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TESTED HONOR 9

Tech specs
Screen 5.15in 1080x1920 LCD
OS Android 7.0 Processor Kirin 960
2 Cameras 20MP + 12MP rear, 8MP front
Battery 3200mAh RAM 4GB
Storage 64/128GB, expandable up to 256GB
Dimensions 147x71x7.5mm, 155g

Honourable mentions

The Honor 9’s design is simultaneously both
strangely conventional and eye-openingly bold

Sparkler Speaker
This is one of the shiniest The speaker sits on the
mobiles in the universe. bottom of the Honor 9
Looking at its back is a and is reasonably loud
3 Mixed Emotions bit like peering through and chunky-sounding.
The Honor 9 runs Android 7.0 a kaleidoscope, and the However, this is the only
but with Huawei’s Emotion UI way it reacts to light is speaker on the phone
on top. This interface changes how dynamic, creating laser- – there’s no extra driver
Android works, zapping the apps like lines across its rear. on the front.
menu and flattening the system
into a bunch of homescreens. If
you prefer you can revert to the
standard Android setup.

4 Laps of Honor
The Honor 9 runs like a dream
with its Huawei-made Kirin 960
CPU. Games run super-smooth,
with the sort of frame-drop-free Scanner Surfer
performance you don’t get with Rather than going too far Surprisingly, an IR blaster
a cheap Android. It can also keep down the giant-screen sits on the top. This lets
more apps ticking on in the route, the 5.15in display you control a TV, or just
background with 4GB of RAM. makes this a sensible about anything with a
size for normal folk with normal remote control,
5 Double vision normal hands. And below using your phone. You’ll
3 On the back there are two the screen sits the speedy find the Smart Controller
cameras that work together. fingerprint scanner. app in the Tools folder.
One is a 20MP black and white
sensor, the other a 12MP colour
one. It’s the same kind of rig used
in the Huawei P10, but this time The Honor 9 is a phone with some
it doesn’t have the Leica name serious high-end chops that sells
splashed over it.
for a mid-range price. Alright, so the
design seems more like a flagship
phone of 2016 than 2017, but when
you’re saving £300 in the bargain, does that
It doesn’t take too long to juice up
half with a casual workload, though.
...it hasn’t got image stabilisation, Battery’s dead. It lasted a day and a I just can’t believe how many flagship deals around at the moment – and a true
Honor’s background-blurring skills.
matter? It’s clearly one of the best phone
My selfies look great with the
though, and is poor in low light.
features this £380 phone has.
rival to the OnePlus 5. @wwwdotandrew
with USB-C charging.
STUFF SAYS
Hi
h-end hardware at a
middlewei
ht price makes the
Honor 9 a fantastic phone deal
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