Huawei Honor 9 Lite Review – Quad Camera Wonder

Huawei Honor 9 Lite is another super smartphone to drop off the Huawei platform. Huawei Honor 9 Lite makes it out with a quad camera setup and a premium full view display. This mid-range smartphone also arrives at a good price tag. Announced in December 2017 and also released in the same month, the smartphone packs incredible specifications to get you going. So smartphone lovers, let’s get started.

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DESIGN AND DISPLAY

Starting out with its design, it’s only a matter of stating the obvious that Huawei doesn’t joke in anyway whatsoever with smartphone designs in which case Huawei Honor 9 Lite is also a testimony. Furnished all round with metallic body material, the smartphone presents an endearing look. It’s rear finely crafted to give a smooth and shining appearance bears the dual camera and LED flash at the top right corner with the fingerprint sensor not too far away and the honor logo owning the bottom location. The front of the smartphone with the help of the full view display and 2.5D Curved glass has a very classic look. The top bezel occupies the front dual camera, earpiece and the ambient light sensor while the bottom bezel contains only the ‘honor’ logo. Dedicated keys present on the smartphone are located at the right side. Colours wherein this smartphone makes it into the smartphone market are Blue, Black, Grey and White. Huawei Honor 9 Lite weighs 149g and presents a thickness of 7.6mm.

Impressive is the 5.65 inches FHD+ IPS LCD display Huawei Honor 9 Lite presents. It’s resolution therefore is 1080 x 2160 pixels with a pixel density of 427 PPI. The smartphone’s protective covering is Corning Gorilla Glass of an unspecified version.

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CPU, OS, AND STORAGE 

Huawei HiSilicon Kirin 659 SoC is the chipset moderating the smartphone’s functions. Octa-core ARM Cortex-A53 that clocks at 2.36GHz is the CPU on it. It is actually a 64-bit CPU and one that utilizes the 14nm process technology. The GPU on this smart device is the ARM Mali-T830 MP2. The freshest Android OS – Android Oreo is the principal operating system here, and it makes its way with the Huawei Emotion UI. As a result of its RAM, there are two variants – 3GB and 4GB. The ROM also has two variants – 32GB and 64GB. The storage can expand to a massive 256GB using a microSD card.

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CAMERA

The front camera lines up with a dual cam setup of 13MP and 2MP sensors while the rear dual camera setup has 13MP Plus 2MP for bokeh effect. A LED flash situated on its side is present for adding light effects.

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BATTERY

A non-removable Li-Poly 2,900 mAh battery is the duration marshal of Huawei Honor 9 Lite. Quick Charge technology available on it makes it charge very fast.

Huawei Honor 9 Lite Full Technical Specifications 

General

Device Type Smartphone
Model Huawei Honor 9 Lite
Announced December 2017
Released Yes
Status Available

Network

2G Network GSM – 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network UMTS –  850 / 1900 / 2100 MHz
4G Network LTE – 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 / 2100 / 2600 MHz
LTE – 1700 / 2100 MHz
SIM Type Nano + Nano / MicroSD
SIM Count Dual SIM

Data

2G GPRS Up to 32 to 48 kbps; EDGE – up to 236.8 kbps
3G Up to 21 Mbps (HSDPA), 5.76 Mbps;(HSUPA)
4G Up to 300 Mbps
Speed HSPA 21 Mbps
Web Browser Yes, HTML5

Design

Type Smartphone
Dimensions 151*71.9*7.6 mm
Weight 149 g
Body Material Metal
Colours Black, Blue, Grey, White

Display                                                               

Display Type IPS LCD Capacitive touchscreen
Size 5.65″
Resolution 1080*2160 pixels
Colors 16M colors
Pixel Density 427 PPI
Touch Screen Yes
Protection Yes
Features Capacitive touch, multi-touch input, 2.5D Curved Glass, Corning Gorilla Glass
Secondary Display No

Camera

Primary 13 + 2 MP
Image Yes
Video Yes
Features HDR, autofocus, Geo-tagging, ISO, panorama
Flash Yes, Single-LED flash
Secondary 13 +2 MP

Software

Operating System Android 8.0 Oreo OS
User Interface Yes, Emotion UI
Java Support No
Skype Yes
Whatsapp Yes
Facebook Yes
Youtube Yes

Hardware

Chipset Huawei HiSilicon Kirin 659
CPU Octa-core 2.36GHz ARM Cortex-A53
GPU ARM Mali-T830 MP2
RAM (Memory) 3GB / 4GB
Internal Storage 32GB / 64GB
Card Slot Expandable to 128GB
Sensors Fingerprint sensor, accelerometer, proximity, ambient light sensor
Controls Lock Button, and Volume Key

Connectivity

Bluetooth Yes, Bluetooth v4.2 A2DP (Advance Audio Distribution Profile), LE Profile
Infrared n/a
Wi-Fi Yes, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Wi-Fi Direct
Wi-fi Hotspot Yes
USB Type MicroUSB v2.0
GPS Yes, with A-GPS
NFC Yes
HDMI n/a
Wireless Charging n/a

Battery

Battery Type Li-Poly Battery
Capacity 2,900 mAh Battery
Placement Non-removable
Standby Up to 260 hours
Talk Time Up to 12 hours
Music Play Up to 24 hours

Messaging

SMS Yes (threaded view)
MMS Yes
Email Yes, IMAP4, POP3, SMTP
IM Yes & BBM

Media

Audio Playback Yes, MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, MIDI, WAV, AC3, FLAC
Video Playback Yes, 3GP, Mp4, MPEG4, H.263, H.264 player
Video Out n/a
FM Radio Yes, Stereo FM radio with RDS
Alert Types Vibration, Ringtones
Ring Tones MP3, WAV
Loudspeaker Yes
Handsfree  Yes, 3.5 mm audio jack

Other Features

– MP3/WAV/eAAC+/FlAC player
– DivX/Xvid/MP4/H.265 player
– Photo/video editor
– Document viewer

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