The Huawei P9 the company wants to not only win the high-end smartphone market, but especially appeal to creative people. The latter by a Leica designed with rear camera. Huawei Whether this will succeed, we will tell you in this review.
Huawei has a Huawei P8 last year proved that they can deliver a good smartphone. The unit had a nice and sleek aluminum design which immediately was also one of its greatest assets. Performance was okay and with the rear camera you could shoot beautiful pictures. Less positive in this unit was the price of € 500. This time Huawei as cheap Chinese smartphone manufacturer was officially over.
A cheap smartphone can not be called the Huawei P9. The entry-level unit costs € 599, but as a typical Chinese smartphone behooves you indeed get value for money. The smartphone has a nice aluminum design which is flush to the camera sensor. Internally also seems to be all right. Huawei smartphone equipped with a 955-Hisilicon Kirin octacoreprocessor and 3GB or 4GB of RAM. Respectively hear there 32GB and 64GB of internal, expandable memory with. The battery in the smartphone 3000mAh large front and is an 8-megapixel selfiecamera. The rear camera Huawei has partnered with Leica, and two 12-megapixel sensors are the result.
Persistent is EMUI-skin, this time on Android 6.0 Marshmallow. We have never been such a big fan of, and we expect the same to be not Huawei P9. Especially because there are not many visual changes have been made, although we just about had the most complaints. New for smartphones in the P line of Huawei is the fingerprint scanner on the back of the unit. Currently, this is the fourth generation of fingerprint scanners of the Chinese smartphone manufacturer.
On paper it seems Huawei P9 to have everything in his march to be an interesting smartphone. In this review we will see if this is really so.
Huawei Huawei P9 P9 fotoHuawei supplies in a wide square box. This box has a nice texture, and the Leica logo on the front makes it looks premium. When you remove the lid, you are greeted by Huawei P9 itself. Furthermore there are three boxes in. One with a manual and gereedschapje to get your SIM card from the device, another box with an adapter and then one last box with a headset and USB cable c. This headset is decent.
Design
Huawei has with the P9 again delivered a beautifully designed smartphone. Like its predecessor, the device is made of glass and aluminum. Something we nowadays are very happy, that does not protrude the camera sensor. He was treated in a nice way in the smartphone. Like its predecessor, the Nexus 6P sit camera sensors under a glass panel.
Huawei P9
Huawei has once again delivered a beautifully designed smartphone
Under this glass panel is a small finishing lines visible. This finish is also visible in the edges on the front of the unit. This exudes a bit of an 'older class' out but remains feel hip. A downside to this design is the large Huawei logo in front, in our opinion, was there should not be.
The aluminum on the back of the handset has a matte finish so that the smartphone will quickly slip out of your hand. Even if you have smaller hands. This is attributable to its relatively compact design with thin screen edges. A disadvantage is that aluminum, just like the glass on the rear camera is quickly scratched. Fortunately no deep scratches.
Aluminum is like the glass on the rear camera quickly scratched
Nevertheless, we remain a fan of the design of the Huawei P9. The device just looks so good, that we can forgive easily scratched. Especially because Huawei has had eye for detail during the design process. For example, the power button has texture and around the button is a small 'introversion'. Furthermore neatly finished edges you still have to complete the picture. When you look at the P9 automatically notice how thin he is.
Huawei P9
Huawei P9
Huawei P9
In the Dutch version of the Huawei P9 is not support dualsim. As icing on the cake, there is a fourth generation fingerprint scanner Huawei P9. As with the previous generation (s), we could not fault it at this sensor. You take the P9 out of your pocket, place your finger on the sensor and meanwhile against the smartphone is completely out of your pocket, it is already set.
As icing on the cake, there is a fingerprint scanner in the Huawei P9
Huawei P9
Huawei has made us happy again with the design of its new smartphone. Yes, the scratches are a disadvantage. But this is really the only negative thing we can say about the design of the device. In short, keep it up, Huawei!
Screen
Anno 2016 you'm almost amazed when you see a high-end smartphone that does not have a quad HD screen. And when you do see one, it is usually a Huawei smartphone. The company uses ie not aware Quad HD displays in its smartphones. In a full HD display is energy much less. Yes, the resolution is the same, but on a 5.2-inch large screen you nothing brand. Actually quad HD more a gimmick than a must to small smartphones.
Huawei P9
Actually quad HD more a gimmick than a must
Take this road we've been were unhappy Huawei P9 might have had a quad HD screen? No. We just see the positive aspects of the full HD monitor. You see a pixels and colors are generally also displayed very good. For an IPS panel are black tones appear very deep, and the liveliness is certainly near the screen with a Samsung Galaxy S7. Huawei P9 have only just come off worst. On the viewing angle and brightness of the screen we have nothing negative to say, both are fine.
