The Honor 8 is a cell phone prepared to satisfy a youthful gathering of people, conveying an appealing plan, a great camera and, most importantly, a reasonable cost. In our Honor 8 survey, we investigate how this telephone conveys on execution, and fun.
Honor 8 Release and Price
The Honor 8 is accessible in the 32 GB form at a prescribed retail cost (RRP) of $399 in Midnight Black, Pearl White and Sapphire Blue, with a Sunrise Gold variation following in a few domains.
Honor 8 Design and Build of Quality
Respect utilizes the mainstream configuration pattern of the previous two years, conveying glass and aluminum on the Honor 8. Because of the dynamic hues the unit comes in, the back dependably offers striking reflections, bobbed through 15 layers of glass.
The Honor 8 has a more high-quality feel than many devices in its price range. If I didn’t know better, I’d presume it was worth more than $400. It has a similar feel to the expensive Samsung Galaxy S7 from the front and back. It does feature less sturdy display protection than the aforementioned S7 though, with Gorilla Glass 3. In my few weeks with the phone, despite careful usage, it suffered a few scratches.
The catch course of action is natural and the power and volume handles are effectively reachable with a correct thumb or left center finger. The back unique mark sensor is likewise very much put, and you can achieve the programmable Smart Key catch serenely with a pointer. The capacitive route catches are shown at the base of the show.
The Honor 8's casing is made of an adjusted metal with unobtrusively, precious stone cut edges. In four places the casing is interfered with so that the recieving wires can get great gathering. The double SIM card space is situated on the left side and can likewise be utilized as a part of single SIM in addition to microSD card arrangement (up to 256 GB).
Different associations you'll discover incorporate a USB Type-C port and 3.5 mm jack situated on the base close to the mono speaker. The individuals who jump at the chance to utilize their cell phone as a general remote control for home stereo, TV and other family unit apparatuses, are additionally obliged: the Honor 8 has an IR blaster.
Shockingly, the Honor 8 does exclude water-resistance or sprinkle insurance, yet another motivation behind why you might need to put resources into a case to secure the entrances. It truly is a significant fragile little fella.
Honor 8 Display Review
Shockingly, the Honor 8 does exclude water-resistance or sprinkle insurance, yet another motivation behind why you might need to put resources into a case to secure the entrances. It truly is a significant fragile little fella.
In light the show is anything but difficult to peruse and even at unbalanced survey points, stays clear, with hues that never lessen. Respect has additionally added numerous product elements to enhance clarity advance. You can change the shading temperature and diminish the blue-light discharged to lessen eye-strain.
Honor 8 Special and Advance features
The round unique mark sensor on the back of the Honor 8 likewise goes about as an adaptable Smart Key. This physical catch empowers you to open your cell phone, open an application or do another activity.
Touch your finger on the sensor, without squeezing the catch, and you'll land at an opened home screen or in the as of late opened applications. The postponement is around 0.4 seconds, the quickest in all our beforehand tried cell phones. It opens about twice as quick as the Huawei Nexus 6P.
The Smart Key permits activities to be accomplished with either a short, long or twofold press. You can choose the uncommon voice recorder, spotlight and screenshot, or dispatch one of your applications.
Double SIM
You can likewise embed a moment SIM card into the Honor 8, with the goal that two numbers can be available in the meantime. This can permit you to utilize shoddy information arranges or abstain from wandering charges abroad.
Honor 8 Software Review
The Honor 8 touches base with Huawei's EMUI 4.1 interface in light of Android 6.0 Marshmallow, with basic security upgrades provided frequently by Honor. Pre-introduced applications can be rapidly and totally uninstalled, however some foundation "advancements" do meddle with the elements of some applications.
This is a vigorously adjusted form of Android and is plainly intended to appear to be like iOS. Maybe in China, the advantages of increases like APK administration, reinforcement instruments and the other upgrade apparatuses are invited. For me, the changes are for the most part disadvantageous. While I can't precisely pinpoint the cause, the manifestations are clear.
Individual apps like Caffeine or Touch & Travel, which must run in the background to function, are regularly closed and reset. News apps are unable to deliver up-to-date information, basically their key function. The handset fails to push messages. It’s an everyday issue.
The problems have been known for some EMUI versions for a while and are yet to be resolved. Honor’s recent partnership with XDA-Developers could, however, help resolve some of these issues and it opens up some new opportunities for the Honor 8 software.
In terms of pre-installed apps, however, the Honor 8 sets a great example. Although there is plenty bloatware to be found, it can all be uninstalled. And thanks to a handy wizard, even in one move.
