The Honor 9 is a

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made by

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under their Honor sub-brand. It is a successor of the Huawei Honor 8 within the

Huawei Honor Honor (stylized and marketed as HONOR) is a smartphone brand majority owned by a state-owned enterprise controlled by the municipal government of Shenzhen. It was formerly owned by Huawei Technologies. Honor provides smartphone handsets primaril ...

series of

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Specifications

Hardware

The Honor 9 is a flagship

made by Honor, a sub-brand under the Huawei Group, as part of the

series. The phone has a HiSilicon Kirin 960 octa-core

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(four 2.4 GHz cores and four 1.8 GHz cores), a Mali-G71 MP8 GPU, and a 3,200

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non-removable battery. It measures by by and weighs . The phone comes with 64 or 128 gigabytes of

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and 4 GB or 6 GB of RAM, depending on the region. It has a display with a pixel resolution of 1920x1080 and

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of 428 ppi. The Honor 9 has an 8 MP front-facing camera and its dual rear camera setup consists of a 12 MP RGB lens and a 20-megapixel

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lens. It can record

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in 4K and has electronic

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for Full HD video. Other features include dual- SIM support, furthermore includes a

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port, and a

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reader located on the lower

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. The Honor 9 has a metal frame and a 3D curved glass rear, and it's official tagline is "the light catcher." The phone comes in "Glacier Grey," "Sapphire Blue," "Midnight Black," and

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, but some colors are not available in certain markets. During IFA 2017 in

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, Honor announced the new color variant for the Honor 9, which was the limited edition "Robin Egg Blue." The color became available in

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in August, and was released in the

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in September.

Software

Huawei launched Honor 9 with

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(version 7.0) and Huawei's

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5.1. In the spring of 2019, Huawei began to roll out

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(EMUI 9.0) for the device.

Release

The phone was released in China on June 12, 2017, and revealed in

on June 27 2017. Preorders across United Kingdom on June 27 2017.

Reception

Overall, initial reviews of the Honor 9 were positive, averaging 8.8 out of 10. Android Authority's Gary Sims gave the phone a rating of 8.7 out of 10, and wrote in his review summary: "The Honor 9 certainly ticks a lot of the right boxes: great performance, dual cameras, sleek design, and an ''

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''! The only downsides are the lack of toughened glass over the

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and the slippery nature of the build materials." Andy Boxall of '' Digital Trends'' wrote the following as a summary of his review: "The Honor 9 impresses so much, it's a strong contender for one of the best reasonably priced smartphones available." ''

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'' Thomas Newton assigned the Honor 9 a rating of 4 out of 5, meaning "excellent". Swedroid offered its recommendation and rated the phone 8.3 out of 10 overall. Jessica Murgia of AndroidPit, Dominic Preston of ''TechAdvisors'', James Peckham of TechRadar, and

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's Sandra Vogel each rated the phone 4.5 out of 5. Preston's summary read, "The Honor 9 is an undeniably impressive phone for an unmatched price right now. In performance terms, it's nipping at the heels of the year's top flagships, and only lacking flashy features like waterproofing or a bezel-less screen. It looks great, it runs fast, and it costs less than £400. We're sold." Summarizing his review, Peckham wrote, "The Honor 9 offers a lot of what the high-end flagship phones do right now, but for a much lower price. There's no exciting, headline-grabbing feature here, but a great design, fantastic performance and lots of nice touches make this an all-round impressive and affordable phone." Vogel also gave a rating of 8.9 on a 10-point scale, meaning "outstanding". Android Central's Alex Dobie called the Honor 9 the "best phone for less than £400". He gave the phone the "Choice Award" and wrote, "The Honor 9 isn't perfect, but it is a great all-rounder that makes high-end performance and design more affordable than ever before." ''

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'' rated the Honor 9 five out of five stars and said, "High-end hardware at a middleweight price makes the Honor 9 one of the best phone deals around." '' TechRadar'' recommend the Honor 9, which won in the "Best Mid-range Phone" category at the 2017 T3 Awards.

References

External links

* * * * (CNET, 27 June 2017) * (Android Authority, 28 June 2017) * * {{Huawei, phones=yes, tablets=yes, laptops=yes, wearables=yes, cpu=yes, os=yes, services=yes, people=yes, other=yes, below=yes Mobile phones introduced in 2017 Phablets Smartphones Android (operating system) devices Mobile phones with multiple rear cameras Huawei Honor Mobile phones with 4K video recording Discontinued smartphones Mobile phones with infrared transmitter