Huawei P8 Lite (2017) arrives in UK on February 1

A couple of weeks ago Huawei surprised everyone by announcing the P8 Lite (2017). Not because it's surprising for the Chinese company to launch yet another mid-ranger, but because of the moniker used. If you're going to stick with a past name and then add the current year to it, you might as well go with the latest device in that line - which in this case would be the P9 lite from 2016, and not the P8lite from 2015.

Anyway, lack of logical naming aside, the P8 Lite (2017) looks like a very interesting mid-range smartphone, and now we know that it's coming to the UK.

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Vodafone will start selling it on February 1, though at the beginning only in stores and through telesales. For whatever reason, online sales will commence at a later date. The good news is that the P8 Lite (2017) won't cost an arm and a leg. You'll be able to purchase one on Pay as you go for £185. If you'd rather have it with a 24-month contract, then it will be free with plans starting at £16 per month. Only the black model will be available.

The P8 Lite (2017) runs Android 7.0 Nougat underneath Huawei's latest EMUI 5.0 overlay, and it sports a 5.2-inch 1080p touchscreen, a 12 MP f/2.0 main camera, an 8 MP selfie snapper, the Kirin 655 chipset (with a 2.1 GHz octa-core Cortex-A53 CPU and Mali-T830MP2 GPU), 3GB of RAM, 16GB of built-in storage, microSD support for expansion, and a 3,000 mAh battery.