We completely forgot about a possible follow-up to the Huawei P8 and P8 Max because we started to anticipate for the upcoming Huawei Mate 8. In less than two weeks, we’ll know if the latest flagship smartphone from the new King of the Chinese mobile market is powerful as promised.
But before the Mate 8 arrives, another rumor about a new phone is also going around. A Huawei P9 Max was recently sighted on AnTuTu benchmark. It was only referenced to as the ‘P950S’ model that already runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow and is powered by a Kirin 950 chipset with mali T880 processor. The device is also said to have a 6.2-inch display screen with 1600 x 2560 pixel resolution, 64GB built-in storage, and 4GB RAM. The rear cam and front camera specs are not indicated but we can expect they can be at par with the other premium specs listed on the benchmark page.
We haven’t even seen any Huawei P9 yet so we’re curious why this one is already known as the ‘P9 Max’. The P8 Lite was also just recently revealed so that can’t be it. Since it also features a Kirin 950 processor that’s been making waves and getting high scores on AnTuTu, its Mali-T880 GPU is also getting high scores.
We can expect the Huawei P9 Max to be marketed as another premium phablet because of the large display, 2K resolution, rumored dual cameras and side mounted fingerprint sensor, and the latest Android Marshmallow. Looking at the benchmark results, the Huawei P9 Max scored above 73,000 points. This phone could very well rival the other phablets from Samsung, Meizu, and Xiaomi among others.
VIA: GIZMOCHINA
