Huawei P9

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Design

P9 has a metal body design with slim monolithic light (7mm, 144g) than the high-end Android devices like the Galaxy S7 (7.9mm, 152g) or HTC 10 (9mm, 161g). Products with similar designs Huawei P8 with very good quality finishing. First feel when handling the phone is roads diamond milling grinding smooth, not sharp and spikes caused when holding.

Dorsal side of the machine is handled smooth surface roughness, holding grip, not slippery and do not save fingerprints. Details such as the USB port on the machine Type C, audio jack, speaker slot, SIM card tray or the power key, volume … is cut very fine and smooth.

At the front, slightly curved screen 2.5D rim edge and really piece, accounting for 73% share display the entire area of ​​the front. This is the ratio of the screen / front-high, a bit bigger than the Galaxy S7 (72.1%) and HTC 10 (71.1%). This makes the machine very compact holding. However, unfortunately the basic navigation keys (Back, Home and Multitasking) is on the screen again, takes up a display area.

At the rear, the highlight of the whole design of Huawei P9’s cluster dual camera, dual flash and sensor systems, laser autofocus. Although thin body machine but no rear camera pair bulging like other luxury products. Underneath clusters dual camera fingerprint sensor is very sensitive operation, can be used to unlock the screen, open the notification bar, take photographic or record video when the camera application is open and lock any application.

Overall in terms of design, Huawei P9 highly praiseworthy, most metal surfaces should be smooth handle non-slip holding hands, lightweight machine with metal material and the camera is not convex. However, this phone also minus point is the basic navigation keys located on screen display takes up an area. This is a problem that many high-end phones are now trying to avoid, even a conservative company like HTC has taken the keys out of the screen on the new HTC 10. In addition, Huawei P9’s design style also lacks personality traits to the user to look at is recognized immediately, except that dual camera.

Screen

One parameter that Huawei P9 inferior smartphone use Android advanced currently used display resolution Full-HD, not QHD (2K) as the competitors. The screen size of 5.2 inches, use the Neo-LCD IPS panel by JDI (Japan) production and has a pixel density of 423 PPI. During the evaluation process, we have repeatedly mentioned the fact that it is difficult to notice the difference between full-HD screen and the phone’s screen resolution is higher than when using conventional. Maybe later if virtual reality glasses became popular, the high resolution phones will have an advantage, and now full-HD resolution completely assured of granularity.

When launched, Huawei P9 introduced screen reaches up to 500 nit brightness and maximum brightness is that we measured 474 nit, was put in the highs. Display deep black levels and contrast are good, is also characteristic of the IPS-Neo LCD screen of JDI. Color reproduction capabilities fairly standard, only slightly darker than the standard color and color temperature in the default mode renders slightly green. However, Huawei allows flexible adjustment of color temperature settings so users can manually adjust the colors get his suit. P9 screen with wide viewing angle, only slightly less than the Super AMOLED screen of the Galaxy S7 and also good outdoor visibility.

Software

P9 is preinstalled version 4.1 EMUI customized based on Android 6. While companies like Samsung, LG and HTC are transferred using the original interface of Google, then Huawei continues past the familiar strategy of Android phone manufacturers to fully customize the operating system of Google.

Like Xiaomi’s MIUI, version 4.1 on Huawei EMUI P9 has redesigned many interface elements from the notification bar, the quick access bar, the setup, the screen multitasking, remove the tray application, optional main screen interface and added features the manufacturer’s own. The interesting point above EMIUI 4.1 is bar status message when you swipe down the notification will focus timeline format into intuitive, easy to observe. Users can also take advantage of the fingerprint sensor on the back to manipulate the status bar by swiping down or up on the fingerprint sensor.

Huawei P9 has many functions included in the application management: system optimization, traffic management, notification management, battery management and application password lock / fingerprint. In the course of use, the machine occasionally pops up warning the consuming application is made batteries, may be uncomfortable for some users, but is very useful for those who use high-intensity, need to manage battery life . To increase battery life, P9 allows reducing display resolution down to 720p and it also helps to increase the frame rate for smoother gaming with graphics heavy game.

