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Selection composite materials, after 6-layer high composite technology crafted
The Huawei Honor 6 use a 6-layer high composite technology design never seen before in a smartphone. A process that increases transparency and gives it a stunningly beautiful look and feel in the hand. The result is a tactile experience with a Spin effect texture finish that takes smartphone design to a new level of craftsmanship.

5 inch full HD screen, brings the unparalleled feeling
The touch screen technology on the Huawei Honor 6 is both exceptionally resistant and extremely sensitive, providing benefits like non-touch floating operation support and double-touch screen activation. JDI 5.0 inch FHD Incell screen, pixel density of up to 445 PPI.

300Mbps beyond imagination, 4G LTE Cat6 leaving you advance into the future
The era of 4G LTE has arrived. What better way to celebrate than with a device that is built to fully complement the speed and power of 4G technology.

Top 3GB DDR3 RAM, fun experience
Clocked 800M 3GB LPDDR3 large memory, when running multiple tasks are still flowing freely. 16GB/32GB eMMC storage capacity of the fuselage, maximum support 64G SD card expansion.

Rear 13MP Camera,  a completely new experience
Rear 13.0MP Sony fourth generation BSI stack type camera, F2.0 large aperture, 5-piece ISP lens and BSI sensor, equipped with dual LED flash, wherever you find yourself you can put yourself in the picture, and include every detail of the amazing world that surrounds you.

Review by gizmochina:

Design:

Before the Huawei Honor 6 is officially release, there is many rumors and the leaked picture about this phone. And now we have a detail real picture of the new Huawei Honor 6 smartphone. And this phone has a lots of breakthroughs in the past to increase design elements,  even can be said to be the strongest sense of Honor-series designed phone. Here is the detail picture of Huawei Honor 6 smartphone.

Huawei Honor 6 has 139.6mm x 69.7mm x 7.5mm body dimension, relative slimmer than the Huawei Ascend P7, the phone is also has 7.5mm body thickness.The expense of the body thickness has brought more large since the phone is comes with 3,100mAh battery capacity.

The new Huawei Honor 6 is using 5.0 inch that has 1080p screen resolution, the screen material is produce by JDI if you think the 5.0inch screen size is too big, you’re wrong because today the big screen is the new trends for most flagship smartphone, the big screen smartphone is now more acceptable by the user. The new Huawei Honor 6 is has 2.86mm ultra-narrow border, accounting for up to 75.7% of the screen, the whole body is very compact. Screen covering the third generation of Corning Glass, the ability to enhance anti-scratch, anti-fingerprint coating layer.

Huawei Honor 6 is using the virtual soft button, the soft button is locate on the screen, this soft button is similar function with the ordinary regular physical soft button. From left to right are the return key, Home key, and Task button. The virtual keys are also available at any time and can be hide but the user can sliding the finger on the screen and the soft button will appear again.

The top of the front design is look more conventional design, there is a light sensor, distance sensor, speaker, and front-facing camera. The Honor 6 has 5 megapixel front facing camera  with a 88-degree wide-angle and self-timer camera feature.

Headphone jack is located on top of the phone, while the continuation of the Honor series smartphone, this Honor 6 is also has smart remote control functionality, there is infra red port in the top of the phone, the remote control feature can be used to almost any electronic home appliance. The phone frame is made from metal materil, this material design is look more rigid and solid.

There is USB port in the midle bottom of the phone, next the microphone hole. The phone is also has nice rounded corner body design, this design aspects is feel like the premium smartphone with nice design and good quality material.

Left side of the phone is look clean, because there is nothing here.

There is volume button and power button on the right side of the body.

In the bottom of the power button, there is a hidden memory card slot and double SIM card slot, siunce the Huawei Honor 6 is comes with dual SIM card support.

Huawei Honor 6 back body

The back body of Huawei Honor 6 is look shiny, the camera is located on the left of top along with LED flash light, while the “honor” logo is located on the middle, the button part is speaker phone.

Screen Display

The Huawei Honor 6 has 5 inch screen size with 1920 × 1080p screen resolution, the screen is covered by Corning Gorilla Glass 3, this material is more strong than the previous model of the Gorilla Glass.

