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Huawei Honor – A Midranger That Looks Pretty Good

Written By Techspace on Wednesday, 18 April 2012 | 01:02

Huawei Honor is a next generation smartphone with intuitive interface overlying Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system and mega battery, which promises lengthy talktimes. It might be a step up from many of its smartphones like Huawei Mercury with Cricket. The company has been steadily supplying 2nd tier United States carriers such as Cricket Wireless and MetroPCS with midrange Android handsets at affordable prices – atleast the ones, which are affordable for those seeking off-contract at higher up front cost. Two of the smartphones – Huawei Ascend and Huawei Ideos X5.
The all new Huawei Honor comes with Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS, four-inch touchscreen display, eight-megapixel rear facing camera, front facing two-megapixel camera, three days of battery life and 1.4GHz single core processor. However, it falls short of premium status. The Honor is really a good looking smartphone measuring 4.8 inches high, 0.43 inch thick and 2.4 inches wide. Its shiny black face is surrounded by silvery rim, while backing is available in six shades including Glossy Black, Cherry Blossom Pink, Textured Black, Vibrant Yellow, Burgundy and Elegant White. Fairly sleek and long, the Honor features rounded edges with straight sides that are common in today’s smartphones. The sharper corners are reminiscent of iPhone 4, weighing 4.9 ounces.
One of the exquisite features found on Huawei Honor is the 4.0 inch capacitive touchscreen display, which is designed for easy viewing, specifically if you find smartphones with 4.5 inch display awkwardly big. This screen boasts 480 x 854 pixel resolution with 16 million color support. The screen is quite bright, clear and colorful and bigger than usual icons ate sharply detailed. The 2.0 megapixel camera is located above the display and beneath it you will find four touch sensitive buttons to navigate around usual home, search, back and menu functions. The small message indicator light on its face glows if you receive a message. The volume rocker button is located on the left hand side of the device, while the microUSB charging port at the bottom. The 3.5mm headphone jack and power button are situated on top of the smartphone. At the back, there is an eight-megapixel camera with LED flash and microSD memory card slot under the battery cover.
Huawei Honor
Powering the Huawei Honor is an Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The unlock screen is similar to that of other HTC smartphones, which allows you to slide circle over icons of padlock, phone, camera and card for unlocking the device for showing home screen, call log, text message inbox and camera application respectively. There are five different customizable home screens with default animation, which makes the display appear as if you are on the cube once you swipe them. The pull down menu provides fast access buttons to toggle Wi-Fi, data off and on, Bluetooth, automatic screen rotation and GPS. Its application tray gets design touch with big static buttons.
The Huawei Honor adds TouchPal virtual keyboard, one of four input options of the company; the others include Android keyboard, MobiDiv keyboard and Huawei IME. You can slide your finger across keyboard with left and right swiping motions for picking from three keyboard configurations. You will also find buttons for quickly selecting shortcut to voice actions, TouchPal settings and grid of controls for editing. Like most smartphones, it comes with typical communication features such as multimedia messaging, Wi-Fi, access to plenty of email accounts and Bluetooth support. There is browsing and social networking support as well along with clock, FM radio, calculator and standard music player. Some of the Google services include Google Maps, YouTube, navigation with turn by turn voice directions, Talk, Places and more.
Huawei Honor
Extra applications on Huawei Honor include Facebook, social networking application called Streams, Twitter, sound recorder and DLNA application. You will also find Cloud+ Drive, backup application, Cloud+ Settings, traffic manager and TouchPal settings. Also standard are weather clock, notepad, app installer, memo pad and document viewer. It comes with built in 16GB of internal storage and holds up to 32GB.
Standard features on Huawei Honor include 2G Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900; 3G Network: HSDPA 900 / 1700 / 2100; 4.0 inch TFT capacitive touchscreen with Touch-sensitive controls, 16M colors and 480 x 854 pixels; Vibration, MP3 ringtones; microSD (TransFlash) up to 32GB; 1 GB storage, 512 MB RAM, 4 GB ROM; Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps; HSDPA 14.4 Mbps, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps; Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot; 8. megapixel camera with 3264×2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, Geo-tagging and HDR; Android OS, v2.3 (Gingerbread), upgradable to v4.0; Qualcomm MSM8255T Snapdragon; 1.4 GHz Scorpion; Sensors: Accelerometer, gyro, proximity and compass; SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM.
The Huawei Honor is also equipped with GPS with A-GPS support; Colors: Textured Black, Glossy Black, Vibrant Yellow, Elegant White, Burgundy and Cherry Blossom Pink; Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic; SNS integration; Google Search, Maps, Gmail, Talk; MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player; MP4/H.263/H.264 player; Organizer; Document viewer; Photo viewer/editor; Voice memo/dial/commands and Predictive text input. The rated battery life of Honor is 10 hours in talktime mode. The Huawei Honor is not the best phone on Earth by a long shot, but has the potential to be a very good midranger.

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