The company will use a combination of letters and numbers

Jan 19, 2015 10:22 GMT  ·  By

If you follow the tech industry, you’re probably familiar with the information that HTC is planning to refresh its device nomenclature.

So instead of waiting to see the HTC One (M9) flagship be unveiled soon, the rumor mill tells us we should expect the HTC Hima instead (which is a code name).

No Ascend smartphones will be made?

Now it appears other device makers are also looking to bestow a naming makeover on their device portfolio. It’s the case of Huawei, which if we’re to believe the folks of HD Blog will drop the “Ascend” moniker from its lineup of products.

So at MWC 2015 in Barcelona, we might end up seeing the company unveil the successor of the Ascend P7, as the P8.

Word on the street has it that the flagship will arrive with a 5.2-inch display with 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution and will nestle an octa-core Kirin 930 CPU from Huawei’s own garden.

The company will also throw in 3GB of RAM, 32GB of internal storage and a nifty fingerprint scanner. We can expect the handset to don a metal look, if we’re to judge the phone’s leaked chassis pictures as accurate.

Huawei D8 might also be coming, with powerful specs

Alongside, the P8 we might also see the Huawei D8 get unveiled too. This is a 5.5-inch phablet boasting 1440 x 2560 pixel resolution. The gizmo draws power from a 64-bit Kirin 950 CPU and is fitted with 4GB of RAM, just like the Xiaomi Mi Note Pro and ASUS ZenFone 2.

The Huawei D8 will also arrive with 64GB of RAM and will cost around an impressive $800 / €688. The device is said to make it out on retail shelves around May.

Do you think Huawei’s strategy of dropping Ascend and using a combination of a letter and a number will have any effect on its handset sales? We’ll just have to wait and see if this proves to be the case.

Huawei will not be making Ascend smartphones anymore (3 Images)

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