Huawei officially launched the Mate 8 at CES 2016 in Las Vegas – a flagship device that offers the performance and features needed by on-the-go consumers in 2016.

The Mate 8 has a wide range of new features that help the device stand out from the competition.

With a 6-inch IPS-NEO display, the Mate 8 has an 83 per cent screen-to-body ratio – the biggest ever screen in the most compact phone.

The device runs on Huawei’s EMUI 4.0 Operating System, based on Android Marshmallow 6.0, and offers 100% CPU performance improvement from the Mate 7.

The Mate 8 is the first smartphone to run on Huawei’s new Kirin 950 chipset and use TSMC 16nm FinFET plus chip technology.

It also boasts 70% better power efficiency for increased battery life, with a 4000mAh battery that gives the phone two days of charge time.

“This is first smartphone in the world that gives you more than 2 days usage on a single charge,” said Kevin Ho President, Huawei Consumer BG Handset Product Line.

The circular fingerprint sensor has a depth of 0.45 mm, improving the effective identification area by 10 per cent.

The fingerprint recognition algorithms include three levels of biometric information, increasing the unlock speed by up to 100% and cutting recognition failures in half.

The Mate 8 also boasts the revolutionary, all-new Sony 16MP IMX298, increasing the sensor size up by 23% for breathtaking images.

The Mate 8 supports global connectivity and more bands than any other dual-SIM phone, including 5 2G bands, 10 3G bands and 18 4G bands in 217 countries and regions with 1334 sets of operation parameters.

The device will be launched in South Africa in March 2016 as part of the first global wave, and is expected to cost between R10,000 and R11,000 for 32 GB with 3 GB RAM.

The following video shows the key features of the Huawei Mate 8.

The specifications of the Huawei Mate 8 are detailed in the table below.

Specifications Huawei Mate 8
Dimensions 157.1 x 80.6 x 7.9 mm
Weight 185 g
Operating system Android 6.0 Marshmallow, Huawei’s EMUI 4.0
Display 6-inch IPS-NEO LCD capacitive touchscreen 1080p (1080 x 1920)
Rear camera 16MP
Front camera 8MP
Storage, internal 32GB / 64GB
RAM 3GB / 4GB
Processor Quad-core 2.3 GHz Cortex-A72 + quad-core 1.8 GHz Cortex A53
Battery Li-Po 4000 mAh