Category: Huawei Smartphones

Huawei Y9 Prime With 16MP Pop-up Selfie Camera Launched in India
Huawei Y9 Prime 2019 is launched in India. The phone will go on sale starting August 7. Huawei Y9 prime 2019 will compete with the likes of Realme X, Vivo Z1 Pro and Galaxy A50.

Huawei Y9 Prime has octa-core HiSilicon Kirin SoC with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage. The device runs on EMUI 9.1 based on Android 9 Pie. Memory can be expanded through microSD card upto 512GB. The connectivity features of the device are, Dual SIM, 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS/ A-GPS, and USB Type-C port.

The sensors in the device are ambient light sensor, gravity sensor, gyroscope, magnetometer, and a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor. Huawei Y9 Prime sports 6.59-inch full-HD+ (1080×2340 pixels) TFT display with 19.5:9 aspect ratio and 391 ppi of pixel density.

Coming to camera department, Y9 Prime has triple camera setup in the back. This comprise of 16MP primary sensor coupled with 8MP secondary wide angle sensor and a 2MP depth sensor. The rear camera setup said to recognise 22 categories and over 500 scenes in a real time. It also has 16MP selfie camera that is available as a part of the pop-up module. The pop up module is touted to withstand a pressure of 15 kilograms. The phone has 3D Portrait retouching feature that works with both the rear and front cameras to retouch your selfies with various lighting effects. Both cameras are equipped with AI features.

Huawei Y9 Prime houses 4000mAh, which charges through USB Type-C. The device measures 163.5×77.3×8.8mm and weighs 196.8 grams.

Huawei Y9 Prime Key Specification
- Octa-core HiSilicon Kirin 710 SoC.
- 4GB RAM and 128GB of internal storage.
- MicroSD card support upto 512GB.
- 6.59-inch full-HD+ (1080×2340 pixels) TFT display with 19.5:9 aspect ratio.
- Triple camera setup at rear which includes 16-megapixel primary sensor, 8-megapixel secondary sensor with an ultra-wide-angle lens, and a 2-megapixel tertiary sensor.
- 16MP pop up selfie camera.
- 4000 mAh battery.
Huawei Y9 Prime FAQ

What is the Huawei Y9 Prime price in India?
The device price in India is Rs.15,990.

What are the launch offers?
Huawei Y9 Prime will be available to purchase from Amazon.in. It will be available through offline stores as well. Customers can prebook the phone through Croma, Poorvika, and other major retail outlets starting August 5. The customers who pre book will get Huawei Sport BT headphones and a 15,600mAh power bank both worth Rs. 4,598. Launch offers on Amazon.in are instant cashback worth Rs. 500 through Amazon Pay and instant discount of 10 percent specifically for SBI cardholders. There will also be an additional exchange discount of up to Rs. 1,500 and no-cost EMI options for six months.

What are the different color options available?
Huawei Y9 Prime 2019 will be available in Emerald Green and Sapphire Blue colour options.

What are the Huawei Y9 Prime Cons?
Based on specifications, here is the list of Huawei Y9 Prime demerits.
1. No NFC.
2. Hybrid sim card slot. No dedicated microSD card slot.

How to take screenshot in Huawei Y9 Prime?
To take screenshot in Huawei Y9 prime, you can use power button and volume button method or use screenshot button.
On a screen on which you want to take screenshot, press and hold power and volume down buttons. Screenshot will be captured.
August 2, 2019
Huawei P9 Top 5 Features Price Specification
Huawei smartphones, world’s 3rd largest smartphone manufacturer, launched its much anticipated Huawei P9 in India. It is priced at Rs.39,999 and will be available via Flipkart. The biggest USP of this smartphone is its 12MP dual rear camera. Let’s have quick look into the top 5 features of Huawei P9 according to us.

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Top 5 Features of Huawei P9

Camera

Huawei P9 signature feature is its camera. It comes with 12MP dual camera which is co engineered by Leica, the globally renowned manufacturer of cameras and sport optics. The two 12MP camera sensors are placed side by side. One of them being a normal RGB sensor and the other being a monochrome one. The colour sensor captures the colours information of the scene, and the monochrome sensor captures more light and details. Software then takes the information from both the sensors and creates a single colour image.

The two lenses also gives better depth of field perception which allows you to refocus on different part of the picture after the shot is taken. The camera on Huawei P9 has hybrid auto focus system. What it means is that, it uses laser and phase detection auto focus methods together. Apart from this, P9 also supports RAW format pictures, long exposure night shots and pro-shooting modes.

Power and Performance

Huawei P9 is powered by all new Kirin 955 chipset with flagship FinFET Plus 16nm chip technology which is said to offer much better performance compared to previous generation 28nm chipsets. This octa core processor has 4 Cortex A72 cores clocked at 2.5GHz and 4 Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.8GHz.

The powerful Mali-T880 GPU ensures seamless gaming experience with 100% increase in GPU performance with the inclusion of an additional arithmetic pipeline allowing for greater computation. It also has rapid eMMC 5.1 based flash memory chip. Running on latest EMUI 4.1 OS on top of Android 6.0, it offers smooth user experience.

