Huawei Mate 8 vs Apple iPhone 6S Plus vs Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge

In 2015 the phone market couldn’t go unnoticed, as consumers were flooded with high-end smart phones, making it difficult to crown a well-deserved winner making it an interesting year.

Samsung was the first in line with Galaxy S6 Edge, which adapts a dual curve glass display to achieve an amazing design. World renowned Apple followed by launching the iPhone 6S Plus taking its place as the first series of this size. The trust worthy Huawei ended the year with the groundbreaking Mate 8, the first of its kind to compete boldly in the market. The smartphone was also introduced at the CES in Las Vegas recently and won several awards for its screen size, improved fingerprint recognition technology, camera quality, slim and attractive design, superior battery capacity and power consumption optimization, octa-core processor and rapid charging technology.

These devices have differentiating qualities and functionalities. Lets look at some of them:

Battery: Mate 8 earned its first place as one of the biggest batteries. The Huawei Mate 8 comes with a non-removable Li-Po 4000 mAh battery, which gives consumers almost 2 days heavy use with a full battery charge. In comparison, the Apple iPhone 6S Plus has a non-removable Li-Ion 2750 mAh battery and Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge has a non-removable Li-Ion 2600 mAh.

Camera: Both the Huawei Mate 8 and Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge come with a 16 MP rear-facing camera while the Apple iPhone 6S Plus has a 12MP rear-facing camera. With the ubiquitous nature of ‘selfies’ most smartphones are putting more consideration into the front-facing camera. The Apple iPhone 6S Plus and Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge have a 5 MP front-facing camera while the Huawei Mate 8 comes with an 8 MP front-facing camera to give consumers the best selfie experience.

Operating System: The Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge runs on Android OS, v5.0.2 (Lollipop), upgradable to v6.01 (Mashmallow); the Apple iPhone 6S Plus runs on iOS 9, upgradable to iOS 9.2 and the Huawei Mate 8 runs on Android OS, v6.0 (Marshmallow).

Display size: Huawei Mate 8 proudly boats of a larger phone workspace owing to its 6.0 inches size with ~78.0% screen-to-body ratio. The Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge came close with a ~71.7% screen-to-body ratio but is 5.1 inches. Apple being larger than the Samsung S6 edge manufactured the iPhone 6S Plus to be 5.5 inches in size but with ~67.7% screen-to-body ratio.

Expandable storage: The Apple iPhone 6S and Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge have no option for a memory card slot while the Huawei Mate 8 comes with an option for a microSD, up to 128 GB.

CPU: For the benefit of people who care about those technical stuff, you may want to know that the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge is powered by a Quad-core 1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 & Quad-core 2.1 GHz Cortex-A57; the Apple iPhone 6S Plus has the Dual-core 1.84 GHz and the Huawei Mate 8 has the Quad-core 2.3 GHz Cortex-A72 + quad-core 1.8 GHz Cortex A53.

Memory: The Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge comes with 3 GB of RAM, same with the Huawei Mate 8 as against the Apple iphone 6s Plus which has 2 GB RAM. Huawei Mate 8 offers the reverse charge function enabling its users to charge another device.

After the comparative analysis of the 3 smartphones, it is clear that the Huawei Mate 8 can compete favourably with the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge and Apple iPhone 6S. We should also not forget the newly introduced Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge

You can also watch a comparison video below:

Well, with all three having amazing design and specifications, each smartphone have their competitive advantage over the other and obviously the decision and choice still lies with the customers. Well now it’s time for you to tell us what you think about these three devices