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hello I'm Gary Sims from annual authority now recently honor lost the honor nine and Kris was at the launch event and did an excellent hands-on video however now I've had a device for a number of days I've been testing it out so here is my full review of the honor nine now those who are familiar with the honor brand is actually a huawei brand and while we've been using it to make inroads into countries where maybe the Huawei brand wasn't so well received it also allows them to use different pricing structures for selling these phones and of course different types of marketing now the honor nine of course is the follow-up to the honor eight however on the inside it's actually very similar to this year's while a p10 and to the mate nine now looking at the outside what you have is is dual glass design very similar to the honor eight in many many ways with this special reflective design that while we have a work into the back we've kind of micro he2 you these interesting reflections now both sheets of glass then fold down to meet to the sandblasted metal frame now the biggest difference on the design wise from the honor eight to the honor nine is that now the fingerprint reader has been moved from the back to the front of the bottom where also doubles up as a home button very similar to the while we p10 now looking around the rest the device on the right hand side you have the volume rocker followed by the power key on the left hand side you have the SIM tray which can take two sins or alters the one sim and an SD card now on the bottom you have the single speaker the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack and a USB type-c charging port and up at the top you have an IR blaster and an additional microphone and flipping its phone over onto the back he'll see this very reflective surface that gives these unique reflective patterns but the real star of the show here is the dual lens camera setup now these aren't the Leica lenses that you find on the back of the p10 or May 9 however honor are using a very sophisticated dual camera setup here now one thing worth mentioning about the build materials is it can be quite slippery if you put it on a flat surface and you try to kind of on a keyboard the phone will slide about on the table a bit and it can actually be quite slippery in your hand now if you're gripping the phone on that sandblasted metal frame it's not a problem but if you're relying more on the glass on the back it can be a little bit slippery and in fact on ER have included a plastic bumper case in the packet in case you are worried about that now at the bottom of the bezel you'll find this home key stroke fingerprint reader it's not a physical button you don't press it you just tapping on it will do the same as pressing on a home key on other devices and then flanked left and right of that of course are the recent apps and the back button how you use these keys can be reconfigured in the settings you can swap it to the back keys on one side and the recent apps on the other or swap it around you can also put it into a special mode where you only use the fingerprint readers stroke home key for all the navigation for example what I tap is the same as going backwards touch and hold we the same as going home a swipe to the left will be the same has recent apps now one great thing about the fingerprint reader on this device is that you can unlock and wake your device all in one swift move it really is quite fast you just place your finger on the sensor and the phone wake up and unlock in one step you don't need to turn it on with this power button on the side then place your finger on to unlock it tapping your finger and you're straight into the phone now the display on the honor night is a full HD LCD IPS display it majors five point one five inches across the diagonals which means it has a pixel density or 428 PPI now the display can punch out four hundred and fifty four nits of brightness which is excellent for all indoor usage and it's also good for many outdoor cases now sometimes I would like to see more than 500 nits for displays that you're going to use in bright sunlight however that might not need to be the case here with the honor 9 because it also includes assertive display which is a sunlight readability technology I've got a whole video on what assertive display does but basically allows the readability to be increased while in bright sunlight and actually can even save you power because it doesn't have to keep punching up the brightness it actually can do things with the display to make it more readable actually save you power when you're in those sunlight situations now while talking about the display it's worth mentioning one thing the on a9 does not come with toughened gorilla glass on the front so if you do get one of these devices probably worth putting on some kind of screen protector then when it comes to the internals here you'll find the quirian 960 processor that's coarse got four cortex a seventy three cores and four cortex a53 calls in a big dot little a heterogeneous multi-processing environment you've also got the great mali g71 GPU and of course you've got some other interesting things like four gigs of ram seems to be understandable there saying this test model I have actually has six gigs of RAM and there's 64 gigabytes of internal storage and there is a module available with 128 gigabytes of storage in terms of performance this device performs very very similar to the while way mate 9 to the while we p10 it gets 1868 on the Geekbench single core test 6000 392 on the multi-core tests and 140 2046 on + 2 - I also ran Epic Citadel that's the unreal technology demo app you can get from the Play Store and the honor 9 managed 59 frames a second in ultra high quality mode you really can't ask for much more than that now honor have put quite a lot of effort into tweaking the audio on this device and most of the benefits come when you use a pair of headphones first where you can select which type of headphones are using in ear or near and so on and different profiles are selected for you and then there's also these 3d spatialization effects which allow you to tweak the sound to make