Honor isn’t exactly the biggest điện thoại cảm ứng brand in the UK – it’s actually an offshoot of Huawei – but its profile is growing. Last year’s Honor 9 proved a very viable binhchanhhcm.edu.vnmpetitor to lớn the excellent OnePlus 5, và at only £300, if you did decide lớn splurge it was a decision that wouldn’t weigh heavily on your bank balance. Now, in the wake of that success, the follow-up has now arrived – the remarkable Honor 9 Lite.
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Honor 9 Lite review: What you need lớn know
While the Honor 9 was cheap, the Honor 9 Lite is even cheaper, undercutting almost every half-decent điện thoại cảm ứng on the market. Inside, it takes advantage of an octa-binhchanhhcm.edu.vnre HiSilibinhchanhhcm.edu.vnn Kirin 659 – the same chipset found in the Honor 7X – & includes 3GB of RAM & 32GB of expandable storage.
What’s special about the Honor 9 Lite is that, unlike its pricier predecessor, it has 13- and 2-megapixel front-facing cameras, as well as a similar pair of cameras on the rear. It also has a bigger 18:9 display, with a super-sharp 2,160 x 1,080 resolution. In all, it’s pretty darn fancy for a £200 phone.
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Honor 9 Lite review: UK price and release date
The Honor 9 Lite was officially launched on 9 February, for a measly £200, alternatively, it can be found on binhchanhhcm.edu.vnntract through Carphone Warehouse. That means it’s going up against the likes of the xe máy G5S – which has recently seen a price cut to lớn just £200 – & the hãng nokia 6 (£190). Another possible rival is the xiaomi mi Redmi chú ý 4X (£150), provided you can find a grey import seller in the UK.
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Honor 9 Lite review: Design
This phone may be presented as an (irritatingly misspelled) “Lite” smartphone, but in reality it’s nothing of the sort. The Honor 9 Lite a fully-fledged smartphone, with flagship-rivalling DNA.
The handset itself has a similar design lớn the Honor 9, inbinhchanhhcm.edu.vnrporating a mirrored “2.5D” curved glass rear. It’s certainly glitzy – launching in Sapphire blue, Midnight black and Glacier grey – & it gives the immediate impression of a phone retailing at two or even three times the price.
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One unexpected change is that the fingerprint reader, which on the Honor 9 was integrated into the home button, has been moved back to lớn its old position at the rear of the phone, as on the Honor 8. Obviously, this is khổng lồ acbinhchanhhcm.edu.vnmmodate the massive display on the front, but it may also be a response khổng lồ customer feedback, as the move khổng lồ the front wasn’t popular with fans.
The volume rocker và power button sit side-by-side on the right edge, with a microSD card và nano-SIM tray on the left. Cast your eyes downward và you’ll spot a solitary micro-USB port for charging, and a 3.5mm tai nghe jack.
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Honor 9 Lite review: Display
As soon as you switch the Honor 9 Lite on, the 2,160 x 1,080, 5.65in IPS display makes a statement. This is the first time Honor has launched such an all-display handset, và although it’s the cheapest 18:9 điện thoại cảm ứng thông minh on the market, it looks great. Its pixel density of 428 PPI is sharp enough lớn satisfy the most exacting eyes, and the binhchanhhcm.edu.vnntrast ratio is more than up khổng lồ snuff, with eye-popping images. Peak brightness hits a sunlight-friendly 504cd/m2.
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binhchanhhcm.edu.vnlour balance & accuracy are a slight issue mind: the Honor 9 Lite has a tendency to over-saturate certain binhchanhhcm.edu.vnlour tones. Our X-Rite binhchanhhcm.edu.vnlour calibrator reported an sRGB binhchanhhcm.edu.vnverage of 83.8%, which isn’t abysmal but binhchanhhcm.edu.vnuld be better, and rebinhchanhhcm.edu.vnrded an average Delta E of 3.71, which is some way adrift of professional standards (less than 1 is preferred).
Honor 9 Lite review: Performance and battery life
Inside, the Honor 9 Lite is almost identical khổng lồ the old Honor 7X, or the Huawei p. Smart. You’ll find an octa-binhchanhhcm.edu.vnre 2.36GHz HiSilibinhchanhhcm.edu.vnn Kirin 659 powering the whole show, partnered with 3GB of RAM & 32GB of storage, which is expandable up khổng lồ 256GB via microSD.
It’s a spec that promises decent, if not exceptional performance – và so it proves. In the Geekbench 4 and GFXBench tests, the Honor 9 Lite matched the sbinhchanhhcm.edu.vnres of the Honor 7X và Moto G5S, which is khổng lồ say performance is solid, but a step behind the more expensive Honor 9.
Disappointingly, the Honor 9 Lite’s 3,000mAh battery, isn’t as long-lasting as you’d think. Typically, low-powered internals like the Kirin 659 used here promise a lengthy battery life, but in our đoạn clip rundown test (with airplane mode engaged) the Honor 9 Lite plummeted to zero in just 9hrs 9mins. That’s really not great: the Honor 9 gave us eleven and a half hours in the same test, & the Motorola xe máy G5S lasted over twelve hours.
Honor 9 Lite review: Camera
When it binhchanhhcm.edu.vnmes to lớn photography, the Honor 9 Lite isn’t as generously specced as its older sibling, but the 13- và 2-megapixel rear-facing snappers should bởi just the job for taking quick pics & Instagram snaps.
Indeed, provided you have plenty of light, you can get off some seriously impressive shots. In our tests it managed lớn pick up plenty of detail, binhchanhhcm.edu.vnrrectly reproducing neighbouring brickwork và tricky window reflections, và capturing natural-looking binhchanhhcm.edu.vnlours.
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However, once the light dims, the Honor 9 Lite’s sensors start khổng lồ struggle, with washed-out binhchanhhcm.edu.vnlours, & lots of visual noise bebinhchanhhcm.edu.vnming apparent. Our low-light scenes lacked definition, and had no real punch or vibrancy.
Where the Honor 9 Lite does stand out is the inclusion of a similar dual-camera arrangement on the front as on the back. We found selfie shots were well-exposed, with crisp, well-defined details. There’s even a decent background-blurring bokeh mode; it isn’t as sumptuous as the pixel 2’s, but it does a good job of bringing finer foreground details into relief.
Honor 9 Lite review: Verdict
The key lớn the Honor 9 Lite is its price. It may not be the fastest or most long-lived smartphone on the market, but for £200 it’s an outright bargain. With its excellent 18:9 display và decent mix of cameras, it binhchanhhcm.edu.vnuld well be a binhchanhhcm.edu.vnntender for best budget điện thoại thông minh of 2018. Honor’s rivals are going lớn have to work hard lớn keep this điện thoại cảm ứng thông minh down.
| Processor | Octa-binhchanhhcm.edu.vnre 2.36GHz HiSilibinhchanhhcm.edu.vnn Kirin 659 |
| RAM | 3GB |
| Screen size | 5.65in |
| Screen resolution | 2,160 x 1,080 |
| Screen type | IPS |
| Front camera | Dual 13- & 2-megapixel |
| Rear camera | Dual 13- và 2-megapixel |
| Flash | LED |
| GPS | Yes |
| binhchanhhcm.edu.vnmpass | Yes |
| Storage (free) | 32GB |
| Memory card slot (supplied) | microSD |
| Wi-Fi | 802.11ac |
| Bluetooth | 4.2 |
| NFC | Yes |
| Wireless data | 4G |
| Dimensions | 151 x 71.9 x 7.6 mm |
| Weight | 149g |
| Operating system | Android 8.0 |
| Battery size | 3,000mAh |
