Image of Huawei metal smartphone with octacore soc appears online

An image has surfaced online of a Huawei smartphone with an all-metal casing. The smartphone is said to have an octa-core processor and fingerprint scanner on board. Further details of the smartphone are still unknown.

The photo came out via the Weibo account of a software developer who works with Huawei and supposedly shows a dummy; the openings for the camera and flash, among other things, are closed. At the bottom of the back is a Huawei logo and non-readable text with presumably the model number.

The image is probably not from next month to present Ascend P7; the developer specifically mentions that readers should start saving. The Ascend P series consists of midrange models and not high-end phones. For that, Huawei has the Ascend D series.

The phone would run on a Kirin920-soc, with four Cortex A15 and four Cortex A7 processor cores, coupled with an ARM Mali T624 gpu. Huawei has not launched any phones with this octacore processor yet; it has so far stuck with its K3V2 soc with four Cortex A9 cores, but the manufacturer first used it in smartphones two years ago.

Huawei will hold an event on May 7, presumably for the Ascend P7, which will follow the Ascend P6. The P6 was released in the summer of last year and was characterized by a thickness of 6.18 mm. Little concrete is known about the Ascend P7.