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Starting my review with a thanks to "Honor & XDA" for bringing this opportunity to share our reviews on Honor 8X, Hearing reviews directly from the users, it's a best way to bring the best devices in the future!

Honor X-series smartphones - The X - Factor, For the past couple of years Honor has been a company that is growing constantly better with each release of their Honor phones.

Starting with Honor 6X(My first Honor device) to 8X, every year Honor bringing the best possible devices in terms of Design, Specifications, Eye catching color options etc.

So let me go through my experience with Honor 8X after being using it for almost 38 days,

SPECIFICATIONS

Honor 8X - (4GB/64GB or 6GB/64GB/128GB)

Color Options - There are a total of four available color options, including Black, Blue, Red and Pink.

Processor - Kirin 710 SOC

Graphic Processor - Mali-G51 MP4

Screen Size - 6.5 Full HD+ Notch

Camera - 20 MP + 2 MP Rear AI CAMERA & 16 MP Front

Battery - 3750 mAH Battery

Android & EMUI - 8.2 based on Android Oreo 8.1

DESIGN -

* Featuring a glossy textured glass back finish with its dazzling light reflecting properties, metal trim, notched display, and eye-catching looks all around, It's a flat one with very subtle 2.5D finish on the edge.The 91 percent screen to body ratio and minimal chin is undeniably impressive, giving the handset even more screen to work with.

* Gorilla Glass 3 will be keeping the display out of harm.

* Great Weight Balance.

* The bottom line is that Honor has still found a way to make it unique. And keep it simple, of course,the Honor 8X’s combination of metal and gradient glass looks and feels great. The trade-off, as always with glass.

AGAINST -

* The phone is somewhat slippery & more often you will find yourself using the device with two hands!

RATING - 4.8/5.0

DISPLAY -

* The Honor 8X features a 6.5" IPS LCD screen with 1,080 x 2,340 pixels - this makes for a pretty sharp picture with 396-ppi density will offer you reasonably accurate colors.

* Color looks accurate enough and well saturated on the new Honor phone, It is quite sharp and colours pop out, vivid and vibrant.

* The adaptive brightness is very consistent and you get a host of customisation for the display like colour temperature adjustment, resizing the font etc.

AGAINST -

* The phone will be fine in shady outdoor viewing, but visibility will struggling with reflections in direct bright sunlight.

RATING - 4.7/5.0

HARDWARE -

* The Honor 8X has all the necessities - an audio port, a tri-slot for two SIMs and a microSD, a second mic for noise-cancelling, and a microUSB port.

* The rear fingerprint scanner is very fast and reliable.

* Face recognition highly responsive as well.

AGAINST -

* Honor’s use of a micro USB port instead of a USB-C is the one hardware niggle that sticks out.

RATING - 4.4/5.0

BATTERY -

* The Honor 8X is powered by a large 3,750 mAh battery, The battery backup is excellent thanks to Kirin 710

* With a very heavy day of use, the Honor 8X isn’t a class leader, but it is very solid and a second day of full use will be on the cards for most of all.

* No sign of Overheating at all.

AGAINST -

* With 3750 mAh battery, it's odd that No Supercharging is on board.

* There is fast charging. The charger offers variable voltage. It’s not the fastest we’ve tried, but we’re still very glad we’re not left with a basic charger.

RATING - 4.5/5.0

SPEAKER -

* There is one speaker on the Honor 8X, and it's at the bottom. It's just good but not louder out there in the market considering the price point.

* With Histen Sound Effects & right headphones, it will be a great one for the occasional music playback session.

AGAINST -

* The sound is a bit shallow and not very rich, lacked depth.

* Even the Ringer volumes lacked the loudness in it.

RATING - 4.4/5.0

SOFTWARE -

* Android 8.1 has EMUI 8.2 on top not EMUI 9.0 Pie yet.

* The new v8.2 improves the Face Unlock and Gallery with machine learning.

* EMUI catches a lot of flak for deviating from a stock-like skin, but the software is perfectly functional and avoids any major bloat.

* Honor tools like the Game Suite, Mirror, Compass, and Themes apps.

