Huawei says it will unveil a real AI smartphone next month

Huawei the smartphone manufacturer took to Facebook today and posted a not so subtle teaser taunting the new Apple iPhone X. The teaser video release makes a taunt over the fail that Apple suffered with its Face ID technology on-stage. As you can see in the video embedded below, at the end it states that that we'll get to see a real AI smartphone on October 16.

We know for a fact that the company will be launching the Mate 10 and the Mate 10 Pro on October 16 as it had already revealed so during IFA 2017. The devices will be the company's flagship devices and will end up going against the Apple iPhone X, Samsung Galaxy Note 8 and the LG V30.

As of now we know that these devices will be powered by Huawei's own AI based Kirin 970 SoC which it unveiled during IFA 2017. This new chipset has AI capabilities built-in and doesn't require to be connected to the cloud to perform tasks. The AI platform runs over a Neural Processing Unit (NPU) which is extremely fast at processing data.

Also to be mentioned, we currently haven't seen any AI powered smartphones from Huawei, and we don't know as to what to expect from these devices. So we will have to wait until October 16 when the company will officially announce these devices. Meanwhile on October 4 Google will be launching its new Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL smartphones.

The company also announced during IFA that the devices will feature a full screen display similar to the Galaxy Note 8 and the LG G6. Also from some previous reports, we know that the devices will come with a dual camera setup on the back, 6GB of RAM and 4,000mAh of battery.