Huawei's Honor 8 Smartphone With Dual Cameras Arrives In The US

First Posted: Aug 18, 2016 04:17 AM EDT

Huawei is taking the very nice looking Honor 8 smartphone to the U.S. It is one of the top-of-the-line of the Honor series of phones.

The Honor 8 features a glass-backed smartphone with a 5.2 inch 1080p full HD display and a dual camera system. It has an 8-megapixel front camera and 12-megapixel rear cameras with flash and a USB-C charging port.

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There is also an octa-core Kirin 950 processor running at 2,3 GHz and a 4GB RAM under its hood. You have a choice of either 32 GB or 64GB of internal storage. To add up to about 128 GB more space, it is provided with microSD card slot. A 3,000mAh battery with support for fast charging is also provided, according to The Next Web.

Honor 8 is a glass-backed smartphone. Huawei stated that it is the result of 15 various steps in the manufacturing process, from coating to adding optical films to polishing and that "no two devices look alike" because the reflective layer on top of the glass produces various light patterns on each phone.

The Verge reported that the US model of the Honor 8 has Huawei's own Kirin 950 chipset. This makes it the first Huawei phone to arrive in the U.S. with a Kirin processor. Meanwhile, the Huawei P9 has the more powerful Kirin 955 chipset.

The Huawei executives put emphasis that this smartphone aimed at millennials. They said that millennials like to hold their phones in one hand. You may use the voice command and say "Cheese!" when you take a photo or use the 17 different shooting modes of the camera. You can explore the smartphone just as you want it to be and make an experiment of it. You can also build custom commands when you tap your knuckle on the screen. Meanwhile, the light refractions on the glass back suit the needs of millennials, which they said made their phones stand out in a crowd.

It is announced at an event in San Francisco that Honor 8 costs about $400 for the 32GB model. On the other hand, the 64GM model has the price tag of $450. In China, its cost starts at $300 up to $370. This falls still Huawei as in the "affordable" mode for Android phones.