Huawei Honor 6 review: Virtue in disguise
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- MyDeSTiNaTe
- PTG
- 15 Mar 2015
CJatCTi, 15 Mar 2015Can I confirm one of the problems in your review of the Hon... moreI'm having international variant H60-L04 which is running on EMUI 3.0 Android 4.4.2. I did not experience issue 1-5, maybe you can try to do a factory reset or just apply for the warranty claim. However, I agreed that there should be an option to customize the lock screen's control center.
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- CJatCTi
- ssb
- 15 Mar 2015
Can I confirm one of the problems in your review of the Honor 6 and add to it a couple of things you missed:
1) When charging the touch screen fail to respond to touch, and when using an HTC charge the screen wouldn't go off but kept pulsing with the lock screen picture and the charge icon (and no it was in the Daydream function.
2) No sync with Google Contacts its missing GoogleContactsSyncAdapter.apk is missing, but once found on the Internet and installed it is OK. The may also be true for calendar, but I installed Google Calendar which may have fixed it before I noticed the problem,
3) Contacts Say all my numbers 01242 621621 as (United States) but those with a +44 are correctly set as (United Kingdom) and there seams no way of changing the default location for the calendar.
4) One of the Weather widgets is stuck on displaying shenzhen ant which ever weather/time widget you use the Weather app always comes up fist with “Outdated weather information” for shenzhen, it displays other cities fine when you add them from it's limited (when compared to HTC) list. You can't remove the initial shenzhen, but adding a 2nd one displays fine.
5) The EmotionUI can't be replaced without rooting the phone and Freezing / Removing the “Home” process, just setting the launcher to something else doesn't work.
6) The up-swipe on the lock screen brings some short cuts that can't be changed (with my eyes I don't need the mirror but the magnifier would be good) and a link to “Magazine unlock” with 7 Chinese subscriptions that can't be added too but can be disabled
As soon as I connected to WiFi I got an upgrade to EMUI 3.0 & Android 4.4.2, I like the phone but it doesn't appear on the English Huawei website & the only way to find it is via a link on XDA – strange.
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- THYGGERHYNE
- Kyx
- 14 Mar 2015
A foreigner here in China, an expatriate.
I used to have Samsung Galaxy S2, and S4. Was waiting S6, not until i broke my S4 screen, which prompt me to buy a china made phone while waiting for Galaxy S6. (well, im not buying S6, Samsung you did it all wrong)
Well, Honor 6 does the trick, imho, the best China made phone for those who doent want a phablet, but a 5" phone.
Good octa cores processor, its benchmark surpasses Galaxy S5. Very responsive GUI.
Very good battery life, which would last me for 1.5 days of regular use. An option to reduce screen resolution to 720p to churn more juice out of the battery, instead of 1080p.
A very big bang for bucks.
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- AnonD-374722
- wd8
- 14 Mar 2015
My search for a good phone finally ends with honor 6. I believe its best. Initially i was facinated to buy mi3. Researched many but was apprehensive of buying another lagging phone. Used/checked many (galaxy, htc, karbonn, micromax etc) but found they all start lagging or get battery problem if more apps r used. or they get slow even for taking or making calls. theh i started looking for a 3GB RAM phone and short listed MI4. Tired up waiting 3 month for mi4 and inefficiency of my phone, bought honor 6 half heartedly. But to my surprise very good. Probably best. Paying 65k for highend phone is just rat race. They are no way better. I hv used htc 1 & i phone too.I like
1. Its touch, very smooth
2. Vivid Display
3. Camera
4. GUI very efficient. Small details are efficiently worked on.
5. Multiple app use. Can kill any or all.
6. Email and calendar. But not yet found way to sync outlook.
7. Speed, RAM
8. Memory 16 GB is a bit less but can be extended to 64GB.
9. Screen sharing
10. Cost i bought in 19999 but now even less.
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- H60 lover
- Nv9
- 13 Mar 2015
Im proud of having this phone, its does not lag at all its speed is still good even after more than 1 month of heavy use
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- erikv
- tA$
- 13 Mar 2015
awesome spec for price but kirin processor and non removable battery put me off. I prefer redmi 2.
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- AnonD-371586
- fXs
- 12 Mar 2015
AnonD-307318, 12 Mar 2015It is kind of sad that they do not sell the Honor series in... moreI agree getuie honor is warm en I smaak it
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- gab
- t7X
- 12 Mar 2015
this phone will be in big trouble once the xperia m4 aqua goes on sale. they'll retail with practically the same price, but look at what you'll be getting in the sony.
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- AnonD-307318
- N9F
- 12 Mar 2015
If that is real, that will be really good for the company. A good Huawei Nexus will mean more people buying Huawei phones and maybe other manufacturers will source HiSilicon chips. It is about time OEMs move away from Qualcomm chipsets like Samsung.
Some people do not like that EMUI does not have an app drawer but I am okay with that, you can always add your own launcher. Though I prefer using the homescreen for apps.
