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What is Huawei HarmonyOS or HongMengOS or OakOS ?

Of course, the OS is one of the main components of any smart device, providing its functionality and correct operation in various modes. Therefore, many choose a smartphone taking into account the capabilities of its OS. Accordingly, all smartphone manufacturers pay great attention to this aspect. More recently, companies mainly used Android, Apple iOS, Windows Phone, Symbian, etc. But after the discontinuation of support for Windows Phone and Symbian, their list was reduced to Android and iOS. The share of other operating systems, including Bada, Palm OS, Open WebOS, Maemo, etc is too insignificant. At the same time, Android is clearly ahead of its main competitor due to the huge number of various smart devices running under this OS. Moreover, in 2019, Google introduced the new Android 10.

EMUI (Emotion UI)

Usually, Google develops a new version, downloads its source code for free, and releases an update for its Pixel smartphones. After that, each manufacturer can take a new free Android version from Google and use it on their smartphone, including after editing. In practice, all major manufacturers are developing their own interface for Android, including UX (LG), One UI (Samsung), MIUI (Xiaomi), etc. Huawei was no exception and developed EMUI (Emotion UI) based on Android. In fairness, many users prefer to get rid of it by installing a "clean" Android from Google. Since 2012, Huawei regularly offers new EMUI versions. 2019 was no exception. At IFA 2019, the company introduced EMUI 10 for Android 10. Today it's already available for most Huawei models, including the flagship P20, Pro, P30 Pro, Mate 20 Pro, etc. This version uses a magazine style with large headlines, an enlarged font, a clear grid layout of icons, etc. In addition, the design uses the “Morandi color palette” (Giorgio Morandi - Italian painter) in pastel colors, instead of the traditional blue, white and black colors. Additionally, EMUI 10 supports third-party icon rendering using the adaptive Huawei mask, providing a consistent display style. The new desktop in EMUI 10 uses an increased scale with a grid of 4 x 6 icons. In general, EMUI 10 proportionally optimizes all aspects of the interface, including displaying notifications, settings menu, dark theme, animation, camera interface, etc.

HarmonyOS (Oak OS or HongMeng OS in China)

As known, the company began developing the HarmonyOS in 2017. Initially, version 1.0 was focused on IoT (Internet of Things). Today the company promises to introduce the v2.0 microkernel (μ-kernel) in 2020. Then, in 2021, Huawei plans to introduce a third version with enhanced device support. HarmonyOS v1.0 uses the Linux kernel in conjunction with its own μ-kernel. But in the future, perhaps starting with v2.0, the company is considering leaving only its own μ-kernel. Of course, US government sanctions against Huawei substantially adjusted the plans of the Chinese giant. The threat of restricting access to Android services provoked the company to accelerate the development of its own OS. As a result, at the Developers Conference 2019, Huawei introduced its own new HarmonyOS for smart devices, including smartphones. Of course, HarmonyOS is fully compatible with the Android apps that Huawei has been developing since 2012. However, Huawei has repeatedly denied rumors about the rejection of the super-popular Android. Apparently, the company uses HarmonyOS as insurance in case of conflict escalation. Nevertheless, smartphones with this OS have already been introduced. Under certain circumstances, Android and iOS may soon face a very serious competitor. In December, the company introduced the first Honor Vision TVs running Harmony OS in China.

General information

HarmonyOS uses TTE (Trusted Execution Environment) with the protected CPU data. As known, TTE guarantees the protection of code and data, ensuring absolute confidentiality. In fact, the OS is a microkernel with a large number of modules for each device type, taking into account their application scenarios. This solution significantly increases the OS efficiency, increasing the speed of information processing by about 30%. Of course, the company guarantees the correct operation of all apps, regardless of the device type. Additionally, open source allows programmers to use any programming language, ensuring its compatibility with any OS. Differences from EMUI include a new boot animation, advanced customization, screen settings using widgets, lock screen settings, etc. Huawei used the Mate 30 for internal OS testing. Thus, the Huawei Mate 30 could be the first series based on the Harmony OS. In addition to smartphones, Huawei plans to use Harmony in TVs, PCs, laptops, smart watches and bracelets. In fact, the company plans to create a smart series similar to LG's TwinQ. Of course, its primary implementation will take place in the Chinese market. But management also noted the company's ability to adapt all its products to HarmonyOS if necessary in just two days.

