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[Mate 8 General] opteron88:
at least US$130-250++. I bought directly at just US$500 for the 32gb international (better LTE support) silver edition.

CNY rates has dropped to 1USD to CNY 6.45 now, all time high and will continue to devalue in 2016.

http://www.xe.com/en/currencycharts/?from=USD&to=CNY&view=1M

Basically, all aliexpress sellers are marking up a lot just because they know a bit of English. :rolleyes: :crying:
[Mate 8 General] qjsmartphone:
send me the link you are buying from all I see is $600 or more towards 700+
[Mate 8 General] opteron88:
official huawei site at vmall.com all in Chinese :p

Need a chinese bank account or Alipay (Alibaba Paypal clone) to pay. Only shipping within China, and stocks are still low.
[Mate 8 General] bissa:
is honormi.com a trusted site to buy from?
[Mate 8 General] mscion:
Trying to figure that out myself. I just found one importer in Chicago. I called them and they are not in stock yet. Should arrive next week. Also they are not sure what the actual specs/version of the device they are getting. So the information on this website in regards to which versions they are selling may be incorrect.

http://welectronics.com/gsm/HUAWEI/..._LncyZLCNgg5MjNs4sV83iBqycs_GSKlSUaAjC38P8HAQ
[Mate 8 General] aloysxda:
Wednesday I received my mate 8. Realy a wonderfull phone. It fits in the same belt case, as my note 3. This mate 8 is so fast, what is to see by installing apps. Pictures en film, very clear and stabil. Film is like the camera is on a tripod. Only thing what I can't find, is how to set the language of the standard brower, to my own language. This stays on chinese. Just using opera what works great.

Also 4G for my country works great.

At the first start up this phone, it gives a sound from the stereo speakers, it sounds like its coming from an bluetooth speaker.

Realy happy with this mate 8 !
[Mate 8 General] jbmc83:
pictures of the phone please! :)
[Mate 8 General] mscion:
Also, pictures taken by the phone too!
[Mate 8 General] NZtechfreak:
Nice to see it has arrived for one of us, mine arrived in NZ today and should be a sure thing for Monday delivery.
[Mate 8 General] aloysxda:
Here is a picture of my note 3 and the mate 8 (lowest). Its just amazing how fast the mate takes the picture. There is no time needed, to safe it on the external SD card (128 GB). Honest, the picture of the note 3 is also good, but if you take a good look to the broken red berry, you see differances in detail.

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[Mate 8 General] mscion:
Hi. To me the Note 3 pic looks a little better. I see the detail of the leaves better. But the Note 3 shot also looks like it was closer. My guess is that the Mate 8 gives comparable pictures, maybe a little better in low light bit overall but not significantly better than Note 4 or 5, which is OK. How about the duel speakers? How do they sound?
[Mate 8 General] aloysxda:
The sound of the dual speakers is really great. At the firs start of the Mate, I thought the sound was coming from my bluetooth speaker. Its realy loud and much more bass then every phone I ever heard.

There is one thing I can't find, How can I set the language of the standard browser from chinese to my own language.

The manual of this mate 8 is not online in englisch. I downloaded the manual of the mate S. This looks almost the same as the mate 8
[Mate 8 General] aloysxda:
I can't test it at sunny weather, because its very cloudy here, but at maximum brightness of the note and Mate, the screen of the Mate is much brighter. The colors of both look good at this brightness. Take a look:

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[Mate 8 General] EMF:
Pictures of the phone would be great! :) Did you get the gold color, and is it "bling" or more plain?
[Mate 8 General] mscion:
Looks real good! The colors seem more realistic on Mate 8. Love the size! How does the lower dpi on Mate 8 seem. Can you really tell much difference between Note 3 and Mate 8? Do you have access to play store? Might try Dolphin browser and enable jet pack. It is really fast on my Note Edge. Also, you might check out a drawing app on it. Don't know if you can use your spen on it. Anyways, appreciate your sharing. I'm thinking of ordering one next week. Just wondering about waiting for CES to see what Huawei says about US release.
[Mate 8 General] aloysxda:
I will help you folks as honest as possible. The note 3 was always perfect for me !

At using the mate 8 after standby, I just have to place my finger on the fingerprint scanner and the mate is awake. This works always. Others in my family thought his finger worked also, but no way. So this is great.

