The Huawei Mate 8, P9, P9 Plus, Honor 8, V8, Note 8 and 6X are all set to receive stable Android Oreo updates in China soon after a few rounds of public beta tests.
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We can’t be sure Huawei’s intention today is to troll Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 announcement scheduled for tomorrow, but clearly, Honor V8 Max was a more fitting name for the 6.6-inch beast ultimately branded as Honor Note ...
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While it may or may not get the opportunity to follow up the Nexus 6P with another Google-co-branded phablet this year, Huawei will definitely launch a few more Android high-enders over the next months after the recent introductions of the Honor ...
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The Huawei Honor 8 has earlier today gone official in China, and the question on everyone’s lips is how does it differ from the high-end Honor V8 that the company first unveiled in its homeland and best market a couple of months back?Well, for one thing, the newer flagship features a smaller 5.2-inch display, with no Quad HD option. The pixel count therefore caps off at 1,920 x 1,080, aka Full ...
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As if the subtle differences between the low to mid-end Honor 5X, 5C and 5A weren’t confusing enough for Huawei’s growing fan base both domestically and internationally, the premium Honor V8 will soon get a diminutive, slightly downgraded ...
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Huawei’s been chomping up the food chain as the world’s third largest smartphone manufacturer by annual shipments. It was originally looking forward to a 40 percent jump in shipments this year to further its ambitions to be the world’s largest OEM.Nope. Not the case it seems, as told from Taiwanese industry. Huawei may cut back from a forecast 140 million smartphones to 120 million smartphones. That’s still a 20 percent improvement from last year, but with the higher-end ...
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No honor among rumor mongers, they say. But who needs honor when Huawei can have its sub-brand Honor? It placed second in share of the Chinese mobile market in April. And now, there’s some whispering of a smaller partner to the Honor V8.What looks to be a record of upcoming Huawei devices has been leaked and there are two model names — FRD-AL00 and FRD-AL10 — that look to be ...
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While we won’t pretend to understand Huawei’s dual-brand release strategy, with many of its phones rehashed as lower-priced Honor-series models, it’s sure nice to see a jumbo-sized P9 sold for the equivalent of $350.That’s right, the Honor V8 is official at last, and its “entry-level” configuration, with 32GB internal storage, a Full HD 5.7-inch ...
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Some phones languish around in the rumor-space for what feels like forever, dropping hints of their existence here and there, but failing to generate a lot of buzz and proceed to launch on a timeline where we still care about them. Then there are those phones that waste no time at all in going from early rumors, to tons of evidence, to a formal launch. Huawei’s upcoming Honor V8 feels a lot more like one of those latter handsets, and we’ve gone from a teaser just one week ...
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It’s about time everyone took Huawei seriously, from Western flagship phone buyers to Apple and Samsung. The Chinese company has its sights set on mobile industry domination in the long haul, with the Honor sub-brand an integral part of these ambitious but increasingly feasible plans.And ...
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Honor and its parent company Huawei are keeping up the counter this season with the former bringing down the price on some hardcore mobile hardware. Take the Huawei GX8 and the Honor 5X — both pretty much the same phone, but the GX8 cost $150 more than the 5X.So, hot off the heels of the Huawei P9‘s launch with its ...
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In its quest for Apple-contending global smartphone sales numbers, Huawei seems to be taking a page from undisputed champion Samsung’s playbook, flooding the market with more intriguing low to mid to high-end models than we can count.A large part of the OEM’s forecasted 2016 growth hinges on the commercial success ...
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