PRESS RELEASE
London – 25 January 2017 –Today, Huawei Consumer Business Group announces the launch of the P8 Lite 2017, the successor to one of the best-selling smartphones in the market. This high performing smartphone is designed for selfies and is excellent at capturing photos in low light surroundings.
Elegant design
The P8 Lite 2017 combines elegance, powerful performance and ease of use for consumers. Its rounded edge finish in polished glass and 5.2 inch full-HD 2.5D screen offers a unique style and a smartphone that fits perfectly in the users’ hands.
Low light performance
Huawei P8 Lite 2017 offers an exceptional photography experience offering the user speed, depth and clarity. Featuring a 12MP camera with f2.2 aperture in the back of the phone, the P8 Lite 2017 lets users celebrate and share every moment, all in high resolution. Photos shot on the P8 Lite 2017 are brighter, more realistic and rich in detail. Thanks to its automatic phase-detection technology photos remain sharp, even with moving subjects. The camera, equipped with 1.25μm pixels also allows users to capture brighter images in low light conditions. Taking pictures in the dark will be an obstacle of the past.
Designed for selfies
The front camera of the P8 Lite 2017 is 8MP with f2.0 aperture, it has automatic recognition of faces and photography modes - taking the users selfies to a new dimension.
Powerful
Featuring a dual SIM port, the P8 Lite 2017 has been designed to meet the needs of the most demanding consumer. Its powerful Kirin 655 Octo Core processor engraved in 16 nm optimises the speed and the autonomy of the smartphone while still delivering high performance. In addition, with 3GB of RAM and 16GB of storage (expandable up to 256GB via microSD ™ card), users can seamlessly multitask on the P8 Lite 2017.
Its 3000 mAh battery provides a long usage time (up to 1.7 days) even while using power consuming features of the smartphone:
- 15 hours of video playback
- 36 hours phone call
- 11 hours of 4G navigation
- 93 hours of music
Intuitive user interface
Even faster and more aesthetically pleasing, the new EMUI 5.0 interface adapts to the preferences of the user and offers a personalised experience according to their usage patterns. To ensure optimal performance, the EMUI 5.0 management system optimises the configuration of the storage disk as well as the reading and writing of the files.
Latest finger print technology
The P8 Lite 2017 also includes the new generation of Huawei fingerprint recognition. The reader recognises the fingerprint and unlocks the phone in less than 0.3 seconds in order to guarantee the best security for the smartphone.
Availability
In the UK, the Huawei P8 Lite 2017 16GB version (3GB RAM) in Black will be available first on Vodafone in retail stores and over the phone from the 1st of February, on PAYG for £185 and contract from £16 per month. Coming soon to Vodafone online.
Huawei P8 lite 2017 – technical sheet
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Screen
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Resolution: 1920 x 1080p Technology: IPS
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Processor
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HiSilicon Kirin 655 Octo-Core Frequency: 4 x 2.1GHz A53, 4x1.7GHz A53 Operating system Android ™ 7.0 (Nougat), EMIU 5.0
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Memory |
Internal: 3GB, 16GB External: microSD ™ card up to 256 GB
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Camera |
Rear: 12MP, 1.25μm, PDAF, LED Before: 8MP
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Battery |
3000mAh Call time: up to 36 hours
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Fingerprint reader |
Fingerprint 4.0
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Connectivity |
Wifi: Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n, Wi-Fi Direct, connection sharing Bluetooth: 4.1 USB Connection: Micro USB Type-B ™ (2.0 High Speed) USB Features: Charger, OTG, file transfer
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Network |
4G FDD: B1 / B3 / B7 / B8 / B20 3G: 850/900/2100 / 1900GHz
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SIM |
Nano SIM + Nano SIM (The second SIM location can also be used as a location for MicroSD ™ card)
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Product dimensions |
About 147g (with battery) Height: 147.2 mm; Width: 73 mm; Depth: 7.63 mm |
About Huawei Consumer Business Group
Huawei’s products and services are available in more than 170 countries and are used by a third of the world’s population, ranking third in the world in mobile phone shipments in 2014. Sixteen R&D centers have been set up in the United States, Germany, Sweden, Russia, India, and China. Huawei Consumer Business Group is one of Huawei’s three business units and covers smartphones, mobile broadband devices, home devices and cloud services. Huawei’s global network is built on 20 years of expertise in the telecom industry and is dedicated to delivering the latest technological advances to consumers around the world.
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