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TESTED HONOR 9

Dare to gleam 5

Honor’s dazzling new smartphone offers near-flagship
specs for less than £400 – should OnePlus be worried?

£380 / hihonor.com
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Most of us have friends who, let’s 1 All-round glass
be honest, can be gits. Pull an The phone comes in blue, silver
Honor phone out of your pocket or grey, and every part of it feels
and they’ll act like you’ve just high-end. Its front and back
served up Asda Value spaghetti panels are curved glass, and
hoops for their birthday. the colour-matched part in
The Honor 9 is a phone that the middle of this sandwich is
proves it’s their problem, not aluminium. The only plastic parts
yours. It’s their problem that are the little antenna cut-outs.
they’re happy spending over
£600 on a big-name flagship 2 Pixel pinching
when the Honor 9 would get The Honor has had to settle for a
them 90% of the gloss and 1080p display to keep the costs
substance for just over half down, and so the 9 has around
the price… and then claim they’re half the pixels of the Galaxy
too skint to buy a round. S8. While you can notice the
Sure, a few corners have been difference if you look closely,
cut to achieve this jaw-dropping it’s not a big deal. The 9’s
price: pixels aren’t as plentiful as screen is still very sharp.
they are on the Samsung Galaxy
S8, nor are its bezels as skinny,
and the camera doesn’t achieve
stunning results in low light.
But when you’re saving £300
on a phone that hits the mark
on almost every other feature,
you can forgive Honor for making
some sacrifices.
Make no mistake: this is one
of the very best high-end phone
deals of 2017 so far.

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48 hours with the
The Emotion UI reminds me of iOS,
One of my favourite-looking phones.
The 5.15in screen means it’s small
That shiny blue design is a dazzler.
In fact, the whole phone in general
enough to stay in my clumsy grasp.
Honor 9
can’t compete with flagship rivals.
Samsung S7. That’s no bad thing.
Good
really speedy snapper...
Meh This thing is only £380? That can’t Actually, it looks quite similar to the I’m a little disappointed the display That fingerprint sensor is one of the I love that camera double act. It’s a
Evil be right. Amazing value. which I’m very pleased about. fastest I’ve ever used. has a lot of speed in its trunk.
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