Honor 8

Overview Honor 8

Important update: this model is updated to Android version 7 Nougat.
Check the availability of the update version in your region on the manufacturer’s website.

Android version and market relevance

Honor 8 was announced by the company Huawei in July 2016 and in the same year official sales began in stores. The device was placed in the series of smartphones Honor. Honor 8 works on Android 6.0 Marshmallow and the manufacturer even took care of customers by releasing an update to the version 7. And before listing all the main characteristics of this model, it is important to note that in Honor 8 implemented support for working with two SIM cards.

And if you want to look at the competitors of this smartphone, then in our catalog on the page “Smartphones of the year 2016” all models of the same year are presented. And it will also be useful to look at the page with smartphones at a similar price, like Honor 8 — this is the price segment page “Above average smartphones from $400 to $500”.

Screen, body and battery

LTPS IPS LCD touchscreen with a diagonal 5.2″ mounted on the front panel Honor 8, thickness 7.5 mm.

The battery in Honor 8 is installed on 3 000 mAh. It can be said that by today′s standards, such a volume is the minimum acceptable, we recommend looking at other smartphones with a powerful battery.

Main camera and selfie camera

Smartphone Honor 8 got dual main camera on 12 MP and the frontcamera on 8 MP. If you judge only by the number of megapixels, then the main camera is very weak. But the frontcamera not very good, we have in our catalog real selfie smartphones.

Processor and Internal Memory

After a lot of leaks, we now know all characteristics of the Honor 8. The smartphone received 8-core processor on the chipset Hisilicon Kirin 950. RAM is built-in 4 GB.

But the most interesting is the built-in memory of 32 GB and plus another option for 64 GB. Looking for memory cards? There is a special slot for card format microSD up to 256 GB.

Price for Honor 8: buy or not to buy?

So this is Honor 8 after the official announcement. This novelty hit the expensive segment of smartphones.

Buy Honor 8 you can after the beginning of official sales, which start in  July 2016. And now the price from the manufacturer is known — it′s $400 without taxes and fees. The price-to-feature ratio of this smartphone is not bad, because there is a large screen, but a weak main camera, and the frontcamera is so-so.

If you are looking for a good current smartphone, which is now on sale, then visit the page DROID smartphones in our catalog. There we select only the best models from different price segments. You will have plenty to choose from!