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 Huawei Honor/(Glory), Huawei Glory turns Honor (U8860)?

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ashburn98
post Jan 10 2012, 01:36 PM

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Just bought one from IMCC about half hours ago.

I'll be running it stock for a long while. If someone is curious about benchmark scores, post the app link and I'll see if i can do a few.

There are some benchmarks on youtube. Huawei Honor is Huawei Mercury in US.




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post Jan 11 2012, 12:03 AM

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I'll upload some pics some time tomorrow.

Hardware wise I'm sure you guys did the comparisons and knows the bang-for-buck factor. "How is the actual user experience?" was on my mind.

Answer is: Very good, I think Huawei spent a lot of time on this phone.
*When you hold it in your hands, it rightly, feels like a solid phone. There's no plastic-iky feel (it is made of plastic though); tapping at the touchscreen and tapping at the backcover sounds the same
*Uber fast bootup. It fully boot up before I counted to 6. It turns out Huawei have some sort of Deep Sleep Hibernation feature in it.
*The launcher (AHome) and the pre-installed apps are ok, nothing to shout about. It is a Google phone, so lots of native Google apps.
*Supposingly Huawei will provide 16GB of cloud storage for Honor devices. I'll check that part out later.
- The camera is not as fantastic as the rest though

Summary: Midrange phone @ amazing price.



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post Jan 11 2012, 08:39 AM

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Pictures from the camera
You can get the uncompressed pictures here (9.6mb megaupload).

Normal point and click settings (autoflash, 8mp, etc)
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Dark lighting
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Flash on, dark lighting, same position
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Few steps back, no flash
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Few steps back, flash
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Back camera vs front camera
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Tell me your feedbacks

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post Jan 11 2012, 04:14 PM

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QUOTE(ultrajack @ Jan 11 2012, 03:57 PM)
may i know, is ICS that important? im considering between this and samsung galaxy W. but galaxy W cannot update to ics
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ICS is important as Google promised better UI experience. It has the biggest revamp since 2.3.
If one is looking to buy a new phone, it is better to be upgradeable to newer OS rather than not. You have the choice of wanting 4.0, or 2.3 or 3.0 for that matter.

QUOTE(nickoh @ Jan 11 2012, 03:59 PM)
games on this phone will lag? anyone? smile.gif
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As the benchmark by usercricket shows, this phone is not likely to be lagging for games. You can link up a free game app if you want me to try that game using my Honor.
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post Jan 11 2012, 11:38 PM

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QUOTE(PowerSlide @ Jan 11 2012, 04:30 PM)
ashburn98,

how is it after 1 day, encounter any issue?

honestly camera is rather a extra feature that i dont use often..just too nitpicking  blush.gif
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QUOTE(nickoh @ Jan 11 2012, 04:44 PM)
thanks ashburn98. smile.gif i hope it wun lack coz i've ord ordered. lagging will me my biggest fear..


Added on January 11, 2012, 4:49 pmashburn98. juz try the normal angry bird or asphalt 6 . thx so much smile.gif
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First day of a full usage; superb battery life. 3G on all day; music & internet anytime I wanted. My typical day ended with the battery at 35%.

What I did at dinner outside was surfing the forums, download the Asphalt 5 HD free game (97MB) and play it for a while. One hour of those activity sapped 10% off the battery.

Asphalt 5 HD has no lag. Browser no lag. Homescreen no lag.

The pixel density of the screen is very good. The fonts came out sharp. LYN forum reading/surfing doesn't need any pitch zoom.


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post Jan 12 2012, 07:59 AM

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Can't find infinity blade 2 on marketplace. Any links?
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post Jan 12 2012, 01:33 PM

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6 hours of pure youtube on 3G. Battery now at 30%.
@Service center servicing my car.


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post Jan 12 2012, 08:19 PM

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QUOTE(eastwest @ Jan 12 2012, 10:26 AM)
this phone have light sensor?
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light sensor?

QUOTE(nickoh @ Jan 12 2012, 04:39 PM)
thx ashburn98.
battery will get heated fast? any solution if it happens?
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Dont think the battery heats up fast. High temperature battery are fast discharging right?
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post Jan 12 2012, 09:37 PM

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you can ask me to try out games from marketplace. Show me the application link (free games).

