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Honor 8 Arrives In India With A BIG Bang!!!

Smartphone giant Honor launched its latest flagship smartphone Honor 8 in India on12th October. The Honor 8 has been priced at Rs. 29,999 (INR). Honor unveiled the youth-centric flagship phone in July 2016 in international market and that became an instant hit for its nifty features.
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The phone was launched by Bollywood celebs Randeep Hooda and Nimrat kaur. Honor President George Zhao graced the occasion. MTV presenter Bani J anchored the event.
The event was very successful with a large crowd from the media. Core fans made it even more special with their presence.
Let's talk about the design, look and specifications of the phone.
Honor 8 comes with The innovative bionic 12MP dual lenses, one lens allows for rich color and the other lens is monochrome to give your images more details, light and increased sharpness. Together they help you capture crisper, more detailed photos of stunning quality to match up the standard of a DSLR camera. Phone has a built-in dual ISP which improves focus, speed, and process time when you take pictures and hence the images are more stabilized, crisp and of best quality. Phone has a 8 MP front shooter as well with perfect selfie mode to give you the best in class selfie images.
Honor 8 comes with Android Marshmallow out of the box with Huawei’s EMUI 4.1 skin on top and sports a 5.2 inch full HD IPS screen display. The 5.2-inch FHD display with a 96% NTSC, color enhancement, and dynamic pixel-level contrast adjustment provides a better viewing experience, with vivid and crisp images. The display looks stunning. Phone is powered by Huawei’s in house Hi-Silicon Kirin 950 chipset (4x2.3 GHz Cortex-A72 & 4x1.8 GHz Cortex A53) with i5 co-processor and leading 16nm FinFET plus SoC coupled with 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM enables flawless multitasking and seamless gaming.
The Honor 8 variant launched in India comes with 32GB of inbuilt storage and is expandable via microSD card (up to 128GB). On connectivity options, the Honor 8 includes 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac (latest ac band is included for faster and better Wi-Fi connectivity), Bluetooth v4.2 which supports Bluetooth low energy (BLE) and fast charging support.
Phone will be available in few latest and popular color options in the market mainly Pearl White, Sapphire Blue, Sunrise Gold color variants in India. The sapphire blue color looks stunning and now we know the reason why the same was liked and appreciated in the European market and phone became very popular in the region and will surely start a trend of new color for handset.
The smartphone features a 3000mAh battery. With 9V/2A fast-charging technology the battery gets charged up to 47% in just 30 minutes and have you covered for the entire day so you need not to worry about the phone running out of juice in critical time. And this time user need not to worry about the fast charger to buy them separately as the phone comes with the fast charger out of the box.
Additionally, during the launch, the company also announced the Honor 8 Smart variant and Honor Holly 3 phone priced at Rs. 19,999 and Rs. 9,999 respectively.
Read out my original post on Official Honor community @ Link

Honor 8 did not satisfy me as it doesn't have dual sim support
Seems that it won't support VoLTE out of the box.
Honor 8 Smart is similar to Honor 5C. There are few plus points in it which are mentioned in my post - http://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-5c/how-to/honor-5c-vs-honor-8-smart-difference-t3479156 . Still its not worth for double the amount of 5C.

vsriram92 said:
Honor 8 did not satisfy me as it doesn't have dual sim support
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and neither does nexus, pixels, windows phone or the iphone has this
vsriram92 said:
Seems that it won't support VoLTE out of the box.
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you will get it for sure in updates. beta testing already started.

shashank1320 said:
and neither does nexus, pixels, windows phone or the iphone has this
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But Honor 8 supports in other regions
shashank1320 said:
you will get it for sure in updates. beta testing already started.
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Its pretty late... Anyways nice info for the people who are buying it.

vsriram92 said:
But Honor 8 supports in other regions
Its pretty late... Anyways nice info for the people who are buying it.
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Maybe later or not much people in India using dual sim yet...

