The smartphone brings many flagship specs coupled with a more budget-friendly price, which Huawei hopes will attract millennials and those looking to veer away from spending almost $1,000 on a smartphone.
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I’ve spent a little time with a pre-release unit of the Honor 8 provided by the company-not sufficient for a formal review, but enough to be favorably impressed.
It’s too early to say whether the partnership will actually lead to any third-party firmware capable of running on the Honor 8. The Honor 8 should mostly act like a Huawei P9 but is much more affordable and aggressively positioned.
To top all of these features out is the fact that the phone runs on top of Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow, allowing Huawei’s Emotion User Interface to run along smoothly. With the good reviews for prior Huawei Honor gadgets, the up and coming Huawei Honor 8 would surely be created to outperform its predecessors.
With its 16 nanometer FinFET Kirin 950 chip and four gigabytes of LPDDR4 RAM, Honor 8 offers smooth and seamless multitasking and gaming experiences. Boasting two cameras, the phone has quite an impressive set of lenses. For an additional $50 (making the total price $449.99), you can grab the handset with double the storage (64GB).
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Part of the problem has been Huawei’s inability to link up with US wireless carriers, who control much of the country’s smartphone market. The rear camera of Huawei Honor 8 is powered by 12-megapixels with a highly RGB sensor that absorbs all the colors of the subject and produces a very vibrant and high-quality picture that needs no filter or editing anymore. Honor has built-in a dual-sensor setup on the back of the Honor 8 which they say can capture more light than ordinary shooters with just one sensor. Not if its goal is to play at the same level as Samsung and Apple: Bypassing wireless carriers and selling direct and through e-tailers, as Huawei is doing with the Honor 8, is still a niche-marketing approach in these parts. Ltd., is reported to release its new smartphone Huawei Mate S2 in the month of September. It will be sold on Honor’s website, as well as Best Buy, Amazon, Newegg, and B&H Photo Video. The handset starts at $399 and it is readily available for pre-order.