Battery life has higher importance for me. I get to do whatever I want whenever I want. Like todays 6 hours youtube on 3G stress test, I now can confidently go without car charger when using GPS, for example.
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post Jan 13 2012, 12:29 AM

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QUOTE(voon25 @ Jan 12 2012, 11:57 PM)
ashburn 98,

Bro, if i use like a normal phone...you think can last for 2-3 days without charging ? Wish to get this as my first android phone.
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I don't mind testing it out tomorrow. My prediction is about 1 and 1/2 days no problem, based on what I seen so far. If it can lasts two days, it will exceed my expectations.
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post Jan 13 2012, 11:05 PM

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QUOTE(eastwest @ Jan 13 2012, 08:36 AM)
I mean ambient light sensor, where the phone automatically adjust the brightness based on the external light?
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Spec sheet says it has light sensor.

QUOTE(nickoh @ Jan 13 2012, 04:56 PM)
ashburn98. i think so.lol. anyway. i juz got my honor ytd. do u know wad is stream? the app in the menu? coz when i use the preloaded facebook n twitter to sign in. it directly brings me to stream. n i dunno y. then  i download facebook app in market. tat 1 is fine. do u know y? smile.gif
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stream is huawei's social network all-in-one integration application. How's Honor at your end?


My day ended at 49% battery left with 3G on permanently, and used 15.92MB of 3G data. Maybe it's possible for 2 days of usage but I'll have to shut down the phone at 12midnight and see how it goes tomorrow.
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post Jan 13 2012, 11:49 PM

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Did the high definition video lag?
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post Jan 14 2012, 04:12 PM

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The battery lasted until 3pm. I consider it as one and half day of usage.


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post Jan 17 2012, 01:49 AM

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try contacting IMCC. They CODed with me in Ampang.
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post Jan 18 2012, 07:35 PM

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It's on 2.3 stock.

A demo of ICS (4.0) was available for download until a few days ago. Someone wrote in XDA that Huawei tweeted saying a full ICS will be released in 2 week's time.

You can see how the phone runs on the ICS demo @ youtube. There are a few of those.

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post Jan 19 2012, 01:04 AM

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QUOTE(coolkidz @ Jan 18 2012, 08:20 PM)
Thanks for the info. What flaws that you encountered/had with the phone after these period of usage ?
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No Huawei Honor/Mercury presence in XDA forum yet. tongue.gif
So far the phone is doing well.

QUOTE(lowyat_lee @ Jan 18 2012, 11:05 PM)
may i know how many hours should i charge the new huawei honor? With it on or off?
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I used to charge it overnight on USB. Nowdays I charge it after waking up in the morning, as I prepare for the day.

QUOTE(ahgal91 @ Jan 19 2012, 12:15 AM)
hey all, FYI,  honor is out ady!!! n gt CNY promo price too~~
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What's the promo price?
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post Jan 20 2012, 08:55 AM

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Good question. I'm looking for casing as well. Haven't been to Lowyat for weeks.
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post Jan 20 2012, 09:20 PM

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QUOTE(hkboey @ Jan 20 2012, 05:17 PM)
ya.. its working now. downloading. hopefully its not beta still. tested one of the beta ics from huawei earlier and it was lots of limitation. though the previous one no face unlock and this one has. will test later. smile.gif thanks
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How do you find it so far? I just started downloading the installer.
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post Jan 21 2012, 05:29 PM

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QUOTE(hkboey @ Jan 21 2012, 01:18 PM)
Yesterday my connection got interupted, didnt finish the download. Hey.... Huawei just released a new update minutes ago!! Go download again! Hahaha
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I can't get the one earlier to work. It just restarts the phone. I guess the newer one should be working one.
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post Jan 22 2012, 09:31 AM

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Thanks for the feedback. Hanging back with 2.3.6 until the next update comes out. Camera improved is welcomed news.

Among one of the reason why I bought this phone is because I'm banking on Huawei building up their Android branding; that they will provide regular official updates. Official updates, in regular intervals and added functionality, are easy and time saver compared to custom roms.

Sadly for me, official updates is one part some company doesn't deliver. Partly because they spam lots of models every year for market segments (resulting in updates for each model slow to develop) and partly because hardware specs are racing ahead (low product shelf life).

Having said that, I hope XDA will have some custom roms in 6 months time. I don't know by then if Huawei still have the same commitment level like what they showing now for ICS.




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