Huawei Honor 6 Plus was one of the most talked about smartphones this month. In the past few weeks, we save seen plenty of rumors regarding the design and specifications of the device, which gave us a fair idea as to what to expect from the Huawei flagship. But today, we don’t have to rely on any rumors or leaks, as Huawei has officially unveiled the Huawe Honor 6 Plus smartphone.

Like always, we start off with the Huawei Honor 6 Plus Review with design.

DESIGN

If you have seen the Honor 6 smartphone, you’d immediately realize that the new Honor 6 Plus is related to the device in some way. This is because, the new flagship retains the basic design as its predecessor. You get the same rectangular design with round corners as the earlier flagship. However, with its larger 5.5-inch display as opposed to the 5-inch display found on the Honor 6, the new device is much larger and wider than the latter. But somehow, Huawei has managed to maintain the exact same thickness on both the models.

Huawei Honor 6 Plus Dimensions : 150.46×75.68×7.5mm Weight: 165 grams

Huawei Honor 6 Dimensions : 139.6 x 69.7 x 7.5 mm  Weight: 130 grams

As you can see, the Honor 6 Plus and Honor 6 measure just 7.5mm in thickness.

The company has taken special care of the design on the phone. The display occupies over 78.2% of the front and the bezels are much thinner than the earlier model. This makes it look much more solid and premium than its predecessor. Even the portion above and below the display looks much smaller.

On top of the display, lies the ear piece, sensors and the front camera. However Huawei has changed the placement to a certain extent of these components. The front camera is now to the left of the ear piece while the sensors go just above it. With the bigger real estate, you have four on screen buttons (an additional notification drop down button is available), instead of the three found on the original model.

The rear panel remains the same on the new device. So, you have a glass like finish at the back which gives it a rich look. If you look closely, you’ll see the small grid on the back cover like the previous flagship. But these lines are not visible from a distance.  This finish gives it a very unique feel, much different than other phones available in the market.

The camera and the dual LED flash placement remains the same i.e. on top of the rear panel. However, now you can clearly see the dual camera setup with two sensors onboard. In the middle, you have the honor branding and finally at the bottom, you have the speaker grill. You’ll also see a shiny metal frame which adds a rich flavor the overall unibody design.

On the right side, you have the power and the volume buttons. Below these lies the openings for SIM card as well as MicroSD card + Nano SIM card slot. On the previous model, Huawei  had these under a single flap, but now they are separated. On top you have the 3.5m headphone jack as well as the IR blaster while at the bottom, you have the traditional MicroUSB slot along with a microphone besides it.

Overall, we are happy with the design on the new Huawei flagship. The company has smartly used the successful design from the previous flagship and made it even better on this new phone. So, it looks solid, durable as well as premium, making it one of the best looking phones of the year.

DISPLAY:

The Huawei Honor 6 Plus comes with a 5.5-inch 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution display. While we would have loved to see a 2K display on the phone like most other flagships in the market, the 1080p display too looks pretty clear and vibrant. In fact, when you look at the pixel density of the device, its about 401ppi, which is great for a phone with this size.

The LCD screen looks rich in colors and vibrant and there is no noticeable pixels on the screen. So, videos and pictures looks great on its large screen.  In short, you shouldn’t have any problems with the Honor 6 Plus’s 1080p display.

One thing we would like to add is that 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution is quite sharp. But of late, we have become obsessed with 2K resolution, hence some may feel that the lack of a 2K display is a drawback. But we don’t feel so, because end of the day the display looks very good and the lower resolution screen will help increase the phone’s battery life.

HARDWARE & PERFORMANCE:

Huawei has made sure that its flagship has top-notch specifications. Under the hood, you have the Huawei’s own HiSilicon Kirin 925 octa-core processor. This processor is built on the ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture and comes with four ARM Cortex-A7 cores clocked at 1.31 GHz and Cortex-A15 at 1.80 GHz. When the phone is running just the basic apps, the four A7 cores are working under the hood. However, as you start a graphic intensive game or an app, the remaining four A15 cores sets in. Such a setup will help the phone regulate the heat generated inside and will conserve battery as much as possible. The inbuilt Mali-T628MP4 GPu is equipped with a ‘i3’ coprocessor which can support 4G LTE Category 6 networks. The processor is mated with 3GB RAM to provide a smooth multitasking experience. For storage you have 16GB/ 32GB internal storage options along with a MicroSD card slot which can take cards up to 128GB in size.

Overall performance of the Kirin 925 is quite good. When using the phone for basic tasks like music, calls and internet surfing, the phone won’t get heated up easily. However, when you are playing a heavy game or working on a graphic intensive app, the phone does heat a little.

Gaming performance is good. The phone handled racing games as well as first person running games like Subway Surfer without any glitches. Kirin 925 and Mali T628MP4 handled everything thrown at it with ease. So, gaming experience is smooth and there is no visible lag.

In the AnTuTu benchmark test, the Honor 6 Plus scored an impressive figure of 42223. While this is lower than other flagships like OnePlus One, Xiaomi Mi4 and Galaxy S5, the difference is very minimal, which means in day to day usage, the performance should be more or less the same on all the four devices.

