Huawei Honor 9 - master of disguise or uniqueness, manifested in the hands

Huawei Honor 9 is a new model that, at a budget price, is ready to offer the characteristics of a flagship device. However, when you first look at the product, there is no feeling of exclusivity or zest. The Honor 9, especially from the front, is visually nothing new or unusual. But one has only to take the device in hand, as the smartphone begins to show all its nice features.

Specifications

In the model Huawei Honor 9 applied components of a purely Chinese development. Here is the processor’s own engineering solution with several very functional and useful additions. Product specifications are as follows:

CPU	HiSilicon Kirin 960, eight cores, 4x2400MHz, 4x1800MHz, 16 nm process technology, 64 bits
CPU add-ons	i6 coprocessor
Special technical solutions	separate sound processor
GP	Mali G71MP8
Display	IPS matrix, FullHD resolution 1920x1080 with a density of 423 ppi, 5.15 inches
RAM / ROM	4gb / 64gb, 8gb / 128 gb, 32 gb x 2 gb versions are not produced
Connection	GSM, UMTS
Mobile data	EDGE, HSPA, 3G, 4G LTE
SIM	2 nanoSIM cards, combo slot, SD support up to 128 GB instead of the second mobile operator card
Main camera	double 20 + 12 Mp, double flash with different color temperatures, laser focusing system
Camera front	8 Mp
Wireless protocols	WiFi, Bluetooth, infrared, NFC
Orientation	BDS, GPS, GLONASS
Interfaces	3.5 mm minijack, USB TypeC (Host)
Sensors	acceleration, proximity, lighting, fingerprint sensor
Battery	3200 mAh, fixed, proprietary fast charging technology

The device is made in metal and glass casing, has dimensions of 147x71x7.45 mm for height, width and thickness, respectively, and weighs 155 g. Honor 9 smartphone comes in an unusual box, extended vertically, where it is also standing on the end.

Equipment includes phone, charger, cable, paper clip for opening the tray, hard plastic case, instruction manual.Today you can buy a model in three colors: black, gray, blue.

Smartphone Honor 9

Design and ergonomics

When looking at the front model, nothing new can be said about the phone. Visually, this is the usual middling covered with protective glass with rounded corners. The whole charm of the design is revealed if the model is taken up.

Attracts attention end steel frame around the perimeter. It smoothly goes into a stylish back panel. Made of third-generation Gorilla Glass, it has received very rounded edges.

Important! The panel is processed by photogravure technology - it is a really interesting design element, iridescent with different colors, depending on the viewing angle and the direction of incidence of light.

Some more interesting Honor 9 chips:

• when you look closely at the back panel, it becomes clear that the textured mesh pattern;
• the shape of the phone is such that it fits comfortably in your hand;
• the back panel surface is treated in such a way that the smartphone does not slip even from wet fingers;
• oleophobic coating applied on both sides of the product: fingerprints remain neither on the screen nor on the stylish back panel.

All the charm of the design of the model is revealed as soon as it comes off the table surface. Honor 9 is fully consistent with its target audience. He is stylish, trendy, youth.

The location of controls and interfaces is quite familiar both for modern phones and for the entire Honor line. The steel end frame housed:

• combined SIM card tray on the left above;

• volume rocker and power button on the top right;

• IR transmitter window and microphone noise reduction hole - at the top;

• bottom - TypeC interface for charging and connecting to a PC, 3.5 minijack for wired headphones, a conversational microphone and a speakerphone are located behind the grill.

In the bottom line of the front panel is located fingerprint scannerstylized home button. Here, on the sides, are sensory navigation zones. Some may seem insufficient area fingerprint sensor. However, this is the secret of the model. You can bring a finger to the scanner at any angle, ultrasound scanning is very accurate, fast and reliable. In addition, the assignment of navigation areas can be changed in the system settings.

In the upper part above the display is the expected set of functional elements. Here the LED alerts, the eye of the front optics, earpiece, light sensor. On the rear panel, in the upper left corner, there is a dual camera, a dual-diode flash and a window of the laser focusing system. Sensor optics flush with designer capthat adds to the phone style and uniqueness.

Screen

The review of Honor 9 does not allow to describe its display with neutral expressions. This is a very high-quality matrix, covered with a protective glass Gorilla Glass with zero air gap. At any viewing angles, the deviation of colors on the screen is minimal.

Impressive and technical characteristics of the display. The coverage of the color space is much wider than the average RGB. Due to this, the image on the screen looks juicy, bright, approaching the quality of the AMOLED matrices. However, it is worth mentioning the shortcomings of Honor 9. Despite the fact that the gamma curve is as normal as possible, the display of the smartphone shows some failure in the field of red flowers. In theory, this can make eyes tired.But the automatic reading blue suppression modes allow you to experience no inconvenience.