Triple Antennas for seamless connectivity

Huawei P9 comes with a virtual triple antenna technology. It provides better signal reception irrespective of the position you hold your phone. Better RF performance system automatically switches to the antenna with the best signal to prevent dropped calls.

Fingerprint identification 2.0

Huawei P9 has 2nd generation Swedish designed FPC fingerprint sensor which is promised to unlock the screen in just 0.5 seconds. This fingerprint scanner is designed such away that, it learns more about your fingerprint as you use it and prevents failed identification caused by wet hands or partial fingerprints.

Fingerprint scanner on Huawei P9 has Replay Protected Memory Block(RPMB) technology which encrypts and stores fingerprint data in a separate secure storage area. This ensures, fingerprint data cannot be accessed even if the phone is rooted.

Display

Huawei P9 sports 5.2 inch full HD(1920×1080 pixel) display screen with 423 ppi pixel density. It has 10 point multi touch support with manual colour temperature controls. The screen has 2.5D Corning Gorilla glass protection. It has screen to body ratio of 72.9%. The fully laminated LTPS GFF screen has less reflection.

Huawei P9 Specification
- 5.2 inch full HD(1920×1080 pixel) display screen with 423 ppi pixel density.
- Kirin 955 chipset with flagship FinFET Plus 16nm chip technology.
- 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage(Around 24GB user available storage).
- Dual 12MP rear camera with f/2.2mm, Leica optics lens.
- 8MP front facing camera.
- Android 6.0 Marshmallow with EMUI 4.1.
- 3000 mAh battery.
- Fingerprint identification 2.0.
This is not a complete review on Huawei P9. We will be doing an indepth review on the actual real performance in the coming days.
August 18, 2016
Huawei Honor 7 Pros and Cons Review
Huawei Honor 7 is a stylish feature rich Android smartphone with affordable price tag. It has fingerprint scanner, 5.2 inch IPS full HD display, metal finish design, 20MP primary camera, 8MP primary camera and dedicated smartkey. Huawei Honor 7 price in India starts at Rs.22,999.

Huawei Honor 7 sports 5.2 inch full-HD IPS-LCD screen with 424 ppi pixel density. The display panel used in this device of good quality. It is bright and offers great viewing angles and good colour reproduction. The screen to body ratio is 72.4% and has on-screen soft keys and narrow borders. Overall, it feels good to hold it in hand. Unlike a big 5.5 inch phablets, this feels more convenient for me.

Honor 7 is powered by octa-core Hisilicon Kirin 935 SoC(four cores operating at 2.2GHz and the secondary four cores at 1.5GHz) with 3GB of RAM and ARM Mali-T624. The device runs on Android 5.0.2 with Huawei’s Emotion UI 3.1 on top. The UI offers lot of customisation for practically every function including the navigation bar, smart key, motion control, and one-handed operation. The day to day performance is excellant. Even gaming performance is good. However, highend graphic intensive games at times shown bit of lag. Overall performancewise, it is good.

Honor 7 sports 20-megapixel primary camera with dual-tone flash and an 8-megapixel front camera with single-tone flash. Both camera supports full HD video recording. It takes excellant outdoor images. The indoor performance also decent. But as it doesnot have optical image stabilisation, when taking images in low light hand should be steady. Otherwise images tends to washed out.

Huawei Honor 7 available in India is single sim variant. The connectivity features of the device includes 4G LTE, Bluetooth 4.1, IR blaster, WiFi, WiFi tethering, USB tethering and USB OTG. The internal storage capacity of the device is 16GB and supports microSD card upto 128GB. Honor 7 houses 3100 mAh battery which with heavy usage lasted for a complete day in my testing.

So lets summarize the Huawei Honor 7 review with its merits and demerits.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Huawei Honor 7

Pros of Honor 7
- Responsive and fast Fingerprint scanner: Huawei also provides gesture customisation for fingerprint scanner such as accessing notifications, multitask page etc by swiping.
- Good cellular call quality and network reception: The call quality is loud and clear.
- Very good design and Build quality: The metal finish design gives premium feel to the device.
- Good camera performance: Both primary and secondary camera performance were satisfactory.
- Good Display: 1080p 5.2 inch display is good.
- Good overall performance: Overall the device performance is very good.
Cons of Honor 7
- No Dual sim variant in India: Honor 7 which is available in India supports only single sim(nano sim).
- No optical image stabilisation.
- Outdated Android version: The device runs on Android 5.0.2. That is 2 generation old version.
- No 4K video recording capability.
- Non user replaceable battery.
Honor 7 Tips and Tricks

Download PC Suite for Honor 7

For downloading the official PC suite for Honor 7, you can read my detailed instruction post How to download Huawei PC suite.

How to take screenshot on Honor 7

For taking screenshot on Honor 7, you can press and hold volume down key and power button simultaneosly. Another method using the dedicated smartkey.

