Huawei CEO posts first photo of the successor Ascend P6 online

A Huawei CEO has posted a photo of the successor to the Ascend P6 online. The device, which will be named Ascend P6S, will run on an octacore processor from MediaTek, the CEO says via Chinese social media.

The photo, by the CEO posted on China’s largest social media site Weibo, shows half of a smartphone from Huawei with transparent notification bar, but little else can be seen from the image. The Ascend P6S would have an octa-core processor, probably a Mediatek MTK6592. The Ascend P6 runs on Huawei’s own soc K3V2.

It is unclear when Huawei will present the successor: CES is the electronics fair in January, while the Mobile World Congress will follow in February. Huawei presented new models at both fairs last year. The Chinese smartphone maker announced the Ascend P6 at its own event in June.

Other features of the Ascend P6S, such as how large the screen is and how high the resolution will be, are still unclear. It is also unknown whether the new smartphone will receive 4g support: the P6 does not have that standard. Huawei, together with LG and various other Chinese manufacturers, such as Lenovo, is engaged in a battle for third place in the global smartphone market. Many manufacturers ship between 10 and 13 million smartphones per quarter.