Naturally with the kind of tech inside the Honor 6 Plus, 1080p video playback is extremely smooth. The phone responds well even when scrolling the video forwards or backwards. So, you can anytime rely on this device for watching Full HD movies. Honor 6 supports a number of network bands such as TD-LTE / FDD-LTE / WCDMA / GSM. It runs on Android 4.4.2 KitKat OS with Emotion 3.0 UI. But we’ll discuss more on the software in another post.

CAMERA

Now, we come to the most anticipated feature of the device, the dual 8MP rear camera setup!

Instead of increasing the camera sensor size, or the lens aperture, which would have in turn bulked up the camera component on the Honor 6 Plus, Huawei went with a dual camera setup. While this sounds a lot like the duo-camera on the HTC One M8, this particular setup does have some additional advantages. First of all, you have get the same depth of field effect on this device as the M8. This can be achieved, even after you have captured the image, thanks to the two cameras at the back along with the 3IE algorithm that it utilizes for these images. These two cameras work together to capture individual 8MP images of the same object and then the software stitches them together to form a 13MP end resolution picture.

The setup also helps focus extremely fast. In fact, Huawei claims that the rear camera can focus in just 0.1 seconds. The setup works like a human eye, which helps track down the exact location of the object in such a short time. This enables it to focus on the desired object so quickly. The above mentioned 3IE algorithm works together with the camera to eliminate dark areas as well as bring in more light into the picture. As a result, you’ll immediately notice a significant difference in the images captured with this device than other competing devices.

As you will see in the pictures below, the images taken from the Huawei Honor 6 Plus looks quite good. There are some issues with a few features of the device, such as the depth of field optimization which doesn’t allow a wide range aperture settings as promised. However, we are sure a few software patches will fix the issue.

The low light performance is particularly impressive, thanks to the two cameras at the back which capture in more light than a single sensor. Moreover, the setup allows the phone to get more details about the object even at night times which helps reduce noise in the images taken. The captured pictures turn out to be clear and the color reproduction is accurate too. In short, the dual camera setup at the back will definitely impress you.

Even the front camera is of 8MP, but it lacks the dual camera setup. However, it’s still great for selfies and video calls, owing to the 88 degrees wide angle lens fitted on it which captures a lot more area than traditional front cameras.

Here are some samples from the rear camera.

More pictures are given in the gallery.

BATTERY

With these tech specs, Huawei has made sure that the Honor 6 Plus lasts easily for more than a day. It comes with a large 3600 mAh battery which should be sufficient for everyday usage. In everyday terms, a few minutes of hours of calling and surfing, a few pictures once in a while as well as listening to music for a few more hours would not deplete the battery completely. So, it will last you an entire day with moderate usage. However, as of now, we don’t know the exact run time that the battery provides. But stay tuned as in the next few days, we’ll try to update you guys about the battery life.

VERDICT

Huawei Honor 6 Plus comes with a great design with an amazing build quality (refer our earlier article where it stops a bullet!), top-notch hardware, an amazing camera as well as a great battery. It looks like the company has finally covered everything that a buyer wants in a device.

You get all these features for a price that put other flagships like HTC One M8, Xperia Z3 and Samsung Galaxy S5 to shame. The Honor 6 Plus is up for pre-order starting today at an amazing price of 1999 Yuan ($323) for the 3G variant and the 2499 ($403) Yuan for the 4G variant. The device starts shipping from next week.

With the Huawei Honor 6 Plus now in the picture, which flagship would you buy?

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The Mi 4 vs. mainstream flagship phones      

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I.                   An Improvement for Huawei

      Restricted by its microchip strategy, for more than three years, Huawei has not had a flagship phone in the truest sense even though the company has been targeting the high-end market since Yu Chengdong’s arrival.

After HiSilicon started producing microchips faster, the Honor 6 finally had standard cell phone functions. Besides its processor, Huawei has improved a lot in the last two years.

The base band of Huawei’s processors has surpassed Qualcomm’s and Huawei is the third company in the industry to integrate 4G base bands into their processors.

       Regarding ISP, their processors use Altek-based technology, improving the quality of photos.

As for videos, video processors and codecs can be customized and tests show that they are pretty good.

Regarding the software, the UI is pretty fluid even though it’s not exactly aesthetically pleasing. Huawei has also improved several small personalized functions.

Like the Oneplus, there are not any clear flaws with the Honor 6. ON the contrary, it has some amazing features. Its most useful feature is the Wifi. Xiaomi’s attempts at taking advantage of public WiFi and shared passwords has been criticized for privacy and safety problems and, as a result, failed. Huawei, though, could easily do this with the help of internet providers. Huawei’s partnership with providers is one of their strengths.

The Huawei 6 is the result of progress made by Huawei in the last two years and is an excellent product.

II.                Late opportunity

The Honor 6 was released on June 24, 2014, the end of the second quarter of the year.

Other cell phones with similar specs (four A15 cores, the Snapdragon 800 and more powerful processors) were released as early as the third quarter of 2013, but most appeared in the fourth quarter.

