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Honor 8
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CPU: HiSilicon Kirin 950
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RAM: 4GB
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Storage: 32GB
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Display: 5.7’’ 2K (2560x1140)
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Camera: 12 MP + 12 MP rear | 8 MP front
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OS: Android 7 Nougat | EMUI 5.1
With 2.5D glasses made body, best leveraging the thickness and strength of glasses, diamond-cut elegant round assured by aluminum alloy, and ultra-narrow bezel design, Honor 8 offers smooth, seamless design and a thorough feeling.Featuring one RGB and one monochrome sensor, 1.25 um large pixel size, the dual 12MP lenses capture more lights, increase picture quality, bring bright color and crisper details to your photos. The build-in ISP, aligned with the depth measurement ISP, improve the focus, speeds and processing to your photo taken.
Wanna high quality photos under marco, blacklight, lowlight and complex condition? Hybrid auto-focus aligns laser focusing for short range, precise depth focus for long range as well as the contrast focus to make things possible. Enjoyed full manual control the professional camera has? Try the professional mode and record your everyday adventure in different way. Want to get your photo more creative? Wide aperture mode enables you to blur background from F0.95 to F16, and allows you to redefine the focus even after photo taking. With an 8 megapixel front-facing camera, you can achieve superior selfies even in low light. Always on your very best look thru the unique perfect selfie from the 8 MP front-facing camera. With 0.4-second phone unlock, auto learning skills set and 3D fingerprint reading ,level-4 fingerprint collection algorithm delivers advanced experience on speed, intelligence and security. While the build-in custom smart key function defines a new style of touch.
Furthermore, Honor 8 offers NFC tag read N write, P2P transfer, SIM/ HCE-based mobile payment, be more accessible to the mobile internet era.
Honor 8 is powered by a 2.3 GHz octa-core CPU built on a 16nm architecture. 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM enables flawless multitasking and seamless gaming.
The CPU chipset contains an i5 co-processor, which controls Honor 8’s sensors and other features. The i5 co-processor works aligned with the Kirin 950 SoC chipset to increase processing speeds, response times, and battery life. Honor 8 has a rapid smart file processing system for a smooth user experience.
Brighter color, smarter visibility control, more details! Honor 8’s 5.2-inch FHD display equipped with 96% high color gamut (NTSC), color enhancement and dynamic pixel-level contrast adjustment technology definitely brings a great view experience. By filtering out part of blue light to reduce eye strain, the eye-care mode makes the view experience even more comfortable and safer. 3000mAh large battery supported by Smart Power 4.0 maximizes its stand-by time: 1.77 days for normal usage and 1.22 days for heavy usage. Watching non-stop compete on twist ? Honor 8 gets you covered with powerful 10-hour offline video playing. 9V/2A fast charging technology promises a 47% charge in just 30 minutes. In addition, Honor 8 gives you a two-hour phone call or six-hour offline music listening with just 10-minute charge.
Honor 8 has double antenna which can seamlessly switch to the one with stronger signal, ensuring you always have the best possible reception. You can use Huawei’s international carrier database, which will help your phone register more quickly on local networks when roaming. Smart dual-band Wi-Fi switching: Supports 2.4/5 GHz bands. Defaults to faster 5 GHz band unless 2.4 GHz signal is stronger.
Honor8 includes a separate infrared module with built-in IR codes for popular products, allowing you to control devices even when you are without an Internet connection. Honor8 supports 232,740 products from 5810 brands, with an impressive 99% accuracy rating. Honor 8 is certificated with UL 110 (Platinum level). And to alleviate the environmental impact, package box and user manuals are soy ink printed. The packaging box is made of FSC certificated paper, contributing to the forest sustainable development.
