Honor 6 Plus: Smartylife review
In today's review I present you Honor 6 plus, older brother of Honor 6. Presented in MWC 2015 in Barcelona held in the first days of March, thanks to its double rear camera, high-level hardware and an impressive battery, the now "former" top of the range of the house Honor he has been pleasantly surprised to overcome all expectations. Let's look at how the device behaves in everyday use.
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A few months ago we tried the younger brother who was particularly amazed at us; as for the younger brother, even in this case, the Chinese colossus "Huawei"Managed to combine excellent components at a great price. Indeed Honor 6 plus can only add to the already excellent product, what was missing from the device to be called "True top of the range".
First of all, I remember that Honor 6 plus is available in the variant from 16 gb and 32gb on the store of Smartylife.
Huawei Honor 6 plus, the review of Smartylife.net
Packaging
As it is custom of home Honor, also Honor 6 + is distributed in a box of blue color. With regard to accessories, Huawei Honor 6 plus is accompanied by a very good battery charger 2A which allows you to charge the device in about an hour, a Usb-MicroUSB data cable, unfortunately the headset is missing. Of course we find all manuals and warranty, two protective films for the original home screen "Honor", A pin to remove the compartment SIM / microSD and VIP Card which can only be used by Chinese customers.
Hardware
To turn Honor 6 plus, think about it Kirin 925, it is, as in the case of the younger brother, of a proprietary processor Huawei which also belongs to the family "HISILICON". Adopted lately in many products Huawei, it is a Octacore boasting 4 core Cortex A-15 clocked a 1.8 ghz e 4 core big.LITTLE Cortex-A7 who work at a maximum frequency of 1.3 GHz, depending on the load, the SoC decides whether to use the 4 Core A15 or the 4 core A7 to improve power consumption and battery life, in case the workload can not be handled efficiently by the 4 core cortex A-15, the other 4 core activates by working the processor as "True Octacore". The gpu quadcore and the Small T-628 MP4 clocked a 600mhz, although the gpu is not among the most recent, always performs its task exemplary, proving capable of spinning in a clean and fluid way, games of the size of Asphalt8, very little negative note, during long warming gaming sessions a bit , it is perceived by the metal frames on the edges.
La ram memory is equal to 3gb and allows the device to handle in the best of ways multistasking, hateful "recharges" in this honor, are really rare. The is a panel LTPS / IPS by 5.5 inches with resolution Full hd 1920 × 1080 pixels, resolution that on an 5.5 inch panel, guarantees 401 pixels per inch.
The compartment photographic it is definitely the aspect that most teases and surprises, the device boasts well three sensors (two rear and one front) by 8mpx each, the rear sensors, with aperture equal to F / 2.0 e F / 2.4, they are accompanied by a processor ISP dedicated and a flash double tone.
As for connectivity, like Honor 6 even the older brother has the infrared door, WiFI a / b / g / n dual-band, Bluetooth 4.0 LE, Assisted GPS with Glonass , LTE Cat. 6 modem up to 300mbs (integrated module in the soc), it lacks the ' nFC. Presented in the version dualsim two compartments for the sim, one in size dwarf and one microphone, negative note for Honor 6 plus, you can not use the second sim slots if you want to insert one Microsd (as the second slot can be used for both things). To feed everything, think of the 3600 mah integrated non-removable battery.
Honor 6 plus is available in two 16 / 32gb internal memory cuts, both expandable by microsd for up to 128gb.
Design and Ergonomics
Honor 6 plus he resumes the lines of his younger brother, keeping that clean, classic, elegant and very fine design, still sought after by a good percentage of users. As for the dimensions 150.5 x 75.7 x 7.5 mm Honor 6 plus maintains the average of terminals with 5.5 inches display, the weight of the device is 165g, which, however, in my humble opinion, they feel poco, the weight is very distributed and the metal frame favors the use of the device, which in the hand gives a feeling of solidity, quality also in this case the quality of the series "Honor"You perceive it all.
Looking at the front of the device we find the 5,5 inch fhd display, a camera well 8 mpx, headset capsule eisbrightness and proximity shades;
On the back side you can not not notice the two rooms from 8mpx placed at the top left, accompanied by double flash led, in the center we find the writing Honor and the bottom left is positioned system speaker, all accompanied by a protective plastic around the component, very thick, precious, difficult to scratch and very shock-resistant, in a few words of excellent quality;
On the right side, on the metal frame, we find the slots for the simcard / microsd , the button and volume balance both knotted and very pleasing to the touch;
On the upper frame is housed the socket for the jack from 3.5 mm , according to microphone for noise reduction and the infrared door;
At the bottom, (single side not covered by metallic frame) we find the door Micro-USB and first microphone;
Totally free and clean the left side.
