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SMARTPHONE 8 A great mobile with dual camera to boot — Raj Kumar Maurya

uawei’s sub-brand Honor has launched the Honor 8,which is a successor of . This mid-range is a Hdirect competitor of OnePlus 3 and ASUS Zenfone 3. Honor is promoting it with a special USP i.e. dual camera setup. Not so unique yet attractive: Honor 8 has a very compact and aesthetic design. The metal design sandwiched between two glasses with the 2.5D curve, adding premium looks. We have seen phones with dual glasses, but its size, plane design along with dual lenses, make it quite cool. Though it looks cool, the glasses are prone to fingerprints. Moreover, also it is quite slippery. At first glance, the smartphone resembles the , 2.5 D glass on tech front and metallic rims running along the edges. Above the display, the placement of the sensor, ear speaker grills and camera is as usual, but the notification’s LED placement is something different. It’s placed inside the speaker grills at the left side and only visible when it glows. The top side of the phone has an IR blaster and bottom is accomplished by USB Type-C port and 3.5mm audio jack on the left side. Right side metallic frame is comprised of a SIM card slot which is basically a hybrid tray. The fingerprint scanner at the back has a silver ring and also Price: `29,999/- pushable to trigger multiple tasks such voice assistant, gesture, locking apps etc. It sports an LTPS (Low-temperature Polycrystalline Silicon) 5.2 SCORE inches full HD display which looks very sharp. It produces natural Price: 8/10 and punchy colors with great sharpness. The display is bright Performance: 9/10 Overall: enough to read the text under direct sunlight without any problem. Features: 9/10 9/10 Further, to save your eyes from the stress, there is a feature called ‘EYE’ that filter the blue light of the display. Dual lenses to capture every detail: The camera of Honor Key Specs: 5.2 inch 1080x1920 Display, 1.8GHz octa-core CPU, Front Camera. 8-megapixel. RAM, 4GB, 8 is packed with a dual 12-megapixel configuration to capture Android 6.0, Storage 32GB, Rear Camera 12-megapixel, 3000mAh the images with better depth and sharpness. For creating blur background effect the camera app has afeature called ‘Wide Pros: Premium design, Powerful processor and performance, Good camera Aperture”. The images captured by the Honor 8 are crisp and possess a good amount of detailing along natural colors. If you Cons: No FM, Slippery body are a selfie lover, then the front camera of 8 megapixels is not going to disappoint you. Yes, the low-light selfies are a little bit noisy but still it will not let you compromise the quality of the didn’t find any major lag while multi-tasking. Moreover, we did picture. At this price point, the OnePlus 3 has a 4K recording notice some heat while updating and using the camera. option but unfortunately the Honor 8 doesn’t. Great battery: Honor 8 uses a 3000 mAh battery to power Various interesting features: The Honor 8 is based on Android its hardware. The phone offers three different battery mode: v6.0 Marshmallow with a customized layer of EMUI v 4.1. An Performance, Smart and Ultra. In our battery tests, we ran a interesting feature of this phone is Knuckle sense that allows video loop test in which we got 8 hours and 10 minutes’ battery you taking screenshot and screen recording using knuckles. For backup at high volume and brightness. controlling different electronics items, it supports infrared sensor Bottomline: Honor 8 is a well-designed smartphone with a & comes with pre-install app called smart controller. great combination of hardware. However, in comparison with Runs smoothly: In order togive a smooth performance, it is Oneplus 3, in some respects, it wins and in some it loses the built with -owned processor called HiSilicon Kirin 950 battle. Some missing features like FM and VoLTE made it not octa-core. If you are a multi-tasker, then phone is not going to such a preferred phone as compared to OnePlus 3 and Asus disappoint you, as it has 4 GB RAM and 32 GB for storage that Zenfone 3. However, if are looking for a phone with good looks can expandable up to 128 GB using Hybrid SIM card slot. The and great performance with clean UI and battery then Honor 8 is processor is enough to run heavy apps and games smoothly.We for you.

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