New phones have been coming out non-stop since late 2013, i.e. ZTE U988S, Mi 3, Nubia Z5S, ELIFE E7, ZTE Grand SII, OPPO Find 7, vivo Xplay 3S, Xshot, OnePlus One, Smartisan T1…

Costing 1999 RMB, the Honor 6’s biggest rivals are the OnePlus One, the cheaper Mi 3, and ZTE Grand SII. Costing 1499 RMB (241.62 USD), the Mi 3 should have a fighting chance.

The ZTE Grand SII has a replaceable battery. Although the Honor 6 is a great step forward for Huawei, but it does not have much a great advantage over the Oneplus One, with its design, craftsmanship, texture, and the Mi 3 with its cheap price.

If the Honor 6 was released in the fourth quarter of 2013 or the first quarter of 2014, it might have a bigger chance. But as it’s being released in the second quarter, it might not have much of a chance as its competitors are starting to cut prices.

What’s even more unfortunate is that MT6595 will be shipped in the third quarter of the year. Its features are excellent and it does not use too much power. Its low price should also lower the prices of powerful devices that will use it to around 1000 RMB (161.08 USD). This won’t leave the Honor 6 with a lot of time to get ready.

The Honor 6 is a great product but unfortunately it has come out at the wrong time. If Huawei really wants to fight back, they would continue to push HiSilicon to make better processors and catch up with Samsung and Qualcomm. At the same time, they should create more processors that use A57 cores and use the most advanced technology.

Things might just turn around in 2015 if Xiaomi and Huawei release products that use a 64-bit A57-core processor in the first quarter.

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1. Why doesn’t the China Mobile edition of the Honor 6 support dual-SIM card?

Unlike the China Unicom version, the Honor 6 edition won’t be a dual-SIMphone. Both phones support TD-LTE/FDD-LTE/TD-SCDMA/WCDMA/GSM.

The China Unicom edition supports dual-SIM

It’s not that Huawei cannot make the China Mobile edition dual-SIM, but when they first started designing the Honor 6, they did a survey of the habits of their uses and found that most of those that want a dual-SIM phone used China Mobile’s 2G internet and, so, did not find it necessary to make it dual-SIM.

2. Does the Honor 6 support timed flight mode?

Although the Honor 6 has a flight mode, it does not have a timer and cannot be turned off automatically.

3. Are there any plans to ship the Kirin 920 to other manufacturers?

Right now, HiSilicon’s chips will only be used by Huawei’s own devices. There are no plans to ship the Kirin 920 to other companies as more work still need to be done on it.

The HiSilicon Kirin 920 octa-core chipset

 4. How come there is no China Telecom edition?

There are no plans for a China Telecom Edition for the Honor 6 at the moment. The

Huawei P series has a China Telecom version so it’s not like Huawei cannot make one for the Honor 6 but one reason could be because it will increase production costs. Another reason could

5. Does the Honor 6 have a gyroscope and electronic compass?

Yes. It also has a GPS and other directional features.

6. Is the China Unicom version’s dual-SIM mode 4G?

Yes. One slot is for 4G/3G/2G, the other is for GSM. This means that the Unicom edition supports 4G/3G/2G and GSM dual-SIM.

7.    Since FDD internet in the Honor 6 has been shut down, then how can anyone access 4G internet through the Unicom Edition?

Five-mode frequency (FDD has been temporarily shut down)

Since the China government has not allowed FDD LTE yet, 4G phones in China can only use TD-LTE. Therefore, users can still access 4G LTE out of China.

8. What’s so unique about the Kirin 920?

Like all other processors, the Kirin 920 uses commonly-used ARM approved cores such as the A7, A15, and A9, but it’s not a processor that was simply put together from scraps. What distinguishes the Kirin 920 from other processors and gives it an advantage is its base band. Although, it’s not the only octa-core chipset around, its CPU, GPU, and baseband are different from those in other processors.

9.  Will customers have to rush to purchase the Honor 6?

According to Huawei, in the beginning, Huawei had several 100,000 phones on stock, but this could have been the plan based on the number of pre-orders. The writer thinks that as an electronic device, the Honor 6 is heading for the top-of-the-line market. Based on market expectations, initial sales should be fierce, but due to the Honor’s strong supply chain capacity, any shipping problems should be easily solved.

10.  Is the Cat 6 twice as fast as the Cat 4?

Theoretically, the Cat 6 can run at up to 300Mbps in an FDD network (220Mbps if TD-LTE). The Cat 4 can only run up to 150Mbps (100Mbps if TD-LTE).

11.  Does it have water-proof functions?

Unlike the Honor 3, no, it doesn’t.

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Update:

1. Huawei Honor 6 has 4 models: H60-L01, H60-L11, H60-L02, H60-L12. The first 2 models (H60-L01, H60-L11) don’t support dual SIM cards, only support TD-SCDMA and TD LTE. The last 2 models(H60-L02, H60-L12) support dual SIM cards, and support WCDMA(900/2100MHz bands) and FDD LTE (1800/2100MHz bands).

