CES 2016: Huawei P9 with 6GB RAM tipped to launch on 5 January

Huawei is rumoured to launch the P9 smartphone which will be made official during the company's pre-CES event that will take place on January 5. According to a tipster on Weibo, one of the main attractions of the device is its expected 6GB RAM and a parallel dual-lens camera. The phone was earlier rumoured to launch March this year. Along with this smartphone, Huawei might also unveil the Honor X3 phablet with a 6.2-inch display respectively.Other rumoured specifications for the smartphone include a 5.2-inch display and the all-new octa-core Kirin 950 chipset. While the chipset recently made its first appearance in the Huawei Mate 8 smartphone, it now seems like the next likely contender to sport it could be the Huawei P9. The Kirin 950 SoC made by Huawei’s HiSilicon is indeed a unique one.It packs in eight cores in all with the usual 4+4 set up. It has the 4 x Cortex A72 cores for heavy tasks, while the lighter duties are handled by the lower-powered 4 x Cortex A52 cores. But there’s more. Huawei’s HiSilicon team also managed to squeeze in an ‘i5’ co-processor which according to the company is present to support speech recognition, low-power consumption MP3, and many more low-powered tasks.The Huawei P9 is expected to show up with an improved bionic parallel dual-lens camera that first appeared on the Huawei Honor 6 Plus. The smartphone’s camera saw some positive reviews so it will indeed be great to see what the smartphone can do when paired with one of the most powerful processors currently available.