Huawei honor 3x g750 video review: first impressions
A short Russian-language video review of the eight-core Huawei Honor 3X smartphone from Maxim Filin, who works at the Russian representative office of Huawei as a Testing Engineer.
During the review, the author spoke in detail about the software, obtaining root rights, and demonstrated the results of the smartphone in popular benchmarks. The review pays special attention to the gaming performance test. According to Maxim, the current version of the firmware is not optimized enough, so a number of games may not start, although at the same time there are no problems with performance in games such as RealRacing 3 and Asphalt 8 even at maximum settings.
Another important point touched upon in the review is the availability of 3G Internet from any of the 2 installed SIM cards. To switch, just go to Mobile Network Settings and change the checkbox. Actually, see for yourself:
Display
The screen is not the device’s strong point. Still, at five and a half inches you expect to see FullHD resolution; a matrix with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels is installed right there. The pixel density is accordingly 267 ppi – almost 300, but the difference is noticeable. The display is made using IPS technology.
The manufacturer and some reviewers claim to simultaneously recognize 10 touches on the screen, but no matter how hard I tried, the test Honor 3X could not “feel” more than 9. And it’s not because of my thick/big/crooked fingers—even the fifth press was visible to the smartphone with some dexterity. In practice, we use a maximum of two-finger gestures — the gadget recognizes them without problems, but sometimes strange “sticking” of the sensor occurs, that is, it begins to issue some kind of clicks on its own, which looks at least strange.
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The Huawei Honor 3X (G750D) processor is an eight-core Mediatek MTK6592 operating at 1.7 GHz. Mediatek says that this is the first truly eight-core processor, since it has eight cores working simultaneously all the time, no big ones. LITTLE and other wisdom are not here.
The graphics are handled by a quad-core Mali-450 MP graphics accelerator operating at 600 MHz. The total is quite a productive combination. Honor 3X produces good results in benchmarks, but the interface and games lack optimization. It’s not that they lag or slow down in any way, but the smoothness of Nexus devices or the same Samsung Galaxy S5 out of the box is not here, but with such hardware I would like it.
The battery capacity is 3000 mAh, which is more than enough. Yes, there is an eight-core processor installed here, but it is made using a 28 nm process technology, and the screen resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels also contributes to greater autonomy. In AnTuTu Battery Test, the smartphone produces a very decent 8480 parrots.
The smartphone supports two SIM cards, one of which is standard size and the other is MicroSIM format. I don’t think that this factor will be decisive when choosing a device, but it is definitely a nice bonus — after all, you may need a second SIM card both at home and abroad.
Honor 3X runs on the not-so-recent Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, with the proprietary Emotion UI 2.0 shell stretched over it. Deep down, every geek has long wished that any smartphone could be rid of all the manufacturer’s quirks with the press of one key. «Naked» Android — and nothing else is needed, but life makes its own adjustments.
Emotion UI 2.0 is frankly annoying. Strange icons, interface colors and animations make the smartphone look like some kind of bling. Surely girls will appreciate the ability to change interface themes, but I don’t need this function. System applications have been completely redrawn to match the Emotion UI; it is unlikely that you will be able to see the original Android anywhere.
But there is something nice in this shell, namely pre-installed applications, the sight of which makes you think of their similarity to MIUI ROM. File manager, flashlight, system update, backups and phone manager probably combine all the functions that bare Android lacks.
Some nice settings include adjusting the color temperature of the screen, an advanced energy saving mode, Do Not Disturb mode, “Privilege Manager”, in which you can select what data applications will have access to, “Launch Manager” — selecting applications, which will be launched when the smartphone is turned on, and “Notification Manager”, which will allow you to control notifications from specific applications.
Emotion UI also allows you to select and sort the switches available in the notification panel and enable one-handed control mode, which is undoubtedly important for such a rather large device. It is also impossible not to mention such a useful function as “Working with gloves” — this feature works perfectly in Huawei Honor 3X (G750D).