2. H60-L01 and H60-L02 are 16GB storage, H60-L11 and H60-L12 is 32GB storage.

3. H60-L01 and H60-L02 don’t support NFC, but H60-L11 and H60-L12 both support NFC.

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         On June 24, Huawei released the newest member of its flagship Honor series, the Honor 6. Besides being the first device to use Huawei’s Kirin 920 octa-core processor, it is also the first LTE Cat6-supported phone in China and has an internet speed of up to 300 Mbps.

The Honor 6 sports a 5-inch 1080p JDI display screen which uses in-cell display technology and a very thin bezel at only 2.86mm. It also has 3GB RAM and different versions have 16GB or 32GB internal memory storage. It also sports a 5mp/13mp camera and runs on a 3100mAh battery that has integrated Smart 2.0 power management technology. The 16GB version costs 1999 RMB (321.46 USD) and 2299 RMB (369.70 USD).

Below are photos of the Honor 6 when it was taken out of its box.

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Huawei Honor 6 has been officially release, and we also already covers the news about the Huawei Honor 6 Android smartphone before, even we also has writing about the review of those phone. But now we have a benchmark test using three different benchmark tools.

We trying to benchmark the Huawei Honor 6 using Vellamo, AnTuTu and Basemark X. Why we want to show you this test? because Huawei Honor 6 is the first smartphone that powered with HiSilicon Kirin 920 octa-core processor. Some folks says that the Huawei Honor 6 is ready to compete with upcoming iPhone 6 and Samsung galaxy S6 smartphone, the two deviceis not arrive in the market.

The Huawei honor 6 is now avalable in Chinese market, so we trying to test the Honor 6 which has model number H60-Lo1, this phone is the model number which available in the Chinese market.

When we trying to running AnTuTu Benchmark test, the phone is get 37,844 points. For your information, this score is higher than HTC ONe M8 and Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone.

And we also trying to doing a second test using AnTuTu, but the score is got 37,393 points, this score has less than 200 point, so we assume that the Huawei Honor 6 is got the score between 37,000 and 38,000 points using AnTuTu.

And we trying to doing a third test using Basemark X, the Huawei Honor 6 is get 13,430 frame per second on screen and 20,692 frame per second off-screen.

While we also doing the fourth test using Vellamo benchmark test and the Huawei Honor 6 get 1,866 score points on HTML5 test while 1,111 points on Metal test.

This test is based on the system that not represent the features, while the Huawei Honor 6 is also has nice and great camera, slim and nice body design and has plenty of features that useful to use.

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The Honor 6 uses the Kiring 920 which is made up of four A15 cores and four A7 cores. Its GPU is the Mali-T628. This phone also sports a 5-inch 1080p touch screen, with 3GB RAM and 16/32GB internal memory space. It also has a 5mp/13mp dual-camera. Its operating system is the Android 4.4.2 and is powered. Lastly, it’s powered by a 3100 mAh battery.

Double-glass + double-reinforcement —- The Huawei Honor 6 disasembled

So How’s the first cell phone to use the Kirin 920? Let’s check it out!

Both sides are made of glass which is covered with a thermal pad.

The glass in the back is quite strong.

The motherboard is covered with a metallic shielding case, which, other than protecting the motherboard, makes the phone sturdier.

Inside the phone, it sues an L-type motherboard. More chips needed and the phone needs to be more compact to increase stability.

Top: dual flashlight

Bottom: Speaker

Metal shielding case

In addition to the shielding case, the phone is reinforced by a duralium case as well. According to the date it was produced, this was determined in June.

The Honor 6 uses a 3100mAh battery, making it one of the few cell phones with a 5-inch 1080p screen to use a battery with more than 3000mAh.

Left: Vibrator

Middle: speaker

Right: earphone port

It sports a 5mp/13mp Sony dual-camera and supports automatic beautification function.

Middle: Noise-cancelling microphone

Right: Infrared transmitter

A close-up of the Skyworks 77590-11 GSM/GPRS/EDGE chipset.

Close-up of the HiSi Hi6401 audio chip. Both the Huawei P6 and P7 use it.

Kirin 920 + Samsung’s 3GB RAM chip

Samsung’s 16GB internal memory storage chip

The Hi6561 power management chip.

MicroUSB port, recharging port, and speaker phone

WiFi and Blu Ray chips

Unlike other cell phones:

1. The Honor 6 guarantees 4G signal overflow, and uses a 3000mAh battery.
2. The Honor 6 uses the new Kirin 920 processor.

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After we’ve covered the news about the official lauching about the new flagship smartphone, the Huawei Honor 6, is now we have a review about the phone. The new Huawei Honor 6 is packs with 5 inch screen, 3GB of RAM and this is the first smartphone that powered by Huawei HiSilicon Kirin 920 octa-core processor made of four A15 cores and 4 A7 cores which Huawei thinks compares to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 chipset.The Huawei Honor 6 has officially release in Beijing on June 24th, 2014. Before now, the Huawei Honor 6 has spread as a rumors, and now this phone is come to the market and ready to beat the other flagship smartphone, such as Samsung Galaxy S5.

In addition, this phone is powered by Kirin 920 cota-core processor, the Huawei Honor 6 is not only greatly enhance the performance, and full support for 4G networks, it is the world’s first mobile phone to support LTE Cat6. This phone is also has good quality camera for photograph enthusiast.