Display and Touchscreen
If you are looking for a smartphone with a nice display you have found the smartphone that suits you. As mentioned above, Honor 6 plus has a panel Ltps from 5,5 inches, with resolution equal to 1920 1080 pixels x, to 401 pixels per inch, great color rendering, this is a panel with very bright colors for one IPS however, can be modified via software from settings, great blacks that are not profound, but much higher than what is the general display level IPS. Great viewing angle, visible on all angles, visible both horizontally and vertically with polarized glasses. Good visibility under the sun in general, maximum brightness of the display equals 500 thread. Excellent also touch screen that never loses touch and offers the possibility to use it with gloves and with wet hands (by activating the option in the settings). It is also very oleophobic it collects poco fingerprints, very resistant to shocks and scratches thanks to the protection Gorilla Glass 3. Even the brightness sensor performs its task perfectly, always very fast and accurate. As for Huawei Honor 6 there is the possibility to apply the film tastiplus to clear the navigation bar from the display.
Camera
Top of this Honor 6 plus it is obviously the double room (8mpx x 2) that allows you to shoot at maximum photo resolution from 13 mpx, the basic operation of the two rooms to get shots to 13 mpx is to interpolate the shots, the dual camera also lets you focus images even in poor light conditions 0,1 sec. Software management allows you to adjust the diaphragm by F / 0,96 a F / 16 in real time. Once opened, you can adjust the focus and aperture of the diaphragm after capturing the shot. Thanks to the two sensors, the graphics processor and the work done by Huawei you can actually make good shots in all conditions of brightness, perfect macro and close-ups, and if you want to have fun, many are the pre-installed effects from Huawei. Great shots in low light conditions, even with the double flash led the colors are not staggered, always being very loyal to reality.
La front camera it will always allow lovers of selfie to perform excellent shots even in low light conditions, even in this case you can take advantage of features such as face beauty and many other effects.
If in the photos Honor 6 plus excel, in the videos the camera snoops a bit, the videos are shot at maximum resolution in Full HD 30 fps, the general quality is not bad, but sometimes there is little optical stabilization as the smartphone loses focus, it happens rarely, it is not a detail that can affect the excellent user experience that the smartphone can offer and I am sure that Huawei through future updates will solve the problem.
General performance, gaming and benchmarking
Even in this respect, Honor 6 plus has managed to surprise me particularly, great overall performance of the device, the Kirin 925 he is able to turn the Emui (graphical interface adopted on Honor devices) in a fluid and lending manner, the micro lags are rare during normal daily use, even after long sessions of use, the terminal manages to maintain excellent overall stability. There Small T-628 MP4 It also allows you to charge the full details and run smoothly free of microlag games that are very heavy as Asphalt 8 e Real Racing 3, Honor 6 plus it behaves well even in the field "benchmarking"Getting Middle-High scores in a number of benchmarks. Very valid, as already announced, the multitasking management of the 3 gb di RAM and to the work done by Huawei.
Battery, Audio, Receiving and Connectivity
Honor 6 plus it has a good battery 3600 mah not extractable, autonomy is good, no anomalous consumption of Battery drain, the "monstrous" battery allowed me, despite my intense use, to end the day with well 5 hours and 15 minutes of onscreen shutter. There is also the possibility of using an energy saving mode "Incredibly “, Which works well and obviously limits the smartphone functions to basic voice and messaging operations. Surely the battery guarantees, without and with energy saving, a good autonomy which however does not surprise that much, if you think about the battery capacity (above average).
Valid the 'audio in capsule, not very powerful but quite clean and full, as regards the system speaker good sound quality, but the position of the speaker does not play in favor of the smartphone, as it is really too easy to limit the sound by placing the device on flat surface and with the same hands. On the other hand, the audio in the headphones is very good the equalizer Dolby, I have done many tests with multiple models of headphones and the result was always the same, the audio is always very clean and full.
Receiving the version dualsim it's great, it keeps for both sim on the general media, tested in h3g and 4g with Tim card, lightning to "switch" from 3g to 4g and vice versa, no problem regarding the connective side, everything works perfectly. Instant GPS fix, fully functional 4.0 Bluetooth "compatible with Sony smart band", stable Wi-Fi with average reception range.
Software
A board Honor 6 plus, we have available, for now, Emotion UI 3.0 based on Kitkat 4.4.2. However, a beta is already available Lollipop Emui 3.1, which will be officially released shortly. The graphical interface under observation has recently been adopted by Huawei on many of its devices, (Mate 7, P8 ....). Right from now on EMUI gives the feeling of being a fluid, sleek interface. A UI which deserves much; cured in every detail, which is more and more surprising. There are many apps and features introduced by Huawei , with screen off gestures supported, it is also possible to change the graphics section using the “themes” application. We also find the remote control app, the magnifying glass, an app to back up data / applications, the notification and security management, the section in the settings to monitor / limit specifically the battery consumption, the one-hand mode etc. etc.
Assessment and conclusions
Honor 6 Plus is a device that amazes, an opportunity not to be missed, which excels in practically everything. As a lover of large displays, to all those who until now have been afraid of finding themselves with a device that is too large I can only say other than this Honor 6 plus, it has proved, despite its size, very ergonomic and manageable unlike many of his peers. To conclude, it is, apart from very small defects, a real top of the range available now really at poco price. If you are looking for a great device a poco price assessed Honor 6 plus.
- Packaging: 8 Rating: 8,18
- Soc: 8.5
- Design and ergonomics: 9
- Display: 8.5
- Performance: 8
- Battery: 7.5
- Audio: 7
- Quality / Price: 9
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