At the bottom end of the smartphone there is a connector for microUSB 2.0, as well as a speaker grille, so that when listening to music the sound is not muffled, even if the smartphone is lying on the table. At the top end of the device there is a 3.5 mm jack for headphones and a microphone.
On the front panel there is a large speaker, right-handed in front of the front panel there is a front camera module with a cover. To the left of the speaker is the smartphone indicator. If the device is charging and there are no new notifications, then this indicator is invisible.
Rear panel. On the Mate 8, the main camera module with a sliding frame and the finger scanner are round in shape. I especially like this design more, less square elements on the back panel of the Mate 7.
The body itself also has small rounded corners, and the back panel is noticeably thicker in the middle, making it easier to take the smartphone from a table or other horizontal surfaces. The gadget can be used manually to accommodate devices of such dimensions.
screen
On top of the older Mate S, the smartphone did not remove the AMOLED display. A 6-inch IPS screen with a resolution of 1080x1920 pixels is installed here. In Huawei’s opinion, 2K displays in current smartphones are supernatural, and in general, the Mate 8 confirms this. With a pixel density of 327 ppi, the font on the screen is clear, the picture looks bright and contrasty.
Often, different smartphone displays may show a distinct “cold” or “warm” tint. Huawei has given home users the ability to adjust the color temperature of the screen behind their clothes.
The display supports up to 10 one-hour ticks, as well as a robot mode with mittens. Tim, whoever wants to speed it up, I want to please: press harder or choose thinner mittens. You can perform some simple actions on the call dialer or you can operate it with gloves, but for full-fledged work with your smartphone you will have to take them off.
One of the most attractive aspects of the smartphone, besides the design, is the 8-core HiSilicon Kirin 950 chipset from Huawei. Kirin 950 with Big.Little architecture has 4 high-performance Cortex-A72 cores (clock frequency 2.3 GHz) and 4 energy-efficient Cortex-A53 cores (clock frequency 1.8 GHz).
The graphics processor in the device contains a Mali-T880 MP4 chip. In addition, a special i5 spy processor processes information from the smartphone’s sensors. Also, Kirin 950 supports high-speed LTE Cat.6 networks.
At the hour of its announcement in the fall of last year, the Kirin 950 chip had accumulated just over 80,000 points in AnTuTu. The smartphone that appeared in my hands scores 91,114 points in AnTuTu, which allows it to surpass such competitors as Meizu Pro 5, Samsung Galaxy Note 5, Galaxy S6 Edge, as well as the Xiaomi flagship in the benchmark rating.
Of course, when the MWC 2016 exhibition took place not so long ago, more recent mobile products with 6 GB of RAM and a Snapdragon 820 chip were presented, but all of them have not yet gone on sale (Le Max Pro with the first batch of a thousand Irnikov does not take it to the extreme) , so Huawei Mate 8 can rightfully be called one of the most productive smartphones available today.
The device is available in versions with 3 GB of RAM and 32 GB of flash memory or 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage memory. The device supports memory cards with a capacity of up to 128 GB.
We looked at the 3 GB version of the smartphone, during which time no problems were noted, including when working with “important” and graphics-intensive mobile “games” on the Asphalt 8 platform.
In addition to standard communication modules (Wi-Fi and Bluetooth) in the gadget, as is the case with the current flagship, there is a transfer module for NFC contactless payments. For now, the Belarusian koristuvacheva is unlikely to be able to stagnate often, but in the future he may become unprofitable.
Vikoristannya
In addition, Huawei has equipped its phablet with the ability to quickly charge (Quick Charge version 3.0). According to the manufacturer, the gadget charges up to 100% in 2.5 years. It took me a little over 3 hours.
