News & Reviews:   Huawei Mate 8

[Updated List] If you haven't heard yet, Huawei Malaysia had already released their most refined and productivity driven smartphone with the Huawei Mate 8 not too long ago. In conjunction to that, from 8 April until 30 June 2016, Huawei will be running a special trade-in program for your old smartphone to get rebates up to RM1850 to purchase the Huawei Mate 8. You can check out the rebate values below but there is a special extra RM100 rebate if you get the RM2099 priced standard Huawei Mate 8, allowing you to get the smartphone for RM249 or below RM300 on the highest rebated device in this article.

Huawei have officially launched their Huawei VR headset for their Huawei P9, P9 Plus and Mate 8 smartphones. According to Huawei, theirs is the first to offer a 360-degree sound field. Tech specs and features include a touch panel, back button, volume keys, 20ms low latency, 95-degree field of view and adjustable lenses down to a power of -7.00. 

This means you can't wear them with glasses but the VR will take care of that for you (thankfully, mine is still below -4.00 so I can definitely try this out). The Huawei VR will come out with a good deal of content but only a bit of it will be VR capable. No Malaysia release dates or pricing details but we expect it to make its way to Malaysia as a bundle deal with the Huawei P9.

Huawei has been on a roll recently, hitting all the right notes, resulting in a net profit of 36.9 billion CNY. While there were profits from the carrier and enterprise business groups, what should be noted was a 73% rise year on year from the consumer business group (they're the ones making the Huawei Mate 8, Huawei Nexus 6P, honor 7 Enhanced, honor 7, honor 5X, Huawei MateBook and just announced Huawei P9 and Huawei P9 Plus).

Huawei Malaysia recently released their new flagship Huawei Mate 8 smartphone. The phone has beautiful design and hardware with beast -like performance but for myself, rather buggy software. When I first get my hands on the Mate 8, I immediately fell in love with the build quality, as the aluminium back feels great in the hand.

Everything in terms of hardware features are amazing, super responsive fingerprint scanner and the Kirin 950 chipset is a beast of a performer but you can see more in the video below. The Huawei Mate 8 that we got for review is the normal version with 3GB RAM and 32GB storage which is now available in Malaysia officially at RM2099 while the market price ranges from RM 1845 - RM1945.

The Huawei Mate 8 is one of the few flagships to be priced around RM2000 and even the RM2099 version packs in some premium packaging materials. Featuring tech specs that include a 16MP rear camera, 6-inch full HD display and large 4000 mAh battery, find out what else comes with the RM2099 version of the Mate 8 in our unboxing video.

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!