it sound like it's coming just through a normal pair of headphones or through a home theater setup or if you were actually at a concert now you're not using headphones as a single speaker on the bottom and it does get quite loud and the reproduction is pretty good however as often the case if you just notch it down a couple of taps on the old volume key then you actually find you get better music reproduction than if you have it at full volume as for the back - there's a 3200 milliamp hour battery including the on and on which is a good sized battery and my testing has shown if you're doing a mix of different types of workloads you on the phone you're checking the internet you're watching some movies you're playing a bit of games and you can get about five hours of on-screen time every day if you do lighter workloads maybe just watching videos or predominantly surfing the web then that number could be eked out to maybe eight hours and if you do a lot of 3d gaming and that number they come down a bit to just under four hours however with a five hour average on the screen time you're certainly gonna get through the whole day using this phone if you do fight up running out of battery power than that are to battery power saving modes that can be enabled the first disables background apps it takes away the things like the auto syncing of the email it kind of reduces the kind of graphical effects that happen in the user interface and that should account your time by next for a few hours then there's an ultra emergency mode the ultra power saving mode which basically turns your Smartphone into a feature phone you can make phone calls you can receive phone calls and you can send and receive text messages and that's about it now when you do need to recharge your battery this has got just kind of standard 2 amp fast charging on it which means it takes about two hours to charge up the whole battery you need about 45 minutes to go from under 5% to 50% and during that charging cycle the last 30 minutes is what's needing bump up from 90% to 100% this device comes with Android 7.0 and emui 5.1 built on top now emui is wire weighs specialized skin and software additions that go on top of the vanilla Android now in the past I'm provisions like emui because it didn't have an app drawer something's very very common from devices that come from Asia however the latest versions of emui allow you to either have an app drawer or not have an app drawer so really everybody it should be happy now emui comes with lots to extra features that you don't find in vanilla Android for example there's the motion controls for example flip to mute there is a floating dot that you can activate to go onto the screen that allows you to use the back button then the home button from this little floating dock and there's also the knuckle gestures for example you can draw a letter on the screen and launch an app or you can double tap with or to do a screenshot now either camera is the star of the show on them on a nine you've got this dual lens setup which is a 20 megapixel monochrome sensor coupled with a 12 megapixel RGB sensor and both things are used together for light gathering and for detail gathering to produce excellent photos it also includes wire ways hybrid zoom system which uses both sensors to improve the digital zoom capabilities of the device the good news here is there is a 4k video recording and the it electronic image stabilization but only when you're videoing at full HD but the real star of the show having the dual lens camera is the depth of field features using a special mode in the camera you can take a photo and extra depth of field information is stored and then in the gallery you can change what object is actually in focus maybe you want to change it to be a different object a different person and you can also change the depth of filter how much is in focus and how much is out of focus and that allows you to play around with all the different effects you can have with bokeh effects and focusing effects and soft focusing but you can do that all after you've taken the picture where you want to take the picture to capture that moment you're sticking in that mode take the picture and worry about sorting it all out artistically afterwards there's also loads of other modes available in the camera like night shot for improving nighttime photos they have like trails for capturing a car taillights during the night time you've got HDR and panorama slo-mo time-lapse while they really like they've done with the other phones really built in a whole bunch of great mode into the built-in camera app the front-facing camera is a strong 8 megapixel sensor and that has got it the Huawei standard beautification mode in it and it also has a new feature which I've not seen before which is a bokor mode which basically blurs out things in the background it does that by using facial recognition to find out where the subject is and then working out what's behind the subject and to make that background blurred now the recommended retail price of the on an eye is 449 euros however if you shop around you can probably get it for a lot less than that and there are some current was where you might get things like a an honor band thrown in for free and certainly lower than that for four million prize in fact in the UK you can get it to maybe three hundred and seventy nine pounds and so there you have it my review of the honor nine now for just over four hundred euros are getting a high end phone that's got the same internals as the mate nine and the wipey ten but you're also getting that dual camera setup you're getting NFC you're getting that lightning fast fingerprint reader getting four gigs of RAM 64 gigabytes of storage and a micro SD card slot now that really is quite a bargain however on the downside it can be a bit slippery in the hand and there is no corning gorilla glass on the front to protect that display I'm going to sing from Andrew authority and I hope you enjoyed this video if you did please do give it a thumbs up so forget to subscribe to android forties YouTube channel also do follow me on Twitter and last but not least please go over to Andrew authority calm because we are your source for all things Android