Honor 8 Review – Huawei’s e-brand smartphone for most ages

Introduction & Hardware Overview

Introduction & Hardware Overview

One thing, anyone may understand easily about Huawei, is that the company has different branding categories to target different market demands. Mate-series – the high-end smartphone with larger screen, P-series – the high-end mainstream smartphone with photography skills, Honor – a mixture of high-end, mid-range and lower-end features targeting most from millennials. Huawei has other smartphone ranges for mid-range, budget and lower-end markets.

Let’s not go so beyond the subject – as we are talking about Huawei Honor 8 here which you can directly compare to the company’s high-end Huawei P9. Technically and according to prices Huawei P9 can be considered as lower high-end smartphone and Honor 8 as an higher mid-range smartphone where most of the features are similar in both devices. Honor 8 touches the price tag just a little bit down the Huawei P9’s.

The company launched Huawei Honor 8 in Pakistan early in October for PKR. 48,499/- while The P9 was initially launched for 54k which is now selling around for the similar price as of Honor 8. But the only option in P9 was 3GB RAM with 32GB storage.

Update: Huawei has cut down prices for Honor series where Honor 8 is now costing only $350 via hihonor.com. Read more in the final remarks page after review.

Hopefully, this review will make you decide which one to choose if you are hard-stuck with only these two options. If there is any third option, it might be an easy job to leave both of these and go for the other – we’ll see later if there is any contender with the similar price.

Before we go any further, just have a little clue about Huawei Honor 8 to build interest in reading.

While you can certainly pick the Honor 8 for its boosted RAM and doubled the storage option, however P9 has some edge with a little improved processor, better display with Gorilla glass protection, in fact better handling (why we’ll see below), lighter in weight, slimmer than Honor 8 and most importantly the P9’s camera is on par with its Leica optics even though both have similar image sensors.

The variant of P9 that you will get for the similar price also doesn’t feature near field communication (NFC) which is present in Honor 8 and for fun, you get IR blaster in Huawei Honor 8 to remotely control infrared supported devices.

Frankly, both of the phones have a brilliant design to fall for but I personally would prefer to have P9 instead as Honor 8 seems to be over smooth that you can not put it somewhere even a little sloppy. Second, the shiny glass on the back is too attractive but as prone to finger prints.

Features Specifications

Checkout the side by side specifications of Honor 8 and Huawei P9. You can also checkout the review of Huawei P9.