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Honor 8X is a smartphone in the mid-price segment. It was announced on September 5 in China. The device received quite impressive functions and technical equipment in comparison with its predecessors. Offers a frameless screen, the latest chipset, a large supply of RAM and internal memory, 3 cameras and a glass body.

The Honor 8X body is made of a metal frame and two glass panels. There are 4 body colors to choose from: black, blue, red and purple. On the front panel you can find a cutout at the top of the display for the earpiece, front camera and sensors. All corners are rounded. There is no inscription in the lower part given that the height of the lower indentation is 4.25 mm. On the back panel, on the left side, there are 2 camera eyes, an LED flash, vertically located, as well as the inscription “AI Camera” and the manufacturer’s logo at the very bottom. In the middle to the right of the flash is a fingerprint scanner. The panel itself consists of 15 layers and has a 2.5D rounded shape. Notice that the small area on the left is highlighted in a slightly different shade compared to the rest of the back panel. A tray for 3 cards including microSD, a volume rocker and a power button are located in their places as standard. On the top edge there is only an additional microphone for noise reduction, and on the bottom there are holes for the main speaker, conversation microphone, microUSB port and 3.5 mm jack. The dimensions of the device are 160.4 x 76.6 x 7.8 mm, and the weight is 175 grams.

The device comes with a protective bumper and film.

Honor 8X is equipped with a 6.5-inch IPS screen with a resolution of 2340 x 1080. The display occupies 91% of the entire front surface. Considering the eyebrow, the aspect ratio is 19.5:9 and the pixel density is 397 ppi. Color gamut NTSC 85%. In addition, the smartphone is certified as eye-safe by TUV Rheinland.

Inside, Honor 8X is equipped with the latest 8-core Kirin 710 chip with support for overclocking the 4-core Mali-G51 graphics accelerator using GPU Turbo technology. In addition, for games you can use 4D effects, which provide a better gaming experience by adapting to the actions of the scene taking place at the moment. The memory depends on the selected modification. There are options with 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of internal memory, as well as 6 GB and 64 GB or 128 GB.

In any case, the capacity of the flash drive can be expanded with MicroSD memory cards up to 256 GB. The autonomy of the mobile device is provided by a 3,750 mAh battery with a 5V/2A charger without fast charging support. Wireless interfaces include dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.2 with BLE and aptX support, GPS navigation, A-GPS, GLONASS and BeiDou. It’s a pity they didn’t equip it with an NFC module.

The main camera of Honor 8X has a 20 MP sensor with f/1.8 aperture and a 2 MP depth sensor. The front camera comes with a resolution of 16 megapixels and f/2.0 aperture. In both cases, there is support for AI Cam, which has many effects, modes and scene recognition. In addition, the main module can shoot 16xSlow-Mo video at 480 frames per second, and the front camera supports HDR.

I won’t write about technical specifications; they can be viewed on the Internet. I will write about the features that I liked in the phone. And about the phone itself.

The phone is very fast, I have something to compare it to. I used to have a Samsung Galaxy S3. This was my first touch phone. Since it was my first, I really liked it at first. But then I realized that he was slowing down very much. It slows down when pages on the Internet load, it slows down when loading an application, it slows down when you turn on the phone book to find a number. In general, after it, Honor seemed to me very fast, lightning fast. Also, when compared with Galaxy Grand Prime and Galaxy A5, Honor 8 is faster. I also compared Honor 8 with Honor 9, Honor 8 was also faster. That's why I chose Honor 8, although I wanted to take 9. I don't regret it at all.

What did I like about it? Apart from being fast, I liked the fingerprint sensor. This is very convenient, I liked that this sensor is also a button. With a long press I take a screenshot, with a short press I turn on the camera, with two short presses I turn on the flashlight. Even with a locked phone, this is very convenient.

When you hold down the volume key while the phone is locked, the microphone turns on and you say the name of the person you want to call. And the number is dialed automatically.

I also liked the video recording from the screen, it’s very convenient. There is also a long screenshot. You can see in the photo what it looks like.

When you take a selfie, you can turn on the beautiful face feature. There is also a function where when you take a selfie, the screen lights up white for a few seconds before taking the picture, thereby illuminating your face. I still haven’t figured out how to enable this function, but in my opinion it only works in poor lighting conditions.

It also has its own photo editor. See the photos for more details.

I liked the “do not disturb” mode - this is when at a certain time you will not hear any sound on the phone, calls, SMS, nothing except the alarm clock. That is, the call will go on, the SMS will arrive, but the screen will not light up and no sound will be heard. I do this at night.

There is also voice control and motion control, but I don’t use them, the same functions were in Galaxy. There is a scheduled switching off and turning on of the phone. That is, you can make sure that the phone turns off at night, for example, so that the battery does not run out. By the way, the battery lasts for 2 and a half days of non-active use.

There are also disadvantages to this phone. In my opinion, it's the sound. The sound of the speakers is loud, when the call volume is at full, I even get scared, so I keep the volume set to less than half. But I don't like the sound quality itself. My husband says it's a normal sound. Apparently I got used to Galaxy, it had a completely different sound, beat, bass. In general, I don’t know how to explain.

I also don’t like that the back and minimize buttons are on the screen itself, and not like in other phones under the screen, on the right and left. At first it was very inconvenient for me; my fingers couldn’t fit into these narrow buttons. This was my first disappointment with the phone. I still don’t understand why they did this, because there is a lot of space under the screen, they could have put buttons there.

Another bad thing for me personally was that the keyboard did not have a microphone. I'm used to Galaxy that you press the microphone, say a message and the sound is translated into words. You don’t need to write anything; if you need to write a large text, this is very convenient.

I had to download another keyboard, but I really liked it, I just fell in love with it. I've been using the phone for 2 months now and haven't fully explored it yet. If I find any other interesting functions, I will add to my review.

"Iron", performanceAndwirelesscommunications

Inside the Honor 8X, Huawei’s proprietary chipset is installed - HiSilicon Kirin 710. It is eight-core: four Cortex A73 cores with a maximum frequency of 2.2 GHz, plus the same number of Cortex A53 cores with a frequency of 1.7 GHz. Mali-G51 MP4 graphics with a frequency of 650 MHz are also integrated here. Based on the specifications, it is not difficult to guess that this chip is a direct competitor to the Snapdragon 636 from Qualcomm. In the second case, the graphics subsystem is a little better, but the GPU Turbo algorithm - also a Huawei proprietary feature - brings the graphics to a level where we can at least talk about fair parity.

