Chinese smartphone giant Huawei has tried, for years, to create a compelling global flagship smartphone. Its phones often have great specifications, solid pricing and pleasant (though never very original) design, but none of them manage to wow consumers outside of China the way Apple's iPhone or Samsung's Galaxy smartphones do.
With the P8, the company's latest flagship, Huawei takes another step in the same direction — it's an elegant phone with great specifications at a reasonable price. However, for better or for worse, the P8 is in many ways reminiscent of the iPhone 6, more than any other Android we've seen.
Can a phone's design be too sleek?
Of course, you could make a similar claim for most modern smartphones — they're all just rectangles consisting of a screen, a frame and little else; details such as materials, an extra speaker or a button here and there differentiate between them.
It's no wonder big manufacturers such as Samsung and LG are opting for somewhat superfluous design elements — for customers, a "curved phone" or a "phone with curved edges" is easier to remember than a bunch of numbers on a spec sheet.
Huawei's P8 doesn't have anything like that. Aside from a few software tricks and one very odd accessory (I'll get to that later), none of its features set it apart from the pack. Combine that with an aluminum unibody case and
a design that borrows quite a few elements from Apple, and you get a phone whose best quality is its likeness to the iPhone.
Don't believe us? Check out the photo comparison between a P8 and an iPhone 6 Plus, below. Yes, the P8's edges are a bit more square than the iPhone. Yes, the buttons and ports are placed in different places. But overall, every time I pulled the device out of my pocket I was greeted with the same question: What kind of iPhone is that?
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