Honor 8 Lite - unsuccessful appearance with excellent content

The release of a new phone always makes buyers wait for either its more powerful or weaker version. It happened with Honor 8. After the device entered the market, an enhanced version appeared with the Pro prefix, and then it was decided to also release a budget version, which, without thinking twice, added the Lite prefix. Despite the fact that the word "light" usually causes buyers to think that they saved somewhere, a review of Honor 8 Lite will show that in this case the savings happened on the case, but not on the hardware.

Specifications

The cost of the smartphone at the time of release was 16 thousand rubles. For this money, buyers could get not the weakest processor with 8 cores, 4 gigabytes of RAM, a good 3000 mAh battery, as well as an FHD display. Full Honor 8 Light features:

Huawei Honor 8 lite supports the use of two SIM cards, one of them can be replaced with a memory card. Given that the device is sold only with 32 GB of memory, the relevance to add a card is, the second option - use of cloud storage. The complete set of Honor 8 lite is absolutely standard: telephone, cable and power supply, warranty card, instruction, key for the tray.

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Design

Phone Honor 8 light at first glance is very similar to his older brother. Here are the same rounded edges, bright colors, full repetition of the hull structure. The main difference between Honor 8 and 8 light, which can be seen is the absence of a second camera. If you take the younger smartphone in hand, then everything becomes clear. First felt the difference between the assembly materials. The older version is glass and metal, in the younger version the metal was replaced with plastic. Moreover, the glass and the back, and the front also looks and feels plastic.

After the start of use, one very big minus is immediately visible - no oleophobic coating, the phone is instantly covered with fingerprints that are very difficult to erase. The second point - the hand with the phone immediately sweats, and it becomes slippery. Many reviews of Honor 8 lite point to this point.

If we ignore the materials used to create the device, the build quality leaves a pleasant impression. Housing does not creak, has no backlash. The size of the device is very small, so in the hand it lies well. From the point of view of ergonomics and the use of control elements, there are no questions.

1. On the front panel above the glass you can see the speaker, proximity sensor, camera, and notification indicator. The latter is invisible and becomes visible only when it starts blinking. In the lower part - the name of the brand. There are no physical buttons on the front. Touch control buttons appear at the bottom of the screen.
   
2. The back panel is a round camera in the corner and a flash. In the central part round fingerprint scanner. It protrudes slightly above the surface, or rather, has a protruding edge. The camera and flash are flush with the body.
   
3. The bottom end is the speakers and power connector, in this case it is a microUSB.
   

4. The upper end is a microphone and a headphone jack.
   

5. The left side contained a slot for cards.
   
6. The right edge is the power button, as well as the volume control. The buttons are slightly convex, easy to press.
   

Color solutions Huawei Honor 8 light - blue, gold, white.

On a note! A black smartphone was also released, but a very limited edition, so often it is not indicated in the technical specifications, and it is difficult to find it.

Display and battery

The Honor 8 Light Smartphone has a 5.2 inch display. The technical parameters are quite typical IPS matrix with good viewing angles and not the best white balance. The color rendition is very dependent on lighting, and in bright light all colors fade quickly. Despite the presence of anti-reflective coating, using the device on a sunny day is not very convenient, you will need to set the brightness to the maximum value.

Model permission is FHD, the pixel density of 423 per inch, is a very good indicator. Watch a movie on the phone is quite real.

Important! To reduce eye fatigue, a special mode is provided in the device,which reduces ultraviolet radiation.

Honor phone 8 light has a decent 3000 mAh battery. As the experience of real use shows at medium loads and constant use of Wi-Fi, the device can last for about 24 hours. When switching to LTE, the indicator will decrease. In the description of the manufacturer indicated that the phone is able to show the following numbers:

• 9 hours with maximum screen brightness;
• 4.5 hours of games with a maximum display brightness;
• 5 hours and 40 minutes - using the Internet at the above screen settings.

Honor 8 light is an interesting feature of the Wi-Fi + function: its essence is that with several available wireless networks, the device will choose the most stable of them to connect. It may not necessarily be Wi-Fi, if LTE is more stable, then the choice will be stopped on it.

Smartphone camera

The Honor 8 light phone, unlike the older version, has only one 12 megapixel camera. In spite of this, the pictures are very decent in the afternoon and in the evening, and at night just not bad. The same Chinese brand Xiaomi in a similar price will not be able to offer a phone that can shoot well at night.There are no artifacts and unnecessary noise, the white balance is quite accurate.

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The front camera also deserves positive emotions. Selfies are very beautiful, and the module also has wide format. In this case, it is quite possible to remove a large company with an auxiliary camera, even without a monopod.

Important! The disadvantage of the camera can be called video. The main one is able to record FHD, but the clarity is not the best, and the viewing angle is small. Frontalka makes only HD.

CPU features

Despite the fact that Honor 8 Light has its own HiSilicon Kirin 655 processor and quite a budget price, it copes with difficult tasks, namely - easily allows you to play a variety of games. Pleasant moment - the phone is not heated at the same time.

The processor has 8 cores, which work in fours and are used intellectually. The core frequency is 1.7 or 2.12 gigahertz. The parameters of Honor 8 Light indicate that its memory is only 32 gigabytes, but microSD support here is up to 128 gigabytes. The RAM here is 4 gigabytes, which is quite good for a phone for 16 thousand rubles.

Conclusion

The capabilities of Honor 8 light for its price are quite serious - this is a device that has a good battery, a powerful processor and a decent camera. The phone performs the standard functions that are in any budget device, but at the same time some of them do better. In the description above, it was stated that many Xiaomi devices do not cope with shooting at night, and even Meiza smartphones in a larger price segment sometimes do not allow to enjoy the gameplay. Many reviews indicate that Honor 8 light in its price range is an excellent option for purchase.

The only real disadvantage that may force some buyers to change their mind is to buy this phone - body materials. Here the manufacturer made a mistake, and even if the plastic itself is not a terrible sin, the fact that there is no oleophobic coating, which, it would seem, is already everywhere, really causes unpleasant emotions. However, this problem is solved by a sticker of a protective glass and a case, but if the device makes a bad photo or cannot start the game, then nothing can be fixed here.

Huawei Honor 8 lite