[Honor 8X Guides, News, & Discussion] miststudent2011:
Review :

Design :

It has premium look with 91% STB and minimal chin which is undeniably impressive with its glossy textured glass back finish with its dazzling light reflecting properties, metal trim, notched display, and eye-catching looks all around.

Even though the phone is little big to hold in small hands its thin 7.8mm profile helps to compensate it.

The rear fingerprint scanner placement is perfect on a handset of this size, but the volume rocket is perhaps a little high up the phone to reach comfortably.

Display :

The Honor 8X sports a 6.5-inch LTPS LCD display with a 2340 x 1080 resolution, producing a density of 397 pixels per inch. Even given the large display size, the Full HD+ resolution appears plenty sharp enough.

It gives a great viewing experince when viewing videos and playing games on the FHD+ display.

If you are fan of small screens you can just enable one hand mode and use it with single hand, which is one of the most useful features of EMUI.

Hardware :

The hardware specifications for the Honor 8X hover somewhere between mid- and low-end. On the processing side, there’s a distinctly mid-range Kirin 710 SoC, which offers powerful Cortex-A73 CPU cores but a lower end Mali-G51 GPU.But combined together they give solid performance for any average user.The handset also includes a reasonable 4GB or 6GB of RAM and 64GB or 128GB of internal storage.

There’s just a single bottom-facing speaker on the Honor 8X. The top mounted speaker is only used for calls. The speaker sounds fairly decent and pumps out plenty of volume, but the mono presentation is a notable drawback.

On the plus side, the phone sticks with the tried and tested 3.5mm audio jack, so our existing headphones will work just fine. There’s also a dual SIM slot, microSD card port, along with NFC and Bluetooth 4.2 connectivity. The rear fingerprint scanner is highly responsive and face recognition is also very speedy.

Performance :

The inclusion of big power Cortex-A73 cores inside the Kirin 710 help elevates the phone above the feel of other low-cost handsets, offering consistently snappy performance across apps. Multitasking doesn’t pose any problems either.

The Mali-G51 MP4 GPU isn’t a high-performance gaming class component but it has been compensated with GPU Turbo which helps us to play games which require high specs ike PUBG or Fortnite.

Software :

The Honor 8X runs Android 8.1 Oreo skinned with EMUI 8.2 on top.

Earlier EMUI used to get a lot of criticism for its interface making a impression like iOS but from EMUI 8 its changed a lot and now its gives a more resemblance like AOSP when you use the corresponding themes.

Themes are great for EMUI and are easily customizable which provides a great user interface for all kind of users.

EMUI 8.2 includes a few extra tweaks. If the traditional navigation keys aren’t your thing, Honor provides the option to switch over to the single-key navigation.

The software’s motion controls are also rather handy, enabling features like raising the phone to your ear to automatically answer calls or flip the phone upside down to mute. App Lock and Filesafe also provide ways to keep bits of information secure behind your fingerprint.

HiTouch can be used to identify products on a page using Amazon Assistant. Just touch something on your display with two fingers at once to active it.

Battery Life :

With a 3,750mAh battery, the Honor 8X has no problem surviving a full day with even the most demanding user.

If for some reason you find yourself short of juice, the Honor 8X packs in two power saving modes.

The regular power saving mode limits background activity, reduces visual effects, and turns off email syncing to save on power.

The more extreme ultra power saving mode limits the phone to just a selection of apps to greatly extend battery life up to several days, which helped me to use my phone for two days with just 45% of charge when I traveled for a distant place without a feasibility to charge my device.

Camera :

There’s a familiar looking dual camera setup on the back of the Honor 8X. The primary sensor offers 20-megapixels of resolution with a f/1.8 aperture and Phase Detection Auto Focus. Video recording is capped at 1080p 60fps, Obviously there is no 4K recording option here considering its a budget device.

The 20-megapixel camera offers up plenty of detail in well-lit shots and I never had the trouble with finding the correct exposure.

The front-facing camera is a 16-megapixel affair with a f/2.0 aperture give good selfies and performs upto its mark, but there can be more improvement in the portrait mode of the camera.

AI Camera :

Like all latest Huawei/Honor Devices 8X camera also houses AI capabilities which gives good images when enabled.

It detects most of the scenes and tunes the camera accordingly to capture good shots.

Pros :

1. Stunning design uses max screen with a notch

2. Two-day battery life With 3,750mAh battery on board

3. 3.5mm headphone jack

4. Budget friendly with value for money.

5. Dual VOLTE which is he most requiring feature for Indian users

6. Dual sim support with dedicated slot for SD Card.

Cons:

1. It doesnt support Wifi 5G.

2. No EIS

3. Uses MicroUSB instead of Type-c (but can understand the decision as its a budget device)

4. Camera quality can be improved , mainly the front camera portrait mode on front camera just looks too wired.

5. Doesn't have option to set up multi user

Final Thoughts :

Compared to other budget range devices my vote goes for this device as its power packed with Kirin 710 it can handle most of the things thrown towards it by an average Joe.

The thing which attracted me most is its battery backup can hold up to two days on a normal usage and morethan one day on heavy usage.

Mostly importantly different color variants are eye catchers the Red version is so beautiful.

Build quality is good compared to many other devices.