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

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.

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.

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.

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've had this phone for a month and a half now and I have to say it is not to bad. I am able to surf the web play light games and listen to music. It holds internet connection well and with the fastest update it has gained more qualities that were present in the s6 that I had before this phone. I have only two problems with this phone. The first is the call quality. Sometimes my contacts voices fade in and out while I am talking to them with the phone up to my ears. That has been easily rectified by my Bluetooth ear phones. The second problem is that occasionally this phone becomes a little laggy. It comes and goes. I however did not have this problem when I first review this phone and it maybe the many files I have stored on here. A sd card is a must. It cannot hold much on it while also operating smoothly. I have dropped this phone with out a case once on concrete and other than a ding on one corner it was fine.The fall was waist high. I have since then put a simple case on it and left the screen protector that came with the phone on it and it survived every fall with no sign of injury and I drop my phone a lot.

After my note 4 motherboard fried, this was going to be my bridge phone to another flagship. I have been pleasantly surprised by this phone, it's not a flagship, but it definitely isn't a slouch. It has some great features for the price point. I love the fingerprint reader placement on the back, and it has some unique abilities to check out. It has made me a believer that we don't need to pay 900 dollars for a solid phone anymore. I'll be using this one for a while.

I have been using the Honor 5 for about 10 days now and overall am very happy with it. Here are some observations & suggestions for a new buyer. Also, just an FYI, I am a pretty basic user. I need a phone for internet, email, texting and phone service only. I don’t take selfies, stream video or audio so I am not a good judge of this phone’s capabilities if those things are important to you. Some thoughts: 1) I bought my phone at Best Buy. None of the reps knew anything about it and tried to sell me other phones. Do your research before you go in. I had to go to 2 stores to get a phone. None of the reps at Best Buy knew that they even handled this phone. 2) Because the Best Buy I went to had a limited supply, I had only one color choice, silver. That was fine with me, but you may want something else. If you buy through a local store, check with them first. 3) My phone did not come with a manual. You will probably have to download it from Huawei’s web site. No big deal, but the manual is very helpful, especially if you are new to smart phones. 4) The charger supplied is a basic 1 amp charger which is pretty slow. I upgraded to a 2 amp charger which I got at Best Buy for about $25.00. You may also want to buy a charger to use in your car which you can get at Best Buy. These are universal chargers and can be used with any number of smart phones. 5) The phone does not come with head phones or ear buds. 6) Best Buy does not stock any of the protective screens or cases for the Honor 5. You will have to find them locally through a specialty store or order through Amazon, which is what I did. 7) I have ATT service. I had to buy a new SIMS card to fit the phone. My old one did not work. That was another $10.00 or so. I hope this helps. Again, I am very happy with the phone and for the price it does a nice job. Good luck.

This phone is absolutely fantastic for $199.99. The 1080p screen is bright and crisp. The aluminum body feels well made and sturdy, and is, at first look, easily visually comparable to phones like HTC M8 or M9. The cameras are above average for the price, and the fingerprint scanner is SUPERB. It is incredibly fast, and can be "programmed" to execute several useful features, such as taking a picture, pulling down the notification shade, etc. It is, hands-down, my favorite feature of the phone. Sadly - the ONE thing I wish this phone had was NFC. I have been using Android Pay recently, and with this excellent fingerprint scanner, would've loved to use Android Pay with it. No luck. The Emotion UI skin that Honor uses is in some ways, a bit like iOS. I've owned iPhones and don't mind iOS. There is no app drawer. People seem to freak out over that - why, I'm not sure. If you want a more traditional "Android UI," download Google Now Launcher or Nova Launcher. Easily worth the money I paid for it. - and in a few ways, comparable to many higher priced phones. After purchase, this has reinforced my belief that most mainstream users (myself included) would be perfectly happy using this phone, saving themselves a lot of money over current flagships. My two most recent phones were an IPhone 6s and a Galaxy S6 Edge. This phone does about 85-95% of what those phones did -- while only being a third of the cost. $$$$$ savings is worth it.