The Huawei Honor 6 is comes with 13 megapixel rear-facing camera and 5 megapixel front-facing camera, the main camera has f/2.0 aperture which uses Sony camera sensor. This phone is running with Huawei Emotion UI 2.3 based on Android 4.4.2 KitKat operating system. The phone is also powering up with 3,100 mAh battery capacity.

Design:

Before the Huawei Honor 6 is officially release, there is many rumors and the leaked picture about this phone. And now we have a detail real picture of the new Huawei Honor 6 smartphone. And this phone has a lots of breakthroughs in the past to increase design elements,  even can be said to be the strongest sense of Honor-series designed phone. Here is the detail picture of Huawei Honor 6 smartphone.

Huawei Honor 6 has 139.6mm x 69.7mm x 7.5mm body dimension, relative slimmer than the Huawei Ascend P7, the phone is also has 7.5mm body thickness.The expense of the body thickness has brought more large since the phone is comes with 3,100mAh battery capacity.

The new Huawei Honor 6 is using 5.0 inch that has 1080p screen resolution, the screen material is produce by JDI if you think the 5.0inch screen size is too big, you’re wrong because today the big screen is the new trends for most flagship smartphone, the big screen smartphone is now more acceptable by the user. The new Huawei Honor 6 is has 2.86mm ultra-narrow border, accounting for up to 75.7% of the screen, the whole body is very compact. Screen covering the third generation of Corning Glass, the ability to enhance anti-scratch, anti-fingerprint coating layer.

Huawei Honor 6 is using the virtual soft button, the soft button is locate on the screen, this soft button is similar function with the ordinary regular physical soft button. From left to right are the return key, Home key, and Task button. The virtual keys are also available at any time and can be hide but the user can sliding the finger on the screen and the soft button will appear again.

The top of the front design is look more conventional design, there is a light sensor, distance sensor, speaker, and front-facing camera. The Honor 6 has 5 megapixel front facing camera  with a 88-degree wide-angle and self-timer camera feature.

Headphone jack is located on top of the phone, while the continuation of the Honor series smartphone, this Honor 6 is also has smart remote control functionality, there is infra red port in the top of the phone, the remote control feature can be used to almost any electronic home appliance. The phone frame is made from metal materil, this material design is look more rigid and solid.

There is USB port in the midle bottom of the phone, next the microphone hole. The phone is also has nice rounded corner body design, this design aspects is feel like the premium smartphone with nice design and good quality material.

Left side of the phone is look clean, because there is nothing here.

There is volume button and power button on the right side of the body.

In the bottom of the power button, there is a hidden memory card slot and double SIM card slot, siunce the Huawei Honor 6 is comes with dual SIM card support.

The back body of Huawei Honor 6 is look shiny, the camera is located on the left of top along with LED flash light, while the “honor” logo is located on the middle, the button part is speaker phone.

Screen Display

The Huawei Honor 6 has 5 inch screen size with 1920 × 1080p screen resolution, the screen is covered by Corning Gorilla Glass 3, this material is more strong than the previous model of the Gorilla Glass.

It is worth mentioning that the Huawei Honor 6 phone has built a dedicated color temperature adjustment, the user can according to their own habits screen experience, manually adjust the color temperature of the screen in line with their own visual experience.

Here is the screen comparison between Huawei Honor 6 vs OPPO Find 7 smartphone :

From the comparison result, the new Huawei Honor 6 has more bright than the OPPO Fond 7.

The screen is offers very nice color that the color look more vivid and clean.

While for now, the screen of Huawei Honor 6 is offers excellent screen after al, as we can see on the example picture the phone screen is very good.

Huawei Hisilicon Kirin 920 chipset Introduction – qualitative improvement

The phone is equipped with Huawei Hisilicon Kirin 920 chipset, this is the new processor that developed by Huawei and the processor is strong enough, since the processor has powerful performance. In architecture, Kirin 920 uses four A15 and A7 core big.LITTLE architecture, while supporting HMP (Heterogeneous Multi-Processing) technology, you can dynamically control the different core collaborate, while quad-core and quad-core Cortex-A15 Cortex-A7 can work together.

Kirin 920 uses nice GPU aspect since integrates the ARM Mali-T628MP4 chipset , running on 600MHz, this is more powerfull than the  previous model Mali-450MP4 Kirin 910, the performance of Mali-T628MP4 has been greatly improved, support for up to 2560 x 1600 resolution display in the game Compatibility also has a large optimization. In addition, as always, in terms of powerful video decoding, support for ultra-high-definition audio codec also supports H.265, 4K ultra high-definition full HD video decoding.

If Huawei Kirin 920 more advantages compared to competing products in what respect, then obviously the baseband integration is strong, integrate Huawei’s LTE Advanced communications module, integrated chip is already high, it can support both TD-LTE / LTE FDD / TD-SCDMA / WCDMA / GSM five kinds of formats, and can run at very low power consumption, and is the world’s first to support LTE Cat6 standard (high pass 805 products not yet available), the maximum downlink speed of 300Mbps . Huawei engineers spoke Huawei Kirin 920 in addition to the use of advanced big.LITTLE architecture, 28mm HPM foreign advanced technology, it is for the CPU, GPU, DDR, ISP, Display, more than 10 modules to do a detailed design and power consumption simulation, while the built-in professional audio processors Tensilica HIFI3.

