Chinese smartphone maker Huawei has officially confirmed that its latest upcoming device dubbed as the Huawei Honor V9 is set to be unveiled on Feb. 21 in China. This information was confirmed by a teaser image on Huawei's official Weibo account.

The Chinese company posted a picture on the micro-blogging website which features Sun Yang, the country's swimming champion. It was notable that the Huawei Honor V9 was recently spotted on the Chinese phone certification authority or commonly known as TENAA.

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As per TENAA listing, the Huawei Honor V9 smartphone features a 5.7-inch QHD display screen with 2560 pixels by 1440 pixels resolutions. Under the hood, the device is powered by Huawei's homegrown Kirin 960 octa-core processor clocked at a speed of 2.4 GHz. It was also listed that the upcoming device will be available in two variant models, one with 4GB of RAM/64GB internal of memory and the other with 6GB RAM/128GB of internal memory.

On the camera side, the Huawei Honor V9 sports a dual camera setup on the back with 12-megapixel and a 2-megapixel sensor on the rear panel with an LED flash support. On the front is an 8-megapixel sensor for selfies and video calls. Interestingly, the device is equipped with a fingerprint sensor located on the rear portion of the device.

The Huawei Honor V9 runs on the Android 7.0 (Nougat) operating system out of the box, which is coupled with Huawei's Emotion UI 5.0 skin. Fueling the handset is a 3,900 mAh capacity battery. The smartphone is 6.97 mm thin and weighs around 184 grams.

The Huawei Honor V9 will be available in gold color with an expected price tag of 2699 Yuan (or $393.03).

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