There are no complaints about the performance of the system and the behavior of the smartphone while surfing the web, watching videos, working with documents, mail or communicating in instant messengers. The available 4 GB of RAM is absolutely enough for normal multitasking.

In games, the device also does not lose face: absolutely all top mobile projects can be played at least on medium graphics settings. At the same time, the phone does not heat up like an iron, but only becomes slightly warm. There is certainly throttling: in the corresponding test, 15 minutes after it started, performance dropped by 19% from the stated maximum. The loss is noticeable, but not so critical - we've seen worse.

There is a lot of built-in memory: 128 GB inside the smartphone for less than 20,000 rubles - that’s really cool. By the way, not even all flagships can boast of this. Well, even 64 GB in the younger version of the Honor 8X for 18 thousand looks great. And this despite the fact that the developers did not skimp on a separate slot for a microSD card. So you can enjoy all the joys of life with two SIMs, and expand the memory if you ever need it.

The connection quality is fine: LTE, although only Cat. 4, but in real life it is unlikely that you will be able to reach the maximum declared data transfer speed limit of 150 Mbit/s. Wi-Fi picks up signals in both bands and transmits and receives data very quickly. And NFC (in PCT versions of Honor 8X) is available, which in this price category becomes a significant advantage compared to other competitors from China.

⇡ Qualityshooting

The Honor 8X, like any other smartphone in the same price category, does not pretend to be a camera phone, although the presence of two lenses on the rear panel may mislead the inexperienced user. So, you don’t have much hope for the second matrix: its resolution is only 2 megapixels, and it is needed, in fact, only for better separation of the foreground from the background and subsequent software blurring of the background. Well, all the main work falls on the second module with a resolution of 20 megapixels and an aperture ratio of ƒ/1.8.

By class standards, the device takes photographs quite well. There are no problems at all in obtaining good, detailed images during the day, including in dull cloudy weather.

The device does not give up even if you need to take a macro photograph of some flower or other relatively small object: everything is in order with sharpness at the focus point, and there is a beautiful blur around it. You can bring the lens quite close to the subject.

If, when shooting outdoors, the camera forgives the format of working in the “point and shoot without looking” mode, then such a trick will no longer work indoors. There is no stabilizer, so you need to hold the smartphone firmly and levelly in your hands, and be sure to remember to select the desired focus point. If you also slightly manually adjust the exposure using the slider, then the amount of noise will be minimal, and the sharpness will drop slightly compared to daytime photos outdoors.

Well, taking photographs at night with a phone, of course, becomes quite difficult. Sharpness drops significantly, a lot of noise appears, and attempts by the built-in noise reduction to smooth them out sometimes make the frames frankly plastic. And the Honor 8X struggles with complex mixed artificial light. However, this is all completely normal and expected for a smartphone for this kind of money.

The front camera with a resolution of 16 megapixels is very decent. In the dark, of course, you shouldn’t expect cool self-portraits from her, but in daylight and with sufficient artificial light, selfies are only pleasing: the color rendition is normal, and the detailing is absolutely wonderful. The main thing, again, is not to rush anywhere and do not forget to choose a focus point, since there is autofocus here.

There's not much to say about video shooting. Yes, you can record videos in Full HD resolution at 30 frames/s, but this is all more of a “capture the moment” kind of thing. During the day the quality is decent, in all other cases - so-so.

⇡ AutonomousJob

Honor 8X has a non-removable battery with a capacity of 3750 mAh. By the standards of large smartphones, the figure is slightly higher than the “hospital average.” In practice, this gives a reliable full day of battery life from very early morning until very late evening. If you lower the brightness below 50% and forcefully limit the appetites of particularly voracious applications in the settings, then you can probably squeeze even more out of this battery. In our traditional HD video playback test with maximum brightness, the device lasted exactly 8 hours.

There is a lot of debate on the Internet about whether the gadget supports fast charging or not. Formally, it is not stated anywhere, but in fact, the Honor 8X charges from 0 to 60% in an hour using the native adapter included in the package, and the indicator travels from 0 to 90% in 95 minutes. Not a record, but fast enough. The remaining 10% is gained significantly more slowly - in 45 additional minutes, so it will take you 130 minutes to fully charge your smartphone. Just remember that instead of the seemingly almost ubiquitous USB Type-C, Honor 8X is for some reason equipped with an archaic microUSB connector.

⇡ Conclusion

Honor 8X is definitely one of the most successful Huawei smartphones this year. An indicative fact: there is not a single flaw here that could be called fatal. Scratchy glass? Yes, all these glasses are scratched, even the most tempered ones. Protruding cameras? You can get used to it or hide the phone in a case. Old microUSB? We used to live with these ports - and nothing.

At the same time, the list of advantages is such that when choosing a smartphone in 2019 at a price of up to 20,000 rubles, you won’t be able to pass by the Honor 8X even if you want to. Here you have an interesting design, a huge amount of memory, a large screen with normal resolution, decent hardware, and even NFC. Definitely a successful purchase, worthy of the most positive recommendations.

Advantages:

• looks more expensive than it costs;
• high-quality display;
• good “filling”;
• attractive price;
• a lot of built-in memory;
• separate slot for microSD;
• There is NFC and a headphone jack.

Flaws:

• microUSB;
• easily soiled body;
• protruding camera lenses;
• The glass on the back is easy to scratch.

Smartphone sales fell for the fourth quarter in a row. All major manufacturers are reporting a decline in smartphone sales. But only HUAWEI notes sales growth of up to 50%. This also applies to the subsidiary brand represented by HONOR. In mid-2019, the HUAWEI/HONOR brand ranks second in global smartphone sales. Samsung is in first place so far, and Apple is in 3rd place. In this review we will talk about the HONOR 8A smartphone.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Case material – plastic.

Screen size – 6.08 inches (IPS).

Screen resolution – 1560x720 pixels.

Operating system – Android OS 9.0.

Processor – Helio P35 MT6765.

Video processor – PowerVR GE8320.

RAM – 2 GB.

Built-in memory – 32 GB.

Memory card type - micro SD.

The main camera is 13 MP.

Front camera – 8 MP.

Battery capacity - 3020 mAh.

Support for GPS/GLONASS/LTE – yes.

Headphone jack type – 3.5 mm (mini-jack).