Auxiliary features like virtual button, thumbnail screen mode or the motion control operations such as machine to silence capsized, put the phone to his ear to listen to always pick up the phone call and to decrease the volume was familiar on Chinese phones were also present on P9. Those who prefer keyboard to input scan will surely enjoy Huawei built-in Swype keyboard machine, scanner keyboard is considered best for the current input.

Performance

Huawei P9 use Kirin 955 processor manufactured by Huawei. This processor has 8 CPU cores, including 4 cores the Cortex-A72 clocked at 2.5GHz (2.3GHz in Kirin 950) and 4 cores Cortex-A53 clock speed 1.8GHz (same on Kirin 950). Graphics GPU Mali-T880 integrated MP4 is clocked at 900 MHz like GPU on Kirin 950 varieties.

Try to measure the performance of software CPU is Geekbench 3.0, single-core performance point Cortex-A72 of Kirin 955 lower than the core Kryo of Snapdragon 820 on HTC 10 and the core Mongoose of Exynos 8890  on Galaxy S7 edge. However, performance on multi-core Kirin 955 on Huawei P9 is very impressive, much higher than the smartphones use Snapdragon 820 due to higher clock speeds.

On GFXBench benchmarking software GPU, Huawei P9 not catch up under the current high-end machines. GPU integrated on Kirin 955 is Mali T880 MP4 (quad), similar to the graphics chip in the Helio X25 processor, while the GPU on Exynos 8890 of the edge Galaxy S7 is Mali T880 MP12 (12 cores). GPU Adreno 530 of Snapdragon 820 on HTC 10 reach best graphics scores in the present time.

With software AnTuTu benchmarking overall 6, Huawei P9 also reach scored worse than the high-end machines use processor Snapdragon 820 or Exynos 8890 but higher than last year’s high-end smartphones like the Xperia Z5 (Snapdragon 810) and Galaxy Note 5 (Exynos 7420).

In aggregate, the performance of Kirin 955 processor has not yet comparable to the two processors is now the leading Snapdragon 820 and Exynos 8890 on Galaxy S7 / S7 edge. However, Kirin 955 fully processing power intensive tasks on the screen of the Huawei P9 Full-HD. Experience photography on the rear dual camera processing speed also almost immediately after pressing the shutter button just like other advanced smartphones. Heavy graphics games like Asphalt 8  or Nova 3 are running smoothly at the highest settings. However, the graphical effects when switching between applications or home screen still shows slight delay, not smooth like on the new phone recently Snapdragon 820 or Galaxy S7 / S7 edge.

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Time battery

With 3,000 mAh capacity battery and screen full-HD resolution, P9 have the battery was quite good. In our test, the phone can surf continuous 8 hours and 36 minutes, continuous movie 9 hours 11 minutes or 4 hours 7 minutes running on the software simulator game GFX Bench at 70% brightness. Note that this result is calculated from the battery from full to 10% pin. Two tests for web surfing activities and movies made in the conditions screen brightness and volume set at 70%, turn on Wi-Fi. If you have a habit of turning on the monitor in lower brightness, from about 50-60% of the battery life can be extended.

Overall, P9’s battery is not “power” as Galaxy S7, but enough for use everyday. However, unfortunate drawback of the machine is not support fast charging as many other high-end smartphones. P9 full charging time of charger supplied by tubers waste about 2.5 hours, while most high-end smartphones are now able to fully charge within 1-1.5 hours.

Camera

The difference of Huawei P9 is the ownership dual camera 12MP with brand Leica. Two cameras include a color image receiving conventional camera and a collection of black and white photos. Unlike the two cameras on the LG G5 operate completely independent, dual cameras shooting simultaneously P9 to create a picture. According to Huawei, the monochrome camera has the task to improve the sharpness of the image and increase the ability to capture light for color image can also be used to capture black and white images with higher contrast.

