Category: HUAWEI

Honor 8 Lite with 5.2-inch 1080p display, Android 7.0, 4GB RAM, fingerprint sensor announced in China

Honor 8 Lite

Huawei’s Honor brand introduced Honor 8 Lite, a cheaper version of its flagship Honor 8 smartphone in Finland earlier this month. Now it has introduced the smartphone in China along with the Honor V9. It has a 12-megapixel single rear camera instead of dual 12-megapixel rear cameras on the Honor 8, is powered by an Octa-Core Kirin 655 processor and runs Android 7.0 (Nougat) with EMUI 5.0 out of the box. Continue reading “Honor 8 Lite with 5.2-inch 1080p display, Android 7.0, 4GB RAM, fingerprint sensor announced in China”

Honor V9 with 5.7-inch Quad HD display, 6GB RAM, dual 12MP rear cameras announced

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Huawei’s Honor brand has announced Honor V9, the company’s latest flagship smartphone in the honor series. It packs a 5.7-inch Quad HD 2.5D curved glass display, is powered by an Octa-Core Kirin 960 SoC and runs on Android 7.0 (Nougat) with EMUI 5 on top. It has dual 12-megapixel rear cameras with laser auto focus and 1.76-micron pixel size promising brilliant image quality in low-light conditions. Continue reading “Honor V9 with 5.7-inch Quad HD display, 6GB RAM, dual 12MP rear cameras announced”

Huawei MediaPad T3 with 8-inch display, 3GB RAM, Android 7.0, 4G LTE gets certified

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Huawei MediaPad T3 (KOB-L09) got Wi-Fi certification last month, now it has received China’s TENAA certification as under the Honor brand so it could be released as Honor Pad 3. It packs a 8-inch HD display, is powered by 1.4GHz quad-core processor, which could be Snapdragon 425 and runs on Android 7.0 (Nougat). Continue reading “Huawei MediaPad T3 with 8-inch display, 3GB RAM, Android 7.0, 4G LTE gets certified”

Huawei is said to be developing its own voice assistant

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It looks like we will soon see a new voice assistant that will join the likes of Siri, Google Assistant and Cortana. Huawei is said to be working on its own digital voice assistant according to a latest report from Bloomberg.
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Huawei P10 announcement confirmed for MWC 2017, new Blue and Green colors teased

Huawei P10 MWC 2017 teaser

Huawei sent out invites for its MWC 2017 event last month. Even though the unveiling of the P10 smartphone was almost confirmed, today it has confirmed it through new teaser images along with a video teaser that confirms dual rear cameras for the smartphone, similar to last year’s P9. Continue reading “Huawei P10 announcement confirmed for MWC 2017, new Blue and Green colors teased”

Huawei Watch 2 will be announced on Feb 26 at MWC 2017 confirms CEO

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Last month Huawei sent out invites for its MWC 2017 event in Barcelona that is scheduled for February 26th where it is expected to introduce P10 and P10 Plus smartphones. Today Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei has confirmed on weibo that it will unveil its second-generation Huawei Watch 2 at the event later this month. Continue reading “Huawei Watch 2 will be announced on Feb 26 at MWC 2017 confirms CEO”

Honor 8 EMUI 5.0 Android 7.0 Nougat update starts rolling out in the US

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Huawei’s Honor brand has finally started rolling out EMUI 5.0 based on Android 7.0 (Nougat) update for the Honor 8 (FRD-L04) smartphone in the U.S. In addition to Android Nougat, the EMUI 5.0 also brings a range of UI changes including changes to Home-screen Interface, Notification Shade, App Drawer, Recent Apps and more.
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Honor 6X Battery Life Test

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Huawei’s Honor brand launched the Honor 6X smartphone in India last month starting at Rs. 12,999. It packs a 3,340mAh built-in battery, slightly bigger than than the 3000mAh battery on the Honor 5X, has a 5.5-inch 1080p screen and is powered by an Octa-Core Kirin 655 16nm processor. We already brought you the review of the smartphone, here we have the battery life test results of the phone.
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Honor V9 with dual rear cameras will be announced on February 21

Honor V9

Huawei’s Honor brand today announced that it will unveil Honor V9, successor of last year’s Honor V8 at an event in Beijing on February 21st. It got certified by TENAA recently that confirms most of the specifications, including a 5.7-inch Quad HD screen, 12-megapixel dual rear cameras and an 8-megapixel front-facing camera similar to the Honor V8, but this is expected to powered by Kirin 960 SoC and pack 6GB of RAM. Continue reading “Honor V9 with dual rear cameras will be announced on February 21”

Honor 6X 4GB RAM variant will go on sale today on Amazon India

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Huawei’s Honor brand launched the Honor 6X smartphone last month in India starting at Rs. 12,999. The 3GB RAM version of the smartphone went on sale exclusively on Amazon.in in the first flash sale last Thursday, February 2nd, which went out of stock in a matter of minutes, according to the company. Today in the second sale Honor said that the 4GB RAM version will also be available for purchase in addition to 3GB RAM variant starting at 2PM. Those who have not registered for today’s sale can register for the next sale on February 16th. Continue reading “Honor 6X 4GB RAM variant will go on sale today on Amazon India”

Honor 6X Photowalk

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It is easy to talk about camera specifications and say that X Megapixels or a certain pixel size and sensor size would yield certain results. However, a real life scenario is where the smartphone camera is actually put to the test and what better way to put a phone through its paces than a photowalk. We took a stroll along various locations and tried to capture the scenery and the objects in whatever best way we could with the Honor 6X to see just how well it fares. Let’s take a look.

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Honor 6X EMUI 5.0 Android 7.0 Nougat update to roll out starting from March

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Huawei’s Honor brand introduced the Honor 6X smartphone with dual rear cameras for the global markets at the CES 2017 last month. It was launched in India a couple of weeks back and went on sale exclusively on  Amazon.in in the first flash sale yesterday. The phone currently runs on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) with the company’s own EMUI 4.1 on top. Now the company has promised to roll out EMUI 5.0 based on Android 7.0 (Nougat) starting from next month. Continue reading “Honor 6X EMUI 5.0 Android 7.0 Nougat update to roll out starting from March”

Honor 6X Teardown

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Huawei’s Honor brand launched the Honor 6X smartphone in India last month, which went on sale in the country today exclusively on Amazon.in. It is a major upgrade to last year’s Honor 5X since this packs dual rear cameras, improved processor and more RAM. Even though this has a familiar design, there are a lot of components that go into making the device what that might not be revealed on a regular specs sheet. We did a teardown of the device, similar to the Honor 5X to see what it packs on the inside. Let’s take a peek. Continue reading “Honor 6X Teardown”

Honor 8 Lite with 5.2-inch 1080p display, Android 7.0, fingerprint sensor, 4G LTE announced

Honor 8 Lite

Huawei Honor brand today introduced Honor 8 Lite, a cheaper version of last year’s flagship Honor 8 smartphone in Finland. The main difference is that this has a 12-megapixel single rear camera instead of dual 12-megapixel rear cameras on the Honor 8. This also comes with a less powerful Kirin 655 processor, similar to the Honor 6X instead of Honor 8’s Kirin 950 SoC, but this runs Android 7.0 (Nougat) with EMUI 5.0 out of the box. Continue reading “Honor 8 Lite with 5.2-inch 1080p display, Android 7.0, fingerprint sensor, 4G LTE announced”