So now its Huwaei who also took to the notch trend after the
P20 series phones. Ok, those were brilliant phones actually, the P20
lite has one of the best cameras in the sub 20k range. The new notched
up smartphone with the P20 glance is the new Honor 9N. Its not yet
released, but the specifications rumour and the price are intriguing.
The 9N can give out a good competition to the other brands.
The 9N comes with the common Kirin 659 chipset with lots of RAM and internal storages, a Dual camera setup with a 16MP front camera and 3000mAh battery, all of these in a incredible body design. The 9N starts with 11,999 INR for the 3-32GB and 14,600 INR for the 4-64GB variant. The price seems a bit much for the specs since you can get better smartphones for lesser price, but is the Honor 9N still a worthy buy? Read to find out.
The main aspect of the Honor 9N is its incredible body design which is the best among in the budget smartphone category after the Moto E5 plus and the Galaxy J6. The material is plastic though (as others have the same) but the blends are awesome looking. The body comes with curved edges with the metallic lookalike sides that feel great when holding the phone providing well enough grip. The back has high grade finish along with the cameras above in the corner not interrupting the joy. Thats where
The looks matter for a smartphone too
The 9N comes with the trendy Full Vision display(not a Full Body one though) that looks greatly astonishing. The display is a 5.84 inch 1080p stretched into a 19:9 ratio display size covering up whole of the body except for the notch and a bit of body at the bottom with the Honor brand name. Full Vision displays are used on all flagships (or altleast a Full Body display) which improves the quality of visuals and content on the screen. And with a Full Vision 1080p display the 9N can provide an immense experience when navigating through the UI, using the camera, playing games and watching High quality videos.
Camera wise, the 9N has nothing to offer except for a better front camera. A quality 16MP with a f/2.o lens and a 1/3" sensor constitutes the front unit and to be precise, its better with a single quality camera then an average Dual one. And the rear one captures very good photos, aided by the LED flash. The Rear unit consists of the usual 13MP f/2.0 lens and 1/3" sensor with a 2MP f/2.2 depth sensor that can aid the main rear 13MP for better and accurate blurs when dealing with Bokeh/Macro shots. The 13MP has Phase Detection AutoFocus that can work better with the 2MP depth sense for DSLR like Bokeh shots, else it can capture well lit up scene shots in good light and also in low light. Video recording is limited to 1080p 30fps which is good (not enough since 4K would have been better).
The front camera in the 9N gets a mini boost
The 9N comes powered by the common 16nm HiSilicon Kirin 659 Octacore chipset which is now old enough even for a budget phone. But the cores in it say something else, since when it comes to power, the 659 is near to the Helio P25, both of which are better than the commonly used Snapdragon 625. The 659 consists of a quadcore 1.7Ghz Cortex-A53 for dealing with low power tasks (and idle runtime) and a quadcore 2.36Ghz Cortex-A53 for high power operation(all eight will run). The GPU is a Mali-T830MP2 dual core, that can provide power for driving the graphics and the 1080p screen. The GPU in the 659 is moderately powerful for gaming (but it can run the 1080p display at 60Hz so no hangs or freezeups during navigation or animations), else games can run fluently but in lower settings. The 659 is a 16nm chip, thus for battery backup, its still behind the traditional 14nm chips with their high battery efficiency capability. So, powerwise only, the 659 is a good choice. RAM sizes include 3-4GB with 32-64/128GB of internal storages which is good (128GB for the bigger 17K variant that might seem valuable) along with a hybrid SD card slot. There is no question of performance issue as 3GB RAM variants are capable enough to offer full lagless fast browsing and gaming.
The chipset is not so efficient anymore
The 9N comes with the usual 3000mAh battery pack which is not that enough for running a big Full Vision display phone along with a not so efficient chipset. Although the phone will be able to run for a day on a moderate usage, things might get problematic if its pushed beyond the normal limits. The kirin 659 is made on a 16nm process, that might be well efficient for good battery performance (but it has higher clocked low power cores that takes up much of the power when on low power tasks) and no fast charging available too that might have made up for the low capacity battery. Although, the 9N comes with Android Oreo that has some nice battery optimizations tricks and the 659 can offer more than average efficiency, the battery performance can be made and expected good enough with some tweaks.
The Honor 9N seems to have everything a budget phone should have but the price is where everything goes in the wrong way. There are some specs that could have been better like ;
1. No 6GB variant (for higher price)
2. No better efficient chipset
3. Small battery pack
4. No high reolution rear camera(with better sensor)
5. Battery performance is average
And these specs are something which an average user would want in a budget phone apart from just an incredible beautiful body with a Full Vision Display, which doesn't quite pay for the phone only. And the 9N thus disappoints on being a good phone.
