After last September released Ideos X5, affordable Android phone with a pretty good spec, Huawei launched the Android phone specifications that are quite competitive but still affordable, Huawei U8860 Honor. The specifications are: Processor 1.4 GHz, 512MB RAM, 4GB internal memory, Micro SD, 4-inch capacitive screen 16:9 FWVGA (854x480 pixels), 8MP camera and 720p video recording, front 2MP camera, 1900 mAh battery, Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread. With the price of Rp. Could 3000.000 Honor compete with Android smartphones from major brands with similar price? Wait for the reviews more in TeknoUp, Technology Speaking.
Sales Package
Warranty Card
Quick Start Guide
Battery 1900 mAh
Charger + USB cable
3.5 mm standard headset
Design and body
It is inevitable, Huawei Honor is similar to the iPhone when viewed at an angle of a curved front and silver on the list around the body. Honor that we receive back the glossy white. This glossy material it would create dust and sweat from your hands to stick. 8MP camera and the loudspeaker, along with the Huawei logo Google logo below adorn the back of Huawei Honor. The back cover serves as a battery, so you can take it off. Huawei Honor comes with volume keys, 3.5 mm audio jack, micro USB port, unfortunately there is no camera button. For his own physique was average although a bit heavy (140 grams). Thickness of only 11 mm is also still quite fitting to grip, plus the rear body contour that follows the grip, only the flat side which makes it somewhat prominent in the clutch.
Screen
Full Wide VGA resolution (854x480 pixels) with 4-inch wide screen makes viewing Huawei Honor sharp and easy on the eyes, with a pixel density of 245 pixels per inch. TFT LCD screen is still using it, but at the right angle of vision, the screen looks good. The angle of vision is less good. The resulting color is nice and sunny, but the contrast was not high enough. Outdoors with the conditions in the hot sun, the performance standards of course, tend to reflect the shadow.
Interface
Unlike Ideos X5, Huawei equip Honor with the interface-customization well, with various transition effects on the screen. Not surprising because 1.4 GHz processor and 512MB RAM used this phone is capable to produce these effects, so the performance of this phone is seamless and smooth. Lock screen has 4 pieces of shortcuts that can be opened by sliding the lock icons: messaging, call log, unlock the screen and the camera.
In the default condition homescreen consists of 5 pieces home, fixed with 4 icons below the menu screen, messaging, phone and browser. Transfer of home along with the cube-style 3D effects (Transparent cube), but if you do not like you can replace it with effects and Rotation Slide in Home-> menu button-> home setting-> animation. In the Home Setting this there are various options such as theme, application icons, download themes, animated home screen. There is also an option to choose how much you need homescreen, home screen option to select the initial (default) and the single screen wallpaper.
Arranged in a horizontal main menu with icons of a 4x4 icon. Arrangement of icons you can change as you please, by first touching the settings icon at the bottom. For notification bar like Samsung Android phones have a variety of buttons to activate / deactivate WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, Auto Data switch and rotate. In addition to the notifications appear as usual.
Input Text
There are three input methods to Honor the embedded keyboard Android, Huawei IME Input and TouchPal. For TouchPal as usual QWERTY arrangement, but you can turn it into phonepad (123/abc). Ease back you can change the key size to be larger if you feel the standard size too small. In addition there are regular features such as sound and vibration, and the language used.
Phonebook
As Android phones in general you could build your phonebook and synchronize with your Google, Facebook, Twitter. From your contacts can see the profile picture, update status of the relevant, email address, and other information that he shared in the account Facebook / Twitter. In fact you can see the media (photos and video) that he uploaded via Facebook. For new contacts, some additional fields that can be selected is the ringtone, IM, Email, Postal, Organization, Notes, nickname, Website and Birthday.
Messaging
SMS writing interface in a very intuitive and easy to use, you can simply select a new contact, phonebook, or group. There is a paperclip icon to add the attachment and to convert SMS to MMS. Alias threaded conversation view mode of course complement these Android phones.
Push email, sync your Google Mail all went well and can support multiple Gmail accounts at once as well as standard features such as signatures, text size, label, notification, and others. If there is any incoming e-mail notification in the notification bar. Huawei mobile messenger for GTalk with the option of Honor is always online everytime we turn on the phone. Of course you only replace settingannya for automatic online no. Notification settings can also be done both ringtone and vibrate.
