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Huawei Honor 3C EMUI 3.0 Review

Hi Everyone​

Today I wanna write a review about EMUI 3.0 on Huawei Honor 3C (International Version). Maybe calling it review is not good and I should call it my expressions, rather than a review. Anyways let’s start. If you are interested about my phone’s specifications, you will find them in screen shot below.

I have Honor 3C (International Version) as you may know now. I was using B115 as my daily Rom but after watching that Chinese Version received Stable Rom, I wanted to try it to see how it runs. So this is what I found.

Lock Screen:​

If I liked one thing more than anything in this Rom, it’s lock screen. I am just in LOVE with this lock screen. Every time when you you unlock phone, a new lock screen (wallpaper) is waiting for you there. Also with a inspirational quote. I really loved this idea. Sometimes I just unlock phone to see lock screen. I don’t think anyone will hate this lock screen. You will just fall in love with it.

Home Screen:​

After unlocking lock screen, you will face a home screen. There is nothing too much different in home screen. Home screen is as it is. Simple and like ordinary. You have all basic functions of home screen. There is nothing to talk much about it.

Camera:

I found that this camera has less features than the B115 Rom. You have got Panorama, HDR and that’s it. With few basic effects like Mono, Sepia, Negative and some more. I haven’t found any improvement in camera quality. It’s same like before. I will prefer B115 camera over this camera, as in my view that camera is more good. That’s it about camera.

Music Player:

Compare to previous music player, the new music player has more features. You can find song lyrics online and also can search songs online. Even can download them. But you will need to make Huawei account. You will get beautiful music lock screen when playing music. I am sure you will like new music player.

Apps:​

You will find all other basic apps like Gallery, Phone Manager, Weather with some new apps like Mirror which will use phone front camera to use it as mirror and Magnifier which will use phone rear camera to use it as magnifying glass. I found both these apps useful.

Notification Panel and Settings Menu:​

Notification panel is redesigned. With many other good things in this new panel, one thing which I like is that now it shows the SSID (name) of your WiFi network in panel. You have lot more shortcuts in panel now than before. Settings menu is also redesigned. And I liked this new menu. It’s more good looking. Simplistic and good looking. The settings menu icon looks like iphone settings icon. But who cares as long as it is looking good and doing its job. Overall I really liked the new notification panel and settings menu.

Conclusion:​

Overall I really loved this new EMUI 3.0. Almost everything about this new emotion user interface is good. Except few minor things like camera doesn’t have many features. But we can use any third party camera app. Rom is smooth overall and and I haven’t found any force closes or errors. It’s good for daily use. I used the Rom for 2 days. Will I recommend it? Yes and No. Yes, if you know about developers stuff and know things about phone so that you know what you will have to do to use it as daily use. No, if you don’t know much about stuff and don’t know how to root and flash which things and to delete which apps from Rom as it contains many Chinese apps.

I know many of you will be thinking that how can I give you conclusion without talking about battery. Right? Well the thing is I have International Version but I haven’t flashed “Modem Fix” so my phone doesn’t have IMEI (signals) and I used my phone in “Airplane Mode” all time. I flashed EM at about 14:25 and my battery was at 65% and I stopped using phone at 22:00 and battery was at 12%. In this time my phone was continuously connected with WiFi and I kept using three social apps (QQ, WeChat, Skype) all the time, also listening music for 1-1.5 hours. I don’t know what I say about battery. I think battery is not good. And one thing which surprised me is that I charged the phone for one hour from 15% to about 60%. And then I restarted phone and left it and when I picked the phone again after 9 hours, my phone battery was at 8%. Don’t know why. No app was running in background and phone was on AP Mode all time. So I think battery needs lot’s of improvements. Maybe if I flash Modem Fix and then use it, I face totally different situation. That’s why I am not talking about battery as I can’t say anything about it. Maybe someone who is using this rom for daily purpose can tell us better. Will someone tell us plz? If you are reading this…

Points: 9/10

That’s it about EMUI 3.0 on Honor 3C. Let me know if you want to know about something, and if I said something wrong about it. These are just my expressions about this EMUI 3.0. Your may be different. If you liked this then please press thanks button as it means a lot. Also, don't forget to say thanks to codelover for helping peoples like us.