Sometimes people send me things. Sometimes they're even reliable.

From the ether comes this picture of a gadget that my tipster is suggesting could be the Huawei Mate 8, which is also rumored to be one of the chassis for Google's next Nexus phones. Is that a fingerprint scanner on the back?

Huawei hasn't released many high-end phones in the U.S., but it's a solid and successful brand outside our borders. IDC ranks it as the world's third-largest smartphone maker, thanks to booming European and Chinese sales, with 48 percent year-on-year growth in China. We've loved Huawei's unlocked phablets when they've come to the U.S., and gave a good review to the $249 P8 Lite smartphone.

According to GSMArena, the Mate 8 has a 6-inch quad-HD screen, 20.7-megapixel camera, and yes, that fingerprint sensor. It will run Huawei's HiSilicon Kirin 950 processor. The whole story becomes more interesting for Americans because of swirling rumors that the Mate 8 will provide the chassis for one of Google's new Nexus phones for this year. Google hasn't yet said when the next Nexus will in fact appear, but it will probably be this fall.

We'll find out more about this mysterious smartphone at Huawei's press conference on Sept. 2, before the IFA trade show formally begins. That's the invitation above, by the way.