Huawei P8 Officially Launched for the African Market as Huawei Outlines its African Agenda

Huawei’s General Manager for Consumer Business in South Africa, Charlene Munilal quotes the company’s dominance of the African mobile market at a record high. According to her, Huawei is now the second largest smartphone maker on the African continent. Over the last one year alone, sales of mobile devices by the company in Africa have soared by 245%. Huawei managed to ship over 75 million smartphones last year. Africa contributed greatly to that number and the company is counting on further growth to drive its sales through to the coming year.

Huawei sought to go after improving the user experience instead of cramming in more specifications so you won’t find a QHD panel or a fingerprint scanner but instead you get a compact packgae that is geared to get you doing more. It is rather odd that Huawei went the One Plus way of having 16 GB and 64 GB as the only storage options in an era where 32 GB is quickly becoming an expected standard as the base storage option and 128 GB storage options no longer make for breaking news. The P8 builds on the heritage of its predecessors of having cameras with a high megapixel count not only at the back where it matters but on the front as well for better selfies.