Key Features

- free distribution; - great compatibility. Unlike Android, Huawei Harmony OS uses a microkernel similar to Google Fuchsia OS. This guarantees its versatility, ensuring compatibility with any device type; - instant installation on all Huawei devices. Unfortunately, Harmony does not support Android apps by default and require the use of, for example, Huawei's ARK compiler; - at the first stage, Huawei plans Harmony OS only for devices in the Chinese market; - open source opens up good prospects for cooperation in the development of a new OS with OPPO, Vivo and Xiaomi; - own app store (Huawei AppGallery instead of Google Play and Huawei Mobile Services instead of Google Play Services); - higher performance. Unlike Linux cores with a relatively large amount of code, microkernels have a smaller amount of common code and provide faster communication between system components; - privacy protection with TTE; - no root access. As known, Root access is authorization to execute any command and access any resource on a device. Of course, this solution has pros and cons. Experience using this option for Android has demonstrated: PROS - allows the superuser to delete any pre-installed apps, change screensavers, limit Internet traffic, delete ads in apps, etc; - control of energy consumption. For example, some programs adjust the speed of CPU cores, slowing them down to reduce energy consumption without sacrificing performance; - the ability to overclock with the appropriate utilities. Of course, CPU must support the ability to work at higher frequencies. Cons - problems with a guarantee; - blocks the automatic updates due to custom recovery; - lack of licensed content, support for payment systems and banking apps; - significantly reduces protection against viruses; - rewriting internal memory, changing partitions, etc increase the risk of its failure.

Conclusion

According to the company, their system is faster than Android and iOS by about 60%, but this difference seems very high. Of course, today any predictions about the prospects of the new OS seem premature. Probably, Harmony OS has good prospects to become a new OS in the segment of smart devices, complementing Android and iOS. In this case, it will be able to take the place of Windows Phone and Symbian in the future. But the debugging process of the new universal ambitious OS is unlikely to be fast because of the task complexity. Unfortunately, the aggravation of trade confrontation can radically accelerate this process to the detriment of its quality. But consumers are unlikely to benefit from the emergence of a new OS with a traditionally large number of problems in the first stage. On the contrary, such a scenario can cause great damage to the reputation of this promising operating system. The video offers an overview of Huawei HarmonyOS. Read the full article

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huaei · 2 years

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Keyboard thailand version ของ Huawei ทำงานบนระบบปฏิบัติการ EmotionUI ของ Huawei แต่ต่างจาก Android ตรงที่ไม่มีอะไรเหมือน Android มีปุ่มเมนูที่ไม่พบใน Android มีลิ้นชักแอปที่คล้ายกับโทรศัพท์อื่นๆ ที่ทำงานบน Android

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moneydjnews · 4 years

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除手機、平板、PC，華為裝置 2020 年將全面搭載鴻蒙系統

深圳特區報報導，中國華為消費者業務軟體部總裁王成錄 8 日在「HUAWEI Talk 主題分享」帶來一場有關於 EMUI10 的演講；他並透露，明年華為除了手機、平板和電腦，其他裝置產品將全線搭載鴻蒙系統，並在海內外同步推進；鴻蒙系統的全面開源也將在明年 8 月正式開放。

EMUI 的全稱是「EmotionUI」，其為華為手機的作業系統，也是華為研發基於 Android 定製的作業系統，已更新至第十代。王成錄表示，除流暢度外，EMUI10 最大的技術亮點是「聯接」，其核心是華為自研的全場景分散式技術。

王成錄指出，應該要讓所有的智慧裝置透過軟體連起來，這是研發 EMUI10 的初衷。而華為之所以要做全場景分散式技術，主要是因為全球 IoT（物聯網）裝置劇增與應用體驗不匹配之間的矛盾。據物聯網研究機構 IoT Analytics 與科研社交網站 ResearchGATE 對全球 IoT…

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sevlani1 · 6 years

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Обзор Huawei MediaPad T1 10.0 LTE: две стороны одного планшета

Есть какая-то закономерность в том, что литерой «Т» в модельном номере обычно награждают устройства среднего ценового диапазона. Сперва серия смартфонов с этой буквой появилась у Sony, а теперь до нее добралась Huawei — и все продукты вновь из разряда середнячков. Первым вышел MediaPad T1 8.0 — довольно простенький, без наворотов. Зато он умел звонить, поддерживал передачу данных в сетях 3G и стоил в районе десяти тысяч рублей. Для тех, кто не собирается играть в 3D-игры — то что надо.