We need to note that the sensor is now more and more mobile devices, so many mainstream chips are integrated auxiliary processor to achieve a low-power management of various types of sensors, in Kirin920 body is no exception. Under co-processor built-in ultra low-power standby state monitoring of peripheral sensors. Meanwhile, in order to reduce the power consumption of the chip, which also implements that do not stop (auto-stop) power saving technology.

Processing performance CPU / GPU compared to the previous generation did leap, 2-4 times can improve performance, but we can not ignore to improve memory performance, which also has a great influence on the processing speed of the machine. Glory 6 built- 3GB of memory to run big. Clocked at 800MHz LPDDR3, memory bandwidth by 1.8 times, while the secondary cache L2 also upgraded twice, which for the performance of the machine has been a great help.

Compare competing products

In terms of performance specifications, Hisilicon Kirin 920 has enough clout to challenge the rival, faced with Qualcomm, MediaTek, Samsung and other top chipset maker, Hisilicon Kirin 920 has a decent CPU performance, while mainstream GPU also catch levels, able to promote mainstream stage 1080p display, while the base support networks with Qualcomm also has capital one ratio.

Specification Comparison

Huawei 4G baseband integration is not inferior to Qualcomm, before Kirin 910T series has good support for 4G LTE networks. The Kirin 920 more able to support LTE Cat 6 standard, and has the ability to support global band. It also supports SGLTE / CSFB and VoLTE voice calls such as 4G networl.

While running points may not represent actual performance, but as a reference anyway. Then take a look at the performance of Hisilicon Kirin 920 runs.

CPU chip comparison

As we can see in CPU-Z, Kirin 920 has eight core big.LITTLE architecture, which are the 4 core of ​​A15 and 4 core A7, the former clocked at 1.3GHz, while the latter is 1.7GHz, relying HMP (Heterogeneous Multi-Processing) technology eight cores can work simultaneously. As contrast Kirin 910T chip, which will still be four A9 core architecture, performance is relatively weak, with GPU performance aspects behind.

Kirin 920 chip

 
Kirin 910T chip

The Benchmark Test

Here is the benchmark results from basic safety point of view, the Honor 6 equipped with Kirin 920 chip, sports with 3GB of memory, the strong overall performance. And the phone is get more 40,000 points, this is quite amazing. Comparing with Huawei Hisilicon K3V2 chip configuration, that only get about 26,000 points, belonging to the end of the level.

Kirin 920 run points

 
Hass K3V2 score

The Huawei Honor 6 has significantly enhance the processing of CPU performance, GPU performance upgrade is worth attention. We also tested the machine using 3DMARK, BASEMARK graphics test software, which seemed at ease. As a result of ARM’s GPU chip, so the game can be guaranteed compatibility. Therefore, the hardware configuration is already in the mainstream top level performance, the Honor 6 is potential to beat Samsung, Qualcomm and other commercially flagship chipset configuration.

Although the chip has just launched Huawei Hass not has compatibility problems, Hass Kirin 910 and 910T is not has compatibility issues. Huawei 6 equipped with Kirin 920 actual test, most games, especially is popular game running smoothly. And decoding audio and video playback chip has natural strengths, Hass has been tested to encondig the multimedia files including mp4, wmv, rmvb, mpg, mov, mkv, flv, avi, 3gp and many other video formats, can be successfully decoded, 720P and 1080P can smooth playback.

4G Networks: The first smartphone to support LTE Cat6

Huawei Hisilicon Kirin 920 incorporates Huawei’s LTE Advanced communications module, the world’s first to support LTE Cat6 standard, Cat6 and Cat4 LTE network protocols are different categories, such as Qualcomm 800 series is Cat4 standards. Generally supported the theoretical maximum speed Internet access while the Cat4 can reach 150Mbps, and the Cat6 support theoretical Internet speeds of up to 300Mbps, FDD scenes peak data transfer rate of up to 300Mbps, the theoretical speed 3G (21M) 14 times, 4G ( Cat4) 2 times. Fengyun SoC also supports TD-LTE/LTE FDD / TD-SCDMA / WCDMA / GSM network standard five, as well as all major global bands, enabling seamless roaming in more than 100 countries worldwide.

Huawei Honro 6 has higher than any other phone which uses 3dB antenna reception, the equivalent of doubling the user signal strength, in the case of poor network coverage calls and Internet environment to ensure smooth. Huawei Honor 6 conducted a comprehensive laboratory existing network environment, the use of independent chip – RF circuit – antenna integrated solution, adjusted to the optimum overall communication performance.

In the TD-LTE network, Honor 6 get the maximum downlink speeds approaching to 60Mbps, the maximum downlink speeds of around 5Mbps. We intuitively see that the actual download files, Huawei 6 is works with 4G network in China Unicom, the download speeds in excess of 6MB / s, this rate has been far beyond the speed of 3G network, we can see that sooner or later the 4G networks will replace the 3G network and 4G connectivity will become standard in the future.