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The new Huawei Mate 8 smartphone is likely to appeal to people who are looking for great screens, style and functionality in smartphones. Vіn is also guilty of touching the hearts of inveterate technomaniacs. It’s time to appreciate the various additional options of the smartphone, as well as its good autonomy and productive features. Tim, who gives great respect to the camera, will also play with the new phablet - there is a lot of adjustment and the light painting mode gives the opportunity to experiment. In general, I have very positive reactions to the purchase of the new Huawei Mate 8. This gadget is for those who value their image and are ready to pay 11.5 million rubles. rubles for your support.
Nadiya Abramchuk
Review of the Huawei Mate 8 smartphone | Enter
Huawei is already well known in many markets. The company, known as a telecommunications company, has quickly gained popularity in the smartphone segment. According to data from the international research company IDC, Huawei is the third smartphone manufacturer with sales obligations in the world. This is achieved mainly in the Chinese market, where according to data for the third quarter of 2015, virus sales accounted for 81%. In addition, Huawei is expanding into markets that are developing in Latin America and Africa. The company also demonstrates stable growth in the already established European market; deliveries to both countries, including Huawei, have doubled over the same period.
After Google chose Huawei as a partner for its development Nexus 6P(English), the company has penetrated the American market. Trying to take advantage of this loss, Huawei is introducing a new flagship phablet to the market Huawei Mate 8. We have already done a little analysis of this device and, in general, have lost our enemies (div. Huawei Mate 8 Hands On(English)). The aluminum construction and narrow bezels around the display give a sense of status and add a sense of familiarity to the size of the large 6-inch screen. The phablet is equipped with all the functions of a premium smartphone, including a finger scanner, 3 - 4 GB of RAM, Wi-Fi standard 802.11ac, NFC and a clear camera. And although the battery is not removed, it at least has a high capacity - 4000 mA per year.
Huawei Mate 8 becoming the first Huawei smartphone to be available on the global market. Underneath its aluminum body is installed a first-class seal, including a Kirin 950 HiSilicon system-on-chip (SoC). Similar to MediaTek and Marvell, HiSilicon, a company controlled by Huawei, holds a license for ARM processors, which allows them to build SoCs based on standard ARM cores. This approach is subject to architectural licenses from Apple and Qualcomm, which separate different CPU cores from the ARM architecture.
The Kirin 950 has an eight-core CPU with several cores ARM Cortex-A72(English) With a clock frequency of up to 2.3 GHz and four Cortex-A53 cores with a maximum frequency of 1.8 GHz in the big.LITTLE configuration. Thus, HiSilicon is the second manufacturer after MediaTek, which uses the A72 cores, and the first, which implements them on a flow process with a clock frequency close to the target (four-core MT8173 creations on the old HPm 28 nm process technology ID TSMC).
Also on the Kirin 950 chip is the debut of the new ARM Mali-T880 GPU. It offers higher productivity and up to 40% reduction in energy consumption compared to the Mali-T760 GPU. The HiSilicon version differs from other recent SoCs in that it has fewer cores and a higher clock frequency. To be more precise, the vibrator contains several GPU cores (MP4) with a maximum frequency of 900 MHz. To put things into perspective, the Samsung Exynos 7420 with the latest generation Mali-T760 GPU in an eight-core configuration operates at a clock speed of up to 772 MHz. So, how can the architectural enhancements of the Mali-T880, coupled with an increased frequency, compensate for the decrease in the number of physical cores?
In place of the latest Huawei devices that rely on existing ISPs from third-party vendors, the Kirin 950 SoC uses a completely new proprietary 14-bit PrimISP and IVP32 DSP. We don’t know much about these blocks yet, except that they support H.264 encoding/decoding in 1080p60 mode and H.265 decoding in 4K. It’s amazing that there’s a 4K encoding option every day.
In the middle of the Kirin 950 is a cache-coherent ARM CCI-400 bus. It’s amazing that the new CCI-500 interconnect is not stagnant anymore, considering that it was announced along with the A72 core. This solution can potentially limit the throughput between the CPU and memory, since the CCI-400 does not have a snoop filter.
