The Huawei Mate 8 is the company's latest flagship and surprisingly, the official price tag for the device is only RM2099. Even if you go for the premium version (Mate 8 Premium); the price only increases up by RM300. Featuring beautiful design (we got the Moonlight Silver version), very "beast-like" hardware performance according to our videographer and the aforementioned affordable pricing, just how good is the Mate 8? Read below to find out.

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.

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