Highlights
1-Underline textThe Honor 8 features dual 12-megapixel cameras for better photos.
2-Build quality, battery life and all-round performance are very good.
3-The Honor 8 is priced at Rs. 29, 999.
Honor 8 design and build
Honor has overhauled its design completely, and the new model looks striking. There are elements of Samsung’s 2016 A-series aesthetic here with a metal frame sandwiched between two sheets of curved glass. It makes the Honor 8 look incredibly premium, but as a side-effect, fingerprints are a nightmare. It’s also quite slippery and it does slide off most surfaces if you’re not careful.
The display measures 5.2 inches diagonally, and thanks to the full-HD resolution, text is razor sharp. Honor has used a good quality panel here, as colours are punchy, viewing angles are good, and sunlight legibility is also strong. You can adjust the colour temperature and toggle a blue light filter from the Settings app. There are also very thin borders on either side of the display which makes the phone very manageable for one-handed use. At 153g, it’s also quite light.
Button placement is ergonomic with good tactile feedback. There’s a notification LED neatly hidden in the earpiece grille; an infrared emitter on the top; a USB Type-C port on the bottom(USB 2.0 speed); and a SIM and microSD card tray(up to 128GB) on the left. Although the SIM slot has a physical cutout for a second Nano-SIM, the phone won’t recognise it.
Honor 8 specifications and features.
Honor has gone with Huawei’s in-house silicon for the CPU. The Kirin 950 octa-core SoC is a beast of a performer for even demanding apps. We got 92, 353 points in AnTuTu, 41fps in GFXbench, and 18, 083 in 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited. These numbers are still well behind those of a Snapdragon 820 powered phone, but for real-world usage, it would be hard to tell the difference.
he Honor 8 also has 4GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, dual-band Wi-Fi b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.2, USB OTG, and NFC. The one thing that’s missing is FM radio, which might be an issue for some. The Honor 8 supports 4G LTE for FDD and TDD bands. VoLTE is currently not supported in India but the company says it should be enabled by a software update in the future.