Huawei Honor 6X Review Specs Pros and Cons

Huawei under the Honor Series launched another mid-range smartphone- Honor 6X with some intuitive features and design, Previous phone Honor 5X was quite popular among the people and Huawei definitely expecting better marketing from this handset. In this gadget features under top notch are 5.5 inches full HD Display with 2.5D Glass, HiSilicon Kirin 655 octa-core processor, 12+2 MP Primary | 8 MP Secondary camera, 32/64 GB Internal | 128 GB SD Card support, 3/4 GB RAM and 3340 mAh battery.

Design with Decency

Smooth edges and gentle curves from the rear side causing aesthetic body and balance design for holding with the single hand, You can also change the display size for more comfortable operating with single hand. The right edge of phone contains Volume and power buttons while on the opposite side at left it has a Hybrid slot for SIM and SD Card. The mono speaker grille with microphone grille and Micro USB slot at the bottom, To insert the headphone bud there is 3.5 mm audio jack on the top.

Display reflection
You feel pleased to watch the media files in this phone as it has vivid 5.5 inches Full HD display, configured with 2.5D Curved glass and 403ppi of display density. This display also has quite good visibility even in direct sunlight with the brightness up to 450nit. There is scratch protecting glass but definitely not Corning Corilla Glass for the screen. 

Camera that Captures Depth
With Tagline "Double or Nothing" they have installed 12+2 MP dual setup for rear camera, it offers Aperture range from f/0.95 to f/16 this helps in focus at the different level with stylish professional-grade blurred background effect. Two rear-firing cameras help in taking in-depth photographs. The daylight and macro photography are pretty decent with the rear camera, while it is quite average in taking night photographs. 8 MP camera is also acceptable for this price group smartphone can capture good selfies in sufficient light.

No It's Not Snapdragon it's HiSilicon CPU
Huawei neither interested in Snapdragon nor in MediaTek so the company providing their own HiSilicon Kirin 655 processor which has eight-cores where 4-cores clocking at 2.1 GHz and 4 cores at 1.7 GHz. The performance is more extended by 4 GB RAM and device runs nearly with no hindrance, the good news is that it doesn't heats as well even in some heavy tasks. although it is not best for heavy games but most of the games are running with minimum trouble. 

Battery Power
Inside the phone there is 3340 mAh high-density battery which is capable of delivering 1.5 to 2 days battery usage for a typical user. In the box there is 2A/5V charger that can charge mobile up to 50% in less than 1 hour.

Huawei Honor 6X Specification

• OS- Android v6.0 (Marshmallow) 
• Chipset- HiSilicon Kirin 655 | 2.1 GHz Cortex-A53 | Octa-core | Mali-T830MP2
• Display- 5.5 inches IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen | 1080 x 1920 pixels | 403 ppi pixel Density
• Camera- 12+2 MP Primary | 8 MP Secondary | 1080p Video Resolutions with 30fps
• Phone Dimension- 150.9 x 76.2 x 8.2 | 162 grams Weight | Colour- Gold, Gray and Silver
• Connectivity- 4G- LTE | 3G- HSDPA | Bluetooth v4.1 | WiFi 802.11 b/g/n | 3.5mm Headphone Jack | Dual Nano SIM
• Sensors- Proximity- Yes | Accelerometer: Yes | Light: Yes | Gyroscope: Yes | Fingerprint: Yes 
• Memory- 32/64 GB Internal | 128 GB External | 3/4 GB RAM
• Battery- 3340 mAh | Non-removable

Pros of Huawei Honor 6X

• Dual camera setup for in-depth photography.
• The External SD Card is supported up to 128GB.
• FM Radio is supported.
• The glass on display is scratch resistant.
• OTG Cable is Supported to transfer the data via Pen drive.
• Built-in eye comfort mode filters to relieve screen-related visual stress.

Cons of Huawei Honor 6X

• No IR Blaster.
• Micro USB slot instead of USB Type-C.
• The battery is non-removable.
• No IEEE 802.11ac is a wireless networking standard for Wifi. 
• Not comes up with gyroscope sensor.
• Hybrid SIM slot (Doesn't support 2 SIM cards along with SD Card)
• Low-light camera performance is not up to the mark.

Why to buy and Final words about Huawei Honor 6X

Huawei is capturing the market in India with Honor series, this is obviously a good handset from many aspects like Premium well built metallic design with 2.5D Curved Glass, A camera with wide aperture range with decent quality. Although the things especially a typical Indian customer can miss is No dedicated slot for SIM 2 and some people also have an objection in Micro USB Slot which is rarely found nowadays in this price group smartphone. We have other options also available in the market such as Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 and Lenovo P2.