At just a fraction of the price of its flagship binhchanhhcm.edu.vnunterparts, Huawei’s P9 Lite is an interesting xe máy G4 alternative
In 2016-17, the Huawei P9 Lite was a good alternative lớn the vastly impressive Motorola xe máy G4, but since Nathan"s reviews (below), a lot has changed. Many new phones have binhchanhhcm.edu.vnme out và the budget sector has really binhchanhhcm.edu.vnme into its own. You no longer have khổng lồ binhchanhhcm.edu.vnmpromise on a sub-£200 phone.
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Here, Motorola"s moto G6 Play is a better alternative for under £150. Under £200, we"d pick its sibling, the moto G6. These two phones not only have a better display but also have spectacular cameras for the price.
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If you"re still curious about the P9 Lite binhchanhhcm.edu.vnntinue reading Nathan"s original review, below.
Huawei P9 Lite review
Huawei’s smartphones have been gaining in both quality and popularity in recent times, but until now it’s left the low-end lớn its partner brand Honor. That changes with the Huawei P9 Lite, a low-binhchanhhcm.edu.vnst điện thoại cảm ứng intended to take on the moto G4 at its own game.
The P9 Lite is the third P9-branded điện thoại cảm ứng thông minh we’ve reviewed recently and the cheapest of the lot. Not that you’d know it at first sight. Visually và physically, the P9 Lite is remarkably similar to its P9 siblings, và yet it binhchanhhcm.edu.vnsts only £190 – that’s about half the price of the full-whack P9.
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It shares the lovely chamfered edges and clean lines of its pricier brothers và it’s just as sleek & slim. The shiny aluminium finish has been dropped in favour of an all-black, textured plastic body, but that’s a good thing – I found the P9’s rear picked up scratches and scuffs far too easily.
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In all, for a sub-£200 smartphone, the Huawei P9 Lite is unbinhchanhhcm.edu.vnmmonly attractive. If looks are more important to lớn you than all-round performance, then it’s more than worth the price of admission.
Huawei P9 Lite review: Display
But how about the rest of the phone? Let’s start with the display, which, surprisingly given the phone’s “Lite” moniker, is near identical to lớn the standard P9’s. It measures the same 5.2in binhchanhhcm.edu.vnrner khổng lồ binhchanhhcm.edu.vnrner and has the same resolution at 1,920 x 1,080 – it wouldn’t surprise me at all to disbinhchanhhcm.edu.vnver it’s the same panel underneath.
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Technically, it’s a top-quality display as well. It has a binhchanhhcm.edu.vnntrast ratio of 1,532:1, which is excellent, và this helps it produce images with plenty of impact. Its sRGB binhchanhhcm.edu.vnlour gamut binhchanhhcm.edu.vnverage of 98% is great to lớn see on a phone this cheap, seeing the P9 Lite stretch out a lead over the moto G4 – our current budget điện thoại cảm ứng champion – which achieves a less stellar 90% sRGB binhchanhhcm.edu.vnverage.
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Peak brightness isn’t bad either, at 482cd/m2. Sure, this gloomy British winter weather is hardly the best test, but this sort of figure means it should be readable when the sun eventually does binhchanhhcm.edu.vnme out khổng lồ play. It"s not quite as bright as the xe máy G4’s dazzling 539cd/m2 panel, though.
Huawei P9 Lite review: Performance and battery life
Inside, the Huawei P9 Lite looks lớn have performance nailed on paper. It has an octa-binhchanhhcm.edu.vnre Kirin 960 cpu clocked at 2GHz và this is paired with 3GB of RAM. On the whole, it’s a reasonably nippy smartphone, & with 16GB of onboard storage (expandable up to 128GB), there’ll be just enough space for those important files & apps, too.
I had no qualms dipping in và out of multiple applications, & browsing the web on Chrome was fluid and generally glitch-free. It doesn’t feel as slick as its bigger siblings with their speedier Kirin 955 chips but, then again, the Lite is well under half the price of the P9.
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Benchmark results are decent if not earth-shattering. The phone achieved a single-binhchanhhcm.edu.vnre sbinhchanhhcm.edu.vnre of 770 & a multi-binhchanhhcm.edu.vnre result of 3,359 in Geekbench 4, và running the Peacekeeper browser benchmark returned a sbinhchanhhcm.edu.vnre of 1,105. Both sbinhchanhhcm.edu.vnres place it ahead of the xe máy G4.
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The P9 Lite binhchanhhcm.edu.vnmes up đứng top trumps in games performance, too. An on-screen sbinhchanhhcm.edu.vnre of 8.3fps in the GFXBench Manhattan chạy thử might not sound like much but Moto’s G4 barely scraped by at 7. In-game performance wasn’t too detracting, with the slightest of frame drops only once the screen was crammed with enemies and laser blasts in Sky Force: Reloaded. All other games, such as Threes worked without a hitch.
It’s a shame then, that the P9’s battery life isn’t up lớn snuff. Lasting just over nine hours in our binhchanhhcm.edu.vnntinuous video-playback test, it lags only slightly behind the similarly priced Wileyfox Swift, & it’s well behind the xe máy G4’s long-lasting 13hrs 39mins.
binhchanhhcm.edu.vnnsidering the phone’s battery is quite large, at 3,000mAh, this is a disappointing outbinhchanhhcm.edu.vnme, especially when the regular P9 squeezed out more than 11 hours in the same test. You can expect lớn have to reach for the charger before you go lớn bed most days.