Specs
General
| Price | 18999 |
| Announced | 12 October, 2016 |
| Released | 12 October, 2016 |
| Status | Available |
Display
| Display Type <strong>Display Technology => </strong> A number of display technologies and types used in mobile phones => TFT (Thin Film Transistor), IPS (In-Place Switching), OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode), AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode), Super AMOLED (an even advanced version of AMOLED), Resistive Touchscreen (Resistive touchscreens contain two layer of conductive material with a very small gap between them which acts as a resistance), Capacitive Touchsceen (Capacitive touchscreen technology consists of a layer of glass coated with a transparent conductor) | IPS |
| Size | 5.2 |
| Resolution | 1920x1080 |
| Pixel Density <strong>Pixel Density (PPI)</strong> is refers to the concentration of pixels on a particular display, measured in pixels per inch (ppi). Pixel density is calculated by dividing the diagonal pixel resolution of a display by its diagonal size, higher pixel density better display quality. | 423 ppi |
| Features | 2.5D curved glass |
| Secondary Display | None |
Hardware
| Chipset <strong>Chipset</strong> is a group of integrated circuits designed to perform one or a more dedicated functions, often with real time computing constraints, Popular smartphones are equipped with more advanced embedded chipsets that can do many different tasks depending on their programming. | Kirin 950 |
| CPU <strong>CPU</strong> (Central Processing Unit) mostly known as processors, CPU processes instructions in order to carry out certain functions that make your device operate properly. Processors are often described as the brain of computers, smartphones and tablets, Smartphones and tablets rely on processors to carry out their every task, Processors are an incredibly important factor in selecting any type of computing device, including your smartphone. | ARM Cortex-A72 4 x 2.3GHz + ARM Cortex-A53 4 x 1.8GHz |
| GPU <strong>GPU</strong> (Graphics Processing Unit) is a single-chip processor designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display, This includes things such as lighting effects, object transformations, and 3D motion. | Mali-T880 |
| RAM (Memory) <strong>RAM</strong> (Random Access Memory) is a type of computer memory that can be accessed randomly, any byte of memory can be accessed without touching the preceding bytes that allows information to be stored and accessed quickly from random locations. RAM is the most common type of memory found in computer systems, smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices. | 4GB |
| Internal Storage <strong>Internal Storage</strong> is a data storage space (flash memory) mostly used in smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices where operating system, apps, music, photos, videos, files and other user data Is stored. | 32GB |
| Card Slot <strong>Memory Card Slot</strong> is a special slot for inserting a memory card. Memory cards allow you to expand the phone's built-in memory, A memory card (sometimes called a flash memory card or a storage card) is a small storage medium used to store data such as text, pictures, audio, and video, for use on small, portable or remote computing devices such as mobile phones, mp3 players, digital cameras. | Yes, up to 128GB |
| Sensors <strong>Sensors</strong> are electronic components that detects and responds to some type of input from the physical environment. The specific input could be light, heat, motion, moisture, pressure and location, The output is generally a signal that is converted to use in computing systems, a location sensor, such as a GPS receiver is able to detect current location of your electronic device. | Accelerometer, Abient Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Infrared Sensor, Fingerprint Sensor, Compass, Gyroscope, NFC |
Battery
| Battery Type <strong>Battery Type => </strong> Cell phones run on various kinds of batteries depending on the manufacturer, phone size or shape and features. There are basically four types of cell phone batteries => Lithium Polymer, Lithium Ion, Nickel Metal Hydride and Nickel Cadmium. | Li-Ion (Lithium Ion) |
| Capacity <strong>Battery Capacity</strong> is a measure (typically in Amp-hr) of the charge stored by the battery, and is determined by the mass of active material contained in the battery. The battery capacity represents the maximum amount of energy that can be extracted from the battery under certain conditions. | 2900mAh |
| Fast Charging | Yes, (9V 2A), 47% charge in 30 minutes |