Support for two SIM cards – yes.

NFC support – yes.

Fingerprint scanner – yes.

Charging connector – Micro USB.

DELIVERY SET

The smartphone is packaged in a branded turquoise box.

The scope of delivery includes:

2.USB – Micro-USB cable.

3. Network charger.

4. Paperclip for removing the tray.

5.Quick user guide.

6. Warranty card.

7.Protective film (on the screen).

There is no case or headset included in the package.

APPEARANCE

In retail, a smartphone costs less than 10 thousand rubles and this is a very good price for a quite good smartphone. Three colors are available: gold, blue, black. In my review there was a version in gold design.

Honor 8A is a typical representative of the budget line of smartphones. But the smartphone doesn’t look cheap at all, despite the plastic frame around the perimeter of the body. The back of the smartphone is also made of plastic. Moreover, the back side has two textures in design. The left narrow insert is matte, and the right side is already glossy.

Despite the large screen of a smartphone, in some cases you can quite successfully use one hand. The body is slightly elongated diagonally, which compensates for the large size.

The corners of the case are strongly rounded. The edges of the smartphone are sloping, making it pleasant and comfortable to hold in your hand. The main camera protrudes slightly above the body. There is an LED flash underneath the camera. The fingerprint scanner is located at the top.

At the top end there is a 3.5 mm jack (mini-jack) and the hole for the first microphone.

On the right side there is a paired volume button and a power button.

At the bottom end there is a Micro-USB connector, a speaker for calls and a second microphone. Moreover, the microphone is hidden in an imitation of the right speaker.

On the left side there is a full-fledged slot for two nano SIM cards and a memory card.

Touch control buttons are located on the screen itself.

Screen matrix with rounded corners. And the screen itself is “frameless,” although the frames are quite wide, especially at the bottom.

The thickness of the smartphone is small.

The front camera is placed in a drop-shaped cutout. If for some reason you are not satisfied with this cutout, you can hide it with a black stripe. The speaker was placed at the junction of the top end and the screen. There is a status indicator that is hidden in the earpiece. There is also a proximity sensor and an automatic brightness sensor.

The screen matrix is ​​covered with protective 2.5D glass. There is an oleophobic coating, but not the best. The build quality of the smartphone is excellent. There is a slight play in the mechanical buttons, but for the most part these are my personal nitpicks.

Overall, Honor 8A is quite a practical and convenient smartphone. There is no glass on the back side, the camera does not protrude particularly above the body, and the location of the scanner is very convenient. And on the front side there is already a protective film pasted.

SCREEN

The Honor 8A screen size is 6.09 inches, resolution – 1560x720 pixels (HD+), density 283 PPI, IPS LCD matrix. If it is important to someone, then individual pixels on the screen can be examined.

Viewing angles are the maximum possible, multi-touch for 10 touches.

The uniformity of the screen illumination can be assessed in the photograph.

The screen brightness is quite high. In the screen settings you can configure: color temperature, sleep mode, eye protection.

Let's look at the screen settings in more detail using the ColorMunki Display calibrator from X-Rite.

Gamma curves show a small scatter relative to the reference (white line) curve.

The color channels are also not entirely stable. There is a lack of red color saturation.

The color temperature is too high relative to the 6500k standard. The colors on the screen will have a cool tint. In the screen settings you can set the “warm” display mode.

But according to the sRGB standard we see almost ideal performance. We can say that the color rendition will be quite natural.

In general, the screen leaves positive emotions. Sufficient maximum brightness and correct sRGB performance, which is rare in budget models.

CAMERA

The main camera in the smartphone is represented by a 13MP matrix, F/1.8 aperture and there is only one camera. I think perfectionists will appreciate this step! The camera settings are very simple and will not be difficult to figure out.

It is worth noting the fast and accurate autofocus and a fairly effective LED flash. The final images come out with slightly oversaturated colors, and there is also a lack of sharpness in the frame. But overall, for a budget smartphone, the camera takes pretty good pictures.

Panoramic shot

Video from the main camera can be recorded in FullHD at 30 frames per second. But it is worth considering that there is no optical stabilization. During shooting, there are problems with white balance, autofocus often jumps.

Night shots are more or less normal if there is a light source in the frame.

Front camera 8MP. There is no portrait mode at the software level. As you understand, there is no need to talk about the quality of night selfies. Videos can also be shot in FullHD format. The face unlock function is also available, it works quite accurately and quickly.

Using this link you can download original photos and videos from the front and main cameras: Photos and Videos from the main and front cameras (Honor 8A)

IN WORK

Honor 8A runs on Google Android 9.0 Pie operating system with EMUI 9.1 shell.

This is what the smartphone menu looks like when you turn it on for the first time. You can note a large number of pre-installed applications, but they can be completely removed, leaving only applications from Google and a few applications from Huawei.

In the settings you can activate the main menu with applications.

It is worth noting that the smartphone interface does not work very smoothly. Lags are noticeable even when simply surfing the smartphone menu. The problem is the slow RAM, which is only 2GB. For a modern smartphone this is no longer enough. Running resource-intensive games/applications significantly reduces operating and loading speeds.

The smartphone interface can be decorated with various branded themes.

There is a simple mode of operation, this is for those who do not want to bother with the settings.

You can assign specific actions to the fingerprint scanner. The scanner itself works very accurately and quickly.

Touch control buttons can be replaced with gestures.

I was pleasantly surprised by the ability to operate the radio without a connected headset.

The MediaTek processor – MT6765 (Helio P35) is responsible for the performance of the smartphone. The chipset has 8 ARM Cortex-A53 cores clocked at up to 2.3 GHz and an IMG PowerVR GE8320 GPU.

You can see the results of synthetic tests in these screenshots.

The high CPU temperature both at idle and under load is surprising.

The permanent memory in the smartphone is 32GB. In fact, there is only 21GB free, so most likely you won’t be able to do without a memory card. Well, the range of different sensors in a smartphone is not the maximum. You can fully install applications on a memory card.

The call speaker volume is very high. The sound is clear without distortion, the speaker does not produce noise at full volume. Sound in mono format. There is support for LDAC and HWA. The earpiece is also quite loud. The interlocutor can be heard perfectly, and there were no problems with speech reception and transmission. According to this indicator, HUAWEI/HONOR smartphones are among the best on the market.

Excellent work on navigation, all modern geolocation standards are supported.