It is worth mentioning that the Huawei Honor 6 phone has built a dedicated color temperature adjustment, the user can according to their own habits screen experience, manually adjust the color temperature of the screen in line with their own visual experience.

Here is the screen comparison between Huawei Honor 6 vs OPPO Find 7 smartphone :

From the comparison result, the new Huawei Honor 6 has more bright than the OPPO Fond 7.

The screen is offers very nice color that the color look more vivid and clean.

While for now, the screen of Huawei Honor 6 is offers excellent screen after al, as we can see on the example picture the phone screen is very good.

Huawei Hisilicon Kirin 920 chipset Introduction – qualitative improvement

The phone is equipped with Huawei Hisilicon Kirin 920 chipset, this is the new processor that developed by Huawei and the processor is strong enough, since the processor has powerful performance. In architecture, Kirin 920 uses four A15 and A7 core big.LITTLE architecture, while supporting HMP (Heterogeneous Multi-Processing) technology, you can dynamically control the different core collaborate, while quad-core and quad-core Cortex-A15 Cortex-A7 can work together.

Kirin 920 uses nice GPU aspect since integrates the ARM Mali-T628MP4 chipset , running on 600MHz, this is more powerfull than the  previous model Mali-450MP4 Kirin 910, the performance of Mali-T628MP4 has been greatly improved, support for up to 2560 x 1600 resolution display in the game Compatibility also has a large optimization. In addition, as always, in terms of powerful video decoding, support for ultra-high-definition audio codec also supports H.265, 4K ultra high-definition full HD video decoding.

If Huawei Kirin 920 more advantages compared to competing products in what respect, then obviously the baseband integration is strong, integrate Huawei’s LTE Advanced communications module, integrated chip is already high, it can support both TD-LTE / LTE FDD / TD-SCDMA / WCDMA / GSM five kinds of formats, and can run at very low power consumption, and is the world’s first to support LTE Cat6 standard (high pass 805 products not yet available), the maximum downlink speed of 300Mbps . Huawei engineers spoke Huawei Kirin 920 in addition to the use of advanced big.LITTLE architecture, 28mm HPM foreign advanced technology, it is for the CPU, GPU, DDR, ISP, Display, more than 10 modules to do a detailed design and power consumption simulation, while the built-in professional audio processors Tensilica HIFI3.

We need to note that the sensor is now more and more mobile devices, so many mainstream chips are integrated auxiliary processor to achieve a low-power management of various types of sensors, in Kirin920 body is no exception. Under co-processor built-in ultra low-power standby state monitoring of peripheral sensors. Meanwhile, in order to reduce the power consumption of the chip, which also implements that do not stop (auto-stop) power saving technology.

Processing performance CPU / GPU compared to the previous generation did leap, 2-4 times can improve performance, but we can not ignore to improve memory performance, which also has a great influence on the processing speed of the machine. Glory 6 built- 3GB of memory to run big. Clocked at 800MHz LPDDR3, memory bandwidth by 1.8 times, while the secondary cache L2 also upgraded twice, which for the performance of the machine has been a great help.

Compare competing products

In terms of performance specifications, Hisilicon Kirin 920 has enough clout to challenge the rival, faced with Qualcomm, MediaTek, Samsung and other top chipset maker, Hisilicon Kirin 920 has a decent CPU performance, while mainstream GPU also catch levels, able to promote mainstream stage 1080p display, while the base support networks with Qualcomm also has capital one ratio.

Specification Comparison

Huawei 4G baseband integration is not inferior to Qualcomm, before Kirin 910T series has good support for 4G LTE networks. The Kirin 920 more able to support LTE Cat 6 standard, and has the ability to support global band. It also supports SGLTE / CSFB and VoLTE voice calls such as 4G networl.

While running points may not represent actual performance, but as a reference anyway. Then take a look at the performance of Hisilicon Kirin 920 runs.

