Lets get started with the design is quite similar to a lot of other phones in the market . we've gotton metal to the back with dual cam...
Lets get started with the design is quite similar to a lot of other phones in the market . we've gotton metal to the back with dual camera and a fingerprint scanner . To the front we've gor 2.5D gorilla glass covering the display . Its worth nothing that notification LED inside the gear piece nice . The other placement are as expected . The 3.5mm headphone jack type c port and a solarity speaker occupy the bottom . Power and volume keys to the right . The IR blaster and the secondary noise cancelling microphone can be found up top and to the left we've got a hybrid slot . So this tray here can't house either 2 sims or 1 sim and mcro SD card . So once the design might come off as uninspired . The Honor 8 pro does feel great and hunt .
The metal built gives it a premium feel of sorts . The 6.97mm thickness means it feels very slim especially given that its a large phone with a 5.7Inch display and 185 grams it exceeds head something i found quite reassuring / Overall low waist on a good job with the built here . Now under need the herd just like the huawei p10 the honor 8 pro is powered by the high silicon kirin 960 chip . Now this is a powerfull four A73 and four A53 combination that in terms of raw CPU performance slots just below the Snapdragon 835 as far as the GPU goes we've got the mali G71 MP8 handling duties here that should be comparable to adreno 530 from the Snapdragon 821 . So overall the kirin 960 slots somewhere between the Snapdragon 821 and 835 and that's good thing . even with intense daily usage scenarios like gamming tha Honor 8 pro performed great right anything thrown at it with ease . The metal back means it does have a tendency to get a little warm around the camera . but its not really that bad . It's also worth mentioning that we get 6GB of RAM on 128 GB of on-board storage .
Now a great chip doesn't make the experience there are a couple of thing matter i like display and the software thats it lets talk about that display first . With the HONOR 8pro well its gona with 5.7 Inch Quad HD IPS LCD panel . Given that other phones in the segment all support full HD display . This is a very good thing . While full HD might be enough for regular day to day stuff Quad HD does help with things like VR and with the honor 8 pro with come with a Google cardboard SDI wire in the box . Its not very comfortable but hey it's free it's included and should help you get started with consumption of VR and 360 degree content . Back to the display Quad HD spead over 5.7 Inch display result in the pixel density of 515 PPI meaning this display is sharp . Colour reproduction is quite good it also gets bright enough to be easily visible on outdoor while gamming browsing or doing just about anything .
I found this display really beautiful especially for media consumption . Talking about media consumption the audio via the single downloads bearing speakers is loud without any king of distortion but after getting used to stereo audio with both the main and the Huavei p10 . i couldn't help but feel the little low way let left me a little bit hanging here . Its a 3.5mm headphone jack is present and the output squared sweet then face any issues with cellular receptionor call quality . Either now onto the other part of what makes a user experience on a smartphone -the software . Well it again done quite well . Here the HONOR 8 pro runs on android 7 mougat with always emotion UI or UI 5.1 on the top out of the box it looks like any other chinese UI without an app draw but you can enable it and make the stock launcher a little similar to what you've been used to . The notifications toggle are left more or less the same .
There's a level of granular control provided by huawei here . Right from the controlling the notifications to the default links tabs there's a lot you get to do here /there's also support for themes , the fingerprint scanner to the back is rapid quick and extremely accurate . You can also use it to lock apps or even launch into a totally different partition on the phone . So basically a secondary private mode on the phone that gets trigered that's seperate from your regular interface that gets triggered with another fingerprint . Overall the user experience here on the HONOR 8 pro is excellent . The amazing kirin 960 chip underneed coupled with smooth user interface and a brilliant high resolution display offers a stellar user experience .
The software has a few battery saving options baked in. There is Power Saving mode which limits background apps and disables auto-sync, as well as an Ultra Power Saving mode which switches everything off allowing connectivity only to apps you select. We also found a Screen Power Saving option, which claims to lower the resolution of the display to conserve power. We couldn’t see this taking effect as our device reported QHD as the resolution all the time.