Reliance Jio 4g has arrived india just now which is providing free calls and data till december 16.
Sinve it is a newly launched network, most of us are thinking to give it a try without sacrificing our primary sim.
So especially a this point of time where people are expecting dual sim, the single sim variant won't be that much useful as we are unable to use freely available things

Too bad they didn't go with dual sim

EMUI 5 for Honor 8

EMUI 5 is gonna release on November 3rd.
Honor 8 will be the first device in the Honor brand to get EMUI update after its release.
This thread is to discuss about the EMUI 5 for Honor 8 device.
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---- Update 3/11/2016 ----
EMUI 5 Features :
1. App Drawer
2. Twin App feature
3. Privacy protection feature (which was there in EMUI 3, removed in EMUI 4)
4. Huawei Share
5. Multiple users (Guest User Account)

Awesome news, will be waiting patiently.
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Here are the videos showing the EMUI 5 features

DigiGoon said:
Awesome news, will be waiting patiently.
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However it is expected to get released for Honor 8 by 2017 only.

If it is releasing on 3rd November, and Honor 8 will be the first to get it, then how do you think it will take almost 2 months to get to it.
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Hope it's 7.0 (or 7.1, but probably not).
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DigiGoon said:
If it is releasing on 3rd November, and Honor 8 will be the first to get it, then how do you think it will take almost 2 months to get to it.
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Read it again. "First device in the Honor brand to get the EMUI update"
The Mate 9 is going to be released the same day, so it's probably going to get it first.

I think we may see a beta after a month

Multiuser back. Nice ?

DigiGoon said:
If it is releasing on 3rd November, and Honor 8 will be the first to get it, then how do you think it will take almost 2 months to get to it.
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It needs to get customized for Honor 8 in terms of carriers, sponsors, region specific apps, beta testing, then we will get it. So it will take almost 2 months.

timwelter said:
Hope it's 7.0 (or 7.1, but probably not).
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Read it again. "First device in the Honor brand to get the EMUI update"
The Mate 9 is going to be released the same day, so it's probably going to get it first.
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Mate 9 is a Huawei device...

zinko_pt said:
Multiuser back. Nice ?
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I too hope to get it back on EMUI 5.

vsriram92 said:
Mate 9 is a Huawei device...
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EMUI is a huawei system. It'd be stupid not to release it for their devices first.

timwelter said:
EMUI is a huawei system. It'd be stupid not to release it for their devices first.
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It will be indeed released to Huawei devices first. I didn say no for it. I just said that Honor 8 will be the first device which will get EMUI 5 in the "Honor branded mobiles".
Honor is the Sub-brand of Huawei and Huawei != Honor.

Anyway this means it will come with some bugs, as it is expected. I just hope they're not too many and deal breaking.

Mate 9 will be a showcase of EMUI 5, it may not be fully ready but it will be ready faster than we think

zinko_pt said:
Anyway this means it will come with some bugs, as it is expected. I just hope they're not too many and deal breaking.
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If those bugs are found at beta testing, then they might fix it before the public release.

No, there will be bugs released in the final OTA still. Looking back I would say it will take 2~3 releases, including OTA, to get fully stable and complete.

Livestream just ended. No info about EMUI on phones other than the Mate 9.

It is interesting to see that on the official Huawei introducing EMUI 5 video there is no app drawer (1:25)
On the other hand all the first hands on videos shows there is:

It's optional. You can enable it in the settings

Huawei Mate 9 leaks in high resolution images 2 days in advance of release.

The Huawei Mate 9, which will be officially announced this month, has appeared in high resolution leaked photos showing the final unit with Leica-engineered dual-camera setup.
The leaked photos are consistent with material that's surfaced previously, showcasing a big metal smartphone with a dual-camera setup, accompanied by a dual-LED flash and laser autofocus module.
The handset is rumored to have a 5.9-inch display with 1080p resolution and is to be powered by the Huawei HiSilicon Kirin 960 flagship-tier processor, paired with up to 6GB of RAM and up to 128GB of storage. The Huawei Mate 9 allegedly runs Android 7.0 Nougat skinned with the manufacturer's EMUI 5.0 interface.
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yep, definitely looks like a mate with some gentle design evolution, nice
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Disappointed !
will wait and see whats under the hood might attract !