Important! The Honor 9 screen has standard settings for changing color temperature, including thin ones. In addition to automatically adjusting the brightness of the backlight in accordance with the illumination model offers a special mode of increasing the sharpness of the sun.

The minimum indicator of screen luminosity is 0.41 cd / m2. Maximum - 400 cd / m. The measured contrast level is 975: 1. Such characteristics of Honor 9 clearly indicate that the device is comfortable to use almost everywhere. In addition, users separately mark correct and efficient operation of the light sensor, changing the intensity of the backlight.

The screen resolution of 1920x1080 pixels with a density of 423 dots per inch allows the phone to clearly draw even the smallest fonts and image elements. Display has anti-reflective coatingwhich, according to users, works very effectively.

Hardware platform

The capabilities of Honor 9 are fully revealed thanks to a sophisticated hardware platform. This is not just a powerful processor. The system uses additional modules for solving individual tasks.For example:

• Listening to HD, Hi-End, DSD Audio practically does not take up computing resources, as a separate sound chip deals with decoding and conversion;
• the utilitarian tasks of counting steps and processing the sensor data are solved by a separate coprocessor, reducing the system load by up to 30%;
• tracking the satellites, building a route is also busy coprocessor, reducing battery consumption by up to 75%.

The coprocessor module I6 also deals with image stabilization of cameras, captured video, and data processing of optical sensors. In the model Honor 9 optimal performance of different tasks is divided between separate hardware modules, which has a very positive effect on the speed of the system as a whole.

A brief and honest description of a smartphone can sound like this: it is extremely fast and practically does not encounter malfunctions in the operation of the processor complex. The excellent parameters of the hardware platform allow Honor 9 to cope with any tasks, the most demanding games. Even with a full long-term processor load - the device case practically does not heat up.

We should also mention the Honor 9 chips in the context of communication capabilities.The device offers several interesting modes.

1. Signal + significantly improves reception, allows you to make calls in the area of ​​uncertain operation of the mobile network.
2. WiFi + after activation automatically changes wireless networks, finding points with the maximum signal level. Or it switches to mobile data transmission through the network of the communication provider. The pros and cons of this mode can be found in any situation, for example, some applications may report address switching. However, automatic transition from Wi-Fi networks to 3G, 4G can be a very useful feature.

Important! For the IR transmitter, a proprietary program is offered with which you can control home appliances. You no longer have to search for a suitable application on GoogleMarket or install it from external media.

Autonomy

Extremely well-thought-out hardware platform allows Honor 9 with a modest 3200 mAh battery to show premium level autonomy. Some indicators look like this:

• in normal mode (Wi-Fi enabled, application synchronization, calls) the device is confident 30 hours work with an average screen usage of 4 hours;
• games at maximum settings and maximum volume - up to 4 hours;
• High compression video, maximum backlight and volume brightness - 7 hours.

The data obtained from measurements without power saving modes. After activating Smart Power (the company's proprietary development), the device shows 78 hours of music playback from a memory card.

You can charge the phone as a connection to the USB port of the PC, as well as a proprietary adapter. The latter produces 2A current, using proprietary technology SuperCharge battery capacity can be raised from zero to 40% in half an hour.

Camera features

It is impossible to make a full review of Honor 9 and not to mention the camera. Main camera built on two optical sensors. Color has 12 MP active pixels, black and white - 20 MP. This engineering solution allows you to make very high-quality images, with a well-developed dynamic range and detail.

Important! Forcibly switching the resolution and use of a specific sensor does not allow system settings. The smartphone selects the desired camera automatically. If you take a color picture - it will be 12 MP, monochrome - 20 MP.

Laser focusing system works well on improving the quality of images in low light. However, to make the perfect picture quality does not work. At dusk in the picture may be grain, there are problems with the dynamic range. It should be noted separately that we are talking only about photographing without flashes. If they are activated - the brightness of the two diodes is enough to eliminate any problems with the illumination of the scene.

Focusing speed and settings are very high. The system received good reviews. hybrid digital approximation. With it, you can get images of perfect quality with double magnification. Also noteworthy is the interesting feature of the smartphone's camera: Honor 9 supports live snapshots. When the mode is activated, a few seconds of video are taken before and after the moment of photographing.

Good shoots and front-camera. It is wide-angle, with many ready-made scenes for image processing on the fly. For both cameras Honor 9 offers many ready-made presets. In Pro mode, there are fine settings for sensitivity and other parameters.

Conclusion

Honor 9 can be called a master of disguise.Its price and appearance, when the device is on the table, shows a newcomer of the market who does not claim leadership. However, it is worth taking the smartphone in your hands and starting to use it - it shows its merits from the first second. Here and design, and thoughtful characteristics of surfaces, and excellent performance, coupled with autonomy. The model can surely be called pleasant from any angle.

Smartphone Honor 9