And agreed, at least there are two. I love my HTC M7, perfect screen size any bigger and I don't think I would be happy. It is a stretch as it is to go to the opposing corner with one hand.
since all the offerings from HTC have been going down hill, I might check out one of these. I might upgrade this year afterall. :)
Update on myself: Apparently the FCC just approved a US P8 variant. Neat! I'm still not sure how it will do (performance is certainly worse than ex S6 but in this day how much does that matter?) and I'd be surprised if the camera is actually better, but it is still a really nice device.
If I’d be Samsung, I’d be shitting my pants. If I were an Android customer, I’d probably be getting a Huawei (since the Xiaomis aren’t available in Austria).
Another rather unimaginative case design—you have to wonder whether Apple is really the only company that can actually design hardware that’s even remotely halfway-original.
Having said that, the chinese manufacturers are definitely out-Samsuning Samsung, and since Samsung doesn’t have a wide ecosystem to differentiate themselves, they’ll be having a hard time selling against Huawei or Xiaomi in the markets where either of these two companies compete.
Now, I _am_ an Apple user, I love my iPhones and my MacBooks and iPads and it works great for me. And I _do_ find the (often) shameless copying of design language pretty lame and sad. Lame because the companies communicate "We can’t do anything original" and sad because even a copy has to be engineered and designed by _someone_ and those someones are clearly competent, otherwise the companies wouldn’t be able to build those handsets. The sad part is that I would love to see those people be able to design original hardware, because that would make the market even more competitive, imo.
But! If these phones are well made and durable and fast and have good camers, then people should be able to get their hands on them. I’d rather have someone use a really well made "copy" of an iPhone than a badly done one, and the chinese manufacturers are entering the market big time, which makes me assume Samsung will be in for a spanking.
And I bet the chinese manufacturers are already working full steam on creating whole ecosystems and will be copying the way Apple works on a much deeper level. It seems like they understand design better than their south korean counterparts, and the customers will benefit from that more.
Wait... So you are telling me that the iPhone 6 has a more imaginative case design? I hope you are referring to an accessory that I've not seen yet that is really cool.
Because they are both thin rectangles with big bright screens. If it werent for the individual labels I don't think I'd be able to tell it apart from the Huawei P8.
Oh that's right, Apple invented the rectangle, silly me how could I forget?
Stop being retarded. If Motorola can make a phone that doesn’t look like an iPhone—down to the available colors—why can’t anyone else? You’re all talking like there is only 1 possible shape, button arrangement, color scheme, speaker hole arragngement/design, etc that a phone can have.
wait, what? are you kidding? "Hardware that's even remotely halfway-original"? The only thing that's really original on the iPhone anymore is the 1 button for everything design. And the only reason it's original is because that idea is pretty stupid.
Stop being retarded. If nokia can make a phone that doesn’t look like an iPhone—down to the available colors—why can’t anyone else? You’re all talking like there is only 1 possible shape, button arrangement, color scheme, speaker hole arragngement/design, etc that a phone can have.
You know how to make Samsung original? Stop copying Apple's gold color, speaker grill, true tone flash and physical-home-button with Touch ID. I mean come on, who else made integrated battery in a phone before Apple? Who else uses Nano-SIM before iPhone? Look at Nokia and Window, original hardware and original software.
Stop being retarded. If LG can make a phone that doesn’t look like an iPhone—down to the available colors—why can’t anyone else? You’re all talking like there is only 1 possible shape, button arrangement, color scheme, speaker hole arragngement/design, etc that a phone can have.
Why apple fanboys are so much brainwashed?? why they MUST repeating same sht round n round iphone copy ? It is NOT ant iphone copy man .. Huawei is only one has best original design man ! just bcos u see camera or flash on same place?? It is completely DOESN'T look like iphone .. Copying or inspiring been here since WW I or WW II man ..
Wow - a 6.8" phone. If I ever get a phone that big, it will be a Windows phone, as you might as well be able to run all your standard windows programs on it. I like the second sim card/micro SD slot - that's a great idea.
It is a phablet no doubt. Nice features but the Huawei branding is not as strong and needs plenty of effort to bring it to the level of Samsung or LG. The pricing needs to be aggressive or else they can hardly match the demand for the other established flagship devices when prices are so close. Three phones video linking is a great feature not often needed when real sweet when used for sure.If it is reliable,remains to be seen.
I do not like how Anandtech has fallen to just spouting press releases like this. This is useless. Give us a review of the phone, or a preview of the phone, or skip it altogether until you can give us a review or preview. Don't just post a bunch of propaganda and nonsense pictures with timestamped blurbs of what the anandtech person is seeing... This is just a waste of space
What? This is hardly the first live blog coverage of an event for AT, they've been doing it for years. Used to be only Apple launches or maybe something big at a trade show would get the live blog treatment, not sure how they've fallen in any sense. It's clearly not new behavior nor intended as a review, just news coverage.
power consumption firewall. interesting. I once had an app that seems not responding and didn't bother then noticed my phone has been warm for minutes. I just did restart since I don't know what is the cause. It might provide good value as most consumers wouldn't notice that their phone consuming more power than is required and only to discover that the phone won't make it for the whole day.
