4:3

I thought so. My G700 can go 8mp on 16:9.

Guys, can give review on Huawei Honor 3C? I'm gonna sell off my 2-3 years Sony Xperia U and change to Huawei Honor 3C soon. Problem is, I cant find any test unit here in Ipoh. Can give review/feedback on the performance+camera test?

Youtube videos - Laggy
Minion Rush - Laggy

minion rush lag all the way or just the initial stage the minion jumping only?

All the way

bro, heard that the honor 3c play youtube and minion rush lag...can u confirm that also on zenphone ?

ohh shit...phone arrive my dad office..but my dad not at office went for attend course..aduiii

Huh? how come youtube will lag???

Apart from the flimsy back cover, this is the best price-value phone, I was thought Huawei only make good broadband but I was wrong. Seriously, belum try belum tau

great phone.. but how bout the physical button light ? is there any setting to turn it on ?

After a few hours of toying with the Honor 3C, here's some of my thoughts

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.

joytest

This post has been edited by ericmaxman: May 7 2014, 10:11 PM

No LED how to have light

yeah .. macam la i can see the internal part of that button.. i just browse through all those post and got the answer anyway.. thanks

that bad?

I have not yet tested a better phone especially at this kind of price point.

My ideal test is to install 50 to 60 of my apps and then test out flipping pages in flipboard. Most recent lesser phones struggled but the 3c passed quite favourably not as butter smooth as the note 3 but that phone is nearly 4 times the price.

However with my old age my eyes need bigger fonts so sadly I had to put aside the 3c.

This post has been edited by sbd: May 7 2014, 10:11 PM

it's a common excuse - better than saying i want to make a few bucks when the going is good!

Does it have notification LED ? like it'll blink when a sms or miss called ?

What do you mean no LED physical button ?

my 3c unplug from charging a 5.30a.m until now still got 48% power. mid usage... i like it.

There is a notification LED.

Which is the reason why nowdays never bother on phone that has less than 5.5 inch screen