Huawei Honor 3C will launch 16th December, plus first quad-core MT6588 phone!

Huawei have been leaking details of a number of entry level and mid range phones of the past few weeks, models which could shake the dominance of Xiaomi phones! The first of which will launch in the coming weeks!

Chinese tech sites are reporting that the next phone models from Huawei really will be devices to shake up the Chinese smartphone market and could even cause trouble for the mighty Xiaomi!

We’ll find out if this is true on the 16th December when Huawei are believed to launch 2 new Huawei Honor models. It has been no secret that Huawei had a new Honor in the works as leaked details and photos had been posted last week, and now an official invitation to the launch even has been sent out!

At the launch we expect to see the unveiling of an 8-core MT6592 Honor model with 5.5-inch 1080 display, 2GB RAM, 8GB memory, 5 mega-pixel front and 13 mega-pixel rear cameras, plus the world’s first quad-core MT6588 smartphone!

The MT6588 is the quad-core version of the new 8-core chip and is quite an interesting unit as it’s low cost and high performance will allow Chinese phone makers to work on innovation rather than all out specs. The Huawei Honor 5C is rumoured to be the world’s first MT6588 phone with 2GB RAM, 4.7-inch 720p display, 8 mega-pixel camera and a price of just 999 Yuan ($160)!.

More Huawei Honor news as we get it!