Price and Avalibility-
It will be available at Rs 29,999 on Amazon.in from 10 July for Prime subscribers. Open sale starts on 13 July, 2017.
The metal built gives it a premium feel of sorts . The 6.97mm thickness means it feels very slim especially given that its a large phone with a 5.7Inch display and 185 grams it exceeds head something i found quite reassuring / Overall low waist on a good job with the built here . Now under need the herd just like the huawei p10 the honor 8 pro is powered by the high silicon kirin 960 chip . Now this is a powerfull four A73 and four A53 combination that in terms of raw CPU performance slots just below the Snapdragon 835 as far as the GPU goes we've got the mali G71 MP8 handling duties here that should be comparable to adreno 530 from the Snapdragon 821 . So overall the kirin 960 slots somewhere between the Snapdragon 821 and 835 and that's good thing . even with intense daily usage scenarios like gamming tha Honor 8 pro performed great right anything thrown at it with ease . The metal back means it does have a tendency to get a little warm around the camera . but its not really that bad . It's also worth mentioning that we get 6GB of RAM on 128 GB of on-board storage .
Now a great chip doesn't make the experience there are a couple of thing matter i like display and the software thats it lets talk about that display first . With the HONOR 8pro well its gona with 5.7 Inch Quad HD IPS LCD panel . Given that other phones in the segment all support full HD display . This is a very good thing . While full HD might be enough for regular day to day stuff Quad HD does help with things like VR and with the honor 8 pro with come with a Google cardboard SDI wire in the box . Its not very comfortable but hey it's free it's included and should help you get started with consumption of VR and 360 degree content . Back to the display Quad HD spead over 5.7 Inch display result in the pixel density of 515 PPI meaning this display is sharp . Colour reproduction is quite good it also gets bright enough to be easily visible on outdoor while gamming browsing or doing just about anything .
I found this display really beautiful especially for media consumption . Talking about media consumption the audio via the single downloads bearing speakers is loud without any king of distortion but after getting used to stereo audio with both the main and the Huavei p10 . i couldn't help but feel the little low way let left me a little bit hanging here . Its a 3.5mm headphone jack is present and the output squared sweet then face any issues with cellular receptionor call quality . Either now onto the other part of what makes a user experience on a smartphone -the software . Well it again done quite well . Here the HONOR 8 pro runs on android 7 mougat with always emotion UI or UI 5.1 on the top out of the box it looks like any other chinese UI without an app draw but you can enable it and make the stock launcher a little similar to what you've been used to . The notifications toggle are left more or less the same .
There's a level of granular control provided by huawei here . Right from the controlling the notifications to the default links tabs there's a lot you get to do here /there's also support for themes , the fingerprint scanner to the back is rapid quick and extremely accurate . You can also use it to lock apps or even launch into a totally different partition on the phone . So basically a secondary private mode on the phone that gets trigered that's seperate from your regular interface that gets triggered with another fingerprint . Overall the user experience here on the HONOR 8 pro is excellent . The amazing kirin 960 chip underneed coupled with smooth user interface and a brilliant high resolution display offers a stellar user experience .
The software has a few battery saving options baked in. There is Power Saving mode which limits background apps and disables auto-sync, as well as an Ultra Power Saving mode which switches everything off allowing connectivity only to apps you select. We also found a Screen Power Saving option, which claims to lower the resolution of the display to conserve power. We couldn’t see this taking effect as our device reported QHD as the resolution all the time.
Price and Avalibility-
It will be available at Rs 29,999 on Amazon.in from 10 July for Prime subscribers. Open sale starts on 13 July, 2017.
Positives
Great design & build quality
Impressive battery life
Gorgeous Quad HD display
Fluid performance
Impressive battery life
Gorgeous Quad HD display
Fluid performance
Negatives
Average audio quality
No FM radio
USB 2.0 on Type-C interface
No FM radio
USB 2.0 on Type-C interface
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