Недавно Huawei расширила линейку MediaPad T1 и выпустила еще два планшета — семидюймовый и десятидюймовый. У нас на тестировании старшая модель, полное название которой — Huawei MediaPad T1 10.0 LTE. Характеристики у «десятки» и «семерки» очень похожие — различаются они, по сути, только экранами и некоторыми незначительными мелочами.

⇡#Внешний вид и эргономичность

Внешность у MediaPad T1 10.0 не слишком примечательная. Можно сказать, что это просто планшет, без изысков, — никаких выделяющихся элементов в оформлении устройства нет. На лицевой панели нет ничего, кроме экрана, камеры и датчика приближения. Причем объектив камеры не слишком удачно расположен — 10-дюймовые планшеты чаще используют в альбомной ориентации, а в этом случае линза рискует оказаться под рукой. Странно, что объектив не поместили над экраном — там бы он выглядел уместнее.

Huawei MediaPad T1 10.0 LTE

Гаджет получился довольно компактным. Толщина корпуса у него небольшая — всего 8,3 миллиметра, за счет чего его можно положить в дополнительные, «узкие» карманы сумок и рюкзаков. Да и рамки вокруг экрана не слишком крупные. Весит устройство тоже сравнительно немного — 450 граммов. Для десятидюймового планшета это более чем приемлемые габариты и масса: хваленый iPad Air 2 весит всего на несколько граммов меньше, хотя по толщине, конечно, заметно отличается — 6,1 мм.

Huawei MediaPad T1 10.0 LTE — лицевая панель

Если закрыть глаза на странное расположение фронтальной камеры, можно сказать, что с эргономичностью у MediaPad T1 10.0 все в порядке. Клавиши включения и регулировки громкости вынесены на верхний (если рассматривать планшет в альбомной ориентации) торец, аккурат под указательный палец. У кнопок короткий и «прозрачный» ход. Универсальный 3,5-миллиметровый аудиоджек для подключения проводной гарнитуры находится на левом торце. Провод от наушников никак не мешает пользоваться устройством — расположение у него удачное. А вот тыльную камеру и ее вспышку тоже чересчур легко закрыть пальцами.

Huawei MediaPad T1 10.0 LTE — боковые торцы

Также на верхнем торце находятся гнезда для установки microSD- и Micro-SIM-карточек. Они прячутся под общей пластиковой заглушкой.

Huawei MediaPad T1 10.0 LTE — слоты для карточек памяти и симки

Интерфейс Micro-USB 2.0 вынесен на правый торец. Рядом с ним находится единственный микрофон. Очевидно, системы активного шумоподавления у MediaPad T1 10.0 нет. Нижний торец корпуса пустует.

Huawei MediaPad T1 10.0 LTE — правый торец

Корпус у планшета преимущественно выполнен из металла. Основная часть задней панели металлическая, по бокам от нее находятся вставки из белого пластика. На одной из них располагается объектив основной, пятимегапиксельной камеры со светодиодной вспышкой, а также решетка динамика.

Huawei MediaPad T1 10.0 LTE — задняя панель

Качество сборки планшета удовлетворительное: люфтов и подозрительных поскрипываний корпуса за неделю тестирования мы не обнаружили, однако при сдавливании с боков он ощутимо гнется. Вероятно, конструкции не хватает ребер жесткости. Тем не менее цветных разводов на матрице не возникает — и хорошо.

