First announced in May 2020, the Huawei P Smart S is a powerful smartphone that delivers on everything from style to performance. With a 6.3-inch touchscreen with an OLED display and a powerful screen resolution of 1080×2400 pixels and an image density of 418 PI, the new Y8P is a visual stunner.
Set to take the South African cell phone market by storm, the Huawei Y8P is a smartphone we should look out for.
Performance and Features of the Huawei P Smart S
The new Huawei P Smart S is powered by the Hisilicon Kirin 710. It utilises an octa-core processor as well as a Mali-G51 GPU. This shows that we can expect a powerful performance from this flagship device, and the P Smart S does not disappoint.
The Huawei Y8P runs on the EMUI 10.1. This is based on Android 10. The smartphone comes with great accessibility features and a USB C-Type.
The P Smart S is equipped with a standard fingerprint sensor, but this model is unique in that there’s a fingerprint reader on the display screen as well. This is a feature we don’t often get to see in phones of this type.
There are other sensors available as well, such as an accelerometer, a compass and a proximity sensor.
The Huawei P Smart S is packed with a 4000mAh Lo-Pi battery that can’t be removed from the phone.
Camera and Entertainment
The main camera in the Huawei P Smart S is a triple camera. In the centre, we have a 48P camera that comes with a Super Spectrum Sensor. Beside this camera is an 8MP ultra-wide lens, designed to help us capture quality moments down to minute details. The third camera is a 2MP depth camera. There’s also a Super Night Mode that ensures that we can take beautiful pictures even if it’s dark. Features like a flash, HDR and panorama are available as well.
The front-facing selfie camera is a 16MP HDR camera, and this means we can expect great selfies anytime and anywhere.
The P Smart S does not have Google Play Services, but instead, you get access to the Huawei App Gallery. Various other services from Huawei are also available.
The Huawei P Smart S comes with a standard loudspeaker and a 3.5mm jack.
What should we know about the Huawei P Smart S?
The Huawei P Smart S is 73.2mm wide, 157.4mm long and has a depth of 7.75mm. Including the battery, the approximate weight of the phone comes to 163 g. The rounded corners along the OLED screen of this 6.3-inch camera give a sleek look to the P Smart S.
The P Smart S is available as a 128 GB 4 GB RAM phone, as well as 128 GB 6 GB RAM phone. If we need more memory space, then we can attach a Nano Memory (NM) card to get external memory up to 256 GB.
A hybrid dual SIM phone, the Huawei Y8P is available in two colours – Breathing Crystal and Midnight Black.
Get your hands on the Huawei P Smart S today
The Huawei P Smart S is expected to cost around ZAR 6750. As a mid-range phone, it packs most of the features we can expect in a phone in this range, and more. The P Smart S is a solid investment that gives you amazing features, connectivity and technology. A smartphone that no one should miss out on, order the Huawei Y8P today and bring home one of the best mid-range phones released this yea