What about the screen: As I open a picture on both, the mate is brighter and better detailt. The black of the note is more black. At the same picture, the mate is more realistic, but with the note I can further zoom in at the standard gallery app.

Play store was installed and works fine. On this chinese model, there is an second play store installed, in chinese language. This don't borther me and don't use it.

For drawing, I use notepad+. This works good with a finger of an stylis pen, but whith the note S pen, no reaction.

The battery life is amazing. Do what you want, power enough.

Now I use the Mate 8 for 3 days, I 'm surprised about the build quality of this Huawei, and happy to have one.

For people with patiente, buy one when its coming to your country at the beginning of 2016, and you don't have some chinese stuf on it. If you can't wait to buy one like me, its a real pleasure to work with this mate.
[Mate 8 General] altaz:
Has any with the phone been able to get Google contact sync working?
[Mate 8 General] EMF:
You need to download the Google contact sync app from HiApp (Huawei app store). It is not pre-installed om the Chinese version of the phone.
[Mate 8 General] opteron88:
Nope, just installed the Hisuite app. It can sync contacts via Outlook. The backup feature also works great.

Home launcher seemed to be stuck to using Huawei one, and it's frustrating. ?

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The charger is 9V 2A which can charge really fast.

CPU is breaking records here. :D
[Mate 8 General] altaz:
Unfortunately, I've done that already, still doesn't work. I've also tried versions from mirror with the same thing happening. It hows up in the app list, but not under the Google account setup. It appears huawei have blocked the contact sync with Google.
[Mate 8 General] EMF:
Ok, sorry to hear that. Have you checked that contacts box is ticked for sync under Settings -> Accounts -> Google account?

I don't have the Mate 8, but it works on Mate S, Honor 7, Honor 6 and so on...
[Mate 8 General] blackinfinity:
is it possible to enable "marshmallow standard multi tasking ? in settings ?

Like this
[Mate 8 General] lorenzw:
good morning

I received my DHL tracking number, I live in France and I ordered in honormi.com

I hope to receive it before Christmas
[Mate 8 General] altaz:
Doesn't appear to be possible, I've not seen an option for it in the menus. Even change to the Google now launcher the Huawei task switcher remains.

Regards the Google contacts account setting. The option doesn't appear, I've been able to manually extract my contacts from my old phone and then import, but this is obviously not idea. Has anyone been able to get contacts to show up?
[Mate 8 General] aloysxda:
Did you do a search at youtube ? For my mate 8 I searched for: Huawei mate S tips and tricks.

Also on Huawei.com, you can download the manual for the Mate S in englisch. This is almost the same like the Mate 8. (I couldn't find the Mate 8 manual in english)

This will give you lots of features. Good luck.
[Mate 8 General] blackinfinity:
That is sad news, this is almost a dealbreaker for me..I can't stand Huawei's interpretation of android task switcher.. it is really bad and brainless...This is not the way android is supposed to be and the task switcher is such an core element of android that it seem very bad to change it.. it was one of the core features of lollipop which was also inherited into Marshmallow, all I can say is I hope Huawei will get their brain together and fix this now. When had LG G3 I did use the task switcher all the time, when I have had Mate 7 for about one year I did not use the task switcher at all...this says a lot.. of how useless it is..for me they could delete the function all together if they do not have the standard android app switcher..
[Mate 8 General] NZtechfreak:
Mine arrived today, just getting set up and presently installing a firmware update. So far impressions are favourable with a very fast fingerprint reader and impeccable build. More to come later as I get settled with it.
[Mate 8 General] blackinfinity:
Please if you can put up some youtube video so we can see it in action, mostly intersted in softare.

However what you should do first and I have no clue why no one have done it before is please send us some picture from the camera so we can see how good it is.
[Mate 8 General] NZtechfreak:
Few quick things (at work) - I have been able to change the default launcher (someone else mentioned they were unable to do this), I get 96K in Antutu after changing the CPU mode to performance (again I think others have not done this, hence the better result), and I have working Google Contacts Sync. With most of these things it is a matter of working with Huawei's rather arcane settings menus and Phone Manager app, where lots of different permissions managers of various kinds are split into different non-intuitive areas.
[Mate 8 General] opteron88:
Finally, changed the default launcher! Need to go into advanced settings. The huawei home isn't even showing under the apps list. Damn those chinese developers.