CPU chip comparison

As we can see in CPU-Z, Kirin 920 has eight core big.LITTLE architecture, which are the 4 core of ​​A15 and 4 core A7, the former clocked at 1.3GHz, while the latter is 1.7GHz, relying HMP (Heterogeneous Multi-Processing) technology eight cores can work simultaneously. As contrast Kirin 910T chip, which will still be four A9 core architecture, performance is relatively weak, with GPU performance aspects behind.

Kirin 920 chip

 
Kirin 910T chip

The Benchmark Test

Here is the benchmark results from basic safety point of view, the Honor 6 equipped with Kirin 920 chip, sports with 3GB of memory, the strong overall performance. And the phone is get more 40,000 points, this is quite amazing. Comparing with Huawei Hisilicon K3V2 chip configuration, that only get about 26,000 points, belonging to the end of the level.

Kirin 920 run points

 
Hass K3V2 score

The Huawei Honor 6 has significantly enhance the processing of CPU performance, GPU performance upgrade is worth attention. We also tested the machine using 3DMARK, BASEMARK graphics test software, which seemed at ease. As a result of ARM’s GPU chip, so the game can be guaranteed compatibility. Therefore, the hardware configuration is already in the mainstream top level performance, the Honor 6 is potential to beat Samsung, Qualcomm and other commercially flagship chipset configuration.

Although the chip has just launched Huawei Hass not has compatibility problems, Hass Kirin 910 and 910T is not has compatibility issues. Huawei 6 equipped with Kirin 920 actual test, most games, especially is popular game running smoothly. And decoding audio and video playback chip has natural strengths, Hass has been tested to encondig the multimedia files including mp4, wmv, rmvb, mpg, mov, mkv, flv, avi, 3gp and many other video formats, can be successfully decoded, 720P and 1080P can smooth playback.

4G Networks: The first smartphone to support LTE Cat6

Huawei Hisilicon Kirin 920 incorporates Huawei’s LTE Advanced communications module, the world’s first to support LTE Cat6 standard, Cat6 and Cat4 LTE network protocols are different categories, such as Qualcomm 800 series is Cat4 standards. Generally supported the theoretical maximum speed Internet access while the Cat4 can reach 150Mbps, and the Cat6 support theoretical Internet speeds of up to 300Mbps, FDD scenes peak data transfer rate of up to 300Mbps, the theoretical speed 3G (21M) 14 times, 4G ( Cat4) 2 times. Fengyun SoC also supports TD-LTE/LTE FDD / TD-SCDMA / WCDMA / GSM network standard five, as well as all major global bands, enabling seamless roaming in more than 100 countries worldwide.

Huawei Honro 6 has higher than any other phone which uses 3dB antenna reception, the equivalent of doubling the user signal strength, in the case of poor network coverage calls and Internet environment to ensure smooth. Huawei Honor 6 conducted a comprehensive laboratory existing network environment, the use of independent chip – RF circuit – antenna integrated solution, adjusted to the optimum overall communication performance.

In the TD-LTE network, Honor 6 get the maximum downlink speeds approaching to 60Mbps, the maximum downlink speeds of around 5Mbps. We intuitively see that the actual download files, Huawei 6 is works with 4G network in China Unicom, the download speeds in excess of 6MB / s, this rate has been far beyond the speed of 3G network, we can see that sooner or later the 4G networks will replace the 3G network and 4G connectivity will become standard in the future.

Dual-band WiFi + free hotspots nationwide

Huawei Honor 6 has 2.4GHz/5GHz dual-band WiFi support, includes a complete 802.11a/b/g/n wireless network, which belongs to the fifth generation of Wi-Fi transmission technology (5G Wi-Fi). Advantages of dual-band Wifi devices that have a stronger and more stable Wifi wireless signal, faster transfer speeds, and allows wireless devices more energy to meet future wireless transmission of high definition and big data requirements.

Another surprise is that the Honor 6 users will enjoy of free WiFi service throughout the country since we have more than 6.5 million WiFi hotspots. 10 million hours long free WiFi, no need the password for a key access, the WiFi is free. This feature means , as long as you are in the vicinity of the Honor of free hotspots, is a key to connect to the free WiFi, the user is really a very attractive feature.

