The Huawei Honor 8 is Huawei's newest offering announced yesterday from China. It seems to compete with Huawei's own recent flagship, the Huawei P9, on every dimension except two: build quality (glass back vs. unibody construction) and price (this one is about 30% cheaper). We covered the P9 back in April, and the Honor 8 really is almost identical as you can see from the specs:

  Honor 8 P9
Processor Kirin 950 (4 x Cortex A72 2.3GHz + 4 x Cortex A53 1.8GHz + always-on I5 coprocessor) Kirin 955 (4 x Cortex A72 2.5GHz + 4 x Cortex A53 1.8GHz + always-on I5 coprocessor)
GPU Mali T880
Memory & Storage 3GB/32GB, 4GB/32GB, 4GB/64GB
Screen 5.2" 1920x1080 LTPS LCD (423 PPI), 96% NTSC color reproduction
Camera (rear) 12MP, F2.2, dual lens (1 B&W, 1 RGB)
Camera (front) 8PM, F2.4
SD Card Hybrid microSD (dual nano SIM or nano + SD)
Battery 3000mAh
Software EMUI 4.1 on Android 6.0
Measurements 145.5 x 71 x 7.44 mm, 153 g 145 x 70.9 x 7 mm, 144 g
Build "2.5D" glass front and back, metal frame All metal unibody construction
Colors White, Gold, Black, Pink, Blue White, Gold, Rose Gold, Silver, Gray

As far as I can tell, except for being ever so slightly slower, bulkier, and cheaper with the glass back, these two phones are almost identical. The same B&W/RGB dual camera setup, the same multipurpose fingerprint reader / button, the same RAM/ROM options, the same GPU, etc.

The biggest difference is definitely the price, with the Honor 8 starting at ¥1,999 ($299), significantly less than the P9 which is available for around $450 on GizOK.