Huawei unveiled its first octa-core phone today, the Glory 3X, which is
actually a midranger with 5.5" HD display, 13 MP rear camera and 5 MP
frontal one. It will be named Honor 3X in some regions, and was
previously rumored to arrive as the Glory 4.
The octa-core processor is MediaTek MT6592,
and, while it indeed has eight 1.7 GHz cores that can work
simultaneously, they are all Cortex-A7 ones, so performance is about on
par with Snapdragon 600, as far as benchmarks are concerned.
Huawei
placed a generous 3000 mAh battery in the Glory 3X, which is actually
right in the phablet area, and the device is a dual SIM handset, which translates to USD 280. Not a bad
pricing for the ability to brag you have a "true" octa-core phone to
anyone who is liekly to care. It will be available in India soon