Guangzhou urban area, for example, in large shopping malls and crowded places, such as Grandview Plaza, Beijing Road Pedestrian Street and other places, it is easy to search for the free hotspots. Meanwhile, the functional description of “the WLAN service is based on China Mobile, China Telecom, ease of use,” so users can be assured of their safety. Just around the hot spots, Honor 6 will notify you if the free WiFi is available, just click a connect button, it will automatically connect to the network.

The connection process is only takes a few seconds, while applying the WiFi icon will tell you when ww got the great strength, as well as free WiFi signals long.

Life saving: High Density Battery

In the present mobile phone battery technology has not yet made the leap of progress, the mobile phone manufacturers in general practice can only continue to increase battery capacity. And the Honor  6 in addition to increasing the battery capacity, but also open up the path to increase the energy density of the battery choice. Honor 6 using large capacity battery that has 3100mAh lithium polymer battery, the energy density of up to 590Wh / L, has now the highest level in the sale of cell phones. In addition, the smart system of Honor 6 hardware and software integration electric power saving technology, the use of five power-down program, 30% less power than other systems.

Honor  6 system offers specialized power-saving management, performance mode, intelligent power-saving (default), super power and other scenarios, in addition to providing comprehensive power consumption testing, a key detection to tell you what the power consumption in the background, and how you can set up more power, very intimate.

Another special mention of the Honor 6 is the super power-saving mode, after opening this mode, the interface will automatically switch deep tones, and retain only the basic functions such as calls and text messages, turn off the network, turn off all the remaining applications. By this extreme power saving mode, tested remaining 10% power, the Honor 6 smartphone can stand more than 24 hours. 

Honor 6 has a large capacity and high energy density batteries, lower power consumption in the phone’s battery life. 

System: continuous improvement Emotion 2.3

Honor 6 is continue to use the Emotion UI version 2.3. This is different from the recent rumors that syas tthe phone will uses Emotion UI v3.0. This version is a relatively mature version.

The lock-screen is look good, while the animation is more complex but this interface is nice and very smooth for your daily activity. Pull down the slide from the top status bar, slide the bottom can be opened from the shortcut bar. The default choice of the theme “glare (magazine lock screen)”, light up the screen lock screen wallpaper will change every time, pull the bottom action bar can be suspended automatically switch, switch to the next or the collection of the current picture, and so on.Several of the most commonly used shortcut should be the flashlight, after all, quickly open the flashlight in the dark is more a sense of security.

The Honor 6 themes is look good and cool. The user can download the new themes and the Huawei is also always up to date with the current issue and moments, so when we are in the middle of World Cup event, there is a lots of themes that uses keyword “2014 World Cup” theme. Also supports custom settings, you can replace wallpaper, fonts, etc. by yourself, with the common theme of all systems is not much difference.

The Huawei Honor 6 is still using the Android core for the based operating system, so most user can uses this phone with more intuitrive and very user friendly interface.

The status bar is divided into two parts, the left side of the main display notifications and partial information, the right is a variety of fast switching. You can slide left and right to switch between each other, relatively smoothly. It is worth mentioning that after the top left of the screen from the drop-down status bar will show a limited notification bar, pull down from the top right of the screen directly into the quick switch bar, familiar with this little trick is very easy to use.

　　All settings are divided into common settings and set two columns, based on common settings Huawei domestic users accustomed department points out common features, of course, which is also Huawei’s “special” function.

Do Not Disturb mode is very common here without tables. The phone prompts which said only after the effects of open and did not illustrate the principle. In fact, this is technically the screen resolution from 1080p (1920×1080) think down to 720p (1280×720), which can effectively reduce the CPU computational burden, not only to speed up the phone run faster, but also can effectively increase endurance, in the small screen on, 1080p down to 720p resolution after resolution, the screen will not have a significant grainy, small measured effectively.

Emotion supports dual card management, the Honor 6 is comes with two SIM card slots, supports dual SIM dual standby. Also support for customize boot management, the user can change the boot animation screen without root the system.

　You can show or hide the softbutton below the screen, since the softbutton is appear in the screen rather than in physically under the screen