Huawei P9 with dual cameras launching in India on August 17

Huawei P9 India launch invite

Huawei has sent out invites for the launch of its flagship P9 smartphone in India on August 17th. It was announced back in April and packs dual 12-megapixel rear cameras with Leica SUMMARIT lenses and 1.25-micron pixels promising brilliant image quality in low-light conditions. It also has an independent depth measurement chip and proprietary hybrid-focus technology. Continue reading “Huawei P9 with dual cameras launching in India on August 17”

Honor 5 with 5-inch HD display, 2GB RAM, 4G VoLTE announced

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Huawei’s Honor brand just announced the Honor 5 / Honor Play 5, the company’s latest budget 4G smartphone in the Honor series in China. It has a 5-inch HD display, is powered by 1.3  quad-core MediaTek processor and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with EMUI 3.1 Lite on top. It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with dual LED flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera that also has flash. Continue reading “Honor 5 with 5-inch HD display, 2GB RAM, 4G VoLTE announced”

Honor Note 8 with 6.6-inch Quad HD display, 4GB RAM, 4500mAh battery announced

Honor Note 8

Huawei’s Honor brand just announced Honor Note 8, its latest smartphone at an event in China. It packs a 6.6-inch Quad HD Super AMOLED display, is powered by an Octa-Core Kirin 955 SoC  and runs on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) with EMUI 4.1 on top. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with f/2.0  aperture, RGBW Sensor, Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera.  Continue reading “Honor Note 8 with 6.6-inch Quad HD display, 4GB RAM, 4500mAh battery announced”

Honor Note 8 with Quad HD display, 4GB RAM to be announced on August 1

Honor Note 8

Huawei’s honor brand recently unveiled the honor 8 smartphone in China and it confirmed the honor Note 8 smartphone with a Quad HD display in a teaser last week. Today the company has confirmed that it will be announced at an event on August 1st. Continue reading “Honor Note 8 with Quad HD display, 4GB RAM to be announced on August 1”

Honor Note 8 with Quad HD screen teased, could feature 6.6-inch screen

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Huawei’s honor brand recently unveiled the honor 8 smartphone in China. Honor EDI-DL00 was certified by TENAA recently but the name of the phone was a mystery, now the company has confirmed in a new teaser that it will be called the honor Note 8. Continue reading “Honor Note 8 with Quad HD screen teased, could feature 6.6-inch screen”

Huawei Maimang 5 with 5.5-inch 1080p display, Snapdragon 625, 4GB RAM announced

Huawei Maimang 5

Huawei has announced Maimang 5, the company’s latest mid-range smartphone in China. It packs a 5.5-inch 1080p 2.5D curved glass display with 77.9% screen-to-body ratio, is powered by an octa-core Snapdragon 625 processor, runs on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) with EMUI 4.1 on top. It has a 16-megapixel rear camera with phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF), Optical image stabilization (OIS), dual-tone LED flash and a 8-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Huawei Maimang 5 with 5.5-inch 1080p display, Snapdragon 625, 4GB RAM announced”

What makes the Honor 5C the best camera in its segment

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On paper, the Honor 5C seems like a good bet in terms of camera hardware with its 13 Megapixel camera, f/2.0 aperture and LED flash. However, there have been several cases where smartphones have had impressive specifications on paper but failed to deliver in real life situations. That’s because they don’t understand the harmony required between the hardware and software. Honor however, perfectly understands that.

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How the Honor 5C sets a benchmark for the mid range camera smartphones

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The Honor 5C features a 13 Megapixel camera at the back with an LED flash. Just like in the case of processors and batteries, users must come to understand the fact that simply having a larger sensor, pixel count, larger pixels or a larger aperture, doesn’t necessarily guarantee a better image quality. A combination of those factors or even one of those factors will help improve the quality but it has to be done right and a lot of it depends on the processing of the images itself.

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Honor 8 with 5.2-inch 1080p display, 4GB RAM, dual 12MP cameras announced

Honor 8

Huawei’s Honor just announced Honor 8, the company’s latest high-end smartphone in China. It packs a 5.2-inch Full HD 2.5D curved glass display, is powered by an Octa-Core Kirin 950 SoC with i5 co-processor and runs on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) with EMUI 4.1 on top. The main highlight of the smartphone are the dual 12-megapixel rear cameras with laser auto focus and 1.76-micron pixel size promising brilliant image quality in low-light conditions, similar to the Honor V8 that was introduced back in May. Continue reading “Honor 8 with 5.2-inch 1080p display, 4GB RAM, dual 12MP cameras announced”

Honor 5C vs Xiaomi Redmi Note 3

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Huawei’s Honor brand launched the Honor 5C smartphone with unibody metal design in India last month priced at Rs. 10,999. The Honor 5C comes with several uniquely distinguishing features both from a hardware and software perspective. That said, the phone faces stiff competition from the likes of Xiaomi and others that have traditionally delivered competitive specs at very low price points. With that in mind, we decided to compare the Honor 5C with the very popular Redmi Note 3 to see if it can hold its own. Continue reading “Honor 5C vs Xiaomi Redmi Note 3”

Honor 5C Camera Review

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Huawei’s Honor brand launched the Honor 5C smartphone in India last month priced at Rs. 10,999. It recently went on open sale in the country. We already brought you the hands-on impressions and battery life test results of the smartphone, here we have the camera review of the phone.  Continue reading “Honor 5C Camera Review”

Honor phablet with 6.6-inch Quad HD display, 3GB RAM, 4400mAh battery gets certified

Huawei Honor EDI-DL00

Honor is all set to introduce the Honor 8 smartphone with dual cameras in China on July 11th, now a new Honor smartphone with the model number EDI-DL00, a 6.6-inch AMOLED display and a 4400mAh battery has been certified by TENAA in China. According to the images it has full metal unibody. Continue reading “Honor phablet with 6.6-inch Quad HD display, 3GB RAM, 4400mAh battery gets certified”