Achievements
There are two models of Huawei P9. One with 3GB RAM and 32GB of internal memory and a variant with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal memory. We have tested the model with 3GB RAM. Identical in these two models is the processor: to be exact, a Hisilicon Kirin 955 2.5GHz-octacoreprocessor. Contrary to our expectations, the processor does in the benchmarks better than any of its closest competitors: the Exynos 8 Samsung. Benchmarks say not everything.
There are two models of Huawei P9
Daily tasks are no problem, even when multitasking. The same applies when you use heavier applications. Only during the multitasker between games like Real Racing 3, we secretly hoped that we had the 4GB version. For all other tasks 3GB was more than good enough. Want the P9 use for several years, then you might opt for the best model with 4GB of RAM. Applications are becoming heavier, and then you are definitely in the coming years to have enough strength.
Daily tasks are no problem
While playing real racing 3 we noticed that the start of the game was just slightly slower than a Galaxy S7 (Edge). Still no big minus, of course, certainly not because we totally did not suffer from glitches when the game was once started. Just something we had to mention here. When some were playing games on the Huawei P9 noticed that the plane was reasonably warm. Not distracting hot, but hotter than a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge example. An additional advantage to the aluminum design is that the smartphone cools back.
Huawei P9 screenshotHuawei has put a 3000mAh battery in Huawei P9. Slightly larger than the average for a smartphone of this size, that's fine. When you heavily use the Huawei P9, you can get through the day on a single charge. With the brightness automatically and average use of mobile data we could even get to 5hrs screen-on time.
With heavy use, you can get through the day on a single charge
With mobile data to over 70% of a 18 hours-long day, we arrived 3,5uur screen-on time, what is slightly less than average. Huawei P9 is not so good with the battery while Huawei P9het mobile data usage. If you watch a little on your usage, you can easily do it by two days to come. When the device's battery runs out, you can recharge it quickly via the USB port c. If you want to get you can call the last bit of your battery ultra battery saving mode. In this mode, only basic functions like phone calls available to save a lot of extra battery. You can also scale the screen to HD resolution, all save it you are not a lot of battery.
You can scale the screen to HD resolution
Huawei P9Zoals can be expected from a network specialist Huawei, we have to notice anything about the connectivity of the device. Everything is there. Nice to mention is that the Huawei P9 the first smartphone with three antennas, which really enhances the range. In places where I could not connect with another smartphone with a 4G network, this was the Huawei P9 no problem.
Software
At the beginning of this review, we have already mentioned here that the Huawei P9 comes with the familiar EMUI skin. This time, Android 6.0 Marshmallow. This skin is very noticeable presence, and hence we do not find so ideal to him. All application icons adapted to the institutions. And the biggest flaw still remains that you do not have a list of installed applications. But perhaps we should with the latter but to live.
EMUI is very noticeable presence
On the positive side that the software runs smoothly on the P9, and you also get some useful features on. One of these, the battery saving mode, we have already mentioned above. People can enjoy with small hands of a function that reduces the whole screen by swiping down on the navigation bar.
Huawei has also added additional functionality to the fingerprint scanner. You can not only unlock your smartphone with, but also perform movements. When you swipe down on the sensor you can leave open your notification center. We ourselves have immediately expelled the features because we find it a little awkward.
Bloatware is as every year numerous present at Huawei. This time, even not just games, but also an application to book them a hotel. A large part of the bundled applications, you can remove fortunately. Only the 'much needed' applications such as the music app, you can not discard it.
A large part of the bundled applications, you can remove
Because of all the pre-installed applications and EMUI skin you only have 25GB of 32GB on. As already mentioned, you can do easily expand this memory.
Although Huawei has P9 are a relatively small speaker in the lower right corner, we were nevertheless impressed. Because you can put quite loud speaker without audio is distorted sound. So pleasant to listen to music or while watching movies.
Chinese are fond of selfies, what the 8-megapixel selfiecamera states in the Huawei P9. Without the beauty mode, which has the opposite effect in our opinion, the selfies look very good. Colors are displayed accurately and in terms of details there is nothing to criticize. Under low light conditions you have like any other selfiecamera be quickly affected by noise.
Leica has partnered with Huawei made a smartphone camera for the first time. Leica is a well known name in the camera world, and rightly so. When we first about the collaboration between the two companies heard we were genuinely curious. It's not everyday news that Leica interferes in the smartphone world.
The result of the cooperation between Huawei and Leica is a dual 12-megapixel rear camera. Why now two sensors I hear you. This is to explain fairly straightforward. With one sensor, you can take normal RGB images (color photographs), while you can shoot with the other sensor only black and white images (monochrome sensor). In itself, this does not sound so spectacular. But what Huawei and Leica have this is done a little. Because when you take a picture the color and black and white photographs are combined with Huawei P9 to a plate. To be more specific: the white color from the black-and-white photograph also be recorded in the color picture, so as to obtain a more realistic picture.
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