Once we come to the system memory, it is necessary to note that the Kirin 950 is a hybrid LPDDR3 / LPDDR4 memory controller. IN Huawei Mate 8 LPDDR4 memory with higher bandwidth and lower voltage is preferred, while other OEM manufacturers can install more cheap LPDDR3 memory. This feature, due to the smaller crystal area that only GPU cores have, makes SoC Kirin 950 a suitable option for mid-range smartphones. This fact is intriguing, considering how productivity is responsible for showing this chip.
All new components are consistent with the in-line manufacturing process behind the Kirin 950, TSMC 16nm FinFET+, to be more precise. We have already become aware of the advantages of FinFET in food production and testing productivity SoC Apple A9 and Samsung Exynos 7420. FinFET does not only change the area of the crystal, the new technology is significantly evolving from the planar introduction of new technological processes that came before it. This significantly reduces the battery life, increasing the operating hours of the battery and reducing the risk of thermal throttling.
productivity testing
This review is much different from our other reviews, because we compare not only the SoC Kirin 950 (CPU A72 and GPU Mali-T880) with its analogues, but also the phablet itself Huawei Mate 8 with other flagship smartphones.
| Model | Huawei Mate 8 | Apple iPhone 6s Plus | Asus ZenFone 2 | BLU Pure XL |
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| Price in USA, $ | 705 (32 GB) | 915 (64 GB) | 300 (64 GB) | 350 (64 GB) |
| Price in Russia, rub. | n/a | 70000 | 22000 | n/a |
| SoC | HiSilicon Kirin 950 | Apple A9 | Intel Atom Z3580 | MediaTek MT6795 Helio X10 |
| CPU | ARM Cortex-A72 (4x @ 2.3 GHz) + ARM Cortex-A53 (4x @ 1.8 GHz) | Apple Twister (2x @ 1.85 GHz) | Intel Silvermont (4x @ 2.3 GHz) | ARM Cortex-A53 (4x @ 1.95 GHz) + ARM Cortex-A53 (4x @ 1.95 GHz) |
| GPU | ARM Mali-T880MP4 @ 900 MHz | PowerVR GT7600 | PowerVR G6430 @ 533 MHz | PowerVR G6200 @ 700 MHz |
| RAM | 2 GB LPDDR4-1600 (25.6 GB/s) | 4 GB LPDDR3-800 (12.8 GB/s) | ||
| display | 6.0 inches IPS @ 1920x1080 (368 PPI) | 5.5 inches IPS @ 1920x1080 (401 PPI) | 6.0 inches SAMOLED @ 2560x1440 (490 PPI) | |
| battery | 15.2 Wh (3.8 V 4000 mAh, not deductible) | 10.45 Wh (3.8 V 2750 mAh, not deductible) | 11.55 Wh (3.85 V 3000 mAh, not deductible) | 3500 mAh, not changed |
| OS | Android 6.0 | iOS 9.0.2 | Android 5.0 | Android 5.1 |
| Model | Qualcomm MDP | OnePlus 2 | Motorola Moto X Pure Edition | Samsung Galaxy S6 |
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| Price in USA, $ | n/a | 455 (16 GB) | n/a | 500 (32 GB) |
| Price in Russia, rub. | n/a | 29000 | 44000 | 38000 |
| SoC | Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 (MSM8996) | Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 (MSM8994) | Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 (MSM8992) | Samsung Exynos 7420 |
| CPU | Qualcomm Kryo (2x @ 2.15 GHz + 2x @ 1.59 GHz) | ARM Cortex-A57 (4x @ 1.77 GHz) + ARM Cortex-A53 (4x @ 1.56 GHz) | ARM Cortex-A57 (2x @ 1.82 GHz) + ARM Cortex-A53 (4x @ 1.44 GHz) | ARM Cortex-A57 (4x @ 2.1 GHz) + ARM Cortex-A53 (4x @ 1.5 GHz) |
| GPU | Qualcomm Adreno 530 @ 624 MHz | Qualcomm Adreno 430 @ 630 MHz | Qualcomm Adreno 418 @ 600 MHz | ARM Mali-T760MP8 @ 772 MHz |
| RAM | 3 GB LPDDR4-1866 (29.9 GB/s) | 4 GB LPDDR4-1600 (25.6 GB/s) | 3 GB LPDDR3-933 (14.9 GB/s) | 3 GB LPDDR4-1600 (25.6 GB/s) |
