Your page While it usually is such that the most expensive phones also are the very best, we have over the past year seen a trend where several Android manufacturers have launched handsets with specs on par with top models, but which costs significantly less.
Chinese Huawei specializes in this and the last year has made itself most known in this country with Ascend P7, as of this writing costs around 3,000 dollars.
Now, however, the company launched a new mobile brand called Honor. The first phone in the series, Honor 6, equals Ascend P7 in many areas, but cost about 300 million less.
This is an Android mobile with 5 inch full HD display, good performance and good camera at a highly affordable price. We dare actually assert no other “top models” provides as much for your money right now.
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Design
Specifications
Display: 5 inch IPS LCD, 1920×1080 resolution Processor: Kirin 920, eight cores (4 x 1.3 GHz and 4 x 1.7 GHz) working memory (RAM ): 3GB Internal memory: 16GB (memory cards up to 64GB) Camera behind: 13 megapixels, f / 2.0 Camera front: 5 Megapixel Battery: 3100mAh Operating System: Android 4.4.2 KitKat Size: 139.6 x 69.7 x 7,5MM Weight: 130g Price: 2.699 million
Honor 6 is admittedly not as dainty as cousin Ascend P7. It has not the same gorgeous metal frame; everything is plastic. The advantage of the latter is, however, that it is very easy and is good, albeit somewhat smooth in hand with its somewhat rounded edges.
The downside is that back quickly becomes scratched. And it attracts fingerprints of another world. Fortunately, the latter easily wiped away.
Appearance wise simply does not Honor 6 so much out of him. It is quite anonymous designed and is not particularly original. A colleague thought it was an iPhone on several occasions, while others have pointed out that it looks like a newer Sony Xperia mobile.
There are probably just as many ways to design a mobile, but people are unlikely to turn their heads after Honor 6.
BLACK AND BLANK: But Honor 6 also comes in a white version.
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Display and performance
But one should notoriously not judge a book by its cover or a mobile by its appearance. On the inside Honor 6 far from boring, and it is on par with the most expensive top models.
The phone has a 5 inch screen with full HD resolution. The screen looks good, especially the price taken into consideration, and is both sharp and bright, although the automatic brightness tends to be slightly darker layer, so we must have the manual adjustment instead.
Other specifications are on the top layer, and briefly summarized this is a very short call, not least the price taken into consideration. In our performance tests achieves good results compared with other top models, with the exception of the graphics page:
In use floats mostly smooth and fine. Some Android phones in the cheaper end of the scale tend to Lagg and hoe in both menus apps, but it’s not the case with Honor 6. It tackles also play well and even graphics heavy Asphalt 8 had the trouble driving.
OPEN LUKA: So you can put in mikrosim- and / or memory card.
If you think the 16 gigabytene you get with built in storage is insufficient, you can expand with memory cards (of type micro-sd) of up to 64GB.
What applies battery manufacturer claims that Honor 6 shall keep it going for two days. During the few weeks we have tested the phone, it has remained in two or three days with moderate use, and one to two days with normal to intensive use.
Real life can be difficult to measure, but this phone should be able to be confident that lasts all day out, and hopefully even more.
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Camera
While design is often one of the points the cheaper phones often a lack of, is another camera. Fortunately Honor 6:01 honorable job on this front, at least the main camera on the back.
With 13 megapixels takes noticeably better images than for example the Nexus 5, last year’s top model from Google, which now costs around 2,500 dollars.
Honor 6 vs. Nexus 5:
(Photo: KIRSTI ØSTVANG)
In good lighting conditions are pictures taken with Honor 6 sharp and fine, while as many other mobile cameras, you get easy grainy images in dark surroundings. It is not so good at macro shots and struggling to focus on close objects.
Honor 6 vs. iPhone 6:
(Photo: KIRSTI ØSTVANG)
On the plus side again camera fast to use, and it takes no time to start from the shortcut on the lock screen.