The 9N comes with the common Kirin 659 chipset with lots of RAM and internal storages, a Dual camera setup with a 16MP front camera and 3000mAh battery, all of these in a incredible body design. The 9N starts with 11,999 INR for the 3-32GB and 14,600 INR for the 4-64GB variant. The price seems a bit much for the specs since you can get better smartphones for lesser price, but is the Honor 9N still a worthy buy? Read to find out.
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| The Honor 9N has the best designed body in the budget category yet |
Is the Honor 9N a good buy?
The main aspect of the Honor 9N is its incredible body design which is the best among in the budget smartphone category after the Moto E5 plus and the Galaxy J6. The material is plastic though (as others have the same) but the blends are awesome looking. The body comes with curved edges with the metallic lookalike sides that feel great when holding the phone providing well enough grip. The back has high grade finish along with the cameras above in the corner not interrupting the joy. Thats where
The looks matter for a smartphone too
The 9N comes with the trendy Full Vision display(not a Full Body one though) that looks greatly astonishing. The display is a 5.84 inch 1080p stretched into a 19:9 ratio display size covering up whole of the body except for the notch and a bit of body at the bottom with the Honor brand name. Full Vision displays are used on all flagships (or altleast a Full Body display) which improves the quality of visuals and content on the screen. And with a Full Vision 1080p display the 9N can provide an immense experience when navigating through the UI, using the camera, playing games and watching High quality videos.
Camera wise, the 9N has nothing to offer except for a better front camera. A quality 16MP with a f/2.o lens and a 1/3" sensor constitutes the front unit and to be precise, its better with a single quality camera then an average Dual one. And the rear one captures very good photos, aided by the LED flash. The Rear unit consists of the usual 13MP f/2.0 lens and 1/3" sensor with a 2MP f/2.2 depth sensor that can aid the main rear 13MP for better and accurate blurs when dealing with Bokeh/Macro shots. The 13MP has Phase Detection AutoFocus that can work better with the 2MP depth sense for DSLR like Bokeh shots, else it can capture well lit up scene shots in good light and also in low light. Video recording is limited to 1080p 30fps which is good (not enough since 4K would have been better).
The front camera in the 9N gets a mini boost
The 9N comes powered by the common 16nm HiSilicon Kirin 659 Octacore chipset which is now old enough even for a budget phone. But the cores in it say something else, since when it comes to power, the 659 is near to the Helio P25, both of which are better than the commonly used Snapdragon 625. The 659 consists of a quadcore 1.7Ghz Cortex-A53 for dealing with low power tasks (and idle runtime) and a quadcore 2.36Ghz Cortex-A53 for high power operation(all eight will run). The GPU is a Mali-T830MP2 dual core, that can provide power for driving the graphics and the 1080p screen. The GPU in the 659 is moderately powerful for gaming (but it can run the 1080p display at 60Hz so no hangs or freezeups during navigation or animations), else games can run fluently but in lower settings. The 659 is a 16nm chip, thus for battery backup, its still behind the traditional 14nm chips with their high battery efficiency capability. So, powerwise only, the 659 is a good choice. RAM sizes include 3-4GB with 32-64/128GB of internal storages which is good (128GB for the bigger 17K variant that might seem valuable) along with a hybrid SD card slot. There is no question of performance issue as 3GB RAM variants are capable enough to offer full lagless fast browsing and gaming.
The chipset is not so efficient anymore
The 9N comes with the usual 3000mAh battery pack which is not that enough for running a big Full Vision display phone along with a not so efficient chipset. Although the phone will be able to run for a day on a moderate usage, things might get problematic if its pushed beyond the normal limits. The kirin 659 is made on a 16nm process, that might be well efficient for good battery performance (but it has higher clocked low power cores that takes up much of the power when on low power tasks) and no fast charging available too that might have made up for the low capacity battery. Although, the 9N comes with Android Oreo that has some nice battery optimizations tricks and the 659 can offer more than average efficiency, the battery performance can be made and expected good enough with some tweaks.
The Honor 9N seems to have everything a budget phone should have but the price is where everything goes in the wrong way. There are some specs that could have been better like ;
1. No 6GB variant (for higher price)
2. No better efficient chipset
3. Small battery pack
4. No high reolution rear camera(with better sensor)
5. Battery performance is average
And these specs are something which an average user would want in a budget phone apart from just an incredible beautiful body with a Full Vision Display, which doesn't quite pay for the phone only. And the 9N thus disappoints on being a good phone.
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