Huawei P8 Lite launched officially; India to get Huawei P8, P8 Max, P8 Lite, MediaPad X2 and TalkBand B2 in Q3

Huawei introduced its Huawei P8 and P8 Max smartphones in April this year. A third smartphone Huawei P8 Lite was also expected to be unveiled at the time but that didn’t happen. However, the P8 Lite was later released in Germany and Hungary and was priced at about $270. Now Huawei P8 Lite has been made official by the company at its South East Asia (SEA) launch event held in Bangkok.

At the event, the Chinese giant showcased its latest flagship smartphone P8 along with its two variants P8 Max and P8 Lite as well as MediaPad X2, Watch W1 and TalkBand B2.

The Huawei P8 Lite is a dual SIM smartphone that comes with a 5-inch, 1280 x 720 pixels resolution display and is powered by a 64-bit HiSilicon Kirin 620 chipset with octa-core 1.2GHz CPU and a Mali 450 MP4 GPU for graphics. Inside, it has a 2GB of RAM and 16GB of expandable storage. It doesn’t have a separate slot for microSD card but the second SIM slot works as a microSD card slot.

There is a 13MP BSI camera at the back and a 5MP camera at the front for selfies and video chats. The device runs on a 2200mAh battery and comes with pre-installed Android 5.0.2 lollipop with Huawei’s own EMUI 3.1 skin on top. Connectivity options include 4G LTE, Bluetooth 4.1 LE, Wi-Fi and NFC. The Huawei P8 Lite dimensions are 143.0 x 70.6 x 7.7mm and it weighs 131 grams. The handset is available in 3 color options – Black, White and Gold.

At the event, Huawei also announced that the Huawei P8, P8 Max, P8 Lite and the Huawei MediaPad X2 will be launched in India in the third quarter of 2015. According to the company, Huawei P8 will not be joining the price war and will cost about $455 while the P8 Lite is a budget phone falling in the mid-range price segment. The TalkBand B2 which is a fitness tracker-cum-Bluetooth earpiece, is expected to arrive in India in June and cost about $235.

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Huawei P8 Lite launched officially; India to get Huawei P8, P8 Max, P8 Lite, MediaPad X2 and TalkBand B2 in Q3

Huawei Introduces MediaPad X2 – 7” Tablet with Telephony Functions

Previous year, MediaPad X1 got launched by Huawei, a 7 inches tablet that possessed functions of telephony, a not so common type. Recently at 2015 MWC, the company is launching its new Mediapad X2, a new member of its tablet family, which consists of many improvements over MediaPad X1.


The size of the new tablet is 7 inches with 7.28mm thickness and consists of an IPS display screen with a pixel resolution of 1920×1200 which takes 80% of the tablet’s front.

An octa core processor is running the MediaPad X2, which is 64-bit Kirin 930 chipset and works at 2.0 Ghz.

The tablet also possesses back camera of 13MP with dedicated ISP chip, which has been stated to usually improve the tablets’ camera sensor’s low-light performance. Other than that the front camera is 5MP.

The tablet will be available in two editions; one of them will have a RAM of 2 GB with built-in storage of 16 GB, while the other one will consist of integrated 32 GB space with 3 GB RAM. Talking about connectivity, both devices have dual-SIM with LTE Cat.6.

Also the tablet consists of 5,000mAh battery, even though its capacity is same as the last model, it has an improved battery time. It is said that it can play music for 60 hours, run videos for 12 hours and allows internet browsing for 15 hours.

Other than that it will consist of DTS surround sound technology and Smart PA audio chip.

The new MediaPad X2 will run on Android 5.0 Lollipop and will be launched in the markets of Western Europe and China, but it is not yet known when it will be available in USA.

Huawei Introduces MediaPad X2 – 7” Tablet with Telephony Functions