Never seen so many marketing buzzwords in one presentation! Also worht noting that India is not on the list, but Pakistan is. Maybe related to China and Pakistan being mates...
Right. There are enough buzzwords here to last a marketing student 4 years through college.
BTW, I am going to guess no India on the 1st day because India banned/shunned Huawei. FOr a while India and US were pushing local company to stop using Huawei products.
Did they say how much Chinese spyware they'll be putting on here? If you own a business, the Chinese will still everything they can from you. Wouldn't be surprised if this phone's design or software or engineering or something is stolen from another company. China as a whole is a joke of a country, ripping off everyone else because they are too stupid to come up with their own stuff.
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Refuge - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - link
+1 just for the fact that it is not encroaching on Phablet territory! :DIt is a nice change.
Drumsticks - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - link
...Oops :P at least they have the 2 options. (And the first is nice).I wonder when the Chinese OEMs are going to go for the US market.
Refuge - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - link
I would say very soon.And agreed, at least there are two. I love my HTC M7, perfect screen size any bigger and I don't think I would be happy. It is a stretch as it is to go to the opposing corner with one hand.
since all the offerings from HTC have been going down hill, I might check out one of these. I might upgrade this year afterall. :)
Drumsticks - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - link
Update on myself: Apparently the FCC just approved a US P8 variant. Neat! I'm still not sure how it will do (performance is certainly worse than ex S6 but in this day how much does that matter?) and I'd be surprised if the camera is actually better, but it is still a really nice device.IsobelNicholls - Thursday, April 16, 2015 - link
thatsgreatxilience - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - link
They are really going after Apple/Samsung here. Comparing almost every feature directly to iPhone 6 and Galaxy S6.xype - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - link
If I’d be Samsung, I’d be shitting my pants. If I were an Android customer, I’d probably be getting a Huawei (since the Xiaomis aren’t available in Austria).Refuge - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - link
Just makes sense to. Want to jump into the shark tank in America? Start lining up shots on the two biggest sharks before you jump in.I say good, more competition.
menting - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - link
i wish they'd announce the price up front.jospoortvliet - Friday, April 17, 2015 - link
They did. 499 with 16gb, 599 for 64gb. The phablet is 50 more.xype - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - link
Another rather unimaginative case design—you have to wonder whether Apple is really the only company that can actually design hardware that’s even remotely halfway-original.Having said that, the chinese manufacturers are definitely out-Samsuning Samsung, and since Samsung doesn’t have a wide ecosystem to differentiate themselves, they’ll be having a hard time selling against Huawei or Xiaomi in the markets where either of these two companies compete.
Now, I _am_ an Apple user, I love my iPhones and my MacBooks and iPads and it works great for me. And I _do_ find the (often) shameless copying of design language pretty lame and sad. Lame because the companies communicate "We can’t do anything original" and sad because even a copy has to be engineered and designed by _someone_ and those someones are clearly competent, otherwise the companies wouldn’t be able to build those handsets. The sad part is that I would love to see those people be able to design original hardware, because that would make the market even more competitive, imo.
But! If these phones are well made and durable and fast and have good camers, then people should be able to get their hands on them. I’d rather have someone use a really well made "copy" of an iPhone than a badly done one, and the chinese manufacturers are entering the market big time, which makes me assume Samsung will be in for a spanking.
And I bet the chinese manufacturers are already working full steam on creating whole ecosystems and will be copying the way Apple works on a much deeper level. It seems like they understand design better than their south korean counterparts, and the customers will benefit from that more.
Finally some real competition.
Refuge - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - link
Wait... So you are telling me that the iPhone 6 has a more imaginative case design? I hope you are referring to an accessory that I've not seen yet that is really cool.Because they are both thin rectangles with big bright screens. If it werent for the individual labels I don't think I'd be able to tell it apart from the Huawei P8.
Oh that's right, Apple invented the rectangle, silly me how could I forget?