Dual-band WiFi + free hotspots nationwide

Huawei Honor 6 has 2.4GHz/5GHz dual-band WiFi support, includes a complete 802.11a/b/g/n wireless network, which belongs to the fifth generation of Wi-Fi transmission technology (5G Wi-Fi). Advantages of dual-band Wifi devices that have a stronger and more stable Wifi wireless signal, faster transfer speeds, and allows wireless devices more energy to meet future wireless transmission of high definition and big data requirements.

Another surprise is that the Honor 6 users will enjoy of free WiFi service throughout the country since we have more than 6.5 million WiFi hotspots. 10 million hours long free WiFi, no need the password for a key access, the WiFi is free. This feature means , as long as you are in the vicinity of the Honor of free hotspots, is a key to connect to the free WiFi, the user is really a very attractive feature.

Guangzhou urban area, for example, in large shopping malls and crowded places, such as Grandview Plaza, Beijing Road Pedestrian Street and other places, it is easy to search for the free hotspots. Meanwhile, the functional description of “the WLAN service is based on China Mobile, China Telecom, ease of use,” so users can be assured of their safety. Just around the hot spots, Honor 6 will notify you if the free WiFi is available, just click a connect button, it will automatically connect to the network.

The connection process is only takes a few seconds, while applying the WiFi icon will tell you when ww got the great strength, as well as free WiFi signals long.

Life saving: High Density Battery

In the present mobile phone battery technology has not yet made the leap of progress, the mobile phone manufacturers in general practice can only continue to increase battery capacity. And the Honor  6 in addition to increasing the battery capacity, but also open up the path to increase the energy density of the battery choice. Honor 6 using large capacity battery that has 3100mAh lithium polymer battery, the energy density of up to 590Wh / L, has now the highest level in the sale of cell phones. In addition, the smart system of Honor 6 hardware and software integration electric power saving technology, the use of five power-down program, 30% less power than other systems.

Honor  6 system offers specialized power-saving management, performance mode, intelligent power-saving (default), super power and other scenarios, in addition to providing comprehensive power consumption testing, a key detection to tell you what the power consumption in the background, and how you can set up more power, very intimate.

Another special mention of the Honor 6 is the super power-saving mode, after opening this mode, the interface will automatically switch deep tones, and retain only the basic functions such as calls and text messages, turn off the network, turn off all the remaining applications. By this extreme power saving mode, tested remaining 10% power, the Honor 6 smartphone can stand more than 24 hours.

Honor 6 has a large capacity and high energy density batteries, lower power consumption in the phone’s battery life.

System: continuous improvement Emotion 2.3

Honor 6 is continue to use the Emotion UI version 2.3. This is different from the recent rumors that syas tthe phone will uses Emotion UI v3.0. This version is a relatively mature version.

The lock-screen is look good, while the animation is more complex but this interface is nice and very smooth for your daily activity. Pull down the slide from the top status bar, slide the bottom can be opened from the shortcut bar. The default choice of the theme “glare (magazine lock screen)”, light up the screen lock screen wallpaper will change every time, pull the bottom action bar can be suspended automatically switch, switch to the next or the collection of the current picture, and so on.Several of the most commonly used shortcut should be the flashlight, after all, quickly open the flashlight in the dark is more a sense of security.

The Honor 6 themes is look good and cool. The user can download the new themes and the Huawei is also always up to date with the current issue and moments, so when we are in the middle of World Cup event, there is a lots of themes that uses keyword “2014 World Cup” theme. Also supports custom settings, you can replace wallpaper, fonts, etc. by yourself, with the common theme of all systems is not much difference.

The Huawei Honor 6 is still using the Android core for the based operating system, so most user can uses this phone with more intuitrive and very user friendly interface.

The status bar is divided into two parts, the left side of the main display notifications and partial information, the right is a variety of fast switching. You can slide left and right to switch between each other, relatively smoothly. It is worth mentioning that after the top left of the screen from the drop-down status bar will show a limited notification bar, pull down from the top right of the screen directly into the quick switch bar, familiar with this little trick is very easy to use.

All settings are divided into common settings and set two columns, based on common settings Huawei domestic users accustomed department points out common features, of course, which is also Huawei’s “special” function.

Do Not Disturb mode is very common here without tables. The phone prompts which said only after the effects of open and did not illustrate the principle. In fact, this is technically the screen resolution from 1080p (1920×1080) think down to 720p (1280×720), which can effectively reduce the CPU computational burden, not only to speed up the phone run faster, but also can effectively increase endurance, in the small screen on, 1080p down to 720p resolution after resolution, the screen will not have a significant grainy, small measured effectively.

Emotion supports dual card management, the Honor 6 is comes with two SIM card slots, supports dual SIM dual standby. Also support for customize boot management, the user can change the boot animation screen without root the system.

You can show or hide the softbutton below the screen, since the softbutton is appear in the screen rather than in physically under the screen.

The phone is also support for DTS sound technology.

