Huawei Honor 6 Unboxing and First Impressions


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Last week Huawei unveiled their latest attempt to crack the European market; dubbed the Honor 6, it’s something different from Huawei’s usual handsets and unlike the Ascend range, the Honor 6 (and presumably future devices in the range) do not come with Huawei branding. The Chinese manufacturer has previously suffered bad publicity in the UK and Europe – over allegations that it sends user data back to servers in China that the Chinese government can access – and the Honor 6 is designed to offer the complete Huawei package without any negative stigma attached.

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Our Honor 6 review sample has arrived and we’re interested to see whether the handset lives up to its early billing of an accomplished handset at an affordable handset. Before we can do that, let’s take a look at the box, the box contents and the handset itself in our unboxing video:

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As we touched on in the video, the Honor 6 feels unique yet somewhat familiar; unique as design-wise it looks closer to the Xperia range than Huawei’s own devices but familiar as the Huawei have added their own custom interface on top of the Android 4.4.2 KitKat operating system. As soon as you’ve navigated the set up process, you notice that Huawei’s custom interface feels a lot like the Ascend range and whilst the interface appears smoother than on other Huawei devices, features such as an App Drawer continue to be missing which may not appeal to the European consumer.

The handset itself sports rounded corners like the new Xperia devices and the 5 inch Full HD IPS display appears vibrant and immersive. The handset has a relatively high screen to body ratio of 70.83% (which is the amount of the front of the handset that is the display) and the 5 inch display is definitely usable in one hand. Other features of the handset include LTE Cat 6, a 13MP rear camera with 1080p video and a 5MP front facing snapper and Dual SIM capability that allows you to use two sim cards at once. The entire package is powered by an octa-core Kirin 920 processor, 3GB RAM and 16GB or 32GB storage which can be expanded by up to 64GB using a microSD card and there’s also a 3100 mAh under the non-removable back cover.

The Honor 6 has an outstanding price of just £250 SIM free on Amazon UK which makes it the best smartphone at that price range. From our first look at the handset, it seems to offer the impressive specs at a low price point that we all look for in a handset but is it the must-have phone of the year? You’ll need to join us for our closer look at the Honor 6 to find out.


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