xype - Thursday, April 16, 2015 - link
Stop being retarded. If Motorola can make a phone that doesn’t look like an iPhone—down to the available colors—why can’t anyone else? You’re all talking like there is only 1 possible shape, button arrangement, color scheme, speaker hole arragngement/design, etc that a phone can have.menting - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - link
wait, what? are you kidding? "Hardware that's even remotely halfway-original"? The only thing that's really original on the iPhone anymore is the 1 button for everything design. And the only reason it's original is because that idea is pretty stupid.xype - Thursday, April 16, 2015 - link
Stop being retarded. If nokia can make a phone that doesn’t look like an iPhone—down to the available colors—why can’t anyone else? You’re all talking like there is only 1 possible shape, button arrangement, color scheme, speaker hole arragngement/design, etc that a phone can have.Penti - Thursday, April 16, 2015 - link
This is about as original as the Lumia 930.Ethos Evoss - Saturday, April 18, 2015 - link
@xype SUT UP with your word ''retarded'' you even don't know what that means ..Peichen - Thursday, April 16, 2015 - link
You know how to make Samsung original? Stop copying Apple's gold color, speaker grill, true tone flash and physical-home-button with Touch ID. I mean come on, who else made integrated battery in a phone before Apple? Who else uses Nano-SIM before iPhone? Look at Nokia and Window, original hardware and original software.Fujikoma - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - link
I'm sure if Apple came out with a television, Apple users would brag about the superior rectangular design that everyone else was copying.xype - Thursday, April 16, 2015 - link
Stop being retarded. If LG can make a phone that doesn’t look like an iPhone—down to the available colors—why can’t anyone else? You’re all talking like there is only 1 possible shape, button arrangement, color scheme, speaker hole arragngement/design, etc that a phone can have.Ethos Evoss - Saturday, April 18, 2015 - link
Why apple fanboys are so much brainwashed??why they MUST repeating same sht round n round iphone copy ?
It is NOT ant iphone copy man ..
Huawei is only one has best original design man ! just bcos u see camera or flash on same place??
It is completely DOESN'T look like iphone ..
Copying or inspiring been here since WW I or WW II man ..
Check rather this link : http://www.dailytech.com/Samsung+Apples+iPhone+Sta...
and then check this one : http://www.imore.com/galaxy-s6-vs-iphone-6-first-i...
Ethos Evoss - Saturday, April 18, 2015 - link
http://www.soyacincau.com/2015/03/02/does-the-gala...kmmatney - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - link
Wow - a 6.8" phone. If I ever get a phone that big, it will be a Windows phone, as you might as well be able to run all your standard windows programs on it. I like the second sim card/micro SD slot - that's a great idea.fteoath64 - Thursday, April 16, 2015 - link
It is a phablet no doubt. Nice features but the Huawei branding is not as strong and needs plenty of effort to bring it to the level of Samsung or LG. The pricing needs to be aggressive or else they can hardly match the demand for the other established flagship devices when prices are so close.Three phones video linking is a great feature not often needed when real sweet when used for sure.If it is reliable,remains to be seen.
Margalus - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - link
I do not like how Anandtech has fallen to just spouting press releases like this. This is useless. Give us a review of the phone, or a preview of the phone, or skip it altogether until you can give us a review or preview. Don't just post a bunch of propaganda and nonsense pictures with timestamped blurbs of what the anandtech person is seeing... This is just a waste of spaceolderkid - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - link
And to think that they forced you to click on it and read it!Impulses - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - link
What? This is hardly the first live blog coverage of an event for AT, they've been doing it for years. Used to be only Apple launches or maybe something big at a trade show would get the live blog treatment, not sure how they've fallen in any sense. It's clearly not new behavior nor intended as a review, just news coverage.Refuge - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - link
I agree!!!!How dare Anandtech pose tech news!!!!
RABBLE RABBLE BITCH BITCH!!!!
/sarcasim
Thank you guys, keep doing what you do. :)
Tikcus9666 - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - link
How big is the sensor on the camera? DSLR features mean nothing until you get somewhere near DSRL size sensorsPeichen - Thursday, April 16, 2015 - link
It is thinner than iPhone 6+ and Note 4 with no protruding lens but with OIS. Kinda answered your question.zodiacfml - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - link
power consumption firewall. interesting. I once had an app that seems not responding and didn't bother then noticed my phone has been warm for minutes. I just did restart since I don't know what is the cause.It might provide good value as most consumers wouldn't notice that their phone consuming more power than is required and only to discover that the phone won't make it for the whole day.
mayankleoboy1 - Thursday, April 16, 2015 - link
Never seen so many marketing buzzwords in one presentation!Also worht noting that India is not on the list, but Pakistan is. Maybe related to China and Pakistan being mates...
Peichen - Thursday, April 16, 2015 - link
Right. There are enough buzzwords here to last a marketing student 4 years through college.BTW, I am going to guess no India on the 1st day because India banned/shunned Huawei. FOr a while India and US were pushing local company to stop using Huawei products.
Cspeeds - Thursday, April 16, 2015 - link
More like they do not want to compete with Micromax, vice-versa.Wipeout_swe - Thursday, April 16, 2015 - link
Omg, didnt anyone react to the charts? (cpu and gpu charts) No rhyme or reason at all! Hopefully not the same person who designed the phone :)Ethos Evoss - Saturday, April 18, 2015 - link
Nice P8Hope anadtech you will write nice review about this beas P8
aggiechase37 - Monday, April 20, 2015 - link
Did they say how much Chinese spyware they'll be putting on here? If you own a business, the Chinese will still everything they can from you. Wouldn't be surprised if this phone's design or software or engineering or something is stolen from another company. China as a whole is a joke of a country, ripping off everyone else because they are too stupid to come up with their own stuff.