| display | 6.2 inches @ 2560x1600 (490 PPI) | 5.5 inches IPS @ 1920x1080 (401 PPI) | 5.7 inches IPS @ 2560x1440 (520 PPI) | 5.1 inches SAMOLED @ 2560x1440 (577 PPI) |
| battery | 3020 mAh | 12.54 Wh (3.8 V 3300 mAh, not deductible) | 11.4 Wh (3.8 V 3000 mAh, not deductible) | 9.82 Wh (3.85 V 2550 mAh, not deductible) |
| OS | Android 6.0 | Android 5.1.1 | Android 5.1.1 | Android 5.0.2 |
We'll love each other Huawei Mate 8 i Kirin 950 with a number of other smartphones and SoCs, including a dual-core Apple A9, a quad-core Intel Atom Z3580 and an eight-core big.LITTLE configuration, which is a combination of A57 and A53 cores. We also added the remaining Snapdragon Qualcomm 820 chip with the new branded CPU Kryo. We got our test results A first look at the chip in a Qualcomm MDP smartphone,Which company is being tested as a test platform, so their traces are respected first. Devices selected for leveling use different variants of graphics processors: Mali, PowerVR and Adreno. Such a wide range of smartphones that consume devices from the mid-range to the high-end gives us an idea of what you can get from Huawei Mate 8, SoC Kirin 950 fruits and vegetables A72.
All of these devices, except the Qualcomm MDP smartphone, were subject to our standard testing procedure. Ale to increase respect, scho Huawei Mate 8 It is not yet running on the final version of the PZ, so some features may be lost after the start of deliveries.
Review of the Huawei Mate 8 smartphone | CPU and system productivity
Now we have more details about the hardware and can move on to tests. In which we evaluate the productivity of the system, including a number of synthetic and real tests, as well as a number of web tests in the browser. If you want to know how to select benchmarks, what version we are using and what testing methodology is required, please read this article "How we test smartphones and tablets. Part 1" і "Part 2" .
HiSilicon Kirin 950 uses ARM Mali-T880MP4 graphics processor. While we are aware of the differences in architecture between the T880 and the T760 successor, we know for sure that the T880 has three ALU modules per core versus two ALUs per core on the T760 .
| SoC | Kirin 950 | Exynos 7420 | Apple A8 | Apple A9 |
| GPU | ARM Mali-T880MP4 | ARM Mali-T760MP8 | PowerVR GX6450 | PowerVR GT7600 |
| Number of cores" | 4 | 8 | 4 | 6 |
| FP32 ALU per "core" | 2 | 3 | 32 | 32 |
| FP16 ALU per "core" | - | - | 64 | 64 |
| FP32 FLOPS/cycle | 120 | 160 | 256 | 384 |
| FP16 FLOPS/cycle | 216 | 288 | 512 | 768 |
| Pix. / Cycle | 4 | 8 | 8 | 12 |
| Tex. / Cycle | 4 | 8 | 8 | 12 |
In the table you can also compare the characteristics of current and latest generation GPUs from ARM and Imagination Technologies. Shifts in architecture and specifications make it difficult to directly align GPU hardware features, so we focus on end-to-end productivity. Qualcomm's Adreno solution is not included in the table because the company does not disclose details of its architecture.
Mali Midgard is further differentiated from other GPU architectures. SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) vector sets in Midgard rely exclusively on Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP) to save the ALU from filling instructions. Competing GPU architectures are NOT vector and use a combination of ILP and thread-to-thread parallelism (TLP). Both methods have their pros and cons, so it’s important to say which one is more productive than before, but ultimately depends on the specific task.