The smartphone has an NFC module. You can not only connect wireless gadgets, but also pay in the store. For full functionality, you need to download the Google Pay application.

The smartphone uses nano SIM cards. You can assign your own melody to each card. Forwarding between SIM cards is supported. 4G support is available on both cards. Wi-Fi only works at a frequency of 2.4 GHz, Bluetooth 4.2 (BLE). Connecting peripherals via USB-OTG cable is supported.

AUTONOMOUS OPERATION

Honor 8A has a 3020 mAh battery. Not the highest figure in its class. Complete charging at 5V=2A. The smartphone is fully charged in 2 hours.

It may seem that the operating time of the smartphone is short, but in practice everything is quite good. All measurements were carried out at average screen brightness.

1. Various games – 7 hours.

2.Playing movies - 12 hours.

3.Maximum load: full screen brightness, constant 4G connection, geolocation, social. networks, etc. – 6 hours.

4.Work only in telephone mode – 3 days.

CONCLUSIONS

Overall, the HONOR 8A is a pretty solid and pleasant smartphone. But only in the category up to 10 thousand rubles there is very strong competition. So for this amount you can buy a smartphone with 3GB of RAM, a dual camera, a more capacious battery, a FullHD screen and a slightly more powerful processor.

LIKED:

1.Practical and convenient body.

2.Correctly configured screen for sRGB.

3. Availability of an NFC module.

4. Loud main and conversational speakers.

5.Good cameras.

6.Long working time.

7.Film on the smartphone screen.

8.Full slot for two SIM cards and a memory card.

9.Fast and accurate fingerprint scanner.

10. 4G connection from two SIM cards.

11.Radio operation without a headset.

12.Status indicator.

13.Installing applications on a memory card.

MAY NOT BE SUITABLE WITH:

1.Total 2GB of RAM.

2.CPU heating.

3.No cover included in delivery.

4.Most likely you will need to use a memory card.

New flagship of the series, with dual camera, fingerprint sensor and USB Type C connector

The European presentation of the new Huawei product, produced under the Honor brand, will take place today, but in China the Honor 8 model was presented earlier this summer. The new smartphone has already reached our test laboratory, and today we have the opportunity to be one of the first to introduce our readers to the new product in all its details. We present to your attention a full review of the new device, which now stands at the head of the legendary family of Huawei Honor smartphones.

Main characteristics of Honor 8 (model FRD-L09)

• SoC HiSilicon Kirin 950, 8 cores: 4x2.3 GHz (ARM Cortex-A72) + 4x1.8 GHz (ARM Cortex-A53)
• GPU Mali-T880 MP4
• Operating system Android 6.0
• Touch display IPS 5.2″, 1920×1080, 423 ppi
• Random access memory (RAM) 3/4 GB, internal memory 32/64 GB
• SIM cards: Nano-SIM (2 pcs.)
• Supports microSD memory cards up to 128 GB
• GSM networks 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
• WCDMA 900/1900/2100 MHz networks
• LTE Cat.6 networks FDD Band 1/3/7/8/20, TDD Band 38/40
• Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, Wi-Fi Direct
• Bluetooth 4.2
• USB 2.0 Type C, OTG
• GPS/A-GPS, Glonass, BDS
• Direction, proximity, lighting sensors, gyroscope, magnetic compass, step counter, infrared transmitter, fingerprint scanner
• Cameras 12 + 12 MP (Sony IMX286), f/2.2, autofocus, LED flash
• Camera 8 MP, front, f/2.4
• Battery 3000 mAh
• Dimensions 146×71×7.5 mm
• Weight 153 g

Appearance and ease of use

Honor 8 unexpectedly does not look like its predecessor Honor 7. The devices turned out to be designed in completely different styles: if the “seven” with its matte, rough and rather rough angular metal body was positioned almost as “indestructible”, then the successor with glass panels, strongly rounded edges, streamlined shape and rounded sides can rightfully claim a place among the “image” models. Honor 8 really turned out to be surprisingly good-looking; the “pampered” design of the smartphone is reminiscent of both the iPhone 6 and the Huawei P series smartphones at the same time.

The smartphone received two transparent 2.5D Gorilla Glass panels with smoothed edges on both sides of the body, and a strongly rounded metal bezel was placed along the side perimeter. Thus, there are no right angles or sharp edges to be found here; the Honor 8 body is absolutely streamlined and very pleasant to hold in the hand.

The surfaces of the case are completely non-slippery, the device is held securely in your fingers. Not too large dimensions and low weight also contribute to this. There are no complaints about the assembly, there are no cracks, bends or creaks, all the parts fit neatly, the non-separable body of Honor 8 is monolithic.

As for the elements placed on the body, Honor 8 has a couple of “aces up its sleeve”. Firstly, the smartphone has an infrared transmitter on the top end, which allows the device to act as a universal remote control. The built-in program easily recognized the old Philips TV, for which honor and praise.

But even more interesting is the fact of the implicit presence of a hardware button, hidden under the usual round platform of the fingerprint sensor located on the back panel of the smartphone. Most of these scanner pads, including those on Huawei smartphones, do not have any mechanical buttons underneath them, so without special warning, you may not even notice that the pad is pressable.

In smartphones from different companies, from time to time there are additional programmable keys, here it is called the “Smart Key function button”. The user is free to independently determine the actions performed using this button. In total, you can set three options: for single and double clicks, as well as for pressing with a long hold. By default, the button “hung” has functions for opening Russian services (Yandex search, etc.), but all this, as already said, the user can reconfigure for himself, preferring, for example, turning on a flashlight, launching a camera, voice recorder, or the same virtual remote control.

The audio jack for headphones is located at the bottom end, it is adjacent to the USB Type C connector and the speaker grille. At the top end there are only the mentioned infrared transmitter and a second microphone, which serves for the operation of the noise reduction system.

There are no hardware touch buttons on the front panel; the buttons are only on the screen. Hidden above the screen among the sensors is a useful LED event indicator, built right under the speaker grille.

There are more elements on the back side than usual. In addition to the mentioned fingerprint sensor with a button, there are also two round camera eyes, since Honor 8, like its siblings from the Huawei P9 family, received a dual camera. Next to the cameras you can find a dual LED flash and a laser pointer window for automatic focusing.