Nova launcher is up and away!
[Mate 8 General] NZtechfreak:
Yep, that's the one - Settings --> Apps --> Advanced --> Default app settings --> Launcher. Sorry, would have posted instructions but not enough time between patients. I'm used to their convoluted settings after my time with the P8Max, generally everything can be sorted, but does take a bit of time checking settings menus and the Phone Manager app which has some settings that are not available from the Settings menus.

Go to the Phone Manager App --> Battery manager --> Power plan to change system performance settings like I did en route to getting the highest Antutu yet on this device :)
[Mate 8 General] lionel7:
hi

how is the camera ? as good as the s6 or the iPhone ?

Thx
[Mate 8 General] altaz:
So I have gotten contact sync to work, not entirely sure how. But Google contact sync is showing up in Google account setup now.

The app switcher is fine, and in some ways better than Google's implementation. Since you can see the full page I don't have to fully switch between Windows If I am copying information.

Battery life has been great, got the phone on Thursday and charged it twice since then. Last check was 6 hours screen on time. Performance is great the phone really flies, running antutu, with the default power management gives about 85k, change it to performance and I achieved 95k.

The camera is fast, with lots of professional options. I would take some pictures but it's a bit cloudy here. Since I had a galaxy s4 before, anything would be better.
[Mate 8 General] NZtechfreak:
I will obviously need more playtime to work that out for sure, but I don't think it's on their level. In low light with a steady hand and super night mode it might outdo them, but short of that I suspect not. Should be able to borrow an S6 Edge+ for direct comparison.

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Further testing - unlike the P8Max with the 935's weak sauce GPU, the Mate 8 has enough mettle to run PSP emulation well. Tekken Dark Resurrection at 4x PSP rendering resolution and native 1080p output resolution working perfect at a solid 99-100% speed. Still not quite there for most Gamecube emulation I think, but was managing 25-37fps in-game in Grand Prix mode in Mario Kart Double Dash. Will try some other games lately.

USB audio is working well, which is just as well, as that was the deal-breaker with the P8Max. Mate 8 --> Chord Mojo --> MrSpeakers Ether C sounding too good.

Speed in day to day tasks is superb, I think even outdoing my previous 6P for speed.
[Mate 8 General] jbmc83:
oh nice, a former 6P user! how would u personally compare the two phones? would be quite interested in your opinion on that, especially since i considered getting the 6P for the looongest time, until google decided to postpone its release here in germany for like 3 friggin months.... so now mate 8 it is! :)
[Mate 8 General] NZtechfreak:
6P has a few things going for it - Nexus updates, better screen (in sRGB mode), significant development community vs probably next to nothing here, but if you're looking for SD slot, a better behaved and performing SoC (GPU performance aside, but then the 810 will throttle and is pushing more pixels there effectively negating the real world usefulness of that), and almost certainly noticeably better battery life then the Mate 8 seems worthy to me. I'll have a bit better feel for battery life in coming days of course. Speed and fluidity probably a wash, if anything a touch faster here is regular use I think. Don't think there will be much in it for camera, again need a little more time. For my needs this is likely to end up considerably better I think.
[Mate 8 General] aloysxda:
Can someone help me. The menu language of the standard browser is in chinese. How can I change this to other language, or is this not possible at this huawei browser ?
[Mate 8 General] NZtechfreak:
You don't want to just install Chrome?
[Mate 8 General] zapkhiell:
ohoho big screen :D
[Mate 8 General] NZtechfreak:
Anyone managed to get Now on Tap going? I can go into app defaults and select Google as the assistance app, but only get HiVoice on long pressing the home button.
[Mate 8 General] aloysxda:
There's a setting, you can write a letter on every screen. In that setting the letter you write is a shortcut to open every app. I found it on tips and tricks on youtube.

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As I install chrome, would google now open the chrome browser, instead of the standard browser ?
[Mate 8 General] NZtechfreak:
I'm not referring to Google Now, I'm referring to Google Now "On Tap", which is not quite the same as regular Google Now as we have known it. Google Now works fine, however the Marshmallow addition to its functionality I have not yet managed to troubleshoot.

Should do, yes.
[Mate 8 General] claudioggs:
Could someone please tell me how to install google contacts?

