Huawei Honor 6 now official, competes with iPhone 5S

After a couple of rumors on Huawei’s spec-heavy smartphone, the company makes official the Honor 6. It has Full HD resolution on a 5-inch display and carries an octa-core chipset with a partnered 3GB of RAM. With its specs and benchmark results, it aims to take on the likes of Samsung’s Galaxy S5 and Apple’s iPhone 5S.

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Huawei Honor 6 specs:
5-inch Full HD display @ 1920 x 1080 resolution
Kirin 920 octa-core processor (four A15 and four A7 cores)
Mali-T624 GPU
3GB RAM
16GB/32GB internal storage (expandable via microSD)
13MP rear camera with Sony IMX214 sensor and f/2.0 aperture
Dual-LED flash
5MP front camera
Cat. 6 LTE
Dual-band-Wi-Fi
139.8 x 68.8 x 6.5mm
135 grams
Android 4.4.2 KitKat with Emotion UI 2.3 on top

There are a couple of noteworthy elements Huawei has incorporated in the Honor 6. It has sub-3mm bezels around the display for better viewing and there’s the Kirin 920 chipset which scored 37,999 on AnTuTu benchmark, beating the Galaxy S5 and iPhone 5S. It also sports a speedy Cat. 6 LTE that can go up to 300Mbps of downlink speed, same performance found on a dual-channel Wi-Fi 8.2.11n.

Talking about its form factor, the device is really slim at 6.5mm and is made of aluminium alloy that helps in maintaining the chipset to run cooler than its predecessor. It has also been reported that Huawei brags about how much more the battery of the Honor 6 can provide versus other flagships. “…lasting more hours per mAh battery capacity than the Galaxy S5 and double what the iPhone 5S gets.”

There’s still no word on its pricing but previous rumors said that it could also be positioned like Xiaomi – offering competitive price points for its consumers. Stay tuned as we get more details on its official price and availability.

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Huawei Mulan looks to be the best flagship phone yet

Huawei seems to be on the works to release its next flagship device. Codenamed ‘Mulan‘, it has a really slim profile and impressive specs which reports say could be “one of the best phones, ever.”

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Huawei Mulan’s alleged specs:
Full HD display (size still unconfirmed)
1.3GHz octa-core processor with Hisilicon Kirin 920 chipset
Mali-T624 graphics
3GB RAM
16GB internal storage
13MP rear camera
4K resolution video recording
5MP front camera with 1080p video recording
Multi-mode LTE Cat 6 radio for faster data speeds
Tensilica HIFI3 audio processor
Emotion UI on top of Android 4.4.2 KitKat

Judging from its rumored specs, there’s a lot to focus the spotlight to. First, there’s the new Kirin 920 chipset that’s made up of a quad-core Cortex-A15 and another quad Cortex-A7. This chip also boasts multi-mode LTE Cat 6 radio that allows data speeds of up to 300 Mbps in addition to a low-power l3 sensor co-processor.

The Huawei Mulan can also record videos in 4K resolution and has a dedicated audio processor. If that still doesn’t get you excited, it was put to test on AnTuTu benchmark and scored a whopping 37,999 – higher than any flagship phones in the market today.

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There’s no word on its release and pricing as of the moment, but rest assured that we’ll keep tabs on it.

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