Huawei Honor 6: Budget but Fastest Smartphone

Latest Smartphone from chinese  Manufacturer Huawei. To be honest it has everything a one can desire in budget phone. The phone shows lot of promise with its promising specs. Its software might not be perfect, but the Honor 6 packs an impressive lineup of specs for a brilliant price. If you want the crisp screen and fast speeds of the top-end phones but don't fancy the price tag, the Honor 6 is a great phone to go for.

SPECS:

Display: 5 inch IPS display with 1920x1080 resolution (441ppi)
Battery : 3100 mAh
Camera: 13 MP rear with LED flash, 5MP front
SoC; Kirin 920
CPU: 1.7 GHz octa-core
RAM: 3GB

Price : $350.00 , INR 19,999

                        It packs in a punchy octa-core processor, 3GB of RAM, 5-inch full HD display, 13MP rear camera, 5MP front snapper and a 3100mAh battery - plus its swansong, CAT 6 LTE.

It's that last spec - the category six 4G capability - paired with the octa-core chip which Huawei is using to dub the Honor 6 'the world's fastest smartphone'.

Category 6 LTE can theoretically gives you download speeds of up to 300Mbps per second, which all sounds very impressive until you remember none of the UK networks currently offer anywhere near that.While those superfast download speeds may not be achievable yet in Europe, it does mean the Honor 6 is nicely future proofed for when CAT 6 eventually washes ashore in the UK.

Huawei doesn't want its name directly associated with the handset, as it's looking to build Honor as a standalone brand - something which is a bit bolder and ultimately I guess, more marketable.

Design and display

The Honor 6 is most easily described as a cheaper-looking iPhone 4. It has a black glass front and back, with a metallic strip running around the edge, separating the two panels. That strip is metallic plastic, rather than metal, meaning it doesn't have the same luxurious feel as the iPhone 4.

In fact, it does feel a little on the cheap side. There's a definite plastic feeling to the phone. With a 5-inch screen stuffed inside, it's not a small phone. It has a fairly narrow bezel though, so the body hasn't needed to stretch out too much to accommodate the large display. A full-HD (1,920x1,080-pixel) panel, which is a very impressive resolution for a phone at this price. It results in a pixel density of 440 pixels per inch, which casually beats the iPhone 6 (326ppi), the Samsung Galaxy Alpha (312ppi) and the Sony Xperia Z3 Compact (319ppi). It even trumps the Galaxy S5's 432ppi screen.

Processor and Performance

There's plenty of power under the hood of the Honor 6, and it's in charge of running Android 4.4.2 KitKat. During my hands on time with the Honor 6 the phone was quick and responsive. I was able to easily sweep through home screens, apps loaded in good time and I didn't experience any obvious lag. It will be interesting to see if it can keep up the same slick performance once stuffed full of apps, games, music and movies - but early signs are positive.  It's running on an octa-core processor, made up of two quad-core chips clocked at 1.3GHz and 1.7GHz respectively, backed up by 3GB of RAM. That's an impressive engine, even for a high-end phone, let alone one with a budget-focused price. It achieved a very healthy score of 4,272 on the Geekbench test, putting it alongside the Galaxy Alpha's score of 4,350.

Camera

The back of the phone is home to a 13-megapixel camera, which is a healthy portion of megapixels for a phone at this price. I took it for a spin and the results seemed fair. On the below shot of the Shard building in London, the exposure is adequate, although I'd like to see less dark shadows.

Camera Test by Cnet

Front there's good news for selfie fans as a 5MP lens sits above the 5-inch display, complete with panoramic selfie which lets you get more of your mates in.

Battery 

onor 6 does at least pack a decently sized 3100mAh power pack under the hood so initial signs are positive. There's also an ultra power saving mode which kicks in when the battery level of the Honor 6 reaches 10%. It automatically switches off data and switches the interface to a simplified offering with just the dialler, contacts and messaging apps available.

Whether you consider it a Huawei phone or an Honor phone doesn't really matter here -- that's really just a branding exercise. What should matter is that the Honor 6 packs a heap of great tech for a very reasonable price. The strapline for the Honor 6 is "for the brave" and you'll have to be brave to purchase a handset online from a relatively unknown brand without being able to check it out in person first.

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