The application comes with a special market, free flow area is within the area by application developers, telecommunications operators and handset manufacturer.

 
Magnifying mirror

Built-in mirror function is actually very simple, just use the front camera to see our face, but which joined Huawei in the application of some of the more handy tools, more interesting. In addition, there is also a “magnifying glass” feature, this is the capability of macro mode lens in the phone.

 
Driving mode browser

Driver Mode is the Huawei efforts for make the user safety, so you can use the phone while driving but this is not recommended.

ITES 2.0 – Universal remote control center

Smart Remote is the new feature that comes to Honor 6, the principle is the use of infrared transmitter to the top of the fuselage remote control device, the Honor 6 has built-in independent infrared remote control chipset, the world’s leading supplier of pre-infrared code library without downloading. You can uses this phone to remote your TV, DVD Player, Music Player, AC, and other home appliance.

You can setting up the new device when you didn’t find the remote system in the database, so you have to align the infrared with other infra red port in the real remote control, the you have to press the button on the real remote control before press the button on the phone.

Camera features: first pictures after joining Focus

Huawei 6 is equipped with  13 megapixels rear camera, this camera is uses Sony stacked fourth-generation BSI camera with F2.0 large aperture and 5P aspherical lens, greatly enhance the amount of light, and is equipped with dual LED flash. Another independent research and development of Huawei’s Professional image processing engine fully upgraded, lead to higher quality performance and low-light shooting capabilities. The Honor  6 has 5 megapixels camera, with large viewing angle 88 degrees, more panoramic view and you can take the good quality self picture.

The Honor 6 has very rich options for camera mode, such as smart scene, HDR, Burst preferred function is quite useful and easier to get good pictures under different scenarios.

Here we look at the “full focus camera” function, which is to take pictures after the focus is how to achieve. Choose whole-focus function when taking picture.

Flowers above, we will focus on the background behind the scheduled close naturally become blurred. If the focus will be on the back of the building, then the flowers become blurred. So full focus camera lets you take pictures of the case earlier, and then manually adjust the late, very playable and practicality.

The largest indoor pictures under the feeling is quite good white balance control, room light did not appear the phenomenon of color cast. Thanks to the large aperture lens and Sony stacks, better preserved sample details, picture noise control is also satisfactory.

Huawei Honor 6 is the new member from the Huawei honor series smartphone, not only is the first mobile phone equipped with Hisilicon Kirin 920, is the world’s first mobile phone to support LTE Cat6 standard. Honor 6 is the new high-end flagship smartphone that comes from Huawei company. This is phone has good quaity camera for photography enthusiast.

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Huawei Honor 6 is released today in Beijing, it packs a new generation HiSilicon Kirin 920 octa-core processor, along with 3GB DDR 3 RAM. As official benchmark testing score, it beyond Oneplus one, to be the highest resolution Android phone so far.

Huawei Honor 6 equips a 5-inch FHD screen, 1920×1080 pixel display, 13-megapixel rear camera, it’s Sony Imax 214 CMOS lens, as same as Oneplus one and Oppo Find 7. Huawei Honor 6 price is lower than our expectation, only RMB1999 (about $327) for 16GB, and RMB2229 ($365) for 32GB.

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Huawei had previously implied that they would release five new products tonight. Other than the Honor 6, what else are they going to launch?

Today, Huawei’s vice-CEO, Yu Chengdong, posted a message saying that beside the Honor 6, they are still preparing the Honor 3C China Telecom Edition, Honor Cube, and Honor TalkBand. The latter two have already been introduced to the public. Tonight, Huawei will reveal what their prices and release dates are. As of now, they have not announced what the fifth product will be.

Based on information that has been released so far, the Honor 6 sports a 5-inch 1080p screen, a 5mP/13mP dual-camera, and 3GB memory. It supports 4G internet and was supposed Huawei’s newest chipset, the Kirin 920, but due to recent circumstances, it looks lik they will use a Snapdragon processor.

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On June 24, Huawei will hold a big launch event for their new product, the gigantic Honor 6.

Based on official information released by Huawei, launch-goers will be charged an 2998 RMB entrance free. If that sounds surprising, then those who attend will get a free Honor 6, whose actual price is the same as the entrance fee.

According to reports, the Honor 6, whose model name is “Mulan,” has a 5-inch 1080p screen, 5mP/13mP dual-camera, and 3GB of RAM. Most importantly, it will be the first cellphone to run on the octa-core Kirin920 chipset.

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Recently, weibo user @建华Wei业showed photos in his account of what is supposed to be the new flagship of Huawei’s Honor series. Based on the photos, it seems to have a resemblance to older phones, especially if you look at it from the side where it looks like a copy of the Ascend P1, but the camera is not indented.

Huawei might skip naming it the Honor 4, instead calling it the Honor 6. If so, then the one in the photos may be an earlier design, which adds the possibility that some changes may have been done.

This phone has a 5-inch FHD touch-screen and runs on the Haisi Kirin 920 octa-core chipset with a main frequency of 1.3GHz. Its GPU is the Mali-T624 and has a built-in memory of 3GB RAM and 16GB memory space. It also has a 5mP front camera and a 13mP rear camera.

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