The manufacturer claims that a new 3D scanning technology was used for the fingerprint scanner itself - thanks to it, unlocking the phone takes only 0.4 seconds. In practice, the scanner works really very quickly and almost error-free, but, in general, all manufacturers have now perfected the functionality of fingerprint sensors to such an extent that they all work flawlessly, it is difficult to single out one as the best. Another thing is that many would like to see such a sensor not on the back of the smartphone, but on the front, like the iPhone and Samsung, but Huawei is one of those companies that stubbornly adheres to the rear placement of this element.

None of the elements protrude beyond the surface, so using the smartphone lying on a hard surface is quite convenient. However, it is worth considering that the smooth glass of the back panel can slide on some surfaces, so you need to be careful and make sure that the smartphone does not unexpectedly slide off the table or fall on the floor.

To install cards, there is one hybrid slot on the side, into which you can insert either two Nano-SIM format SIM cards, or one SIM card and one microSD memory card, but not three cards at the same time. Hot swap supported.

The side buttons on the opposite side of this slot are made of metal, like the card slide, and their movement is quite distinct, not too soft, but not hard either. The keys are easy to feel blindly, and their surfaces also have a different texture. In general, there are no complaints about these elements.

As for the color options for the smartphone, the manufacturer has provided a wide variety, and the set of colors may differ depending on the modification. For the model we tested with index FRD-L09, colors such as Sunrise Gold (golden), Pearl White (white), Midnight Black (black) and Sapphire Blue (blue) will be available.

Screen

The smartphone is equipped with an IPS touch screen and is protected by glass with sloping edges (2.5D) Corning Gorilla Glass 3. The physical dimensions of the display are 64x114 mm, diagonal - 5.2 inches. The screen resolution is 1920×1080, the pixel density is 423 ppi. The frame around the screen is standard: approximately 3 mm on the sides and 15 mm on the top and bottom.

The display brightness is automatically adjusted based on the light sensor. There is also a proximity sensor that blocks the screen when you bring the smartphone to your ear. Multi-touch technology allows you to process 10 simultaneous touches. You can't activate the screen by double-tapping the glass, but you can activate the screen by pressing the rear fingerprint reader. Glove operation is supported.

A detailed examination using measuring instruments was carried out by the editor of the “Monitors” and “Projectors and TV” sections, Alexey Kudryavtsev. Here is his expert opinion on the screen of the sample under study.

The front surface of the screen is made in the form of a glass plate with a mirror-smooth surface that is scratch-resistant. Judging by the reflection of objects, the anti-glare properties of the screen are better than those of the Google Nexus 7 (2013) screen (hereinafter simply Nexus 7). For clarity, here is a photo in which a white surface is reflected in the switched off screens (on the left - Nexus 7, on the right - Honor 8, then they can be distinguished by size):

The Honor 8's screen is darker (photo brightness 102 versus 114 for the Nexus 7). The ghosting of reflected objects in the Honor 8 screen is very weak, this indicates that there is no air gap between the layers of the screen (more specifically, between the outer glass and the surface of the LCD matrix) (OGS - One Glass Solution type screen). Due to the smaller number of boundaries (glass/air type) with very different refractive indices, such screens look better in conditions of intense external illumination, but their repair in the case of cracked external glass is much more expensive, since the entire screen has to be replaced. The outer surface of the screen has a special oleophobic (grease-repellent) coating (even better in efficiency than that of the Nexus 7), so fingerprints are removed much more easily and appear at a lower speed than with regular glass.

With manual brightness control and when the white field was displayed in full screen, the maximum brightness value was about 460 cd/m², the minimum was 4.4 cd/m². The maximum brightness is high, which means, given the excellent anti-glare properties, readability even on a sunny day outdoors should be at a good level. In complete darkness, the brightness can be reduced to a comfortable value. There is automatic brightness adjustment based on the light sensor (it is located to the left of the front speaker slot). In automatic mode, as external lighting conditions change, the screen brightness both increases and decreases. The operation of this function depends on the position of the brightness adjustment, with which the user can try to set the desired brightness level in the current conditions. If in an office environment the brightness slider is set to maximum, then in complete darkness the auto-brightness function reduces the brightness to 4.4 cd/m² (dark), in an office illuminated by artificial light (approximately 550 lux) it sets it to 450 cd/m² (excessively bright) , in a very bright environment (corresponding to lighting on a clear day outdoors, but without direct sunlight - 20,000 lux or a little more) increases to 460 cd/m² (to the maximum, which is what is needed). If everything is also in the office, the brightness slider is at half the scale, then the screen brightness for the three conditions indicated above is as follows: 4.4, 140 and 460 cd/m² (the first value is rather low). If the brightness control is set to minimum - 4.4, 4.4, 460 cd/m² (now the first two values ​​are too low). We were not satisfied with the result, so we moved the slider a little to the right in complete darkness. We got - 11, 150-160, 460 cd/m² (ideal combination). It turns out that the auto-brightness function works adequately and to some extent allows the user to customize their work to individual requirements. At any brightness level, there is virtually no backlight modulation, so there is no screen flickering.

This smartphone uses an IPS type matrix. The microphotographs show a typical IPS subpixel structure:

For comparison, you can see the gallery of microphotographs of screens used in mobile technology.

The screen has good viewing angles without significant color shift even with large viewing deviations from perpendicular to the screen and without inverting shades. For comparison, here are photographs in which the same images are displayed on the screens of Honor 8 and Nexus 7, while the screen brightness is initially set to approximately 200 cd/m² over a white field across the entire screen, and the color balance on the camera is forcibly switched to 6500 K. Perpendicular to screens have a white field:

Note the good uniformity of brightness and color tone of the white field. And a test picture:

The colors on the Honor 8 screen are oversaturated (noticeably, for example, on tomatoes) and the color balance is slightly different. Now at an angle of approximately 45 degrees to the plane and to the side of the screen:

It can be seen that the colors have not changed much on both screens, but on Honor 8 the contrast has decreased to a greater extent due to the strong highlighting of blacks. And a white field:

The brightness at an angle of the screens has decreased (at least 4 times, based on the difference in shutter speed), but the Honor 8’s screen is still lighter (brightness according to photographs is 236 versus 222 for the Nexus 7). When deviated diagonally, the black field brightens greatly and acquires a reddish tint. The photographs below demonstrate this (the brightness of the white areas in the direction perpendicular to the plane of the screens is the same!):

And from another angle:

When viewed perpendicularly, the uniformity of the black field is good, although at the edges of the screen the backlight shines through the white body, which slightly worsens the overall impression:

The contrast (approximately in the center of the screen) is high - about 1200:1. The response time for the black-white-black transition is 33 ms (19 ms on + 14 ms off). The transition between halftones of gray 25% and 75% (according to the numerical value of the color) and back takes a total of 50 ms. The gamma curve, constructed using 32 points with equal intervals based on the numerical value of the shade of gray, did not reveal a blockage either in the highlights or in the shadows. The exponent of the approximating power function is 2.30, which is slightly higher than the standard value of 2.2. In this case, the real gamma curve almost does not deviate from the power-law dependence:

This device has some kind of dynamic adjustment of the backlight brightness in accordance with the nature of the displayed image. As a result, the resulting dependence of brightness on hue (gamma curve) may not correspond to the gamma curve of a static image, since the measurements were carried out with sequential display of shades of gray on almost the entire screen. For this reason, we carried out a number of tests - determining contrast and response time, comparing black illumination at angles - (however, as always) when displaying special templates with a constant average brightness, and not monochromatic fields in the entire screen. It should be noted that in this case, brightness correction is weakly expressed and has a not entirely obvious dependence on the image, but it would be better not to have it at all.

The color gamut is noticeably wider than sRGB:

Let's look at the spectra:

They are atypical, but we have already seen them in the case, for example, of the Sony Xperia Z2 and other mobile devices. Sony indicates that these screens use LEDs with a blue emitter and green and red phosphor (usually a blue emitter and a yellow phosphor), which, in combination with special matrix filters, allows for a wide color gamut. Yes, and the red phosphor apparently uses so-called quantum dots. For a consumer device, a wide color gamut is not an advantage, but a significant disadvantage, since as a result, the colors of images - drawings, photographs and films - oriented to the sRGB space (and these are the vast majority) have an unnatural saturation. This is especially noticeable on recognizable shades, such as skin tones. The result is shown in the photo above.

The balance of shades on the gray scale is average, since the color temperature is significantly higher than the standard 6500 K, the deviation from the blackbody spectrum (ΔE) is formally below 10, which is considered an acceptable indicator for a consumer device. However, in this case, the color temperature and ΔE in the not yet very dark area vary greatly from hue to hue - this negatively affects the visual assessment of color balance. In general, jumps in values ​​in the two graphs above indirectly indicate that some kind of digital correction is being performed, and it is being done poorly. (The darkest areas of the gray scale can be ignored, since color balance there is not very important, and the error in measuring color characteristics at low brightness is large.)

This device has the ability to adjust the color balance by adjusting the hue on the color wheel.

The curves in the graphs above Without corr. correspond to the results without any color balance correction, and the curves Corr.— data obtained after shifting the point to the position indicated in the image above. It can be seen that the change in balance corresponds to the expected result, since the color temperature approached the standard value and ΔE remained small. However, it doesn’t make much sense to make the correction. Note that this function is implemented in a variant rather for show, since there is no numerical reflection of the correction, there is no field for measuring color balance and the adjustment range is insufficient, since even at the edge of the circle one has to find a compromise between a color temperature close to 6500 K and the minimum value of ΔE .

To summarize: the screen has a high maximum brightness and has excellent anti-glare properties, so the device can be used outdoors without any problems, even on a sunny summer day. In complete darkness, the brightness can be reduced to a comfortable level. It is also possible to use a mode with automatic brightness adjustment, which works adequately. Also, the advantages of the screen include the presence of an effective oleophobic coating, the absence of an air gap in the layers of the screen and flicker, high contrast, good uniformity of the black field. The disadvantages are low black stability to deviation of the gaze from perpendicular to the screen plane, an excessively wide color gamut and average color balance. Nevertheless, given the importance of characteristics specifically for this class of devices, the screen quality can be considered high, although you should prepare for strange and not entirely natural shades in films and photographs.

Sound

Honor 8 sounds less interesting than, for example, its relative Huawei P9. The sound can be described as simple and not very expressive. There is no bass, but that's not the worst thing. Here the sound itself is rather impersonal, dim, dull, and lacks volume reserve. In headphones with low frequencies, the situation is, of course, better, but the other comments remain valid: the sound is somewhat muffled, a little blurred by noise, not very loud and not so crystal clear. In general, everything is not so bad, but the latest smartphones from the Huawei P line have a much more interesting sound.

To play tunes, you use your own player, and, as usual, there are no additional manual settings in it - you can only turn on or off the entire virtual DTS system.

There are no complaints about the conversational speaker and microphone: the intonation and timbre of a familiar voice remain recognizable. There is no FM radio in the smartphone. The recorder shows miracles of sensitivity, records sound very clearly and efficiently, and the noise reduction system copes with its responsibilities adequately.

Camera

Here, as in the Huawei P9 line, a dual main camera is used - however, nothing is said about Leica’s participation in its creation. And this is what they say: “Honor 8 features a camera with two sensors - RGB and black and white shooting with a pixel size of 1.25 nm. Two lenses of the main camera with a resolution of 12 megapixels increase the quality and detail of images.” Most likely, the cameras installed here are the same as in the more expensive devices of the Huawei P fashion series.

The front camera has an 8-megapixel sensor and a fixed-focus lens with a maximum aperture of f/2.4. The image quality is quite acceptable for selfie level: sharpness and color rendition are normal, and there are no special complaints about detailing either.

The main camera is equipped with two modules. Two Sony IMX286 sensors are installed, one of which is responsible for a color image, and the second for a monochrome image; it records information only about brightness. Then the information they read is processed and summarized programmatically. The pixel size of the matrix is ​​1.25 microns, the maximum aperture is f/2.2. There is a laser rangefinder for hybrid autofocus and a moderately bright LED flash. Autofocusing is fast and confident. Hybrid autofocus uses laser technology to focus close to the subject and contrast focus in low-light conditions. But, apparently, there is no stabilization here.

We have studied the camera control menu in some detail for Huawei P series models; here it is almost the same, but with some artificial restrictions, since Honor smartphones have lower positioning. This applies, for example, to the capabilities of the special “Wide Aperture” mode and some additional creative modes.

The menu itself is arranged logically, and if you get used to it, it will be comfortable to use: a gesture on the left brings up a menu with various modes, on the right - the camera settings menu (image resolution, button control, etc.), and at the bottom brings up the manual settings menu in "Pro" mode. In it, as usual, you can independently control the focus type, shutter speed, sensitivity (ISO), exposure compensation and white balance. Using the Camera2 API, it is possible to transfer camera control to third-party applications without restrictions, including saving images in RAW.