It may sound hard to believe, but according to Huawei, the monochrome sensor can be obtained from the scene more than color sensors. The reason is because monochrome sensors only interested in the amount of light from a point in the scene without the need for attention to the colors. Meanwhile, the color sensor light to filter to determine the colors in the scene. That process makes the color sensor to lose the details that can help sharper images. Huawei said the use of two sensors dominated P9 collect more light than the iPhone 6s 270% and 70% compared to the Galaxy S7. Experience realistic, Huawei P9 shots, especially when shooting in low light, the brighter the brightness are actually quite a lot, especially when compared to the HTC 10.

P9 is smartphone with the Leica branded. However, this phone does not use Leica’s legendary lenses as many people expected that German camera brand only involved in the process of post-production tweaking to the standard camera image of the company.

Focus speed, fast autofocus Huawei P9 equivalent other advanced machines but little slower shutter speed than the iPhone 6s, HTC Galaxy 10 and S7. P9 allows users to quickly open the camera app and take always with the double-click the volume down button when the screen is off and this is done when you set a password lock screen. This helps users to start fast casual moments during daily use. However, the machine heats up after a few minutes clearly photographed and will cool down if not used in a few minutes.

Quality, photo from color P9 relatively honest, closer to HTC 10 and more than iPhone 6s but not as much as the Galaxy S7. In well-lit environment, the machine displays the fine detail equivalent to the iPhone 6s and only slightly less than HTC 10, the smartphone has the best current details. When shooting in low light, pictures of actual P9 usually pretty much brighter and colors to be pushed to make photos look very warm. The high speed by increasing the brightness ISO of P9 make to image trade-offs, reduced granularity. However, this only clearly recognize when to zoom up, if viewed on a phone screen or computer are hard to find.

The interesting point is P9 camera has many features. The first unique feature to mention is probably the ability to take pictures in black and white. Machine with black and white photographic modes separately from the sensor rather monochromatic color effects using black and white as on the phone. Therefore, the black and white photos with the detail and good contrast.

The second feature to note about the camera’s color mode P9 is 3 software interface called film mode with three options: normal, vivid colors and smooth color. In particular, the wall-color mode image balance, color mode brilliantly vivid images with realistic color darker, while the color mode for smooth images located between the other two modes.

One of the limitations of the camera phone is the lack of depth due to smaller sensor uses wide-angle lens. Huawei P9 has features that allow users to “self-export” to create the image with depth, extent delete custom fonts. Actually, this is the mode to delete fonts like on Sony’s high-end device or pre-focus mode on the HTC One M8 previously. This mode is effective when shooting objects at close range less than 2 meters, shooting context with clear lines and not too complicated.

In addition, after the camera’s shooting modes P9 many others such as exposure shooting, shooting beautiful skin, attach watermark in image capture, audio capture and recording together with scanned documents … In general, brings P9 experience interesting camera, many features and image quality is relatively good.

Conclude

When the phone market is gradually entering a period of saturation, each manufacturer must have creative ways to bring their products unique, stand out from the competition. With P9, Huawei has made remarkable efforts to develop dual camera system with a camera in black and white wedding photography combined with renowned firms Leica camera to optimize image quality. In fact, the photo quality of P9 is pretty good, only poor bit of detail, sharpness when compared to the current top products.

Other factors are also at the level of the machine is quite good and, from the display, performance, battery life, and especially the quality of finishing. Huawei need to improve on the next generation is probably more personal style should cause people to remember. Graphics processing capabilities should also be strengthened to keep pace with trends games virtual reality, virtual interaction requires great strength from the GPU.

Overall, Huawei P9 still lacking a bit to compete on par with the current top smartphones like HTC 10 or Galaxy S7. The phone can say no less competitive in terms of quality improvement, but a little more vulnerable than performance especially graphics processing capability; camera features but a slower shutter speed and granularity lower.