All in all, Huawei has packed in a powerful display, and although most flagships feature the Quad HD displays, its still a technology that is picking up, so its not really a big compromise.
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Performance
Huawei has always patronised its own chipset in their devices, and the honor 8 is no exception. What we have on offer is the octa-core Kirin 950 processor with i5 co-processor. The Kirin chipset has been overshadowed in the past by the more settled players like Snapdragon and Mediatek, and later , even the Exynos, but by no means is the Kirin an underpowered competitor. Paired with a monstrous 4 GB of on board RAM, the new Kirin 950 shows its mettle in flamboyant style. The benchmark scores do show that the overall performance of the Honor 8 is a bit of a mixed bag, but personally, I am not much of a believer of benchmarks, as the performance of every individual device is user dependent. All I can say is that the Kirin is not far from posing a viable threat to the top players, and with a few tweaks, they will surely come out with flying colours.
The topic of complaint however, is the software. I have never been a fan of the Emotion UI, and in the Honor 8 too, the UI fails to excite me. Most other OEMs went for a lighter UI to give users a more fluid experience of the Android 6 OS, but the Honor 8 just doesn’t get it right in this area. A lot of bloatware is still found on boot, most of which only hinders the performance of your device than provide any sort of useful application. For those who don’t mind bloatware on boo can go ahead,but for those few who like a cleaner feel of things, you can install the Google Now launcher, which gives you the entire stock Android feel right down to the app drawer.
Camera
Without doubt, the highlight of the Honor is its dual camera setup. The Leica branding may have been omitted for this model, but that doesn’t mean you are left stranded with standard camera features. The camera setup makes use of Sony’s 12 MP IMX286 sensors, one of which is monochrome, while the other is an RGB type.
When it comes to the performance of this camera setup, I would say it performs very similar to the setup on the Huawei P9, albeit a bit on the softer side. You can see a bit of noise creeping in on low light scenarios, but what we also get is the Pro mode, which gives us full control of the camera and we can tweak it to our desire.