Front camera makes way a completely straightforward job, and we mean very rude to a mobile midrange, not elite. Cousin Ascend P7 will be better suited to selfies.
See some more photos in the gallery below:
Software
Although Honor 6 is not a Huawei phone in the name, it is in the soul – or software. It uses namely the same Android shell that Huawei “own” phones come with, called Emotion UI.
HOME SCREEN: To see the default home screen for Huawei / Honor out.
With shell we mean extra features, graphic adaptations and other beyond what is standard in Google’s mobile operating system.
While some manufacturers, such as Sony and HTC are quite sober with this in mind, Huawei has chosen a “the more, the better” strategy. Some hate it, some think it’s peak, while most people probably do not care so much about it.
The operating system is a little different than traditional Android. Among other Huawei manufacturer given home screen a iPhone-like feel where all the apps collected on home screen instead of in a so-called “app-drawer.”
Hard Barka Android users will probably frown on nose of this, but it works fine, and home screen is easy to organize.
Lock screen is also slightly iPhone-like. If you unlock the phone by dragging a finger up on the lower part of the screen, it pops up a small menu with quick shortcuts to calendar, calculator, flashlight with more á la control center for iOS.
LOCK SCREEN: Lock screen adorned by gorgeous images. Note click shortcut menu at the bottom.
Another detail it took us some time to get used to was that warning and shortcut menu you get up by swiping down from the top of the screen, called up in two ways. If you pull your finger down from the left half, one gets up notification menu, while leaving one down from the right, one gets up shortcuts.
The interface is also heavily modified, including rounded app icons. It is envisaged that you will easily be able to change themes, and there is a separate theme switcher with three pre-installed setups, and you can download a load of others.
Nice if you love like that, but the rounded icons adapted not just good for all apps. Some apps, like Dropbox and Facebook Messenger, get a little glaring color around them. It has no practical significance, but it does not fully carried out.
Since it’s Android, fortunately, it’s a simple matter to replace the entire “launch bar” – the program that gives you a home screen with icons and such. With as Google Now-launch opportunity you can get your phone to look like ordinary Android.
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HANDSOME APP: Phone management app will ensure that mobile working as well as possible, by to partly delete files.
Otherwise it’s a load of features and apps on your phone and something it is like to double up off, which may seem confusing at novice users. All Google Apps is however placed in a separate folder, so they are at least separated from the “embedded”.
We would like to see that there was some minor functions, and that those who were, were easier to find. For a part of it is quite useful.
If you dig in the settings menu, you will find useful tools as “Nettverksapper” which lets you decide whether your applications can use cellular data, Wi-Fi or both. There is also a special “Alert Management” where you can set up rules for what kind of alerts your apps will show and not.
The app “Phone Manager” is a kind of purge-fix tool that lets you do everything from To delete files, block unwanted numbers, turn on power saving features, put on non-disturb mode and backup phone.
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Conclusion
Honor 6 is not the prettiest or the strongest, and it is also not the best camera phone to obtain. However, it does generally a good job at most, and has an almost unbeatable price. Very many hardly need to use 5000 dollars on a good mobile, and this proves that it is entirely possible.
The only problem Honor 6 might want to get, except that it comes from not established brand, is that the phone is only available through online sales. You can find it therefore not in any physical stores. The strategy is helping to push down the price, but many like to take on phones before they buy it.
However, we hope that does not work as a deterrent.
An alternative to Honor 6 is referred Huawei Ascend P7, which is a hundred pounds more expensive, has a little more exclusive design and a better front camera .
Google Nexus 5 costs on its side a hundred pounds less again, and is a quick mobile with the purest Android experience you can get. The camera is however inferior Honor 6.
Provides much for money; good screen, good performance, good front camera, good battery life
Will continue scratched, mediocre front camera and built-in speakers
Details Huawei Honor 6
5 Inches, Android 4.4 (KitKat), 1080×1920 pixels, Black, White, 4G LTE, 3100 mAh
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