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- AnonD-142922
- 39x
- 12 Mar 2015
AnonD-307318, 12 Mar 2015It is kind of sad that they do not sell the Honor series in... moreHonor 6 plus will be for sale in UK ..so that is good news
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- AnonD-142922
- 39x
- 12 Mar 2015
Guys don't worry new things coming this year..http://www.gizmochina.com/2015/03/11/huaweis-kirin-940-and-kirin-950-soc-specs-emerge/
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- AnonD-307318
- N9F
- 12 Mar 2015
It is kind of sad that they do not sell the Honor series in South Africa. They just sell Y, G, P, Mate. hopefully, D. Honor is really good, better than Y series.
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- jackaus
- i21
- 12 Mar 2015
I own one of the 32GB version of the device but I installed version 3.0 UI on it, which dramatically reduced its battery by as much as 10 hours! However, the new UI provided way better usage of the high resolution as it give 9 icons in each folder instead of 6.
The 3.0 UI lacks the theme customisation though but over all, I found it much better in presentation than 2.3.
The phone is very nice for a 5 inch device, if its battery were interchangeable, it would be perfect.
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- MyDeSTiNaTe
- PTG
- 12 Mar 2015
AnonD-307318, 12 Mar 2015Sorry you are right, I read wrong about which Kirin it has ... moreYea, hopefully there'll be improvements in their GPU department to be kept updated with today's standards. From their past record, they tend to implement a less core version and keep it for years, which is not a very appropriate policy to me. If they can keep the hardware up to the standards and ensure a timely updates (at least 2 major updates I hope), for sure my next device will be a Kirin-powered Honor series. Affordable pricing, great package, why not?
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- MyDeSTiNaTe
- PTG
- 12 Mar 2015
AnonD-307318, 12 Mar 2015No, I also like Huawei. That is why I work for them. They a... moreThe decision to bring Lollipop to Mate 2 is a welcomed move ^^ And yea, Alpha is bad in battery life because of the low battery capacity, not due to the SOC, thank you for highlighting this dude!
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- AnonD-307318
- N9F
- 12 Mar 2015
MyDeSTiNaTe, 12 Mar 2015Honor 6 is using Kirin 920. Its brother Honor 6 Plus is the... moreSorry you are right, I read wrong about which Kirin it has and I forgot about Sampling Availability dates. So maybe the GPU is still relevant in the Honor 6 at that time, since it is Kirin 920.
However, they are still using the same Mali-T628 MP4 in the new Kirin 930 and its Q1 2015. I hope that the Kirin 950 uses a new GPU. I am looking forward to the Huawei D8.
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- AnonD-307318
- N9F
- 12 Mar 2015
No, I also like Huawei. That is why I work for them. They almost got in trouble in US with Ascend Mate 2 for not getting Kitkat. Fortunately, they corrected it giving users Lollipop sometime this year.
I am talking about Kirin 930, it still uses Mali-T628, which was in the 920 and the 925. They should use a more recent chip like the Mali T628 MP6 or Mali T760 MP6.
Btw, when did I mention anything bad of the Honor 6?
Galaxy Alpha's battery doesn't do the chipset any justice, it is 1860mAh. It is kind of obvious it is not going to last long.
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- Gert
- nX%
- 12 Mar 2015
Hi Guys. I'm wondered about the next.With emui 2.3 I had a antutu score of 42.000. With emui 3.0 I have a antutu score of 32500. Anybody know how this can? Huawei cheating the score?
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- MyDeSTiNaTe
- PTG
- 12 Mar 2015
AnonD-142922, 12 Mar 2015Well that is wrong I like huawei ? U work for them and u s... moreBoth the Mali 628MP4 and 628MP6 shared the same architecture, other than the number of cores. Hence, the Mali 628MP4 in Honor 6 will be weaker without any doubt, with the positive effect in battery life.
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- MyDeSTiNaTe
- PTG
- 12 Mar 2015
AnonD-307318, 12 Mar 2015Clearly, you are a Huawei fanboy as I can sense butthurt. I... moreHonor 6 is using Kirin 920. Its brother Honor 6 Plus is the one who uses Kirin 925. For your information, no matter it is Kirin or Snapdragon, the latest stuffs will not be implemented into devices until a few months later after they were being announced, to plan and manufacture. By the time S5 and Honor 6 were debuted, Mali 760 was not ready to be implemented into devices yet. At that time, even the Snapdragon 801 which was used in most of the flagship earlier that year was still using A15 architecture, and Exynos 5422 was using A15+A7 CPU architecture and a Mali 628 (6 cores variant) as its GPU. I agreed with you that the Mali 628MP4 is behind Adreno 330/PowerVR G6430, but it is not because Mali 628 is not capable, but due to the fact that the variant with less number of cores were being used. The Mali 628MP6 served its purpose well in Galaxy S5.