⇡#Технические характеристики

Huawei MediaPad T1 10.0 LTE Дисплей 9,6 дюйма, 1280 × 800, IPS Сенсорный экран Емкостный, до десяти одновременных касаний Воздушная прослойка Есть Олеофобное покрытие Есть Поляризационный фильтр Есть Процессор Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 (MSM8916): четыре ядра ARM Cortex-A53, частота 1,2 ГГц; техпроцесс 28 нм Графический контроллер Qualcomm Adreno 306, 400 МГц Оперативная память 1 Гбайт Флеш-память 16 Гбайт Разъемы 1 × micro-USB 2.0 1 × microSD 1 × разъем для гарнитуры 3,5 мм 1 × micro-SIM Сотовая связь 2G/3G/4G LTE Cat. 4 (150 / 50 Мбит/с) Поддержка голосовых вызовов и SMS/MMS Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, 2,4 ГГц Bluetooth 4.0 NFC Нет ИК-порт Нет Навигация GPS, A-GPS, ГЛОНАСС, BeiDou Датчики Освещенности, акселерометр/гироскоп, цифровой компас Основная камера 5 Мп (2560 × 1920), автофокус, вспышка Фронтальная камера 1,9 Мп (1600 × 1200), без автофокуса Батарея Несъемный аккумулятор Емкость 18,24 Вт·ч (4800 мА·ч, 3,8 В) Беспроводная зарядка Нет Размер 248,5 × 150 мм Толщина корпуса 8,3 мм Масса 450 г Защита от воды и пыли Нет Операционная система Google Android 4.4.4 KitKat Фирменная оболочка EmotionUI 3.0 Официальная цена 19 990 рублей Начало продаж запланировано на апрель 2015 года

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Huawei Honor 6 Plus with Featured Review

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Huawei Honor 6 Plus with Featured Review

Huawei’s successful Honor series received a handful of additions to its repertoire last year including the Honor 6 and Honor 6 Plus. In the same month Huawei also launched the Honor 6 Plus, which features a nearly identical build and spec sheet as the Honor 6, just in a larger body.

Specs

The Huawei Honor 6 Plus doesn’t set the bar for any kind of bleeding edge specs, but it’s no slouch either. Performance wise the Honor 6 Plus contends with most high-end phones that came out in 2014, with only later entries like the Galaxy Note 4 and Nexus 6 pulling ahead. Powered by Huawei’s own Kirin 925 Octo-core processor, which is a slight bump up from the Kirin 920 in the Honor 6, as well as a new high-end standard 3GB and a larger 5.5-inch screen over the Honor 6, this phone is near the cream of the crop.

5.5-inch 1080p IPS LCD

HiSilicon Kirin 925 Octo-Core CPU (1.8GHz Cortex-A15 Quad-core, 1.3GHZ Cortex-A7 Quad-core)

Mali-T628 MP6 GPU

3 GB of RAM

16/32GB internal storage, microSD card support

3600 mAh Li-Po battery

Android 4.4.2, Emotion UI 3.0 Skin

Dual 8MP rear-facing cameras, Dual-LED flash

8MP front-facing camera

Dual-SIM support

150.5mm tall, 75.7mm wide, 7.5mm thin

165g

The Honor 6 Plus supports a wide range of spectrum that works throughout the world, but only up to 3G HSPA in most countries that aren’t China. If your country’s LTE bands are on the list and your carrier uses the technology, the Honor 6 Plus supports LTE Cat-6 Carrier Aggregation.

2G: GSM 900/1800/1900MHz

3G: HSPA 850/900/1900/2100MHz

4G: LTE 1800/2100/2600MHz (Band 1, 3, 7, 38, 39, 40, 41)

Display

The display on the Honor 6 was already one of the better 1080p LCD displays I’ve ever seen, but the one packed in the Honor 6 Plus is even better. Ghosting is almost non-existent and isn’t noticeable in anything I tried, which is a marked improvement over the other LCD’s out there I’ve seen with good black levels. The only issue here are the viewing angles, where light bleed from the sides of the device become obvious as you tilt the screen, but are completely unnoticeable when viewing straight on.

Hardware and Build

The build quality of the Honor 6 Plus feels largely the same as the Honor 6 before it, however this time around Huawei actually used metal for the sides of the device instead of the faux brushed-metal looking plastic. This results in a higher quality feeling device, especially when it’s cooler and you can feel the cold metal against the sides of your hands. The back is the same shiny plastic glass material and the same pattern underneath as the Honor 6 has, which gives it a bit of an elegant appearance. Huawei kept the unique 3-sided trim around the device where both sides and the top of the phone feature a metal trim, but the bottom is a smooth rounded plastic.

Looking at the right side of the device you’ll find both volume rocker closest to the top of the device, the power button just under that, and both SIM card trays below the power button. What’s really cool that Huawei did here was make two different sized SIM tray slots, so one fits a micro SIM and one fits a nano SIM. On the top side of the device you’ll find an RF blaster for remote control of TV’s and other RF-controlled devices, with a noise-canceling mic to the left and a 3.5mm headset jack to the right. The bottom side of the phone has a microUSB port nestled right in the middle of the device with another noise-cancelling mic to its left.

