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another day another device from honour or at least that's what it seems like lately this is a company that is incredibly prolific putting out phones the left right and center the honor ax though is still a very interesting device it's another device from the company that manages to offer impressive looking specs on paper at a relatively low price normally when reviewing a device like this I'd run through the features and the specs and tell you what was there what wasn't what was good and what was bad however a few people in the comments have said that when it's a very cheap device it just sounds like I'm complaining so in this video I'm gonna try something a little bit different this time I'm gonna run through all the specs and the features and then we're gonna say if what you're getting is good value or bad value or just average given the price tag of the honor 8x so let's see how that goes ok so first up is the screen and this is a fantastic screen given the price so it's a full HD IPS LCD display nothing to write home about there but what's impressive is the size this is a six point five inch display is a nineteen point five by nine aspect ratio and it's got very thin bezels with an 84 point four percent screen to body ratio so what you're getting here is really a phablet territory it's a really big display that's fantastic if you like reading Kindle on there or Marvel Comics or watching YouTube or Netflix this is a great screen and I'd say one of the big selling points of this device if you want a big screen and you don't have the cash for say a note or a galaxy s 9 plus then it is a great alternative next up is the design and this is also really impressive actually it is a aluminium and glass body I misreported that in the real me to pro review I'm very sorry I misread some of the materials that I'd been provided with this time it really is glass and it looks the part it feels the part in fact I'd say there's nothing of out this device that would give away the fact that it isn't significantly more expensive it feels weighty and cool in the hand it's nicely curved and of course it's got that reflective back panel that honor is really known for I love my red model it really stands out without being ostentatious slim bezels are just the icing on the cake to present a overall fantastic looking and feeling device the performance this is smack bang in the middle average what you'd expect for the price I can't test the performance in the ways I normally would by using benchmark apps because I'm unable to download and install them and to to geek bench they just won't install you might have heard recently that Huawei and honor have caught some flak for trying to trick benchmark apps and fake their scores making their devices look faster than they really are their defense for this was just well everyone does it but that's a little bit tenuous and it certainly leaves a bit of a bad taste in the mouth I don't know what's going on here either the apps and no longer letting Huawei and honor phones download and use them or worse while we are honor preventing us from downloading benchmark apps at all now so we can't test how fast our devices are fortunately I can tell you that the ki-rin 7 10 SOC that's in here is going to perform roughly equivalent to a Snapdragon 660 probably just below that so don't expect top of the range performance here occasionally I noticed the odd stutter the odd pause and then animation when going through the UI nothing major but it is occasionally there in terms of gaming you're relying on a Marley G 51 GPU and it's perfectly adequate for playing pretty much all games on the Play Store but it is a mid to lower end GPU so expect to see a few dropped frames if you have it on the higher graphical settings but like I say for most people that's not a problem this is no beast a gaming phone and don't even get me started on GPU turbo that only affects the couple of games like pub G that it's optimized for and even then you're seeing slightly increased framerate stability barely noticeable GPU turbo is a bit of a marketing gimmick battery performance is very good for the price this has a three thousand seven hundred and fifty mili amp hour battery which is a large enough in its own right but if you combine that with the energy-efficient Kirin seven si si you have a device that lasts a very long time in spite of that large screen okay but what's arguably bad even at this price is microUSB yes we saw on the real me to pro but I didn't like it there either in 2018 this just makes no sense other OEMs are managing to give us USB type-c for a low price and even the honor eight had USB type-c so this is just barmy to me is it big deal probably not for a lot of people after all it's gonna do is slow down your transfer speeds a little bit and your charging times however it does make your device less future-proof it does mean you're potentially gonna have to carry extra leads around with you and it's just backwards facing and it's really a bit of a Mar and what otherwise a very forwards facing design software wise I'm going to say this is average again you get Android 8.1 with EMU I on top if you've used an honor or a while wait device before then you know what to expect I'm not a huge fan of some of the aesthetic decisions here but most of those you can cover up with a custom launcher anyways it does in my opinion maybe slow things down a little bit maybe performance would be slightly better if it was stock Android but again it's not a big issue a lot of people like in UI so average we do have NFC which you don't always get on devices for this price point that of course means you can use contactless payment apps etc that's gonna be very welcome for a lot of people also we have a headphone jack good also dual SIM good knotch some people like it some people don't at least you can turn it off in the settings if you're in the latter camp IP rating that is none to be expected camera are so you see this is the problem we're trying to put everything into neat little boxes the camera has pros and cons and for some people it will be a plus and for some people it will be a minus so on the plus side this has a good megapixel count the rear shooter is 20 megapixels backed up by a two megapixel depth sensor so this will bring out a fair amount of detail of course the music indeed bouquet and portrait mode etc low-light performance isn't fantastic however and there's no optical stabilization but then you would expect that and of course you've got all that AI scene recognition layered on top now this is a little bit of a tenshun because AI scene recognition is very hit and miss sometimes occasionally I think it does enhance a photo but other times I think it just ups the saturation to the point where things look actually fake and absurd a lot of the time you'll do better to just turn off the AI mode I always say with honour and Huawei cameras that they're really good if you put the work in but if you don't they can occasionally come out looking a bit like I say oversaturated of the AI mode even with AI mode off there occasionally a bit warm around the front you get a 16 megapixel selfie camera and I think that's actually pretty generous I do like to have a decent front-facing camera you can do portrait mode from both sides and normally I actually find that on our phones are among the best when it comes to the portrait mode but where this new SOC or what are they no I haven't found that to be quite the case here so that's the honor 8x and I've listed off all the things that are good and bad an average and I'd say that on the whole there's more good here than bad as a great design ring big punchy screen a fairly average performance in a fairly average camera as I've said lately there's so much to choose from in the mid and lower range at the moment this is a fantastic time to buy an Android phone for a little bit less cash and that means you have the luxury of bail to pick and choose the features that really matter to you the owner a text is fantastic for people who like consuming media on their device you don't have a huge budget and who are happy to play around with a camera that isn't always fantastic the big downside is the microUSB but that's probably not going to be a deal-breaker for a lot of people if it is then there's plenty else out there to choose from I hope you found this video useful interesting guys if you did then please leave a like please share it around that really helps us out let me know in the comments down below what you think of the honor 8x is it a good option for you how big of an issue is microUSB what do you think of the design and the screen do you like it and of course hit subscribe if you want to get more like this in the bell-bottom for notifications or head over to andrew authority comm or you can read it Rob's full written review that goes into a bit more detail whilst you're there of course take a look 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