The table shows another difference between the architecture of Mali Midgard, PowerVR Rogue and Qualcomm Adreno: IPC. Midgard performs fewer operations per clock cycle than its peers, but achieves a higher maximum frequency. For example, Kirin 950 in smartphones Huawei Mate 8 Operates at frequencies up to 900 MHz, resulting in 108 gigaflops of FP32 performance. The price is lower for A8 (115 gigaflops - 6%), Exynos 7420 (124 gigaflops - 15%) and A9 (173 gigaflops).
Review of the Huawei Mate 8 smartphone | We supply pouches
CPU ARM Cortex-A72 is an evolutionary version of the A57. From the side, the two processors look the same, but the ARM has been splintered optimization in productivity and nutrition at the skin stage of the conveyor(English). Most integer operations were accelerated, as well as a number of specific moments, such as encryption, which played a role in the transfer of zero cycles and the new integer Radix-16. Blocks with a floating coma with low shutdown have a strong impact on productivity, and the speed of one A72 core in Geekbench tests is 15% higher than the A57 at the same clock frequency, and most of the other units showed an increase in speed and by 30-60%.
Regardless of the improvements, the A72, which previously had a more “university” architecture, neither Apple Twister nor Qualcomm Kryo, flanks the IPC side. After adjusting for differences in clock speed, Kryo demonstrates a 20-percent advantage in the aggregate Geekbench test results and a 41-percent advantage in the Geekbench floating coma test. However, the A72 reaches higher clock speeds (up to 2.5 GHz), which in some situations allows you to soften or overclock Kryo.
HiSilicon first introduced the A72 on the 16-nanometer TSMC FinFET + process and first introduced the latest top-end ARM Mali-T880 GPU in the Kirin 950 SoC. with SoC based on A57, including Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 and Exynos Samsung 7420. Apparently, the Kirin 950 can also compete with the Snapdragon 820 chip, at least in tasks not related to the GPU. Varto vrahovuvat that the skin SoC is leading in the singing traditions.
At first glance, HiSilicon's decision to put the Mali-T880 in the four-core viconan is in the subdivision. One additional ALU and a higher maximum frequency allow the T880 to be 15-30% faster than the eight-core T760 GPU of the Exynos 7420 chip in games with high shader intensity. Protely, the presence of half of the possible number of ROP units, texture processing units, and tricu- nars interferes with peak productivity in various gaming applications and allows the Exynos 7420 to increase the difference to approximately 60%. In all our gaming benchmarks, the results of the Kirin 950 were more predictive of a mid-class SoC.
If you are surprised, you can look at the logic of HiSilicon. It is clear that the developer did not plan to impress anyone with the maximum productivity of the Kirin 950, but our tests showed the miraculous stability of the chip’s speed in games, while at the same time reducing the maximum speed of the three-hour period. We can say that after a short period of time after the start of high graphics demand, the Kirin 950 chip paired with a 1080p display performs better than the Exynos 7420 in the Galaxy S6, because the high temperature causes the S6 to reduce its clock speed GPU frequency. This means that the smartphone Huawei Mate 8 With SoC Kirin 950 you can play real games efficiently and without problems. We don’t think that the Mali-T880MP4 GPU in the Kirin 950 will be required to work with a QHD display, and its use in many flagships will be limited. Tim is no less, from the vantage point of view, the core \u200b\u200bGPU and hybrid memory controller LPDDR3 / LPDDR4 work with the Kirin 950 high-performance SoC of the mid-range.
Kirin 950 appears to be a suitable option for a smartphone Huawei Mate 8 Kotre set new records for productivity and battery life in PCMark tests - our best benchmark for predicting real-world smartphone behavior. The results of these tests confirm our strong practical evidence: graphical interface Huawei Mate 8 Working very smoothly, the web pages were enchanted and scrolled quickly, and in general the smartphone seemed very strange to us. There are a number of moments that have not yet lost their respect (display and camera), and in terms of productivity and hours of autonomous work Huawei Mate 8 This is a very attractive option.