copysat said:
Disappointed !
will wait and see whats under the hood might attract !
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Agreed.
Plus, the Kirin 960 isn't much faster as well (for non-gamers that is as the GPU-side however is massively quicker (but current games run just fine on the 950 as well, imho)) and pretty expensive so will hold onto the Mate 8 for the time being :good:

it is all about the price about this one, I am also disspointed with the camerabump and camera modul, it looks not very stylish and not up to huawies recent standards.
I am a gamer so for personally k960 is very much neeeded. The picture abouve I still see black borders against the screen this is disappointing, I think otherwise Nubia Z9 has done very good with this and I wish all other manufactures would do the same to create borderless screen

The leaks seem to be getting confirmed (or thrown out) as the 4th approaches. On a Note 4 (but running Note 7 softwate) and have a ROM'd MediaPad X2 (which was a PITA to update) . So I like rooted Huawei devices with new ROMs so looking at 3 very different devices:
In the spirit of the thread, my first pick
- Mate 9 mostly for the great devs here. Nougat would be a bonus, and hopefully chainfires work can be brought over. Not global (or including 4g then off the list.
- LeEco LePro 3 with flash rebate it is absurdly affordable and reasonably reviewed as a whole. Only 5.5 is a real deal thinker. 5.9 on the Mate much better by leaps and jumps ahead.
- Lenovo Phab Pro 2 out (for ordering) now, but holding for the Huawei intro press conference on the 4th. Bigger (like the 6.4), much less performance wise.

Two pictures from the phone.

Does anyone know the URL to watch the live feed today?

tboy2000 said:
Does anyone know the URL to watch the live feed today?
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Nice phone with nice price lol

Assuming this will be available in the US on the Huawei website as an unlocked version you can use in the US?
Opinion on it being my next phone over my Nexus 6p?

Two sensors (20MP+12MP) 4K video + OIS, new CPU, new GPU, Android 7.0, IR blaster, USB Type-C. Good update over Mate 8.
"Porsche Design" will be not for everyone. Especially design quite like Samsung - front main button ... and price of course.

MSNemitz said:
Assuming this will be available in the US on the Huawei website as an unlocked version you can use in the US?
Opinion on it being my next phone over my Nexus 6p?
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Same here maybe upgrading from my Nexus6 P?
btw, originally from akron

Huawei Mate 9 Hands-on: The New Phablet to Beat?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46OH7m2Tb7Q

What was that about making EMUI 5 more like a stock? LOL
Won't complain though. The light filter is the only thing I miss (no root). Let's hope we will get it too.

i like the tighter spacing in the quick settings, finally we can cram more settings in there and use the available space properly
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galaxys said:
Same here maybe upgrading from my Nexus6 P?
btw, originally from akron
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I love my Nexus 6p but I'm starting to get the itch. I'm hoping this comes out soon tho, what do you think of the Pixel XL?
How do you have your 6p set up? ... I wanted to put on the 7.1 Pure Nexus but I'm not really wanting to do a fresh reset on my phone.
You got out of Akron you lucky dog haha

MSNemitz said:
I love my Nexus 6p but I'm starting to get the itch. I'm hoping this comes out soon tho, what do you think of the Pixel XL?
How do you have your 6p set up? ... I wanted to put on the 7.1 Pure Nexus but I'm not really wanting to do a fresh reset on my phone.
You got out of Akron you lucky dog haha
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Yes, can't wait to see the Mate 9! The Pixel xl is under specs and over priced for me. I'm on Nitrogen OS N 7.1 after a clean install & all is good!
I revisit family in akron every few years, but only in the summer!

galaxys said:
Yes, can't wait to see the Mate 9! The Pixel xl is under specs and over priced for me. I'm on Nitrogen OS N 7.1 after a clean install & all is good!
I revisit family in akron every few years, but only in the summer!
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Yeah, that's how I feel about the Pixel, but it being a new phone I'm like "man, I want a new phone" haha. This 6p has me loving Huawei. Best phone I've ever had ... I may try the 7.1 Pure Nexus tonight and just bite the bullet of a clean install.

