Huawei mostly sells its phones in India via its sub-brand, Honor. The brand vies for space with Xiaomi, Moto or even Lenovo.
After seeing dual cameras on the Huawei P9, we wanted a Honor phone with similar features as well. This has come in the form of Honor 8, which will be available here very soon. But before that, we tried out the phone to see if there is anything worth talking about.
Design
It is hard to deny that the Honor 8 looks fairly appealing, but its similarities with the iPhone 6 (or even the 6S) is striking. Fortunately, they haven’t decided to cull the audio jack just yet.
The use of glass material on both sides has its fair share of charm and delicacy at the same time. The back panel is extremely scratch-prone, which if I may add, is also slippery. We would have loved a mixture of glass with some sturdier material.
However, we were impressed with the overall construction of the phone, and expect most of the consumers to be as well.
Camera
We didn’t expect Huawei (or Honor) to roll out a phone with dual cameras reminiscent of the Huawei P9, but how wrong we were. 2016 is clearly shaping up to be a year for dual-camera phones, and we’ve got no complaints there.
Unlike the P9 which comes with a Leica-powered dual camera, the Honor 8 gets the same specs, without any assistance from Leica, as per the company.
They have made tall claims about the phone’s manual camera mode being as reliable as any phone available in the country right now.
It is hard to say if the phone’s camera is as good as the company claims, but we’ll put that to test in the coming weeks to give you a verdict.
We’re hopeful that the Honor 8 will be priced somewhere between the Asus Zenfone 3 and the OnePlus 3.
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