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something that we've said quite often over the last year or so is that the Chinese market is definitely growing we have seen a lot of companies coming out of the woodwork to bring some very nice affordable but still powerful offerings and one of those companies that embodies this is Huawei the ascend mate 7 was a bit of a surprise coming out of Eva in Berlin 2014 but at CES 2015 just a few weeks ago we also got a little bit of a surprise from them as well in the form of this the Huawei honor 6 plus the honor 6 plus just very recently made it to my doorstep and I wanted to bring you a first impressions on it because the moment I got this phone in my hand I actually kind of already enjoyed its look and its feel you can already see some of the elements around the device itself but let's start off with the back because honestly I think it's kind of cool to have the word honor so nicely put on the centre back off this phone it's just the first thing that I noticed on the particular device but the other thing that you're going to notice right off the bat is that this phone has a dual glass set up of course we have the 5.5 inch screen up front and then a panel on the back that houses a number of elements the honor of course in the middle there a rear-facing speaker here but a dual camera setup up here it's going to be something I really put through its paces because this is hallways take on a dual camera setup very similar to the HTC One m8 in which one of these optics up here will be able to get depth information and you'll be able to refocus the photo as you see fit after the fact but if we take a look at some of the elements around the frame you're going to see that this particular device has a bit of a hodgepodge of different design languages the dual glass panel setup is very reminiscent of the Sony Xperia line especially the most recent iterations of it and you can see down here that this area where the metal frame ends is also reminiscent of the Xperia z2 and it's a design element that I did notice but of course above that we're going to have this metal frame that is of course reminiscent of the Apple iPhones so it's really the first thing that I noticed on here but on the design aspect that was really the first impression I wanted to give nonetheless the flat profile on the sides makes this a very easy phone to hold especially with its five five inch screen that is a little bit larger and but is still becoming a bit more common in the smartphone space and it's really not a hard phone to keep a hand on the buttons feel quite nice with the volume rocker right here and the power button underneath it which makes it easy to wake the phone and be able to use it preliminary thoughts on performance here are very positive which shouldn't come as much of a surprise when you consider that we have used Huawei phones in the past and have been very impressed with their in-house processing packages of course here in the honor 6 plus that will continue with the high silicon Kiran 9 to 5 which is a very powerful processing package that could rival even those of the Qualcomm Snapdragon variety but of course we also have the emotion UI which is what we're taking a quick look at here as well and what you'll notice here as is usually the case with Asian operating system takes on Android oh you're not going to have an app drawer instead you're going to have a lot of different pages here that will need to be organized via folders and you saw me looking at a couple folders already right there the notification drop-down is one of my favorite parts and something that I really liked in the ascend mate 7 where it comes down in a chronological order in reverse chronological order where the most important notifications are found on the top you could only swipe away those and if you go over to the shortcuts there will be quite a few options that are available there in order for you to cater the experience to what you need it to be and also different options for the various features that are found in the emotion UI and then in a final look at the features of the honor 6 plus we also have the camera now the camera is a dual setup on the back but these sensors are actually a little bit larger a little bit closer to the HTC ultra pixel sensors that are available so you might be able to get some pretty good pictures off of here but the dual camera setup is also reminiscent of HTC zone setup because the other camera will be able to get the depth information from the scene in order for you to refocus it it's a feature I'm going to put through its paces in probably a camera shootout or at the very least inside of the camera section of my forward view of the honor 6 plus but nonetheless there is also another reason why I want to give you my first impressions on here is because I'm taking it with me on a trip now it's important for me to tell you that right now as you're watching this video I'm actually on my way to China Shenzhen China in particular in order to meet with Huawei Darcy and I have a tour of Huawei's offices in campus that we have coming up along with a number of other outlets and we're all going to get to see the processes behind what Huawei does in order to create their phones you'll see content from that particular aspect of the trip but also we'll be able to talk to some of the people who work at Huawei and bring you some answers to some burning questions that we might have for them so make sure you stay tuned for that our coverage of the Huawei campus inch engine China and for my full review of the honor 6 plus don't forget to subscribe to our channel if you haven't already and drop us some likes on these videos as well because we love to see those thumbs up keep it tuned here and once you're done with all of that checking out other content from my colleagues in Android don't forget to head on over to android authority comm because we are your source for all things Android see you in China