On the day of US Thanksgiving Huawei Mate 8 was announced , Much like with the Mate 7 before it, its enormous 6-inch, 1,920 x 1,080 resolution display is clearly one the most attractive aspect of the phone . For a screen this huge, Huawei made sure to emphasize the Mate 8’s ergonomics by making the phone easier to handle with a relatively high 83 percent screen-to-body ratio.

A notable improvement from its predecessor is the Mate 8’s internals, with the octa-core 2.3GHz Kirin 950 processor the star of the show. Offering a 100 percent performance boost over the Kirin 930 processor found in the Mate 7, the Kirin 950 brings with it an i5 co-processor, which will handle speech recognition, reduced location-based power consumption, and low-power MP3 consumption, among other tasks a typical processor would normally need to handle.The battery is a whipping 4,000mAh powerhouse, which you’ll need to keep that giant screen lit up and that i5 co-processor running. The phone supports quick charging too.

The Mate 8 is up to date with its software, offering the latest version of Google’s Android operating system, 6.0 Marshmallow. Elsewhere, the Mate 8 retains the rear-mounted fingerprint sensor found on the Mate 7, though it’s now a circular design rather than the square design of yore. In addition, the Mate 8 seems to incorporate more aluminum into its DNA, with the 2.5D curved glass front panel making sure those side swipes feel more natural. Also inside is 32GB or 64GB storage for firmware, music, movies, apps and snaps. On the front is an 8-megapixel Sony job with f/2.4 aperture for video chat and selfies. The main camera on the back is a 16-megapixel Sony snapper with f/2.0 aperture and three-axis optical image stabilization.

The Mate 8 will be available in Champagne Gold, Moonlight Silver, Space Gray, and Mocha Brown, however the Mate 8 will be available in China starting in the first quarter of 2016 at a retail price of RMB2999 (MYR2000) 32GB, RMB3699 (MYR2500) 64GB and RMB4399 (MYR2900) 128GB model.