Camera
Photography classes for mid-end phones Huawei Honor include steady, equipped with 8 megapixel resolution camera. Unlike the overall interface, camera interface of Honor is a standard Android. Its features include exposure, scene modes, resolution, quality, white balance and color effects. Others, LED flash, location and features of HDR for better picture quality. The focus continues to be automatic, but the touch function to focus not available.
The results of Huawei Honor camera is pretty good with the colors are quite beautiful and natural, but to condition the indoor noise that is quite disturbing. To download the original size photos please go to this link.
Video recorder
Features in video recording include color effects, white balance, flash, and video quality. But unfortunately there is no option for the desired video resolution than 1280x720 pixels.
Video recording produces a file of 59MB for a duration of 1 minute 720p file. The resulting data rate is 8000kbps with 26 frames per second framerate.
Music Players
The music player comes with a little modification of the default Android, with the division under Albums, Songs, Playlists, Folders and Artist, Composerd and Genres. Display the Now Playing like Album Art to decorate any music player, and the lyrics of the song being played. There are a variety of sound effects that can be used, such as SRS Wow HD, and Equalizer in general (Acoustic, blues, classical, hip-hop, jazz, pop, rock, techno and voice). There is no editor to create a manual equalizer. Sound from the loudspeaker is very tight, but as usual the speaker phone in general dominated by a very sharp treble.
Photo and Video Gallery
3D gallery of typical congenital complete Android Honor, which displays all the photos and videos in your storage. Pinch and zoom can be done fairly quickly and its performance. We can directly upload / share photos via Facebook, Twitter, MMS, Picasa and others. Then there are images that can be used as wallpaper, in the crop, or rotated.
Mp4 video resolution to 720p from Youtube can be rotated smoothly. Divx files (avi) can not be rotated, mkv 720p picture but the sound came out very lag. This video player built-its very little, except to say there is no timeline and backward / pause / forward. One more is less fun, to the videos that the resolution under the screen resolution looks Honor can not full screen, perform in accordance with the resolution so that the black frame surrounded on either side.
FM Radio
To hear the radio broadcasts you must plug the headset as an antenna receiver. FM Radio application can scan the broadcast, select the region, show ID and others stations.
Connectivity
Huawei Honor runs on Quadband GSM networks and HSDPA 900/1700/2100 850/1800/1900/2100 with HSDPA internet connectivity up to 14.4 mbps. For others there is WiFi connectivity 802.11 b / g / n, GPS, Bluetooth 2.1 and Micro USB and WiFi tethering capabilities.
Web Browsing
Huawei browser Honor course standards. Tabs that open up to 8 pieces, have the ability to play flash. Performance of the browser is quite fast, no lag is annoying even when you open the desktop version of the site. Play 720p on Youtube flash video directly from the browser does not have significant problems, all of them fairly well. In addition there are a variety of default settings such as browser history, cookies, javascript and others.
Default Applications
Third-party applications
Both applications are running smoothly in Honor: MyTrans (local tv streaming 2 in Indonesia) and MX Player (third-party video player). With software decoding 720p mkv file runs smoothly on the MX player, subtitle appears.
Benchmark Results
Quadrant Standard: 2151
Neocore 3D: 60.7 fps
Multitouch tester: maximum of 2 touches
Durability Battery
With a capacity of 1950 mAh battery can last Huawei Honor from morning till night with normal usage, continues to connect to WiFi, a 10-minute timeout, and other uses for the purposes of review.
Conclusion
With a price of USD 3 million, is actually in a similar price range are even cheaper, there are still some competitors such as Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo / Neo V, and Samsung Galaxy W. Huawei has an advantage for the resolution of the camera, larger screen and a large capacity battery. But of course, much remains to be addressed such as indoor photo quality and screen quality are used.
Excess
8mp camera
1.4 GHz processor
customization interface with Huawei
output from the loudspeaker loud
Shortage
noise for indoor shooting quite disturbing
and performance point of view of the screen in sunlight is not good
no camera shutter button