EMUI 5.1 is coming!

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So, no idea when there will be official release, but it seems stable. It is very similar to the P10's firmware at this point.
Update: The chinese version includes Google Play Services out of the box. Interesting.

Then Huawei's statement about "Phones on EMUI 5.0 won't be getting 5.1" is utter bull****? Nice going there Huawei! >< Are there any changes in the Camera App, enabling the Pro Video mode? Would you mind seeing how it does the GPS, with Galileo as well? Does it see more, then 1 EU satellite?

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Then Huawei's statement about "Phones on EMUI 5.0 won't be getting 5.1" is utter bull****? Nice going there Huawei! >< Are there any changes in the Camera App, enabling the Pro Video mode? Would you mind seeing how it does the GPS, with Galileo as well? Does it see more, then 1 EU satellite?
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Yes, it's utter bs. EMUI 5.1 is definitely coming. Any build above 300 will be labelled as EMUI 5.1.
Regarding your other questions, if I have time to try I will.

duraaraa said:
Yes, it's utter bs. EMUI 5.1 is definitely coming. Any build above 300 will be labelled as EMUI 5.1.
Regarding your other questions, if I have time to try I will.
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Thanks, work with that German fella from the GPS thread to log the output and see if it's changed. To test the camera, well try zooming 1.1x and see if the quality and sharpness improves. Was a 'bug' on some firmwares.

any idea when is going to be available for the chinese version non rooted?

Do you know if it will include Android 7.1.2 for final release??

i was comparing emui 5.1 to my mate 9 pro emui 5.0 and i don't really see any visual differences. even the new gestures on one hand ui is already in emui 5.0.

Still on December security update here lol

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any idea when is going to be available for the chinese version non rooted?
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A beta is currently available, for non-rooted Chinese.
Final release, who knows?

duraaraa said:
A beta is currently available, for non-rooted Chinese.
Final release, who knows?
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Mid June is a spoken timeframe to start with that update.
But still don't know, if P9 gets it too or only Hisi 960 and Hisi 95x getting that smaller patch.
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Do you know if it will include Android 7.1.2 for final release??
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Emui 5.1 is on 7.0 like P10.

Hope they release it soon
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how can update this emui5.1,beta version?`

What does this update offer? Sometimes it is only worse! Plus this is a photo of the Chinese version.

honestonline said:
What does this update offer? Sometimes it is only worse! Plus this is a photo of the Chinese version.
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Does the version matter? You can have a Chinese version too, if you want! I'm sure Emui 5.1 is much better , then 5.0. That ought to be enough arguments in favor of the new version for now

Swan Princess said:
I'm sure Emui 5.1 is much better , then 5.0. That ought to be enough arguments in favor of the new version for now
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He was asking for specifics. What exactly is "much better" about it?
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kazprotos said:
Still on December security update here lol
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why don't you update thru firmware finder?

Governa said:
He was asking for specifics. What exactly is "much better" about it?
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Yes, I am specifically looking to have the ability of
Hiding apps,
Removing the navigation bar when using the navigation circle,
Double tap when driving,
Customisation,
Better Dock and home screen,
and Softtouch
as this gem is capable of all of them. Otherwise for a few "Bugs fixed" and "Security patches" wouldn't wanna see another 1GB of storage and memory wasted.
Plus the Chinese version has a different story and nothing to do with the international version. That is why it matters.

@honestonline 2 finger swipe in, change widgets, background and settings of launcher.
2 finger swipe out, hide apps.

dkionline said:
@honestonline 2 finger swipe in, change widgets, background and settings of launcher.
2 finger swipe out, hide apps.
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2 finger swipe out does not work to hide apps. Are you sure it works for you? Am on B172

Oficially: Honor 8 is not compatible for oreo update

Yes, no kidding, oficially.
Petition:
https://www.change.org/p/huawei-tec...droid-oreo-based-emui-8-0-for-honor-8-devices
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Wow...