Huawei Honor 7 Specification
- Octa-core Hisilicon Kirin 935 SoC with 3GB RAM and ARM Mali-T624.
- Android 5.0.2 with Huawei’s Emotion UI 3.1
- 5.2 inch 1080p IPS display.
- 20-megapixel primary camera with dual-tone flash and an 8-megapixel front camera with single-tone flash
- IR blaster and Fingerprint scanner.
- 3100 mAh battery
- 16GB internal storage and support for microSD card upto 128GB.
October 30, 2015
How to Download Huawei PC Suite-HiSuite
Huawei has a PC suite software for its smartphone in the name of HiSuite. It is well packaged PC suite from Huawei, which enables you to access and flowlessly work between PC and Mobile. In terms of no of features it is very close to Xiaomi PC Suite. So we will learn more about features and download procedure of Huawei PC suite.

HiSuite-Huawei PC Suite Features

Once HiSuite downloaded and installed, you can connect your Huawei smartphone to PC and perform follwing tasks. It will comes bundled with USB drivers.

App Management: You can easily manage your apps on your Huawei smartphones from PC. This includes, viewing the installed apps, add new apps or deleting or uninstalling apps using PC.

Screenshot: Taking screenshot on Huawei smartphone is very easy. If you have HiSuite PC suite, then you can even take screenshot from the PC.

Software Updates: Getting OTA updates using mobile data in some areas is bit difficult. So using this PC suite from Huawei, you can download and install firmware update using the PC broadband.

Backup and restoration: Having a regular backup of your smartphone data is always preferred. If you are using any Huawei smartphone, then no need to install third party apps. You can just download and install Huawei PC suite and do the backup and restoration from PC.

Contacts management: Using HiSuite, you can view, add, delete and edit contacts from PC. Even you can import and export contacts from and to PC.

Message Management: If you want to send and recieve sms from your PC, then HiSuite Huawei PC suite will come in handy.

Image and Video Management: Using this Huawei PC suite, you can import/export your images and videos. You can even browse from your PC.

How to download Huawei PC Suite or HiSuite

For downloading the official Huawei PC Suite, you can directly browse to the support page. The link for support page with PC suite download is here.

Huawei PC Suite or HiSuite System Requirement
- OS: Windows XP 32 or 64 bit,Windows Vista 32 or 64 bit, Windows 7 32 bit or 64bit, Windows 10 32 bit or 64bit
- Minimum RAM: 1GB.
- Free Hard Disk Space: 500MB.
- Screen resolution: Screen resolution of 1024×768, 16 colors.
Huawei PC Suite or HiSuite Compatible Smartphones:

HiSuite or Huawei PC suite is compatible most of the Huawei Android smartphones such as Huawei Honor 6, Huawei Nexus 6P, Huawei Honor 4 play etc. As mentioned before, this Huawei PC suite or HiSuite is compatible with Honor series smarftphones, Ascend series smartphone.
October 19, 2015
Huawei Honor 7 Launched in India at Rs.22,999
Huawei Honor 7 has been finally launched in India. It is globally launched on July this year. All metal unibody design, 5.2 inch full HD display, 20MP primary camera, fingerprint scanner are the key features of this smartphone. Unlike the global variant, in India only single sim variant will go on sale from October 15th via Flipkart. The device will be available with Mystery Gray and Fantasy Silver colour variants. Huawei Honor 7 price in India is Rs.22,999.

Huawei Honor 7 is powered by company’s own 64-bit octa-core Kirin 935 processor (four Cortex-A53 cores at 2.2GHz + four Cortex-A53 at 1.5GHz) clubbed with 3GB of RAM and ARM’s Mali-T628 GPU. The device has 16GB of internal storage. The 32GB variant and 64 GB inbuilt variants will not released this time in India. It will support microSD card upto 128GB. Honor 7 runs on Android Lollipop with Emotion UI v3.1.

Huawei Honor 7 sports 5.2 inch IPS LCD display screen with resolution of 1080×1920 pixels and pixel density of 423 ppi. The device has 20MP rear camera with Sony made IMX230 sensor, f/2.0 aperture lens, 6-lens module, dual-LED flash, and sapphire glass protection. It also has 8MP front-facing 26-mm wide-angle fixed focus camera with a f/2.4 aperture and front facing flash.

Huawei Honor 7 connectivity feature includes NFC, dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.1, GPS/ A-GPS, and 4G LTE. The device has 3100mAh battery with a quick charging feature that charges the smartphone from zero to full within 1 hour 25 minutes, and zero to 50 percent in 30 minutes. This smartphone also has reverse charging feature that lets users charge other devices using the smartphone. Honor 7 measures 143.2×71.9×8.5mm and weighing 157 grams.

Huawei Honor 7 Specification
- 64-bit octa-core Kirin 935 processor with 3GB of RAM.
- 5.2 inch IPS LCD display screen with resolution of 1080×1920 pixels.
- 20MP rear camera and 8MP front facing camera.
- NFC, dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.1, GPS/ A-GPS, and 4G LTE.
- 3100mAh battery with a quick charging feature.
- Android Lollipop with Emotion UI v3.1.
October 7, 2015