14 DAY TRIAL // The people at Huawei don’t seem to have too much time for relaxation. After unveiling the P8 handset not so long ago, the company seems to be already involved in the development of the next-gen flagship, dubbed the P9.
The folks of Mobile Dad have stumbled upon evidence that Huawei has already started testing the phone codenamed “IP03” in China. Since the Huawei P7 and P8 were codenamed “IP01” and “IP02,” respectively, it makes sense to assume we’re dealing with the P9.
Sources familiar with the matter are whispering that the P9 will be somehow different to the current P8, as it appears that the phone will sport a curved display and will house a fingerprint scanner on the back.
The phone will probably see the light of day sometime in 2016
You should certainly take this information with a big grain of salt, especially since it might take Huawei over a year to actually produce the P9. Until then, a lot of things might change.
The report also claims the P9 will arrive with a 5.2-Inch display and a 16MP camera with OIS (optical image stabilization) like the LG G4. The phone will supposedly draw power from a new HiSilicone Kirin 950 processor.
Huawei is expected to unveil this particular piece of silicone sometime towards the end of the year. According to the available information, the platform will be manufactured using TSMC’s 16nm process.
But the thing is that Huawei’s latest P8 flagship didn’t impress reviewers and consumers all that much. For starters, it’s pretty expensive and its internal specifications don’t really seem to justify the high rate.
The device takes advantage of a 5.2-inch display with 1080p resolution, a Kirin 930 chip with 2GHz octa-core CPU on the inside working hand in hand with 3GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage.
The imaging department seems to be a little more interesting, in the sense that the phone bundles a camera sensor with four types of sub-pixels, including Red, Green, Blue and White. This setup should make the snapper more efficient in low-lighting environments.
The 13MP main camera benefits from optical image stabilization and can also be rotated up to 1.6°, double than what the iPhone 6 Plus camera can do. Huawei also boasts that the image processor inside the phone can deliver DSLR quality.
It seems to us that Huawei should put a lot of thought into the P9, and adding a curved glass display into the picture might be a good idea, since “edged” phones like the Samsung Galaxy S6 edge are pretty popular these days. Nevertheless, we shouldn’t expect the P9 to make it out before 2016.
