Huawei has already impressed the world with the thinnest phone on the planet in the Ascend P6. It then went even further, announcing it will be updated with Android 4.4 KitKat by January. As if that wasn’t enough Huawei’s president has announced a new Ascend P6S with octa-core innards.

The Huawei Ascend P6S will come with a MediaTek MT6592 octa-core which the company claims is the world’s first "true octa-core". This eight core processor should deliver plenty of power while remaining highly efficient in the battery juice-drinking department.

Early benchmarking scores of the octa-core are good. With the 1.5GHz quad-core Hi-Silicon K3V2E that’s in the current Ascend P6, this should bring a welcome bump in power.

If all other specs match the current Ascend P6 we can expect a 4.7-inch screen with 720 x 1280 resolution (312 ppi), 2GB of RAM, and 8-megapixel camera, and 2000mAh battery. All in a 6.18mm thin body.

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Not too long ago, Motorola broke away its camera app and released it into the Google Play Store for faster updating. And today, the app saw an interesting update which adding the ability to use the volume rocker as a shutter button. This app update is one that is somewhat odd, because really there shouldnt have been any reason why Motorola would need to add this new feature.

The thing is that Google made this a standard feature with Android 4.3 last summer, and of course, plenty of other manufacturers have added this to their own proprietary camera apps. So, it is odd that Motorola is just adding it now, because it seems as though it would have had to remove the feature from the stock app. Even so, the feature is here, and Motorola has actually made it a bit better. Not only can you take a picture using the volume buttons on your handset itself, but you can even use the volume buttons on a connected headset to take a picture, which is pretty cool.

Still, we would rather see more handsets going the Windows Phone route and building dedicated shutter buttons onto smartphones. It is nice to have a shutter button that is not only placed in a more comfortable spot on the device than where the volume rocker would be, but nothing can compare with having the ability to half-press a shutter button to focus. Digital photos may be easy enough to delete, but its nicer to not get an out-of-focus shot in the first place. 

Obviously, since this is the Motorola camera, youll need either a Moto X, Moto G, or one of the new DROIDs. 

Download: Motorola Camera

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