The video camera can shoot with a maximum resolution of up to 1920×1080 at a speed of 30 or 60 fps; there is no shooting mode in 4K (UHD). The camera copes quite well with video shooting: the image is quite detailed, sharp and clear, without noticeable artifacts and with good sound recording quality. The noise reduction system handles wind noise confidently.

• Video No. 1 (67 MB, 1920×1080 @60 fps)

The camera can be called good, but nothing more. She does a good job with standard plots, but does not show anything outstanding. Moreover, for a flagship camera it has too many flaws, such as small but frequent areas of blur, strange artifacts from software processing, soapiness and low detail in macro photography. However, the camera can handle many scenarios well.

Telephone and communications

The smartphone works as standard in modern 2G GSM and 3G WCDMA networks, and also has support for fourth-generation LTE Cat.6 networks with a maximum possible reception speed of up to 300 Mbit/s. Five FDD LTE bands are supported (Band 1, 3, 7, 8, 20), including the three most common among domestic operators (B3, B7 and B20). FDD TDD frequencies (Band 38, 41) are also supported. In practice, with a SIM card from the MTS operator in the Moscow region, the smartphone confidently registered and worked in 4G networks, quickly reconnected after a break, and did not lose connection in areas of poor reception.

Honor 8 is one of the still not very numerous smartphones that support the Wi-Fi 802.11ac standard, so the quality and speed of wireless data transfer are excellent. There is support for Bluetooth 4.2 and NFC. The smartphone supports Wi-Fi Direct, you can organize a wireless access point via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth channels. Smart Wi-Fi+ lets you automatically switch between Wi-Fi and mobile data networks. The USB Type C connector supports connecting external devices in USB OTG mode.

The navigation module works with GPS (A-GPS), Glonass and Chinese Beidou. There are no complaints about the operating speed of the navigation module; the first satellites are detected during a cold start within the first tens of seconds. The smartphone is equipped with a magnetic field sensor, on the basis of which the compass of navigation programs operates.

The smartphone supports two SIM cards using the Dual SIM Dual Active standard. That is, here both cards can work in parallel and at the same time, because the smartphone uses two separate radio modules. It is very simple to use: during parallel conversations, you can instantly switch from one interlocutor to another by pressing just one button.

Any of the SIM cards can be designated as the main one for organizing voice calls, transferring data and sending SMS messages; When dialing a number, you can also select the desired card using the corresponding buttons.

OS and software

The smartphone goes on sale with a 64-bit version of Google Android 6.0 with EMUI 4.1 shell. There are no noticeable changes or limitations compared to the previously reviewed Huawei models of the current season in the Honor 8 user interface. The shell is exactly the same: the familiar timeline in the notification shade is in place, an additional functional menu with a flashlight, voice recorder, etc. is called up from below, it is possible to change design themes, arrange virtual control buttons on the screen in your own way, there is wide support for gestures. There are few pre-installed applications, most of them are useful, and if it were not for the forced pre-installed free services of Russian Yandex and Mail.ru, then in general the choice of programs could be called successful.

Performance

The Honor 8 hardware platform is based on the 8-core HiSilicon Kirin 950 SoC. The SoC includes four powerful 64-bit ARM Cortex-A72 cores with a frequency of up to 2.3 GHz, which are complemented by four simpler 64-bit Cortex-A53 cores with frequency up to 1.8 GHz. The quad-core Mali-T880 MP4 video accelerator is responsible for graphics processing.

The smartphone's RAM capacity is 4 GB, the built-in flash memory is 32 or 64 GB (the user has no more than 23 GB of free space out of 32 GB). This volume can be increased using microSD cards, but then you will have to remove one of the SIM cards. It is also possible to connect external flash drives to the USB port in OTG mode. MicroSD cards are officially supported with capacities up to 128 GB; in practice, our 128 GB Transcend Premium microSDXC UHS-1 test card was reliably recognized by the device.

Kirin 950 is a top-level platform, it’s practically the same flagship Kirin 955, only here the maximum operating frequency of the older Cortex-A72 cores is reduced from 2.5 to 2.3 GHz. Everything else is the same, including the Mali-T880 video core and the i5 coprocessor, responsible for the operation of the Honor 8 sensors. The platform is much more powerful than the Kirin 650, which was installed in the Huawei P9 Lite, a very large gap is visible in all tests without exception. In comprehensive tests, the Kirin 950 SoC shows good results, although they are not maximum. The flagships of the mobile platform market remain the top SoCs from Qualcomm and Samsung; their superiority over the Kirin 950/955 is especially evident in graphics tests. However, the performance of the review hero should be enough to complete any task, including fairly demanding games.

Testing in the latest versions of comprehensive tests AnTuTu and GeekBench 3:

For convenience, we have compiled all the results we obtained when testing the smartphone in the latest versions of popular benchmarks into tables. The table usually adds several other devices from different segments, also tested on similar latest versions of benchmarks (this is done only for a visual assessment of the obtained dry numbers). Unfortunately, within the framework of one comparison it is impossible to present the results from different versions of benchmarks, so many worthy and relevant models remain “behind the scenes” - due to the fact that they once passed the “obstacle course” on previous versions of test programs.

Testing the graphics subsystem in gaming tests 3DMark, GFXBenchmark and Bonsai Benchmark:

When testing in 3DMark, the most powerful smartphones now have the ability to run the application in Unlimited mode, where the rendering resolution is fixed at 720p and VSync is disabled (which can cause the speed to rise above 60 fps).

	Honor 8 (HiSilicon Kirin 950)	Huawei P9 lite (HiSilicon Kirin 650)	Sony Xperia X (Qualcomm Snapdragon 650)	Sony Xperia XA Ultra (MediaTek Helio P10)	Meizu Pro 6 (Helio X25)
3DMark Ice Storm Sling Shot (more is better)	867	367	871	425	1054
GFXBenchmark Manhattan ES 3.1 (Onscreen)	11 fps	5 fps	10 fps	5 fps	11 fps
GFXBenchmark Manhattan ES 3.1 (1080p Offscreen)	10 fps	5 fps	10 fps	5 fps	11 fps
GFXBenchmark T-Rex (Onscreen)	36 fps	19 fps	33 fps	18 fps	36 fps
GFXBenchmark T-Rex (1080p Offscreen)	27 fps	19 fps	31 fps	17 fps	40 fps

Browser cross-platform tests:

As for benchmarks for assessing the speed of the javascript engine, you should always make allowance for the fact that their results significantly depend on the browser in which they are launched, so the comparison can only be truly correct on the same OS and browsers, and this is possible during testing not always. For Android OS, we always try to use Google Chrome.