Moving onto the face of the device you’ll find no physical buttons at all, as the screen takes up the vast majority of the face. Above the screen you’ll find the earpiece with the proximity and light sensors above it, and the 8mp front-facing camera to the left of the earpiece. The back of the phone you’ll see the speaker on the bottom left, which features the same vertical dotted pattern as on the Honor 6. The top left of the device holds something special, as the dual-LED flash sits alongside a dual-8MP camera setup.

Performance and Memory

Just as you would expect from a high-end Android device the Huawei Honor 6 Plus breezes through apps without issue. Huawei’s EmotionUI is a sleek and powerful Android skin that’s got plenty of features and a low overhead, ensuring that your phone won’t choke on any performance-intensive task such as gaming, HD video or multitasking. Benchmarks like AnTuTu show it at the top of its game, competing with the likes of the Xiaomi Mi4, OnePlus One and Meizu MX4 Pro without using the same chipset. Gaming performance is phenomenal and handled everything I threw at it with ease. The 1080p display delivers sharp, crisp visuals and the framerate never let me down even in demanding moments on visually intensive games.

Multitasking was just as much a joy to use as the rest of the phone. Huawei uses a Recents button to make multitasking quick and easy, so bringing up the list of recently used and currently running apps is just a single software button press away. Instead of the standard virtually scrolling list of apps with thumbnails Huawei uses a paginated interface that shows 4 large thumbnails of open apps on the screen, arranged in each of the four corners of the device. Swiping left or right moves between pages, while swiping down locks and app in memory and swiping up closes the app. This is a fantastic layout that’s different from stock Android but doesn’t change things in a negative way as Xiaomi’s MIUI does with its awful small row of icons. Switching between apps was an instant affair, only taking any length of time because of the transition animations between windows. I never saw any redraw or other symptom of poor RAM management the way I’ve seen on some other Android skins. This means you won’t have to wait for the page to reload in the browser every time you reopen the app, as it stays in memory like it’s supposed to instead of being cleared out all the time.

Battery Life

Battery life was nothing short of spectacular in my testing. With a 3,600mAh battery the Honor 6 Plus features a larger battery than the vast majority of phablets out there, and with a screen resolution of 1080p you’re absolutely guaranteed to get better battery life than with the available line of Quad-HD screen phones out there. There was nothing I could do in normal use to kill the battery on the phone, from streaming music all day, watching YouTube videos, keeping the brightness on max and using the phone for chatting on Hangouts all day. This thing just wouldn’t die, and that’s a great thing. I’d wager you could easily get a day and a half out of the battery in any normal scenario, and Huawei also provides an ultra power saving mode to keep your battery lasting for days and days. In this ultra power saving mode only calls, messages and access to contacts will be available, meaning Huawei’s integrated communications app is the only app able to be running. This makes your smartphone not so smart, but it ensures that you won’t be stranded in situations where you absolutely cannot have your phone’s battery die.

Software

EmotionUI 3.0 is a bold new step for Huawei, and one in the right direction in nearly every facet of the OS. It takes Android 4.4 KitKat’s appearance and turns it almost all white, with thin-lined teal icons gracing the notification bar and other areas of the OS. There’s definitely some iOS 7/8 influence here but it looks much more like Huawei’s own creation rather than just a clone or a good impression of what Apple is trying to do with its OS. The biggest defining software difference between the Honor 6 and Honor 6 Plus is the inclusion of screen-off gestures. Huawei now lets you double tap to wake the device as many phones since the LG G2’s debuted the feature. Within the options menu under gesture controls you’ll find the screen-off gestures setting, which enables you to launch any app by drawing the letter c, e, m or w on the screen even while the phone is locked and the screen is off. This is a level of convenience that’s easily overlooked but one that’s not easily let go once you start using it.

Sound

As can be expected from a single-back facing speaker, the sound output from the physical speaker on the Honor 6 Plus leaves a lot to be desired. Volume was lower than I would have liked in every application, from music to using the loudspeaker on the phone app. I found it impossible to use the loudspeaker when in a moving car, especially on the highway, where the volume was just too low to hear the person on the other end of the line. There’s no audible distortion from the speaker when the volume is all the way up but that’s not really saying anything given the overall low volume present from the speaker.

