Huawei had announced the G8 smartphone in the G Series at the IFA last year. Now the company has introduced same phone as the GX8 for the US at the CES 2016. To remind you, the smartphone packs a 5.5-inch 1080p screen, is powered by a 1.5GHz octa-core Snapdragon 616 SoC, runs Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with Huawei Emotion UI 3.1, has a 13-megapixel rear camera with dual-tone LED flash and 5-megapixel front-facing camera.
It comes with all-metal uni-body build and a fingerprint sensor 2.0 on the back. It also has 4G LTE connectivity and packs a 3000mAh battery.
Huawei GX8 specifications
- 5.5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) Full HD cured 2.5D glass display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection
- Octa-Core 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 (Cortex A53 – 4×1.5GHz + 4×1.2GHz) processor with Adreno 405 GPU
- 3GB RAM, 32GB internal memory, expandable via microSD up to 128GB
- Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with Huawei Emotion UI 3.1
- 13MP rear camera with dual-tone LED Flash, OIS
- 5MP front-facing camera
- Dimensions: 152 x 76.5x 7.5mm; Weight: 167g
- Fingerprint sensor
- 4G LTE /3G HSPA+, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 LE, GPS
- 3000mAh battery
The Huawei GX8 comes in gold, gray and silver colors and is priced at $349.99 (Rs. 23,285 approx.) It will be available at BestBuy.com, select Best Buy stores, GetHuawei.com and Amazon.com sometime in Q1 2016.