Again, this plays well to Honor’s intended target market, as photos, videos and games all pop with bold, saturated colour. The screen of the 6X is bright and colourful: not high-end, but eminently enjoyable. With the handset held any other way, of course, this wasn’t such a problem. The buttons just seemed to be in the wrong place all the time and too sensitive, overly responsive. It feels lighter and flimsier than the iPhone 7 and, on that note, the placement of the volume up/down and on/off buttons on the right-hand side of the phone meant that when holding the phone in our left hand – as we typically do – we were forever accidentally turning the phone either on or off with one of our fingers. The phone feels good in the hand, nicely balanced with rounded edges and a slightly curved back to better fit the human palm, although it doesn’t feel quite as lux as it looks. The front of the phone is plain and all glass, with three soft buttons for navigation and a screen protector in place that covers the whole face. There is a dual-camera configuration on the rear, with the lenses arranged vertically, along with a fingerprint sensor to unlock the phone and which also doubles in performing a few OS navigation tasks, such as scrolling through photos. The handset has a metal back (black, silver or gold), with plastic top and bottom edges, weighing 162g and sized at 150.9 x 76.2 x 8.2mm. The dual SIM tray also offers a microSD card slot, should you want to expand storage capacity up to 128Gb. The processor is Huawei’s own octa-core Kirin 655 chipset, supported by 3Gb of RAM and 32Gb of storage on board, or 4Gb of RAM and 64Gb of storage. It has a 5.5in screen with a resolution of 1080 HD LCD (403ppi). While it might not be top of the range, the 6X doesn’t fall too far short: there are more smiles here than frowns. A £200 Honor 6X, well, that’s more manageable. The dual-camera setup won’t let your selfies and Instagram-worthy moments down, and the dual-SIM slots mean you can take it anywhere in the world and use a local provider, but equally it wouldn’t break your heart too much if you lost it in the moshpit or dropped it down a ravine while hiking up Mount Kilimanjaro. It’s a relatively cheap yet decently specc’ed smartphone in a generically attractive outer shell that wouldn’t embarrass you if you pulled it out poolside at Coachella. We’ve deliberately waited until now to write this review, in order to spend a decent amount of time using the phone in normal, everyday life, constantly swapping back and forth between our personal preference (an Apple iPhone 7) and the Honor 6X.Īt the Las Vegas launch event, Honor – a spin-off sub-brand from the more established Huawei name – went big on its ‘maverick’ appeal, with the hashtag slogan #forthebrave and a bombardment of glossy, high-colour images of freewheeling, lifestyle-chasing millenials throwing themselves with gusto and gay abandon into whatever hedonistic adventures and pleasures they can seize in life.Ĭlearly, this is Honor’s target market and, in a sense, it suits the 6X handset. There are also two separate launchers to quickly launch two instances.We’ve been using this phone on a daily basis since January, when we picked up a handset at the official product launch press conference at CES 2017.
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