* SoOn With EMUI 9 + Kirin 710, It will be a CakeWalk!

AGAINST -

* Still lacking in Timely updates

* THEMES -

* Ever since Google preventing the use of Custom Overlays, Themes Customization is not at its best compare to previous versions of EMUI 5/5.1, Even Though EMUI is heavily customizable but with latest Android OS, Themes not working as it was intended to, as a Theme developer am completely disappointed even the users also feeling the same, but still other devices allows customization, i hope Honor will take a look at this too.

RATING - 4.7/5.0

PERFORMANCE -

* The Kirin 710 processor is indeed a massive improvement over the Kirin 659 It's made on a 12nm process "Its efficiency already proven in the battery chapter".

* With Heavy usage, there is no heating or Overheating issues at all.

* The combo of Kirin 710 + Mali-G51 MP4 makes no lags, gives a tough competition to rivals.

RATING - 4.9/5.0

CAMERA -

* Honor’s big selling point with all of its recent phones are their AI camera capabilities, The 20-megapixel camera offers up plenty of detail in well-lit shots and never once was trouble with finding the correct exposure

* For the most natural shots, you’ll want to avoid using the ‘AI’ mode too much.

* The ultra-low light mode is the most interesting part, it does gives a better pictures but you really can use it handheld and you end up with some of the best low light photos seen in a phone at the price.

* The camera snaps good enough pictures during the day, and great at night.

* The selfies are quite nice, too

* Front camera has a 16MP sensor,Once you get the distance right, the level of detail is very good. Colors are faithfully represented, and dynamic range is good for a selfie camera., Beauty mode that smooths out your skin texture for a more flattering look.

AGAINST -

* Honor 8x has the great potential to produce great pictures but not this time, The so-called AI doesn't did well as it is doing in the likes of Honor 10, HonorView 10 etc.

* Second camera only has a crude 2MP sensor, it's for name sake to be frank. You got to be careful while using background blur effect or aperture mode. Even my previous devices Honor 7x, Honor 9 lite did well in edge detection.

* Camera Performance is inconsistent.

* Video Capturing is Limited to 1080p, No 4K support even the Kirin 710 Supports.

* No EIS.

RATING - 4.4/5.0

FIXES by OTA -

* Ringer volume loudness.

* Camera performance including AI - Optimization, Beauty mode, Wide-aperture & Depth mode needs to be improved.

* EIS update.

* 4K Video Support.

* Native Video Call support.

Hopefully with EMUI 9.0 just around the corner, these much needed updates will be fixed with it

EMUI 9.0 is one advanced upgrade - A huge advancement in the direction of simpler, more intuitive design, better productivity features, and AI-powered achievements

FINAL VERDICT -

* The Honor 8X is one very balanced smartphone on the cheap. Its bang for the buck isn't exactly on par with some Xiaomi and Realme offers, where those are available, but for the rest of the world - it deserves to be seriously considered.

* The Honor 8X isn't the most powerful smartphone in this price bracket, but its balance across the board is what really matters.

Bottom line, if you are looking for a handset that comes with elegant design, sharp and vivid display, good battery backup and decent audio quality, Honor 8X can be an ideal pick ​

Final RATING - 4.6/5.0

EXPECTATIONS in 2019 -

* Instead of using Kirin 710 across all devices in 2019, would be great if Honor can make use of latest Snapdragon processors as well.

* Bluetooth 5.0 or more, EIS Out of the box.

* At Least single device with Android One Program.

* No More 2MP for depth sensor alone, All we need is improved camera sensors at the back.

* USB-C Type, support for Fast charging already became usual in Mid-range smartphones but it's not case with Honor yet.

* Faster updates.

Being one of the world's top smartphone manufacturers, it will be really tough in the likes of Xiaomi & the latest entrant Realme in the year 2019! People would consider buying the smartphones only when the expectation is fulfilled, even though it costs 50-75 bucks more than the rivals.

Honor is definitely a company to keep your eye on. If you’ve never used an Honor phone before, you should consider one as your next device. They won’t let you down.​