Huawei - Honor 5X 4G with 16GB Memory Cell Phone (Unlocked) - Gray

Love the phone but cannot find glass screen replacement as Huawei has no market share in USA and the retailers nor repair shops have materials to repair. I would pass on Huawei until this gets better.

This phone is sweet stand up toe to toes with Redmi Note 3 for a much lower price...Thank You Bestbuy for the lowest price. Great Phone with good score 40032 on Atutu benchmark v6.2.1.. International unlocked 4g-LTE Smartphone with Great Camera for photos/Videos. Plus Long battery for watch TV soap/ Drama/ Movies without getting hot.. I recommand this phone during sale with NYS tax is under $175.at Bestbuy the lowest cost in USA. You can easily order the phone case on line or other major stores.

Disclaimer: I have no way to affiliate with the phone company, but I got the phone from the manufacture directly in the early day. Below is the review I wrote after two weeks' usage and tests: It is a great phone. But it has been a hard task for me to pick up the best feature of the Honor 5X phone. If I have to choose, the cameras may be on the top (considering the price), then the battery, then the build, the quality, the performance, EMUI and user-friendly designs. All of them are really close on my ranking, and all of them should be above the average of phones in the similar price range in my personal view of point. The detailed review follows. The nice cameras: 9/10 After searching among most recent phones, this phone's camera is surprisingly among those of the pricy ones. I have used the phone cameras in big conference rooms, typical class rooms, on street and many other places in my daily life. The cameras work great! In the classroom, it is very helpful to take a Panorama on the blackboard. I did one with a long blackboard--the resolution is set to be relatively low and my hands were shaking at the end. The text is good enough for notes taking! But there is still some room for Huawei to improve on the optical stability of cameras. I taken some photos on street at lunch time. The camera readjusted the strong sunshine on top automatically so that you don't feel too bright, but I did! On the software side, there are also useful features and apps using the cameras. You can make photos in Valencia, Sweat, Sentimental and other flavors and beautify photos in real time. It also has the dedicated design for taking photos for food. Most interestingly, there are pre-installed apps for using the phone as a mirror, magnifier and flashlight if you need. I always want to see the back of my head, but I couldn't do it until I have the phone. I just use the Mirror function and put the phone on the other side of my head and touch the screen to have a snapshot over the front camera, and then I can see if there is any grey hair on the back side in real details! The Mirror function is different than a normal camera because normal camera function may automatically re-focus for a fixed effect, but with the Mirror, you can zoom in and fix the focus if you want to see more details of the photo. Moreover, if you blow over the microphone, the Mirror really "condensate fog"! The long-lasting battery and energy-efficient design: 9/10 I have tested the energy consuming and battery lasting time in a normal usage mode, a heavy usage mode and standby modes. All gives impressive results. With a normal use (wifi, camera on, Twitter and so on) in a conference event from 7:30am to 9:30pm, the phone still has 72% battery left over in the end. I have also tried a little bit of crazy, with wifi on for facebook, twitter, and sharing photos, no apps closed if openned, uisng Endomondo to track my travel path using GPS and using a lot of apps, for the worst and heaviest usage, I still has almost 20%-30% of battery left after a day. I did a 22min wifi calling test, the voice was clear, battery only dropped 3% to give an estimated airtime of 666min which can be improved if GSM signal is used. Basically I don't worry about the power supply in a day for most of using cases. For the standby modes, I tested two modes. One is with Wifi and GPS on (no SIM card installed over the course), the battery went from 51% at 9:34 on Feb 15 in the morning and to 44% at 6:19pm the same day with a few automatic app updates. Only 7% of power drop in 9 hours. The other mode is just to have every app closed, no wifi and GPS, turned on for about 5 days. It still have about 90% of power at the end of test. However, I forgot to turn three apps off during the process and it drills the power a little. It predicted there could be 30 more days alive time in the same mode based on the linear regression of past usage pattern. Shining metal body and strong-built cores: 9/10 If you have the phone at hand, you won't refuse the light but solid and quality feeling. Huawei has really put a lot of efforts on building metals bodies of phones -- see the premium Mate and P series of Huawei phones. I also did a couple of simple free drop tests from heights about 1.5m and 2m (much taller than my head). The video can be found on YouTube. A much complete 4-step drop test by Huawei guys can be searched on Google. After the 10m drop, the screen was cracked but still responding. I did not go that far. But from my drop tests, I didn't see any scratch or crack, the phone is still fully functional. It is built in tough! Fresh-feeling EMUI and user-friendly design: 9/10 It has been convenient for me to directly use the fringerprint reader, pre-installed apps and swiping around over the phone on the EMUI Android system. The EMUI and pre-installed apps are really convenient for me. Despite the phone screen is large, it comes with a one-hand UI. The power saving features and the free Huawei backup storage offer are really a nice support for using the phone. There are some useful settings as well. For example, on Accessibility, you can choose Gloves mode, so that the phone can respond correctly if you wear a glove and need to touch the phone in an unusual way. With motion control setting, you can set Flip to Mute, Shake to Rearrange icons, Double Tap to Turn on Screen, and Draw various Letters on the turned-off Screen to Turn on Flashlight, Music, Dialer and other functions easily. These designs are similar to OnePlus phones. Overall, I think this phone is built with almost the best hardware and quality with truncations of investiments on NFC, gyroscopic sensor and storage space. You can purchase a NFC card and up to 128GB SD card to extend the storage space if you really need. I don't feel the gyroscopic sensor is that important for now. One thing I need to remind you is that this phone comes with dual SIM cards support but not with dual wifi bands support. If you need to use other wifi bands, this is a restriction. For my case, I have downloaded a 2.7GB upgrade package from Huawei over wifi in ~20min at a university, I don't need dual wifi bands in my working environment. So far, I haven't found any other phone which has similar build and price at the same time in the US market.

