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Huawei is trying something bold partnering with Leica for the dual rear cameras on its new smartphone but before we can tear into a proper review we have to get this thing out of the box I'm Juan Carlos bag nail for Pocket now and here's our first impressions of the Huawei p9 cracking open the packaging we're treated to the familiar trappings of most flagship phones the device greets you up top a little tray divides the phone from the included accessories small containers hold the USB cable charger and some earbuds an additional folder is included but oddly there weren't any papers inside for us to not read over although this is a slick presentation greeting you with your new phone purchase the p9 gives off a premium first impression aesthetically it's a polished up relative to low-cost offerings like the honor 5x a harder edges and it's a flatter slab of rectangle than the curvier look of the g8 there are obvious comparisons to be made here between the p9 HTC's and iPhones but Huawei is delivering subtle elements which keep this device from being an outright copycat the rear mounted fingerprint sensor and cameras which stay flush with the phone body are two examples thin shiny chamfered edges helped this device sparkle in daylight and an LED hidden in the ear speaker grille delivers subtle alerts for missed notifications we've got a 5.2 inch 1080p LCD powered by a cure in 955 octa-core processor our review unit came with three gigabytes of RAM and 32 gigabytes of storage with microSD card expansion a 3000 milliamp hour battery is packed into this petite frame and USB type-c is the port of choice for charging and syncing firing up the p9 the first boot was fairly quick about mid pack for the nicer phones we've tested recently and the setup process is free from an abundance of custom logins or additional services to sign into it's worth reiterating that Huawei continues a tradition of including an excellent fingerprint sensor and the training process is one of the fastest available on any phone unsurprisingly we're using Huawei's emui custom launcher this homage to iOS removes the separate app drawer so all app shortcuts and widgets are combined on your home screens we've seen this layout on a number of Huawei's in the and if this setup doesn't appeal to you you can always install another launcher all of this feels on par for activating a new high-end phone but general performance isn't what's interesting about this particular handset we really want to look at those dual cameras on the back while we're still shooting to prove a full camera review the early testing looks promising this like a designed system delivers some bright and colorful photos dual 12 megapixel sensors paired with an approximately 27 millimeter equivalent field of view and F 2.2 apertures are all respectable metrics what's interesting here and which requires more testing is the split between the two sensors the inside camera is a standard phone camera solution the outside camera is a monochrome black and white shooter like the rods and cones in the human eye each camera handles a specific task this is supposed to deliver brighter images better clarity and to allow for more flexibility when shooting some of our first images would seem to support those assertions and we'll have more to report on that front soon a spoiler alert the ability to adjust background blur after the fact is pretty stonking cool and some of the best software processing we've ever seen for this effect after that the regular smartphone questions remain how's the battery hold up to daily use how's the audio playback how does the curent chipset compare to Qualcomm and Samsung powered devices the Huawei p9 is off to a solid start and now we'll dig deep to see what this thing can really do as always thanks so much for watching be sure to subscribe to this channel for our full coverage of the Huawei p9 and hit that thumbs up button for a little more positive reinforcement for PocketNow i'm juan carlos Becnel you can chat me up on twitter and instagram has some gadget guy and i will catch you all on the next video