Bull**** Chinese company. My phone's battery is dying right after 1 year warranty mark.

ah0y said:
Bull**** Chinese company. My phone's battery is dying right after 1 year warranty mark.
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Mine too, I called them and I am just a few days out of warranty. They said they wanted to help me but couldn't because they couldn't create the service request.
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Surprise surprise

daym.,,

What exactly are the hardware and software that make Honor 8 incompatible with Oreo ??
(for instance, GPU Mali T628 and Vulkan API are the hardware & softwre limitations for Nougat, and thus Honor 7)

chaozu said:
What exactly are the hardware and software that make Honor 8 incompatible with Oreo ??
(for instance, GPU Mali T628 and Vulkan API are the hardware & softwre limitations for Nougat, and thus Honor 7)
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Lessons learned. Pixel 3 next time or someone else. It's much more expensive, but at least there will be support. Even OnePlus seems like a better choice. At least they are updating their OP3 released in June 2016 to Oreo. Honor 8 was released in July 2016. An older phone is getting better support. So infuriating. Their hw excuse is BS.

This is the final ??

KevinN206 said:
Lessons learned. Pixel 3 next time or someone else. It's much more expensive, but at least there will be support. Even OnePlus seems like a better choice. At least they are updating their OP3 released in June 2016 to Oreo. Honor 8 was released in July 2016. An older phone is getting better support. So infuriating. Their hw excuse is BS.
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ill go with Android One device right now my money is on Mi A1

It's a joke that the phone called "Honor 8 LITE" (cheaper version of Honor 8) gets Oreo, and the Honor 8 not.
After this, I think I will never buy a Honor/Huawei phone again...

KevinN206 said:
Lessons learned. Pixel 3 next time or someone else. It's much more expensive, but at least there will be support. Even OnePlus seems like a better choice. At least they are updating their OP3 released in June 2016 to Oreo. Honor 8 was released in July 2016. An older phone is getting better support. So infuriating. Their hw excuse is BS.
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Not only OP3.. even Samsung S6 is about to receive Oreo...

Ikr if the s6 can get Oreo this phone for sure should be able to.

it is typical of Huawei or Honor to provide only one major OS update...if your model came with MM you will get N. If your model launched with N, you will get Oreo. That's it... Irrespective of whether the hardware is capable or not...
we customers are just expecting more than what we are entitled to...

That moment when your old Xperia SP from 2013 is running totally fine with Android 8.1 while this device has even worse Hardware than the Honor 8... It just can't be Hardware or Software limitation, they don't earn money with updates, that the reason, only with selling new phones.

Looks like I'm never going to buy a Huawei device again, even if it's cheap. I only got this device because there was a special sale on that specific day (About 30% off). Looking back I should probably have gotten a OnePlus 3T which was the phone I originally planned on getting. Oh well, I'm really disappointed in Huawei.
I can just say that my next phone will definitively be a OnePlus, maybe the OnePlus 6 or 6T.

Bought 2 Honor 8(One for me and other to my wife), and altough i still like the device I doubt I'll ever buy a Honor/Huawei device in a near future...

nerusonu said:
Bought 2 Honor 8(One for me and other to my wife), and altough i still like the device I doubt I'll ever buy a Honor/Huawei device in a near future...
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Even though they launch at 30k in starting they will end up selling phones at 50% or 30% off. In India Honor 8 was launched at 30k but now its been sold at 14.9k RIP for those who brought when it was launched (I'm also in sadly )
Lessons Learnt :-
1.Never and ever buy Honor phones at early release stage, if you buy you can't sell after a month also.
2. Never expect updates from Honor, they always gonna late by the time you'll see next major update LOL

God damn it!
one of the reasons I bought the phone was because they promised two years of updates... can't we sue them over this or something? If that's completely true I'm not buying a hauwei/honor phone again...

what the hell first i bought samsung s3 there they stopped update till andriod 4.3.6 (so thought never to buy samsung as they didnt provide update before) then i bought nokia 6 ta-1000, nokia was even worse coz no updates and plus it was not supporting 4g in my area so sold that and bought honor 8 thinking they will update, now with this post i lost hope... i am having bad luck i guess coz now even samsung s6 getting oreo update