Huawei's recently launched smartphone/tablet hybrid, commonly referred to now as a phablet, the Huawei Mate 8, has been proven to be quite a hit in the Chinese market as various recent reports have suggested, the handset is now sold out at official store.

Huawei Mate 8

The handset Huawei Mate 8 has lived up to expectations made by the company and just a few days after it gets released, according to the report from GSM Arena, some retailers in the region has notified fans that the phablet is now sold out, despite it being sold at over 2,000 retail outlets across the country.

Meanwhile, Huawei's head of smartphone division, He Gang, before the phone became available in the market, had revealed that the Chinese manufacturer actually has high hopes for the Huawei Mate S and Mate 8, as stated on GSM Arena. One of the possible factors behind it is probably the high-end specs it sports in plus the fact that the phablet is at a reasonable price.

Under the hood, the Huawei Mate 8 will come with the latest octa-core chipset Kirin 950 SoC and a Mali T880MP4 GPU, said on the previous report from GSM Arena. Furthermore, the handset will sport in a 6-inch Full HD screen, a 4,000mAh battery-capacity and a 16MP/8MP back and front camera, respectively. The Mate 8 phablet is going to run on the company's next-gen EMUI 4.0 operating system that said to be based on the Android 6.0 Marshmallow, according to the report from GSM Arena, Huawei P9 will come with Kirin 950 CPU, 4GB RAM + 64GB ROM, with Android 6.0 Marshmallow.