HUAWEI HONOR 8 REVIEW


Huawei launched its flagship android smartphone namely Honor 8 (Hybrid Dual-Sim) in India which is priced at 29,999/- . It is available in Blue, Gold and White shades.The online links are given below so check them out to keep track of current price & availability or to pick one of them.

SPECS OVERVIEW

5.2 inch 1080p LTPS Display

7.5mm Slim & weighs 153gms

32GB Storage with MicroSD

Dual 12MP Rear & 8MP Front Cameras

Kirin 950 (Octa-Core CPU)

Mali-T880 MP4 GPU with 4GB RAM

Android 6.0 Marshmallow

Fingerprint & Gyroscope Sensor

IR Blaster, NFC, USB Type-C (OTG)

3000 mah Battery 

Lets Dive Into The Review!

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design of this phone is strikingly great. It has a 2.5D Curved glass on front and back which feels great in hands. It is slim at 7.5mm and weighs 153gms. It has 5.2 inch Full HD LTPS LCD display of resolution 1920 x 1280 with 423 ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility of the display is Great. It runs on Emotion 4.1 User Interface. The display supports 10 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is great.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITIES
It has 32GB of internal storage which is further expandable upto 200GB. The device features dedicated multimedia apps such as gallary app stores all your images and has built video player as well as music player which stores and plays respectively which are very good. FM radio comes is not supported unfortunately. Connectivities like 2G, 3G speeds upto 42.2mbps download & 5.76mbps upload, 4G speeds upto 150mbps download & 50mbps upload, Wifi a/b/g/n/ac, Dual Band Wifi, Wifi Direct, Wifi hotsopt, USB OTG, NFC, Bluetooth 4.2 A2DP & LE and GPS & GLONASS support come standard. It also has fingerprint scanner (with button), IR Blaster, USB Type-C and Gyroscope sensor support which is great.

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a Dual 12MP (RGB+Monochrome) (1/2.9 inch Sensor, F/2.2 aperture, 35mm FOV) rear camera with Hybrid autofocus and Dual LED (Dual-Tone) flash which features Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc. The camera clarity is Excellent overall. Daytime the images are Excellent and has fine details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become more visible and to get better details at night HDR mode images with bit of steady hands helps to produce slightly better images and clarity is very good. It does Full HD 1080p@60fps HDR video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound having bit-rate of 18 mbps and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is Great overall. Daytime the video clarity is quite great and has fine details respectively but at night video clarity is pretty good could have had slightly better stabilization. It also has a 8MP (F/2.4 aperture) front camera for selfe's which does 1080p video and clarity is very good.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs Android (OS) 6.0 Lollipop out of the box with planned to Android 7.0 Nougat. It has a HiSilicon Kirin (950) 64-Bit SOC (System On Chip) running an Octa-Core processor which is a combination of a Quad-Core processor clocked at 2.3 GHZ (ARM Cortex-A72 Architecture) and a Quad-Core processor clocked at 1.8 GHZ (ARM Cortex-A53 Architecture) with 4GB RAM and Mali-T880 MP4 (900 Mhz Quad-Core) GPU. The performance is quite Excellent overall which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run quite very well and there is no major lag at all.
QUADRANT : 28870.
ANTUTU 6: 94156.
NENAMARK 2 : 58.9fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a Non-Removable Li-Ion 3000 mah battery with huawei's power saving options and also comes with fast charging support. The battery life is very good which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 10H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 9H.
TALKTIME : upto 19H(2G) / upto 18H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 500H(2G) / upto 480H(3G).

PROS
*Quite Excellent build quality.
*Great display and viewing angle.
*Excellent Performance.
*Excellent overall Camera and video recording clarity.
*Fingerprint sensor, USB Type-C & Gyroscope sensor support.
*USB OTG, IR Blaster & NFC Support 
*Very good Loudspeaker.
*Very good battery life.

CONS
*Non-Removable battery.
*Unspecified glass version.
*No OIS. 
*Hybrid Sim & SD card slot.
*No dedicated camera key.

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 8.8/10.
°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.

To Know The Current Price And To Buy This Phone Now! Click The Link Below.
AMAZON.IN :http://amzn.to/2iGYLrm
AMAZON.COM : http://amzn.to/2kKWcVf
SNAPDEAL : http://sndl/honor8

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