The Honor 8 has a 5.2-inch 1080p touchscreen, and a dual-12 MP camera setup on the back, with f/2.2 aperture. The selfie camera is a 8 MP unit with f/2.4 aperture. The phone has up to 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage that is expandable. So far, on paper the Huawei Honor 8 is pretty much same with the P9.
The major difference is the chipset used. The more affordable Honor 8 has to make do with the older Kirin 950, but the older P9 has the Kirin 955. The 950 inside the new Honor device comes with an octa-core CPU with four Cortex-A72 cores clocked at up to 2.3 GHz, and four Cortex-A53 cores that go up to 1.8 GHz.
Huawei Honor 8 is 4G LTE enabled along with dual-SIM functionality (but it should be noted that the second SIM slot doubles as a microSD card slot so you can't use two SIMs and an expansion card at the same time sadly). The Huawei Honor 8 has a 3,000 mAh battery that you charge through a USB Type-C port. The 3.5 mm headset jack is present, and that's becoming more and more hard to get these days.
The phone's dimensions are 145.5 x 71 x 7.45 mm, it weighs 153g, and it runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow along the Huawei EMUI 4.1 (the software is another similarity to the P9) . A fingerprint scanner is on the back, as most new smartphones.
The Huawei Honor 8 becomes available in China on July 19 at 10:08 am, It will be available in Pearl White, Sunrise Gold, Midnight Black, Sakura Pink, and Sapphire Blue, though some hardware versions won't be available in all colors.
The model with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage is priced at #92000 ($298, €269). If you pick the one with 4GB of RAM and 32GB of internal memory, the price is #109000 ($343, €310), while the top of the line variation with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage will set you back ($373, €337).
An international launch hasn't been announced at this point, but we expect to see the Honor 8 being offered through Huawei's official online store.
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