The much anticipated Huawei Maimang 5 has successfully gone through TENAA and has been certified. The device which looks like a smaller version of the Huawei Mate 8 had earlier been tipped to launch on July 14.

Around this time last year, Huawei released the Snapdragon 616 – powered Huawei Maimang 4 which was sensationally tagged the Chinese version of the Huawei G8. And one year on, what is obviously an upgrade of the Maimang 4 is about to shoot.

In appearance, the Maimang 5 sports a striking similarity in design with the Mate 8 albeit an inferior one at that. The device has a borderless design and also features a 5.5-inch Full-HD Touchscreen display.

At the back, the device packs a 16MP camera with LED flash just beside the camera and just under the camera, there is a fingerprint sensor. The Maimang 5 also features an 8MP front facing camera.

The TENAA listing showed the Huawei Maimang 5 is equipped with a 2.0GHz octa-core processor which is thought to be a Snapdragon 652 SoC, although it is likely that it turns out to be the Kirin 650 spec. The device offers both 3GB and 4GB RAM versions as well as 16GB, 32GB and 64GB of on-board storage variants all of which are expandable up to 128GB via microSD card. However, only the high-end 64GB internal storage version will come packing a 4GB RAM.

The listing also reveals the Huawei Maimang 5 will boot Android 6.0 Marshmallow out-of-the-box and crams a liberal 3270mAh battery under its hood.

The Maimang 5 will come in three different color variants; silver, pink and gold and will likely carry a price tag of around 2,000 Chinese Yuan (about US $300). We’re not sure about that though, but the entire information about the price will be made known when the device is officially unveiled come July 14.

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Huawei officially announced the Huawei Maimang 4 in China, which features the same specifications as well as all metal body design as the Huawei G8. However, there’s one minor difference between these two devices: Processor. While the Huawei G8 came with the popular mid-range Snapdragon 615 chipset, the Maimang 4 will feature Snapdragon 616. But before you get too excited, I ll have to let you know that there’s hardly any difference between the two chips.

So, you get the same Cortex A53 cores, four clocked at 1.7GHz while the other four clocked at 1.2GHz. In case of Snapdragon 615, the the combination was of 4 x 1.7GHz + 4 x 1.0Ghz, so theres only a slight increase in the clock speed on the 616. Even the GPU is the same Adreno 405.

However, what’s different in this new Snapdragon 616 chip is the modem. Instead of the 4G LTE World Mode modem, the new chip comes with X5 LTE World Mode modem, which brings additional connectivity options. To be specific, the Snapdragon 616 supports LTE FDD, LTE TDD, WCDMA (3C-HSDPA, DC-HSUPA), CDMA1x, EV-DO, TD-SCDMA and GSM/EDGE. It supports Cat. 4 LTE speeds (up to 150MBps) with LTE Advanced 2x10MHz Carrier Aggregation (CA).

Rest of the specs are the same as Snapdragon 615. So, we can call the new Snapdragon 616 as a variant of the 615, rather than an entirely new chipset.

Other specs are more or less the same on the new Huawei device. So you get a full HD 1080p 5.5-inch display, 2GB + 16GB /  3GB + 32GB storage options, 13MP camera with OIS, 5MP front facing shooter, FPC’s Second generation Fingerprint Sensor, 3000mAh battery and Android 5.1 Lollipop version.

The pricing starts at 2099 Yuan for the 2GB + 16GB version, and goes up to 2499 for the 3GB + 32GB edition.

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