How to change launcher? I haven't Default Application in Advanced Parameters

Thanks in advance
[Mate 8 General] Takinato:
Hey I was wondering how the nova laucnher home screen looked like loaded on the mate 8 if you could take a screen shot that would be amazing!
[Mate 8 General] NZtechfreak:
I keep things pretty clean on my Nova homescreen, easy to do with gestures:

App drawer:
[Mate 8 General] shaneel1491:
Is it possible for someone to post some camera samples, some low-light would be nice to see what it's capable of.
[Mate 8 General] forserg:
Is anybody use Mate 8 for T-mobile? Any reviews?
[Mate 8 General] blackinfinity:
yes I wonder why that has not leaked already ?

China is good in isolating themselves from the world ?

Minmal leaks no reviews or anything on youtube

and the device has been out some time now...
[Mate 8 General] NZtechfreak:
I will post some photos when I can.
[Mate 8 General] aloysxda:
After an restart, now an update about 246 mb is downloading. The message was in chinese language. Translate this later. Curious what comes with this update.......
[Mate 8 General] tomija1980:
Is this the B129?

Wysłane z mojego HUAWEI NXT-AL10 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Mate 8 General] aloysxda:
Yes, B129. Update: Camera, system optimalisation, voice command.
[Mate 8 General] NZtechfreak:
Rough n ready Google translate of the changelog:

Change log dear as users, the x update on your camera, the system performance is optimized, the new high moral ground should commission, ize travel more convenient,

updating Google security patches, making the system more secure,

and fixes a number you might care about problem, we recommend that you upgrade. [Optimization]

optimized picture quality dark environment

part of the game in the process of

optimizing system performance, play games more smoothly

.

Optimize voice command recognition accuracy

.

Optimize system stability, so that your phone run more stable

. Fixes compatibility with third-party applications. Google optimization update security patches. New High German map application, allowing you to travel more convenient. [Repair] repair driving mode wakeup small micro letter E appears busy network issues. After the repair the alarm off and the status bar still displays suspend or close the alarm problem. DND time to repair, but DND not open the page fixes PPTV live video, crystal put questions. Update Note: This upgrade does not delete user data, encounter any problems during the upgrade, please visit EUR inferior hand application, or visit pollen club (http://club.huawei.com, or call 400 VIP service hotline -930-9300 for support.

UPDATE: Chinese users reporting increased battery drain on 129, one user saying they have already updated to 131!

Also, some stuff on camera from Huawei's forums.
[Mate 8 General] Emerald Core:
I have posted some low light pictures with HDR mode. You can have a look :)

http://xdaforums.com/mate-8/general/huawei-mate-8-3-days-mini-review-nova-t3276250
[Mate 8 General] opteron88:
offical rom upgrade guide

My model is HUAWEI NXT-AL10（全网通 版）the global edition with better LTE support , and the emui updater shows no update, with b116 being the latest!

This is normal as Huawei normally updates the overseas edition last!

Below are for the local Chinese Telcos. Hope u guys didn't get this, if not it would be a rip-off:

HUAWEI NXT-DL00（联通定制版）

HUAWEI NXT-TL00（移动定制版）

HUAWEI NXT-CL00（电信定制版）
[Mate 8 General] NZtechfreak:
Mine is also the AL10 and on 129.
[Mate 8 General] altaz:
Same here, I am in the UK and did the upgrade last night.
[Mate 8 General] opteron88:
all in Chinese ;) the official owners' Mate 8 club

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exmor

Search for IMX298. It's the latest one.

http://cn.club.vmall.com/thread-6709687-1-1.html

forum section

Loads of complaints on b129 for now.
[Mate 8 General] NZtechfreak:
B129 seems to be behaving itself for me.
[Mate 8 General] aloysxda:
My last phone was a Galaxy note 3. In the list of contact, it was possible te make a group of some contacts. I can't find this on the mate 8. Can someone help me to find how to make groupes ?

