Huawei introduced the Honor 6 Plus smartphone in China back in December last year. The main highlight of the smartphone is its dual 8-megapixel rear cameras. It was showcased at the MWC 2015, here is the hands on.
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It has 5.5-inch 1080p display with 72.8% screen-to-body ratio and 2.8mm slim bezels on the sides, making it easy to hold. The display that is made by JDI looks good. It has a 8-megapixel front-facing camera.
On the back are two 8-megapixel cameras with dual LED flashes. Since two cameras can capture a better image with effective pixel size to 1.98 microns, the images are sharper. The software also lets you adjustable aperture from f/0.95 till f/16, which is quick. The back is made of glass and has small patterns.
It runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) with Emotion UI 3.0 on top. The theme on the phone looks like Android Lollipop, but it’s actually KitKat. It is powered by an Octa-Core (4×1.8GHz Cortex A15 4×1.3GHz Cortex A7) Hisilicon Kirin 925 processor with Mali T628-MP4 GPU, has 3GB RAM, comes in 16GB or 32GB memory variants and also has a microSD expansion slot.
The sides of smartphone has brushed aluminium finish, except the bottom, which has plastic finish. There is nothing on the left side, but the right side has all the buttons such as power and volume rockers. It also has SIM card and microSD slot on that side.
On the bottom it has a micro USB slot along with a primary microphone. On the top there is a secondary microphone, Infrared LED and a 3.5mm audio jack. It has 3600mAh built-in battery and 4G LTE Cat6 support. The Honor 6 Plus smartphone will launch in India later this month.
Srivatsan contributed to this report