The dimensions of the smartphone are 157 × 80.6 × 7.9 mm, the dimensions are 185 grams. They may sound wonderful, but they are compact for a 6-inch screen. GSMArena experts noted that if you compare the Huawei Mate 8 with the 5.7-inch Nexus 6P or the 5.5-inch one, it will appear that it is not much wider than them. It was within reach of the thin frame next to the screen. Huawei Mate 8 is a lot easier than Apple's phablet. In your hands, the smartphone feels the same as the Nexus 6P, only with a larger screen. I will attach the entire body (to the side of the screen) “buried” in metal. Moreover, the bottom of the cover has a different texture (the same as the Huawei Honor 7). On the back of the smartphone you can find a finger scanner, which, according to Cnet experts, is quick and clear.
The battery and cover of the smartphone are unknown. Huawei Mate 8 can be purchased in gold, gray, silver and brown colors.
display
The smartphone is equipped with a 6-inch IPS display with separate Full HD resolution (1920 × 1080 pixels) and Gorilal Glass 4. Due to the density of pixels (368 per inch), it is considered a top Android flagship, Add some almond for a clear image. Cnet experts found the screen to be very dark when watching videos, which they said was due to the fact that it was inferior to competitors with Quad HD displays.
productivity
Huawei Mate 8 is a device with top-level productivity. The company claims that the smartphone's chipset is fast, cool and energy efficient. The first point is supported by 3 or 4 GB of RAM (as modified) and a powerful Kirin 950 processor (4 cores at 2.3 GHz and 4 at 1.8 GHz). For the other - a 6-ball cooling system. If we take the smartphone out for testing, we can check how it copes with its tasks. The energy efficiency is demonstrated by the 16 nm manufacturing technology and economical architecture (Cortex-A72) of the thicker processor cores.
Camera
Huawei Mate 8 is equipped with top-end cameras of 16 and 8 MP. True, their characteristics are not the best on the market. The sensor of the main camera is a Sony IMX298, its size is 1 / 2.8 "(smaller than that of Microsoft Lumia 950). The lens aperture is wide - f / 2.0 and lets in a lot of light, but still not at Well, for example, the Samsung Galaxy Note 5. Among the features is an optical stabilization and phase focusing system. Some people may not be able to capture video in 4K resolution, perhaps through the Full HD display of a smartphone. How the camera works is still unclear, but the Cnet workers were pleased with its work in some light, calling it top-notch.
communications
Huawei Mate 8 has a flagship communications suite, having removed the smartphone:
- Wi-Fi a / b / g / n / ac
- Economical Bluetooth 4.2 with support for A2DP profile
- LTE support
- A-GPS with GLONASS support
- NFC chip
- FM radio.
The smartphone has two slots for NanoSIM cards, one of which has a slot for a memory card. For charging and connecting to various devices, a Micro-USB 2.0 connector is used.
battery
The battery capacity of the Huawei Mate 8 is 4000 mAg, the battery provides more than two days of autonomous operation due to the energy-efficient design of the device. It is also stated that charging the device for every day will give the batteries enough energy to work throughout the day. Before the word, Cnet experts discharged the battery in 15.5 years for a video marathon - this is a remarkable showing.
memory
You can choose a smartphone with 32, 64 or 128 GB of permanent memory. The modification of Huawei Mate 8 to 32 GB took 3 GB of RAM, and the other two took 4 GB each. If you do not run out of memory, there is support for MicroSD cards up to 128 GB. It’s interesting that most of the Mate 8’s direct competitors (iPhone 6 Plus, Huawei Nexus 6P, Samsung Galaxy Note 5) do not have a slot for a memory card, but then it is another competitor -