Honor 8X review: my first impression
A TEST REPORT from David Haydl 
on October 16, 2018, 18:58 am | 1 comment
The Honor 8X was presented a little over a week ago. A cheap smartphone from the subsidiary brand of Huawei, in which the display and the camera were particularly advertised. I have been testing this smartphone for two days and have already been able to get a first impression.
Unboxing and first impression
The Honor 8X comes in a turquoise packaging that has the shape of the smartphone. If you open the box, you will be greeted by the smartphone first. Underneath there is a small cardboard cover in which instructions and warnings, a SIM tool and a silicone cover have been packed. Under this cardboard cover, Honor put the charger, which unfortunately is not a Quick Charge power supply. Honor states that the charging time is 150 minutes, which is quite a lot and I can confirm that.
As with almost every smartphone, the initial setup is child's play and hardly takes up any time. You just have to log in with your Google account, optionally create or enter a Huawei ID and specify a method for unlocking the Honor 8X in the future. Here you can choose between unlocking via the fingerprint sensor, face recognition, the pattern, the code or the password.
My first impression
Three things immediately struck me about the Honor 8X. On the one hand there is this glass back, which looks nice but magically attracts fingerprints. The second thing I noticed was the microUSB port. Many of you readers would have wished for USB-C. Because my devices all still have microUSB, I don't have one Problem with it. The third thing I noticed was the large 6,5″ display. Here I really liked the rather bright colors and the large work surface.
Especially the large display did it to me in the first hours of use (picture: TechnikNews, 2018)
During further use, two other things struck me as very positive: the performance and the battery life. That's how I've been able to play games like Asphalt 9 up until now proplay flawlessly and still had 5 in the evening with over 30 hours of screen-on-time Procent battery. The camera only partially convinced me at first. For example, the edges of the subject are sometimes washed out in photos taken with portrait mode. Without zooming in, however, this is hardly noticeable. Photos I took using night mode were all pretty noisy. On the other hand, photos that are snapped in good light are really okay. The test report on the Honor 8X will be available here shortly TechnikNews appear.
The pictures could have been better ... hopefully the test will produce sharper pictures from the mobile phone.