Huawei Honor 3X uses DTS (Digital Theater Systems) high-quality audio technology. As with all similar sound “improvers,” I treated DTS in Honor 3X with a certain degree of skepticism, but to my humble ears, Huawei sounded, although not significantly, more interesting than the iPhone 4S, which just happened to be at hand.
Cameras
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNYwwt2RReI
The main camera resolution of Huawei Honor 3X (G750D) is 13 megapixels, F2.2 aperture is a Sony sensor. But as we know, there are differences between sensors and much depends on the software. Honor 3X produces frames of average quality. This applies to both regular shooting and HDR. Interesting modes include the following:
“Exposure metering” — the camera focuses on one point and sets the exposure on another; “Audio note” – records a voice note along with the frame, as well as “Audio control” – shooting by voice command. The video is recorded in 1080p resolution at 30 fps, but again, its quality is average.
5 megapixels of the front camera are truly created for “yourself.” Here you have the “Decoration” mode for automatically covering up pimples, and a timer so that the owner of the smartphone has time to “pout” her lips, and even a hint that you should look not at the display, but over there, through the camera’s peephole. With Skype, of course, there are no problems — the picture turns out great.
First impressions and appearance
Huawei Honor 3X (G750D) comes in a nice turquoise box. After opening it, the device itself naturally catches your eye. Also inside the box you will find a power adapter, a headset and a USB-MicroUSB cable — everything like
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Honor 3X is big. It fits in your hand like a lampshade, and the diagonal of the display is not far behind them — it is five and a half inches. It’s scary to think that just a few years ago the HTC HD2 with a 4.3-inch screen seemed like this very lampshade. Using a medium-sized smartphone with one hand does not pose any particular difficulties.
The gadget looks good, even interesting. The front surface, as it happens, is almost completely occupied by the display, and on it you will also find a speaker covered with a metal grille, a front camera, a light sensor and three standard keys for an Android smartphone: “Back”, “Home” and “Menu”. The side edges of the device are framed by a plastic edging “metal-like” — it looks decent, I would like to believe that it will not wear out over time.
As for the connectors and keys, here, again, everything is pretty standard: on the top edge there is a 3.5 mm headphone jack, on the bottom there is a MicroUSB jack and a microphone, on the left you won’t find anything, but On the right, the manufacturer placed a volume rocker and a power key. The latter are located slightly lower than usual.
The back edge is also made of plastic. On the lid you can see a pattern of vertical stripes; it’s all covered with transparent varnish. On the white model, fingerprints are practically invisible, but I think on the black version everything will not be so clear. On the back of the gadget there is a camera, flash, a second microphone for noise reduction and a multimedia speaker.
There are no questions about the assembly — nothing plays, creaks or rattles anywhere, the smartphone passed the “curlability” test with dignity.
Specifications
- Dimensions: 149.5 x 77.4 x 8.9 mm.
- Weight: 161 g.
- Operating system: Android 4.2.2, Emotion UI 2.0.
- Processor: eight-core, Mediatek MTK6592, 1.7 GHz.
- Graphics: Mali-450 MP.
- Display: IPS, 5.5″, 1280 x 720, 267 ppi.
- Memory: 8 GB, supports MicroSD memory cards up to 32 GB.
- RAM: 2 GB.
- Camera: front – 5 MP, main – 13 MP, FullHD video recording.
- Wireless technologies: Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0.
- Interface connectors: 3.5 mm headphone jack, MicroUSB.
- Battery: 3000 mAh.
Conclusion
The price of Huawei Honor 3X (G750D) is $515. This is a lot. And what do we get for this money? A dual-SIM lamp with an eight-core processor, two gigabytes of RAM, an IPS display and 18 megapixels of two cameras. It would seem like complete stuffing, but with some caveats: eight cores do not provide flagship performance, an IPS display on such a diagonal begs for FullHD resolution, and a good camera module does not guarantee excellent photos and videos.
