HUAWEI P8

Huawei wants the world to take notice. Its hardware has been steadily improving over the past year, from the Ascend Mate 2 to the attractive Huawei Watch, over which we fawned at the beginning of 2015. The P8 — the Ascend brand name has been retired here — is the company’s fashionable flagship smartphone.
Huawei is obviously confident that this phone is something special. However, hardware has never been Huawei’s downfall. It’s software. For the P8 to take on the latest phones from Samsung and LG, both of which have learned restraint when it comes to modifying Android, Huawei needs to improve the user experience. Additionally, the phone’s performance should be, at the very least, equal to the best out there; but the unfamiliar Kirin chip of Huawei’s own design is inside.