Recently, Huawei has launched a new flagship named Honor8, which focus on making high face -value small screen flagship that be different from HonorV8 in which of concentrates on making the big screen. Compared with Honor V8, Honor 8 is more likely to Huawei P9 from the flagship positioning aspect. So, which one would be better between Honor 8 and Huawei P9 ? Let’s follow this essay as below to seek the answer.
Specifications Comparison
As a matter of fact, there are lots of commons on Honor 8 and Huwei P9, such as screen specs, memory, camera, battery capacity, operation system and so forth. You are given to understand by the pictures as followings.
The distinguish between Honor 8 and Huawei P9
Before making the comparisons for them, the first thing should be involved is the version problem, both of them are divided in operational version and entire connectivity version , in which of the entire connectivity version including standard version and high spec version, it is not hard to see that each type with three versions.
First, Honor 8’s operational version with the lowest version equipping with 3GB AM +32GB ROM supports for connectivity network, sales starts from 1999 Yuan. And also Huawei P9, equiped with 3GB AM +32GB ROM supporting Mobile / Unicom / Telecom, not connectivity network, price from 2998 Yuan.
Today, Let’s take the comparison for the standard version about Honor 8 and Huawei P9, the specific hardware and the price as below.
Honor 8
Standard version: Featuring a 5.2 inches screen with 1080 pixels of resolution + Kirin 950 octa- core processor + ( 4GB RAM + 32GB ROM) + connectivity, the sales price is 2299 Yuan.
Huwei P9
Standard version: Featuring a 5.2 inches screen with 1080 pixels of resolution + Kirin 955 octa- core processor + ( 4GB RAM + 32GB ROM) + connectivity, the sales price is 3188 Yuan.
In terms of the comparison, the difference between Honor 8 and Huawei P9 is the processor and the price, in which of Honor 8 with the obvious advantage in price, meanwhile, Hawei P9 mainly plays the benefits on the performance. There are the comprehensive comparisons of the appearance, performance, the characteristic and so forth.
Beauty- Value Comparison
These two types mainly make the small screen but with high beauty-value, and how about the design between them, let’s look at the specifics as below.
Honor 8 specialize on doing high beauty-value small screen, equipped with 5.2 inches screen, using double-sided 2.5D curved glass + aluminum alloy metal frame, provides Pearl White, Streamer Gold, Charm Navy, and Sakura Pink for options, sleek fashion design.
The front of Honor 8
Honor 8 condensed 15 layers crafts on the back, especially the sophisticated 3D raster textures made by 3D lithography process, fusion laser design to create Hyuan laser effect. Moreover, Honor 8 used 2.5D Corelle third generation gorilla glass on both sides, either inked the oil or the water, the out layer AF anti- fingerprint coating with easy to wipe function to make the double-sided screen get away from the fingerprint puzzle.
The front of Huawei P9
Huawei P9 is made of aircraft- grade aluminum alloy metal, offers Silver /Gold / Grey / White for options, equipped with 2.5D narrow boarder curved glass, and the logo set up on the bottom. Although it is a metal fuselage, the appearance without any heavy metal sense, and the thickness is not reach to 7mm.
The back of Huawei P9
Although Huawei P9 is integrated metal design, the back is not a common the three stages design, but a sense of two-stages style on up and down with a higher integration. What’s more, it equipped with Leica dual cameras, as can be seen the Leica logo on the back.
Comparison Summary
From the comparison on the appearance, both of them with high beauty- value, with their own innovation styles. The glass fuselage VS metal fuselage, which one will you prefer?
Performance Comparison
What determine the core hardware is the processor, and then is the memory. We have known that they have the same memory in standard version, the difference is the processor. In which of Huwei P9 loaded high specs Kirin 955 processor, while Honor 8 loaded Kirin 955 processor, it is not hard to be seen that Huawei P9 is more outstanding than Honor8. Perhaps most of us are curious about the performance gap of Kirin 955 / 950, let’s experience by the running test.
Kirin 955 processor
Honor 8 loaded Kirin 950 octa- core processor, with 4GB RAM, An Tu Tu running score data as followings.
The An Tu Tu scores of Honor 8 is 93 thousand points
Honor 8 loaded Kirin 955 octa- core processor, with 4GB RAM, An Tu Tu running score data as followings.
The An Tu Tu scores of Honor 8 is One hundred and twenty-six thousand points
From the running point of view, the running points of Huawei P9 is higher 30 thousand than Honor 8. But, Kirin 955 is not match with Qualcomm Snapdragon 820, such as Xiaomi, and One Plus with Snapdragon 820 processor shows that An Tu Tu running scores are more than 14 thousand points.
Comparison Summary
Takes the angle from the performance, Huawei P 9 is outstanding than Honor8,Huwei P9 positioning at high-end flagship performance level, and Honor 8 positioning at high-end level, those of these types have played a best on the performance to meet the users’ needs.
Shooting, network, endurance, characteristics comparison
Honor 8 and Huawei P9 with the same specs in cameras of 8MP front camera +12MP dual rare cameras, supports for depth of field focus, laser focus,3D panoramic self timer. Although they have the same hardware specs on camera, Huwei P9 used top level Leica lens, added numbers of the licensed tuning to the software with batter shooting experience than Honor8.
On the network and endurance side, all of them support dual SIM dual standby connectivity network, and the battery capacity is 3000mAh, equipped with 9V /2A quick charger. So, there is no basically difference between them.
In the characteristic aspect, the different section is Honor 8 used glass fuselage VS Huawei P9 used metal fuselage, be the same on the other aspects including the fingerprint recognition on the back, USB Type-C data port and so on.
In terms of the price, the standard version of Honor 8 sales on 2299 Yuan, while Huawei P9 sales on 3188 Yuan.