Huawei’s 2015 Smartphone Roadmap Leaks with details of 7 new phones!
Huawei is quite successful with their two brand strategy. Huawei uses the “Honor Brand” for low to mid-end phones and “Huawei” for their High-End Flagships like Ascend Mate 7. Now Huawei’s Launch plan for 2015 has been leaked and shows the full range of seven new Huawei’s planned Flagships with 4999 Yuan for the most expensive new Flagship D8.
Huawei has already a quite large assortment with Mate 7 on the upper end and the Honor 3C series on the lower end, but it seems they will launch SEVEN new phones next year to keep up with the competition. As you can see in the chart Huawei is planning four low to mid end models with the Honor Brand and three more high end Flagships under the Huawei Brand for several thousand yuan. The Huawei P8 will be the first release next year and is expected to launch at the CES 2015 in January and the latest release will be the Honor 7X, that will launch in December next year.
In terms os specs we are happy to see that all seven of the new Huawei phones will all sport 5″ screens and above. The lower end Honor Play 5 and 5X will sport Qualcomm processors, while Huawei will use their own Kirin 930 and Kirin 950 CPU for all Huawei and Honor Mid-End and High-End Flagships. For the material choice, all High End Models will come with Sapphire Screen and metallic bodys while the Honor Play series will be manufactured from plastic.
The next generation of the Huawei Honor 3 series, the Honor 5 Play device will sport a 5″ 720p screen, 2GB of RAM and 8GB of RAM. The Honor 5Play is expected to launch in March next year with Qualcomm processor at 699 yuan. The higher speced Honor 5 Play X will sport a HD 5.5 inch screen, otherwise unchanged specs for 999yuan and will launch September next year.
For the Mid to Flagship Series we will see an update to the Honor 6 phone with two models, the Honor 7 which will launch in June and Honor 7X. The new Honor 7 will sport a 5″ Full HD screen, 3GB RAM, 16GB Rom and the newest version of Huawei’s Kirin 930. The updated Honor 7X will come in Winter next year and will sport a larger 5.5 inch Full HD screen. Both phones the Honor 7 and 7X are expected to sell at 1999 yuan, slightly more expensive then the Honor 6 now.
The absolute High End Flagship from Huawei next year will be the Huawei D8. The D8 will sport a 5.5″ 2K sapphire display, the newest Kirin 950 processor, whopping 4GB of RAM and 64ROM. The Huawei D8 will launch in May next year and has an premium price of 4999 yuan.
While this plan is obviously not yet confirmed by Huawei, judging the specs and dates of launch this information looks like the real deal. Basically Huawei is following their Two Brand Strategy and placing importance on the development of their own inhouse Kirin processor series. But as always we need to see to the official launch, maybe Huawei has some more aces up their sleeve.