Audio output from the 3.5mm headset jack

Camera

One of the most unique features on the Huawei Honor 6 Plus is the camera, as the back of the phone has not one but two 8 megapixel cameras. This is a similar setup to what HTC did with the One M8 in the Spring of 2014, except instead of having one fairly low resolution Ultrapixel camera and a super low resolution Duo camera, Huawei features two full-quality 8MP shooters nestled right next to eachother. HTC branded its sensor the Ultrapixel camera because the physical pixels were 2 microns in size, which is nearly double the 1.1 micron pixel size of most sensors in smartphones nowadays. Huawei sort of follows this by creating a 1.98 micron “effective” pixel size, meaning both cameras are somewhere in the range of 1 micron pixels, but combining the image of both produces one that’s roughly the equivalent of the quality you would see out of a sensor with 1.98 micron pixels.

If all of this tech talk bores you, just remember this: the bigger the pixels the more light is allowed to enter the sensor, meaning low light photos will look better than on phones with smaller pixel sizes. Combining both images results in a 13 megapixel image in the end rather than an 8mp or a 16mp one. This gives you the best of both worlds, with an effective resolution higher than a single 8mp sensor but without the noise that a smaller 16mp sensor would bring. Overall I found the pictures taken with the Honor 6 Plus to be superior to most 13 megapixel shooters out there, with less noise, better color accuracy and almost no need to use those nasty denoise filters we’ve become so used to that make pictures muddy and unusable at large sizes.

Huawei also features a couple of interesting depth tricks that use the secondary camera to isolate objects and allow you to not only apply filters to the foreground or background of an image, but also to refocus after taking the picture. Using what’s called “Wide aperature” mode on the camera takes an 8mp shot with only a second or two of processing time in between. Because of this processing time wide aperature mode isn’t going to be good in every situation, especially one with lots of movement, but it gives you the freedom of more post-processing options than you would normally have with a picture taken from auto mode. After taking the shot you can select where the focus should be in the picture and adjust the virtual aperature of the lens, meaning the objects not immediately in focus will either become more or less blurred as you increase or decrease the aperature. You can also apply filters here such as making the subject in focus colorful while tinting the rest of the shot in black & white, or applying a pencil sketch filter to the unfocused part of the shot.

HDR photos are extremely quick to take, and while it obviously doesn’t use an instant on-sensor HDR method it does produce a full 13mp resolution image. There’s a bit more noise going on here than I would like to see in this mode, which unfortunately means the denoise filter goes into overdrive in lower light situations. This makes low light HDR very difficult to use as the images get muddy and details fade away. In strong lighting situations though the HDR produced some phenomenal results, taking near-instant shots with excellent color accuracy, great shadow balance and overall natural looking lighting without haloing or other common HDR imaging artifacts.

Low light shots are generally fantastic so long as you’re not in areas that are too dark. For these areas you need to switch from auto mode to Super Night mode, which uses both cameras to hold the shutter open longer and grab more light, then stitches the photos together in an attempt to make a less blurry photo. I found that letting it automatically choose these settings was usually a bad idea, as it held the shutter open a little too long and always resulted in a blurry photo. In this mode there are quick options for changing ISO and shutter speed right on screen, so dropping that shutter speed to something more manageable like 1/2 or 1 second fixed my problem and produced absolutely stellar low light photos. Just don’t move when taking these or try to capture anything moving as it’ll come out blurry. Check out the gallery below for a smattering of different shots.

Conclusion

Network support in the US remains a low point for the Honor 6 Plus, but unlike the Honor 6 I was at least able to get 3G HSPA connectivity out of the device. Beware if you’re planning on using this phone on T-Mobile’s network or one of its MVNO’s though, as it didn’t play well and I received not only a number of dropped calls but no MMS support whatsoever. If your carrier supports the bands here you’re going to get one of the finest wireless network experiences possible though, especially if LTE Category 6 Carrier Aggregation is supported in your region. At around sub $400 this high-end phablet is perfect competition against what’s already in the market, but I’m not entirely sure about what’s to come. The Spring 2015 lineup of phones is looking to be more killer than ever, and if the pricing is right on these new phones Huawei’s latest might not look quite as good as it does right at this moment.

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