Bought at RM999, which is the lowest sellers in BJ complex and Prangin (Penang) are willing to offer. Includes screen protector, earpiece, but no microSD. The phone can be gotten for RM870 in China I heard, but oh well..
Checked with service center, phone cover not here yet.

As other forumers mentioned, the recorded sound is incredibly soft. Tried video capture using different apps - same result.

Been using the phone for a few days, haven't noticed any other issues. Works great so far

Source? I haven't seen any source which states that Honor is using Gorilla glass. Better to keep or change screen protector, better be safe than sorry.

Also noticed that touchscreen sensitivity is inconsistent as some others noted. But coming from an old android phone (samsung spica), the Honor's touchscreen is fine for me

Honor has slightly better specs (screen, battery, ICS coming soon). IMO its more important to consider any unknown bugs. Eg, Honor has very very soft audio recording (its discussed many pages back), so if you record videos on your mobile, better give it a skip, unless a new firmware fixes it (suspect is hardware or firmware issue). Also the touchscreen sensitivity issue (few pages back).

Check the galaxy W thread and see whether there;s any problems

Mine once lasted for four whole days and still left with 30% IIRC. 3-4 days is usually not a problem. Granted I'm a very light user, mostly using it for PDA functions (wifi only, no 3G). I set the brightness at lowest setting (using the huawei widget), and increasing it only when required (eg under sunlight).

This post has been edited by tchau83: Feb 20 2012, 11:45 PM

Sound from video recording is very very soft.. Sound recording (default app) seems better, but still soft. Suggest you test it personally if possible

Have been using official malaysia ICS for a day.. Its noticeably smoother and faster than official GB version. Nice features from ICS as well (Yay for the improved camera app!).. Haven't encountered any issues so far. Can't tell how is the battery life affected yet

Tried to root following instructions here, but failed at the software update step. The update hanged halfway through with message 'firmware update failed'. Luckily everything seems fine after pulling the batt to restart.. Dared not try other rooting methods at the moment.. haha

Thanks, but you forgot to include the link..

You forgot to mention that I have to install ADB USB driver 1st, so it didn't work. In the end I followed this (which did mention the driver thingie) to root. Both methods are similar though.. Thanks anyway!

I don't remember how I upgraded it to ICS.. It seems that there are two ways to do it, one is from the phone settings menu. Another is more complicated, as explained here.

I would stick to official Gingerbread rom or custom rom. The malaysian test approve ICS (B929) has memory management issues. Initially everything seems fine, and smoother than GB rom. Later on, I noticed that the home screen reloads frequently, after I opened and exit an app. Web browsing is barely tolerable, stock browser shuts down halfway for half of the websites i visited. The only improvements for ICS are the camera (more settings, HD video), and app compatibility, and smoother speed if you only use lightweight apps. I only have around 50 apps installed, and no widgets for home screen + lightweight launcher.

I just flashed custom rom a few days ago. Using 4.2.2 CM10.1 rom by GUNDUL46 link. Did not test extensively, but works great so far. Web-browsing with no issues. Again, I don't have animated widgets for home screen + lightweight launcher (zeam), and around 50 apps only.

Used this guide to flash rom. Used CWM v5, since can't find v6.