News & Reviews:   Huawei Mate 8 Malaysia launch

It is merely a few more hours before a Huawei special event where they may reveal their latest flagship, the Huawei P9. Just before that, a 14 seconds colorful teaser video was released by Huawei Pakistan to increase publicity for the incoming phone. This short promotional video seems to emphasize the dual-camera design using LEICA lenses on the Huawei P9 in line with their slogan "Change the way you see the world".

Lionel Messi, globally renowned football player recently joined Huawei as their latest Global Brand Ambassador. The move comes in tandem with investment in in other sporting teams such as América, Santa Fe, Sporting Cristal, Arsenal, Atlético de Madrid and AC Milan and their latest premium yet affordable Huawei Mate 8 flagship smartphone. 

Aside from Celcom doing their Samsung Galaxy S7 edge promotion, they have just started theirHuawei Mate 8 package plans as well!

Available in gray or silver colour option, Celcom customers who are using FiRST Gold and FiRST Blue Internet Plan will only have to pay RM80 and RM45 per month respectively. However, the ones who has FiRST Gold has to do this for 12 months, while the latter is 24 months. Also, the device price in FiRST Gold is RM1818, and RM1608 on the FiRST Blue package. Below is the chart for your reference:

It's been a week since then the Huawei Mate 8 has entered Malaysia and it's getting good feedback. If you want to get your hands on Huawei's latest flagship, Maxis and Redone are now promoting a special package offer just for you.

It's been about a month now since the Huawei Mate 8 landed in Malaysia, and it has gained quite a buzz due to how fast and “lag-less” it was due to the new Kirin 950 SoC chipset. That being said, it's been only a year since the Mate 7 came out and if you're wondering whether you should upgrade your device or not, we got you covered with a comparison below so read on to find out! 

The recently launched Huawei Mate 8 and Huawei Mate 8 Premium offer premium full metal looks and design with top-notch features from RM2099 to RM2399 inclusive of GST. In addition, Huawei Mobile Malaysia are also including a number of promotions which includes a personalized free engraving service if you buy the smartphones off of VMALL.my with delivery starting today.

If you'd rather go in person, there will be an exclusive launch promotion at their KLCC Huawei Flagship store tomorrow on 11 March 2016 at 1.08pm. The first 88 buyers will get the Huawei Talkband B2 Elite worth RM668 for free. All prices are already inclusive of 6% GST so what you see is what you get.

Not only the Huawei Mate 8 has finally arrived in Malaysia (8 March), but the MediaPad M2 10.0,Huawei Watch Elegant and Jewel version, and a Nexus 6P Gold Edition made their appearance at the event as well. We got some hands-on videos so check them out below!

Huawei Malaysia have just announced that they have brought in both variants of the Huawei Mate 8 with the 3GB RAM Huawei Mate 8 and 4GB RAM Huawei Mate 8 Premium for value busting prices of RM2099 and RM2399 respectively. They also announced the Huawei Nexus 6P Gold Edition, Huawei MediaPad M2 10.0 and Huawei Watch Jewel and Elegant for Malaysia. The Mate 8 smartphones will be available from 11 March 2016 at VMALL.my and Lazada, but sales will start today on 8 March 2016. Telco partners for the Mate 8 include Celcom, Digi, Maxis and RedOne for now.

• Huawei Mate 8 Standard (available in Moonlight Silver and Space Grey) ~ RM2099
• Huawei Mate 8 Premium (available in Champagne Gold and Mocha Brown) ~ RM2399
• Huawei Nexus 6P Gold Edition ~ RM2698
• Huawei MediaPad M2 10.0 ~ RM1299 to RM1999
• Huawei Watch Jewel and Elegant ~ RM2299 / RM1999

After a global launch last month it looks like the Huawei Mate 8 will be officially coming to Malaysia on 8 March 2012. The 6-inch phablet sports the latest Huawei Kirin 950 processor and a 16MP rear camera with optical image stabilization but there is still no news whether we'll be getting the version with 3GB RAM or 4GB RAM.

No pricing details yet but the Mate 8 is currently going from 599 euros (RM2831) for the 3GB RAM/32GB storage version and 699 euros (RM3303) for the 4GB RAM / 64GB storage version. At its initial launch the three variants costs were the 3GB + 32 GB model for CNY 2999 (RM1985.09), 4GB + 64GB for CNY 3699 (RM2448.43) and 4GB + 128GB for CNY 4399 (RM2911.78).

Apart from the Huawei Mate 8 and other CES 2016 announcements, Huawei also revealed that they managed to ship 108 million smartphones for 2015, gaining the #3 position in the global smartphone market and the top smartphone position in China. Revenues were more than $20 billion for 2015, almost a 70 percent increase over 2014.

Huawei attributes this success to continuous collaborations made with other top brands such as Google (resulting in the Huawei Nexus 6P), Swarovski (resulting in new Huawei Watch designs)  and Harmon Kardon (resulting in the MediaPad M2 tablets). Here in Malaysia, Huawei not only rolled out the Nexus 6P, Mate S and Honor 7 but also started off their Smart City solution. According to Huawei, 2016 will involve more collaborations, building upon the momentum of their achievements in 2015.