Honor 8X design
The design of Honor 8X makes it different from the handsets of other companies. Glassy dual-tone color scheme has been used in the phone. The back panel of the phone is made of glass which gives it a premium look. The company has named it ‘Visual Greating Effect’, Honor says that there are many layers of glass (metal) to make it. The design of the phone is so good that it is not getting a phone call from the budget segment less than Rs 20,000. Being a glass panel, the targets of fingers and scratches are easily lost. To save the phone, you can put the cover in the retail box.
The other feature of Honor 8X is that it comes with 91 percent of the screen-to-body ratio. Like Honor Play, Honor 9N, there is a small border on the bottom of this phone. Honor 8X has a 6.5 inch (1080×2340 pixel) IPS LCD display with an aspect ratio of 19.5: 9. Honor logo is given at the bottom of the company’s other smartphone’s front panel, but it has been removed in Honor 8X. You cannot use the display easily with one hand. While using many features, we needed to use both our hands. In India, this handset will be found in classic black, trademark blue and bold red colors. We have a blue color variant for review.
A vertical dual rear camera setup will be seen for photography on the back panel. The rear camera is slightly embossed. There will be a fingerprint sensor on the back panel for security. To increase and reduce the power and voice on the right side, the button is a SIM-trit on the left side of the phone (two nano SIM and microSD card slot). At the bottom, you have loudspeakers, 3.5 mm headphone jack, primary microphone and micro-USB port. At this price, the company has decided not to give USB-Type C. Secondary microphone has found a place over the phone. The build quality of the phone is good, but after using the phone for some time, we notice that the glass was scratched on the back pal. The company has kept the size of the earpiece small for the purpose of keeping the notch size low.
Honor 8X specification and software
Honor 8X is the company’s first such smartphone in India that comes with Hycilicon Kirin 710 processor. The same processor has also been used in the company’s Huawei Nova 3i smartphone. This processor will compete with a handset with Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 and Snapdragon 660 chipset in this price range. We have Honor 8X’s 4 GB RAM and 64 GB storage variants for review.
Honor 8X has two more variants- 6 GB RAM/ 64 GB storage and 6 GB RAM/ 128 GB storage, and their prices are Rs 16,999 and Rs 18,999 respectively. While doing multitasking, we did not have any kind of problem in the phone. There is also no shortage of storage to keep apps and photos. It is possible to increase storage to 400 GB with the help of microSD card.
The Honor 8X has a 6.5 -inch full HD+ (1080×2340 pixels) TFT IPS display. The company says that the display used Blue Light Filter (I Comfort Mode), which is certified by Tuv Rheinland. The phone has a 3,750 mAh battery to revive the phone that comes with 5V/2A (10W) charging support. The back panel has a 20 -megapixel primary sensor and a 2 -megapixel depth sensor on the back panel. A 16 -megapixel front camera will be available for selfie and video calling, its appearance is F/2.0. Both SIM slots support 4G volt, the phone includes ambient light sensor, electronic compass, gravity sensor, gyroscope, proximity sensor and fingerprint sensor for security. For connectivity, dual-band WiFi will get 802.11 AC, Bluetooth version 4.2 LE, GPS/A-GPS, Glonas and 3.5 mm headphone jack.
Our nearby Honor 8X EMUI is running on Android 8.1 Oreo based on 8.2.0. The handset will get Android Pie update but the company has not announced the date at the moment. Our handset is running on a September 2018 security patch which is a good thing. In the phone, you will get Facebook Messenger, Netflix, Camera360 and Lords Mobile Install. The icons look quite large, apart from this you will get the phone manager app that will help you do many things like RAM, selected apps, track consumption, track consumption, virus check and battery consumption. Now talked about EMUI. If you swipe from the bottom to the top, then the Google Assistant will open by swip-up from the home screen, down or right side. Honor 8X will get software based face reconstruction support. Face unlock scanns rapidly and unlocks the phone. Its special thing is that low-light and screen brightness at night increases on its own, due to which face unlock is capable of functioning correctly.
Honor 8X performance, camera and battery life
Honor 8X uses GPU Turbo Technology. GPU turbo provides up to 60 percent of the performance during gaming and provides better battery life to up to 30 percent. If Asphalt 9: Legends and PUBG are played on moderate settings, it works correctly. Playing games like Subway Surfers and Candy Crush was quite good. During gaming, we found that the phone is very hot and battery consumption was not too much.
Honor 8X has scored 140,435 on Antootu benchmark, 1,604 and 5,559 respectively in Geekbench single and multi score tests. This result of Honor 8X is much better than Xiaomi Mi A2 and Realme 2 Pro with Snapdragon 636 chipset with Redmi Note 5 Pro, Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1 and Snapdragon 660 processor than Xiaomi Mi A2 and Realme 2 Pro. In the camera app, you will find arpchar, night, portrait, photo and video mode. Apart from this, Pro, Slow-Mo, Panorama, AR Lae, HDR, Time Laps and other features are given in more sections. Let us know that the rear camera is capable of recording slow-motion video at a speed of 480 frames per second.
The focus of the rear camera works rapidly and works properly in sufficient light but the quality of the phone is not as much better. If we talk about sharpness in picture quality, then a 16 -megapixel selfie camera is much better in this case. The quality of the picture taken at night is less than the average. Honor 8X 60 frames are capable of recording video at 1080p at a speed of 6, but the phone will already find a set on 720p.
The battery life of Honor 8X with a 6.5 inch full HD+ display is quite spectacular. Once charged the phone, it will support you throughout the day. Even after social media apps, email checks, videos on YouTube and playing games for 15 minutes, our handset battery played with us all day. In HD video test, Honor 8x gave 14 hours and 47 minutes backup. The phone takes more than 2 hours to charge from 0 to 100 percent.
Our decision
Honor wants to keep the phone a premium look and to maintain its grip in the market by launching a good smartphone at a low price. Not only the design of Honor 8X, but the performance of the handset in this price is also very good. This has been possible with the help of the company’s new Hyssillicon Kirin 710 chipset. Apart from the performance of the phone, vibrant display and fast -working biometric security feature is its specialty. However, the camera quality is below the average. Fast charging facility in the phone will be useful for you. Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro and Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1 have been holding their hold in the market for the last six months but now smartphones like Nokia 6.1 Plus and Motorola One Power are also included in the list to compete them.