Honor 8 Performance
The Honor 8 is fast and its benchmark performance is both excellent and, surprising, especially in view of the relatively low price tag. The antennas swap easily between transmission towers for mobile internet, ensuring a fast and stable connection. The Honor 8 is fast in image processing, web surfing and it’s faster all-around than many more expensive devices.
Inside the Honor 8 is a Kirin 950 octa-core processor from the Huawei-owned HiSilicon brand. It is made up of four Cortex-A72 CPUs @ 2.3 GHz and four Cortex-A53 CPUs @ 1.8 GHz, with a Mali-T880 MP4 graphics unit. 4 GB of RAM ensures quick changes between open apps and the internal memory deliver fast booting speeds when you turn on the Honor 8.
The gaming performance of the Mali GPU is perhaps the weak point of the device. The benchmark performance is far behind that of Snapdragon-based devices such as the OnePlus 3 or the LG G5. It’s sufficient to play most Play Store games but not with the maximum settings.
The heat generated by Honor 8 under heavy use is moderate. I also didn’t experience any slowdowns or depreciation, unlike the OnePlus 3 which benchmarked well at first and then yielded weaker and weaker results. Throughout my four-week test, the Honor 8 has been extremely stable, with no crashes or necessary reboots.
Honor 8 Audio
The Honor 8 has a bottom-mounted single audio speaker. Despite its less than opportune position, the overall audio quality of the Honor 8 is good. An additional microphone helps to suppress noise, while the earpiece ensures call audio is heard loud and clear. During a phone call, you will also be well-understood.
Honor 8 camera
Bringing photographs with the Honor 8 is a joy. Most snaps look great promptly, regardless of the possibility that you need to ensure the concentration is right before shooting. When you have, however, the hues and points of interest are astounding day and night.
The Honor 8, similar to the Huawei P9 and P9 Plus, is outfitted with two primary cameras. This has two points of interest. Firstly, one of the Sony-mark IMX386 sensors catches just in highly contrasting and gives brighter pictures. Also, center can be balanced in 12 MP pictures up until the point you send out it.
The fundamental cameras have a f/2.2 gap, while the front camera makes utilization of a 8 MP sensor with f/2.4 gap focal point. This is incredible for selfies, yet I'd exhort killing the advanced Beauty highlights: they simply make your face look bizarre.
For more control, the camera application highlights a manual mode reminiscent of those from the most recent Motorola Moto G and the Huawei P9. It has various adaptable elements including an exposures dial for shooting during the evening or light painting.
There is likewise a genius mode for video recording, which means you can track objects, actuate computerized adjustment, shoot time-slip by and moderate mo shots. It's an incredible general bundle.
Honor 8 Battery
With its 3,000 mAh battery you can appreciate over 24-hour battery life on the Honor 8. In the anxiety test utilizing PCMark for Android, the Honor 8 (with SIM card embedded) goes on for right around eight hours, a hour longer than the more costly HTC 10 and three hours longer than the OnePlus 3. The Honor 8 additionally highlights quick charging innovation, giving a few hours of talk time in only a couple of minutes.
The Honor 8 is furnished with an intricate power administration framework. It works out-of-the-case, consequently, and out of sight. This reliably closes applications and frequently tells the client about the way that Facebook, or a program or a Music application out of sight, is devouring a lot of force and that it ought to be shut.
Lamentably, this well meaning framework is hazardous. It stops some applications functioning as they ought to and the power-sparing impact is minor: its esteem is practically truant. Since the Honor 8 has a decent battery life even without the element set up, Honor ought to rethink it.
Honor 8 Technical Specifications
TYPE: PhoneMODEL: Honor 8
MANUFACTURER: Honor
DIMENSIONS: 145.5 x 71 x 7.45 mm
WEIGHT: 153 g
BATTERY SIZE: 3000 mAh
SCREEN SIZE: 5.2 in
DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY: LCD
SCREEN: 1920 x 1080 pixels (424 ppi)
FRONT CAMERA: 8 megapixels
REAR CAMERA: 12 megapixels
FLASHLIGHT: Dual-LED
ANDROID VERSION: 6.0 - Marshmallow
USER INTERFACE: Emotion UI
RAM: 4 GB
INTERNAL STORAGE: 32 GB
REMOVABLE STORAGE: microSD
CHIPSET: HiSilicon Kirin 950
NUMBER OF CORES: 8
MAX. CLOCK SPEED: 2.3 GHz
CONNECTIVITY: HSPA, LTE, Dual-SIM , Bluetooth 4.2