Pros: Fast processor (8 cores!), lots of RAM (2GB!), and doesn't come pre-loaded with a bunch of junk. The camera is really good, and I love having the fingerprint reader on the back. The phone is huge (size of iPhone 6 plus) and resolution is great. The battery life is very good, and I love the phone manager application that prompts you to close programs that are consuming the battery in the background. The value is amazing. I couldn't believe I got such a great phone for less than what you pay on most insurance replacement plans for a refurb. Cons: The phone is huge, which can be a drawback to some. The standard android emojis are lame. The speakerphone is marginal. The bluetooth connection in my car will always connect to the phone, but at least half the time it doesn't connect for Media and I have to disable, and re-enable bluetooth to get it connected. Cases were hard to find, but I did find a good case for it on that South American river site. Overall the Pros well outweigh the minor annoyances and I would definitely recommend this phone and would buy it again in a heartbeat.

I use this phone as my secondary for about 1 month and counting, and I have to say the Huawei Honor 5x is better than my primary phone. Brighter sharper screen, longer battery life, faster Internet speeds, better build quality, and the phone speed is faster and last finger printer sensor is quick to unlock the phone. The features I mentioned make this phone a pleasant surprise. I may get rid of my primary phone and keep this primary time will tell.

Very affordable unlocked dual sim phone. Switching between sims is a breeze. All phones should have a fingerprint sensor like this. It does more than just unlock the phone too. The battery lasts well more than a full day for me and is fairly quick charge. Folks, don't pay full price for a flagship phone on a postpaid cell plan. Get yourself an nice midrange unlocked phone like this and go with prepaid. You'll save big bucks.

Got tired of paying $600-700 every two years for a new phone and a two year contract that is overpriced as well, so we opted for this phone at a quarter of the price as the I phone or Samsung. Paid less than $200. It has expandable memory, unlike the I phone 6+ I just returned to sprint after 2 years, dual sim card capabilities, takes pictures as good or better than the I phone and costs a quarter of the asking price. What's not to like. It's not as fast processing info as the top level I phone or Samsung but it's not that much slower. We're talking milliseconds. I'm happier with this phone because I know I'm not stuck with one service provider and I don't have to pay another $300 to keep it like I would have with Sprint. Sprint is such a rip off and provides poor signal and equally poor customer service. Good riddance.

Good: 1. Build quality is better than comparable budget phones like Blu Life One X, which i have tried before. 2. Good specs. Bad: 1. Photos taken with the native camera app have light blue tint. Using a different app from the store might help. 2 .Crashed few times during the initial setup. Heard the recent update improved the performance significantly and the crashing. EMUI has it pluses and minuses. I switched to the Google Now launcher which i like better. Overall this is one of the best budget phones you could buy for the price,