Huawei Maimang 5
The much anticipated Huawei Maimang 5
has successfully gone through TENAA and has been certified. The device which
looks like a smaller version of the Huawei Mate 8 had earlier been tipped to
launch on July 14.
Around this time last year, Huawei
released the Snapdragon 616 – powered Huawei Maimang 4 which was sensationally
tagged the Chinese version of the Huawei G8. And one year on, what is obviously
an upgrade of the Maimang 4 is about to shoot.
In appearance, the Maimang 5 sports a
striking similarity in design with the Mate 8 albeit an inferior one at that.
The device has a borderless design and also features a 5.5-inch Full-HD
Touchscreen display.
At the back, the device packs a 16 MP
camera with LED flash just beside the camera and just under the camera, there
is a fingerprint sensor. The Maimang 5 also features an 8 MP front facing
camera.
The TENAA listing showed the Huawei
Maimang 5 is equipped with a 2.0 GHz octa-core processor which is thought to be
a Snapdragon 652 SoC, although it is likely that it turns out to be the Kirin
650 spec. The device offers both 3 GB and 4 GB RAM versions as well as 16 GB, 32 GB
and 64 GB of on-board storage variants all of which are expandable up to 128 GB
via microSD card. However, only the high-end 64 GB internal storage version will
come packing a 4 GB RAM.
The listing also reveals the Huawei
Maimang 5 will boot Android 6.0 Marshmallow out-of-the-box and crams a liberal
3,270 mAh battery under its hood.
The Maimang 5 will come in three
different color variants; silver, pink and gold and will likely carry a price
tag of around 2,000 Chinese Yuan (about US$ 300). We’re not sure about that
though, but the entire information about the price will be made known when the
device is officially unveiled come July 14.
