May 7 2014, 10:04 PM
Display
Seriously good display. It has good contrast (Not like AMOLED) and viewing angles (Unlike those new Xperias). Pixel density @ 294ppi is sharp. Although it doesn't have a Full HD 1080p display, but you'll be hard pressed to find another display this good at this price range. Huawei claims that the 3C uses LTPS technology for the screen, and this can improve the battery power consumption. Texts comes out sharp, with no issues.
Speakers
They sound good. As expected from cell phone speakers, they do not posses booming sounds, but again, at RM499 shipped, these work well. Distortions do not appear when playing songs at maximum volume. On a side note, there's also DTS sounds effects if you're inclined into such stuff.
Operating System
Huawei customized their own version of Android 4.2.2 and called it EmotionUI. Despite not being a fan of skinned ROMs, this one from Huawei doesn't irk me as bad as Samsung's Touchwiz. If fact, Huawei has managed to throw in some useful additions like restricting apps from starting up, monitoring app data usage, a fancy power saving mode,protected apps, and some motion control (like dt2w). I've installed Nova Launcher to get that AOSP look I adore so much, and it works well. Long pressing the menu button brings up the recent app menu, as long pressing the home button, brings up the Google Search app. General browsing of the UI is relatively smooth with minimal hiccups, and RAM usage is pretty decent. I had some playback issues with the YouTube app, as the video playback was horribly choppy. I would guess that it has something to do with the GPU drivers, as some games like Minion Rush was also quite choppy, despite the generous 2GB RAM it has. I'm not a fan of benchmarks, so I wont be touching any benchmarking issues.
I've loaded some 720p videos, and used MX Player to play using SW decoder. Rather surprisingly, it played the 720p video smoothly
On the topic of whether KitKat 4.4 will arrive to the Honor 3C, Huawei is rather tight lipped on this matter, but there is definitely a demand for it, from what I noticed. The hardware the Honor 3C sports, is more than sufficient for KitKat's demands, and the only issue is for MediaTek to release the kernel source. Custom ROMs are widely available for the Honor 3C, and this is a good sign, as when a user gets bored with their stock ROM, there's always the custom route.
Misc
The buttons are not the on-screen type like how my Nexus 4 is, but rather the ancient capacitive type. I have no issues with this, other than the fact that it has no illumination at all. So using your phone in absolute darkness might be an issue, unless you know where the buttons are.
All in all, this is a very good value for money phone, but Huawei must fixed the bugs that are present, otherwise it'll ruin an otherwise almost perfect budget phone. I haven't tested much of the HongMi as yet, but even so, it is a very worthy alternative. WiFi reception is better than average, as Huawei is rather big in the telecommunications field. It is also worth noting that the Honor 3C does not support USB OTG out of the box. Adventurous users may experiment with some Y-OTG cables and report back.
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This post has been edited by ericmaxman: May 7 2014, 10:11 PM
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