<p>Chinese technology giant Huawei has used the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2016 to launch its high-end 6-inch Mate 8 smartphone, touting its increased power and battery life, as well as the improved camera, as selling points.</p> <p>"With the Mate 8, we have delivered a device that meets the needs of a new style of business," said Kevin Ho, president of Huawei Consumer group's Handset Business.</p> <p>"With this fast, impeccably designed smartphone, users can work more efficiently and free up valuable time to spend with friends, family, and on personal pursuits.</p> <p>"The Mate 8 is the ultimate high-end smartphone. It strikes the perfect balance between high performance and long battery life, enabling people to stay connected and be more productive in every facet of their lives."</p> <p>The Mate 8 runs on the Kirin 950 chipset, boosting its CPU power by 100 percent, GPU power by 125 percent, and power efficiency by 70 percent in comparison to the preceding Kirin 925 chipset.</p> <p>It also features 4x A72 2.3GHz processors and 4x A53 1.8GHz processors; Huawei's EMUI 4.0; a 4000mAh high-density battery lending itself to between 1.65 and 2.36 days of usage; rapid charging within 30 minutes; six-layer thermal mechanics; Android Marshmallow 6.0; a split-screen mode for multitasking; real-time encryption of full storage; a microSD card lock; three microphones; and a Sony 16MP IMX298 rear-facing camera and 8MP front camera.</p> <p>The Mate 8's camera cost Huawei $98 million in research and development, and sports a proprietary image sensor processor for better clarity, more accurate colour shading, and faster focusing. It also employs a "beauty algorithm" for selfie-taking purposes.</p> <p>Huawei also boasted that its fingerprint technology improves the identification area by 10 percent for added security, and a 100 percent faster unlocking speed. Two sets of fingerprint interface standards are used when making payments: The Fast Identity Online (FIDO) and Android M standards.</p> <p>The smartphone will be made available in 30 countries to begin with, including Germany, France, Australia, Spain, and Mexico at a cost of &euro;599 ($645) for the 32GB model and &euro;699 ($752) for the 64GB version. It comes in moonlight silver, champagne gold, space grey, and mocha brown variants.</p>