The Honor 8 is here, and it's fantastic.
A compact phone with plenty of great specs, including a Kirin 950 SoC and 4GB of RAM, the Honor 8 is powerhouse starting at $399. Coming in either 32GB or 64GB variants, the phone arrives with dual 12MP cameras, an ultra-fast rear fingerprint sensor, and plenty of software customizations through Huawei's EMUI 4.1 running Android 6.0.
| Category | Features |
|---|---|
| Display | 5.2-inch IPS LCD 1920x1080 (423 ppi) |
| Processor | HiSilicon Kirin 950 octa-core 4xA72 @ 2.3Ghz + 4xA53 @ 1.8Ghz Mali-T880MP4 GPU |
| Storage | 32/64GB |
| RAM | 4GB LPDDR4 |
| OS | Android 6.0 with EMUI 4.1 |
| Rear cameras | Dual 12MP (monochrome + color), f/2.2 1.25-micron pixel equivalent |
| Front camera | 8MP, f/2.4 |
| Connection | USB Type-C (USB 2.0) |
| SIM/MicroSD | Dual SIM in Asia Single SIM with microSD (256GB) in Europe/U.S. |
| Battery | 3000mAh 9V/2A fast charging |
| Security | Fingerprint sensor |
| Other | Infrared, bottom mono speaker, VoLTE (T-Mobile only) |
| Waterproofing | No |
| LTE Bands | LTE FDD: B1/B2/B3/B4/B5/B7/B8/B12/B17/B20 |
| Dimensions | 145.5 x 71 x 7.5 mm |
| Weight | 153 grams |
| Colors | Pearl White, Sapphire Blue, Midnight Black |
Honor 8
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Honor 8 specs
Nice price for what you get. Infrared is cool.
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I thought $300 was the rumored price.... Other phones have 2k screens in this price range.
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It still looks like a fantastic phone for $400.
S7 clone?
Looks like
People say the S7 is an iPhone clone.
Other people say the iPhone ripped off HTC.
Design is a ongoing food chain where everyone builds on everyone else's ideas.
This whole X copied Y thing is getting pretty tedious.
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Yeah, I agree. You've got this slab, it has to be a certain form factor because the human hand and face tend to be a fairly consistent shape... And there's basically three materials that can be used in in its manufacture, glass, aluminium and plastic. Is it any wonder designs start to look similar?
It's odd that no one seems to look at a Kenwood blender and say "pfft, Moulinex clone".
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Manufacturing processes surely come into it too. If one OEM comes out with a new way of manufacturing a phone that is cheaper, or more efficient, then other companies, be they OEMs or places like foxcon, are going to see that and say "Hey, that's an improvement on what what we're doing", and what are they going to do? *Not* try to improve their manufacturing process?
I suspect that reason as much as anything else is why a lot of phones ended up looking a kind of like the HTC M7/8 etc. And why a lot of phones that are water resistant go down the glass sandwich approach. Not because they want to rip off another phone, but because it's just the best way to construct them at that point in time.
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What an absolute piece of shaite
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5.2 inch "a compact phone"? You've got to be kidding.
Yeah, not very compact but I like it.
In today's world, 5.2 IS considered compact! It's true! How the times are changin'...
Kirin 950 looks pretty sweet
Better choose axon 7
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IPS LCD,. Garbage
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Huawei uses some of the best LCDs.
Adoptable storage available? Does anyone know?
Axon 7 or this phone? I already have the op3 but I want axon 7 or honor 8