Edit:

Groups can be made in the upper level of the standard contacts. Took some searching, but this is oke. Now I want to give every group an own ringtone. Can't find this.
[Mate 8 General] forserg:
Can somebody explain from their experience difference between Huawei mate international version vs US version? Is it worth it to wait Huawei mate 8 on US soil?
[Mate 8 General] mscion:
It might be worth waiting till CES or till it is actually released to compare. I can only speculate here, and perhaps others could chime in with their experience on Huawei releases meant for US. Some guesses on my part are that google apps may be better integrated and recovery might be in English. Some folks have suggested that the phone will be better tuned to work with US carriers although I have no idea what that means or if it is true. I've even heard that the US release may have a different processor but I doubt that. I've also heard that the US release will be more expensive. If it is released in US there is a better chance of getting it serviced in a more timely fashion since, presumably, there will be more local support for it. Also wonder if the FM radio feature will be turned off here as that seems to be commonly done. Anyway, despite the temptation and wanting to know more about the camera, I've decided to wait a couple weeks to find out more about the US version.

EDIT: Just noticed this

http://www.christiantoday.com/artic...ve.global.release.coming.to.the.u.s/74354.htm

Perhaps this is a difference (mentioned in the article)?

"The device that was tested reportedly bore the model number NXT-L09, and apparently, documentation for the tests included WiFi certification process using 5G speeds."

EDIT AGAIN: Maybe not a difference because WIFI 5G is handled by Wi-Fi 802.11 n and ac which is in the current models according to gsmarena
[Mate 8 General] forserg:
Definitely will wait.
[Mate 8 General] AndreiLux:
I suppose nobody else has a NXT-L29?...

Would be helpful if more people would post some camera pictures because it's not looking too good here and I'm not sure if it's a firmware issue or if the camera is just bad.
[Mate 8 General] mke1973:
E

Be patient and don't rush to judgement. The company should be getting international units out to reviewers in the next couple of weeks. They're taking it to CES in January, where they'll announce a North American release. I wouldn't judge the camera quality by the very few photos that have been posted. It's got a Sony lens with f2.0 aperture and should produce a decent photo.

Edit: here's a link to a review that has a few photos. http://www.boardsforphones.com/huawei-mate-8-review/
[Mate 8 General] AndreiLux:
nevermind
[Mate 8 General] tsiglas:
Hi to everyone....I read somewhere that mate8 has 1 radio for both2 sim.....instead of mate7 that has 2 radio-one for every sim....is that true and possible?isn't dual sim ACTIVE?

And another question for the owners of mate 8 & mate 7...

In settings - sim setings is there any option for association sim contacts?that means that you can specify some contacts with sim 1 and some with sim 2 and all ways call the with the specific sim that you have choose before with no question
[Mate 8 General] NZtechfreak:
Still getting a feel for the camera, thought I would upload a shot taken in good light as that's what I currently have the most of. This one is a challenging shot for a smartphone - moving target, high dynamic range but unable to utilise HDR given the moving target, lots of detail with the foliage in the background. It has focused more on the leading foliage here, but the detail there is rendered really quite nicely I think (also the bark at the bottom), dynamic range is a bit too much for the phone with some highlights blown out (white hat), noise is fairly nicely in check, although there is a bit of colour noise in the blue sky, colour and exposure very true to life. All in all pretty good I think, and I don't think my Note 4 would have done any better in the same conditions and with the same subject. In other shots my son was in focus, however I thought this one showed the cameras mettle a little more effectively with the rendition of the background foliage. Full res available at FlickR of course. More examples to come including low light samples, and with direct comparison to Note 4 and S6 Edge+.

IMG_20151227_164905_copy by Murray Winiata, on Flickr
[Mate 8 General] mrcpa:
The photo is great and your son is amazing !!
[Mate 8 General] NZtechfreak:
Haha, thank you! I agree about my son, but I am slightly biased.
[Mate 8 General] Nafiganado:
Anyone could say about audio quality in headphones?

Curious to hear about audio quality in headphones. There's no dedicated DAC here of ESS level, like in most of audiophile smartphones, right? Just Tensilica DSP...

Nevertheless, would be nice to hear impressions and comparisons.
[Mate 8 General] NZtechfreak:
If you search the Mate 8 forum I think someone has already left some feedback on that front. If I get around to it I will, but I doubt that I will given my timetable.

I listen via USB DAC using my phone as a transport (into Chord Mojo and using MrSpeakers Ether C headphones or Final Audio Pandora Hope VI headphones), given the sound quality I'm getting there I'm loathe to subject myself to the headphone out of a phone (even those with ESS Sabre DACs and such like will not match the Mojo).