Honor is as the price of this device also indicates, the budget brand of the Chinese manufacturer Huawei. As for appearance, this is a pretty boring device; there is little remarkable or special finding on the outside.
The housing at the back is made of brushed metal with a plastic part at the top and bottom. The screen has a screen diagonal of 5.5 inches, the edges around the screen are not particularly thick or thin. The device does not have physical navigation buttons.
Furthermore, only the device has a power button on the right side, above the volume buttons. The device is 8.2 millimeters thick, which is relatively thin for a phone in this price category. Pity is that the camera on the back that extends
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Hardware
5X comes with 16GB of storage memory and can be expanded with a micro sD card. Furthermore, the device 2GB of RAM and a Snapdragon 616 processor, a chip that is also used in other budget devices such as Xiaomi redmi 3.
Our tests show that the Honor 5X performs about as well and include the HTC One A9 or the Moto X Play, two middle-class from 2015 both pieces cost more.
in practice it freely rotate smoothly in the normal apps. For the average smartphone user hardware for this phone will then usually be sufficient. With the heavier apps performance do go backwards, and when switching between apps is some noticeable lag
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The 5.5 inch screen has a full hD resolution, which is sufficient. Well there’s a lot of blue haze on the display and the glass will quickly fill up with fingerprints.
Honor manages to impress with its battery, which has a relatively large capacity of 3000 mAh. Under normal usage I got the end of the day, with half of the battery over. When using heavier succeed also easy to reach the end of the day. This phone can be so carefree without charger take a day on stage.
Camera
The Honor 5X features a 5 megapixel camera on the front and a 13 megapixel camera on the back. The camera on the back is supported by a single LED fliter. Exemplary optical stabilization is lacking, but that’s not unusual in this price range.
The camera is able to make little impression. While there may be good pictures in bright daylight, it is already difficult inside and get pictures often what grauwig out. It is also a bit too easy to make a blurry photo that moves the image.
The filters that you can choose from we know from previous devices of Honor and parent company Huawei. Selfies could ‘nicer’ to be made, often with remarkable results. In practice, you have little to this feature.
Fingerprint Scanner
What really sets this device other middle class is an excellent fingerprint scanner. As with other devices of Huawei the screen can already be released by the finger only for a moment to stop the sensor. So there is no need to press a separate button to turn the device.
The fingerprint scanner also reacts fairly quickly and recognized my finger almost always. A positive surprise for cheaper devices that typically absolutely no fingerprint scanners are in.
Software
Unfortunately Honor again got it wrong when it comes to software. The 5X runs on Android 5.1 with the skin on top of Huawei Emotion UI. Huawei recently made known that an update to Android 6.0 is on the way.
As mentioned in previous reviews of devices from Huawei, Emtotion UI is not the best skin for Android. If the icons are displayed as rounded squares, which ensures that some icons that have a circular icon (like Whatsapp) are provided with a different background screen.
the way the search is conjured (swipe down on the home screen), directly copied from iOS. The App Overview has been removed; all apps are on the home screen, as in iOS.
All in all this ensures that it looks as if the software is in a sort of identity crisis. It is actually Android, but would rather be iOS. That makes for an uncomfortable, cheap-looking operating system.
Conclusion
The Honor 5X clearly has advantages and disadvantages; the camera will Weining impression, the hardware is not the fastest and the software is definitely a big miss. A device with this price may not have the best hardware, but the software can be quite a bit better.
On the other hand, will get you there a device for back with a good fingerprint scanner, good battery life and a good price.
For those who do not respect the software, not want to take the best photos and do not want to run the toughest applications, this is a great device for a very attractive price. Everyone who has a need for better viewing more
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- Good battery life
- Low price
- Fast fingerprint scanner
- unoriginal software
- Average camera
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