Thermal photographs

Below is a thermal image of the rear surface obtained after 10 minutes of running the battery test in the GFXBenchmark program:

Heating is more localized in the upper right part of the device, which apparently corresponds to the location of the SoC chip. According to the heat camera, the maximum heating was 43 degrees (at an ambient temperature of 24 degrees), which is slightly higher than the average value in this test for modern smartphones.

Playing video

To test the omnivorous nature of video playback (including support for various codecs, containers and special features, such as subtitles), we used the most common formats, which make up the bulk of the content available on the Internet. Note that for mobile devices it is important to have support for hardware video decoding at the chip level, since it is often impossible to process modern options using processor cores alone. Also, you shouldn’t expect a mobile device to decode everything, since the leadership in flexibility belongs to the PC, and no one is going to challenge it. All results are summarized in a single table.

According to the testing results, the test subject was not equipped with all the necessary decoders that are needed to fully play most of the most common multimedia files on the network, in this case, audio files. To successfully play them, you will have to resort to the help of a third-party player - for example, MX Player. True, it is also necessary to change the settings and manually install additional custom codecs, because now this player does not officially support the AC3 sound format.

Format	Container, video, sound	MX Video Player	Standard video player
BDRip 720p	MKV, H.264 1280×720, 24fps, AAC	plays normally	plays normally
BDRip 720p	MKV, H.264 1280×720, 24fps, AC3		The video plays fine, there is no sound
BDRip 1080p	MKV, H.264 1920×1080, 24fps, AAC	plays normally	plays normally
BDRip 1080p	MKV, H.264 1920×1080, 24fps, AC3	The video plays fine, there is no sound	The video plays fine, there is no sound

Further testing of video playback was performed Alexey Kudryavtsev.

We were unable to test the theoretically possible support for adapters for outputting images to an external device due to the lack of an adapter option that connects to the USB Type C port, so we had to limit ourselves to testing the output of video files to the screen of the device itself. To do this, we used a set of test files with an arrow and a rectangle moving one division per frame (see “Methodology for testing video playback and display devices. Version 1 (for mobile devices) 720/24p

Fine No

Note: If in both columns Uniformity And Passes Green ratings are given, this means that, most likely, when watching films, artifacts caused by uneven alternation and frame skipping will either not be visible at all, or their number and visibility will not affect the viewing comfort. Red marks indicate possible problems with playback of the corresponding files.

According to the criterion of frame output, the quality of playback of video files on the screen of the smartphone itself is good, since frames (or groups of frames) can (but are not required) be output with more or less uniform alternation of intervals and without skipping frames. When playing video files with a resolution of 1920 by 1080 pixels (1080p) on a smartphone screen, the image of the video file itself is displayed exactly along the border of the screen, one to one in pixels, that is, in the original resolution. The brightness range displayed on the screen corresponds to the standard range of 16-235: in the shadows, only 4 shades merge with black, and in the highlights all gradations of shades are displayed.

Battery life

The capacity of the non-removable battery installed in Honor 8 is 3000 mAh, which allows the device to demonstrate a quite decent level of autonomy. In real life, the smartphone calmly goes through an eventful day, but the developers claim that the presence of proprietary energy-saving technology Smart Power 4.0 “provides up to 1.77 days of operation with normal use and up to 1.22 with intensive use,” which, in general, looks like the truth. The device behaves confidently in any scenario, no failures, no sudden “drawdown” of the battery was noticed, everything is in order with the autonomy of Honor 8.

	Battery capacity	Reading mode	Video mode	3D Game Mode
Honor 8	3000 mAh	16:00	10:30 a.m.	4:00 am
Sony Xperia XA Ultra	2700 mAh	12:00 pm	9:00 a.m.	3:00 am
Sony Xperia XA	2300 mAh	09:40	7 hours 50 minutes	2 hours 30 minutes
Sony Xperia X	2620 mAh	15:50	9:00 a.m.	5 h. 30 m.
Meizu Pro 6	2560 mAh	14:40	9:50 a.m.	3 hours 10 minutes
Huawei P9 lite	3000 mAh	14:30	10:00 am	4:00 am
Huawei P9	3000 mAh	19:00	9:00 a.m.	4 hours 50 minutes

Continuous reading in the Moon+ Reader program (with a standard, light theme, with auto-scrolling) at a minimum comfortable brightness level (brightness was set to 100 cd/m²) lasts up to 16 hours. When continuously watching videos from Youtube in high quality (720p) with the same brightness level via a home Wi-Fi network, the device operates for at least 10.5 hours. In 3D gaming mode, the smartphone works reliably for more than 4 hours.

Unfortunately, the Honor 8 arrived to us for testing without the included charger. It is known that the device supports fast charging. From the included charger of the Huawei P9 Plus smartphone (2 A, 9 V), our copy of Honor 8 was fully charged in approximately 1 hour 40 minutes with a current of 1.5 A at a voltage of 9 V. The device does not support wireless charging.

Bottom line

Until the official price for Russian retail has been announced, it is difficult to judge the advisability of purchasing Honor 8. And this is quite important, since initially the Honor line, nicknamed “people’s”, included devices that attracted buyers with the optimal combination of excellent technical characteristics and a very affordable price.

But if we ignore the cost, then we can objectively characterize the new smartphone as a device in a very attractive case, with a decent screen, hardware platform, set of communication modules and autonomy. The smartphone's sound and cameras are also quite good, although it has many competitors in this area. In general, the new smartphone of the legendary Honor line turned out to be very interesting, and as for its cost, the wait is very short.

The stylish new product will be presented in Paris on August 24, and now the manufacturer’s first steps to attract the attention of domestic buyers are already known. For the first buyers of the new smartphone, the company has prepared a special offer: if from August 17 to 24 you subscribe to the company’s news on the online store website shop.huawei.ru, then when purchasing Honor 8, users will receive a monopod for selfies. And the lucky ones who are the first to score 500 points in the Honor 8 Go game will receive a coupon for a 1000 rubles discount when purchasing Honor 8.