| Wireless Charging <strong>Wireless Charging</strong> (Inductive Charging) uses an electromagnetic field to transfer energy between two objects. This is usually done with a charging station. Energy is sent through an inductive coupling to an electrical device, which can then use that energy to charge batteries or run the device. | No |
Camera
| Primary <strong>Camera</strong> is able to capture photographs and usually videos, The most important characteristics of a camera are the resolution (measured in megapixels), lens focus type (fixed or automatic), higher megapixel cameras are known to capture higher quality photos, but not always a good measurement of the photos quality. | 12mp color + 12mp monochrome |
| Camera Features |
Phase Detect Autofocus f/2.2 aperture |
| Secondary | 8mp |
| Video | FullHD |
| Flash <strong>Flash Light => </strong> There is commonly two types of flash lights are used in camera mobile phones, LED Flash (LED flash offers lower power consumption with drive circuitry that takes up very little room, LEDs can be strobed faster than any other light source), Xenon Flash (xenon flash produces an extremely intense full-spectrum white light for a very short duration) | Yes |
Design
| Type <strong>Design Type</strong> called form factor refers to a mobile phone's size, shape, and style as well as the layout and position of major components of phone. There are three major form factors seen in mobile phones => bar phones, folding phones and sliding phones. | Bar |
| Dimensions | 145.5 mm (L) x71.0 mm (W) x7.45 mm (T) |
| Weight | 153 grams |
| Colors | White, Blue, Gold |
Network
| SIM <strong>SIM</strong> (Subscriber Identity Module) is a small card that contains mobile network subscriber's account information. This allows the phone using the card to attach to a mobile network. The SIM card is most commonly associated with GSM and UMTS mobile networks. Moving a SIM card from one phone to another allows a subscriber to switch mobile phones without having to contact their mobile network carrier. SIM cards can also be used by a phone to store limited amounts of data, such as phone numbers and text messages. | Nano SIM |
| VoLTE Support for VoLTE | |
| Dual SIM | No |
| 2G Network | Yes |
| 3G Network | Yes |
| 4G Network | LTE FDD: B1/B2/B3/B4/B5/B7/B8/B12/B17/B19/B20 TD-LTE: B38/B40 WCDMA: B1/B2/B4/B5/B6/B8/B19 GSM: 850/900/1800/1900MHz |
Software
| Operating System <strong>OS => </strong> Every computer system run on a base software called Operating System (OS). Operating System controls all basic operations of the computer (such as smartphone, PDAs, tablet computers and other handheld devices). The Operating System allows the user to install and run third party applications (apps), apps are used to add new functionality to the device. | Android 6.0 |
| User Interface <strong>UI</strong> or user interface of a device is the look and feel of the on-screen menu system. How it works, its color scheme, how it responds to button presses, all of these things are part of the user interface. | EMUI 4.1 |
Connectivity
| Bluetooth <strong>Bluetooth</strong> is a wireless communications technology for exchanging data between mobile phones, headsets, computers and other network devices over short distances without wires, Bluetooth technology was primarily designed to support simple wireless networking of personal consumer devices. | v4.2 |
| Infrared <strong>Infrared</strong> connectivity is an old wireless technology used to connect two electronic devices. It uses a beam of infrared light to transmit information and so requires direct line of sight and operates only at close range. | |
| Wi-fi <strong>Wi-Fi</strong> is a popular wireless networking technology using radio waves to provide high-speed network connections that allows devices to communicate without cords or cables, Wi-Fi is increasingly becoming the preferred mode of internet connectivity all over the world. | 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac |
| USB | Type-C |
| GPS <strong>GPS</strong> The Global Positioning System is a satellite-based radio navigation system, GPS permits users to determine their position, velocity and the time 24 hours a day, in all weather, anywhere in the world, In order to locate your position, your device or GPS receiver must have a clear view of the sky. | Yes |
| NFC <strong>NFC</strong> (Near field communication) is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish peer-to-peer radio communications with each other by touching them together or bringing them into proximity, usually no more than a few inches. |
Benchmarks
| Antutu | 146138 |
| Basemark OS 2 | 2744 |
| Basemark X | 40872 |
| Geekbench 3 Multicore | 6372 |
| Geekbench 3 Single Core | 1864 |
| Nenamark 2.4 | 60.3 |
| Quadrant | 42344 |
