Hi all I am back for my second Review of Honor 5x which is KIW-L22 model. A simple recap, Honor5x is mid range 5.5 inches Full HD Smart Phone with Latest Fingerprint 2.0, Metallic housing, 4G Dual Sim connectivity, 64 Bit Octacore Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 SOC, 2GB of RAM, 16GB internal storage with Micro-SD expansion at RRP of RM899.
After 2 weeks of using Honor 5x, I am here to do some simple review on the daily usage for the Honor 5x. The phone is wear and tear, despite using for about 2 weeks. No notable scratch on the back metallic housing even without using a case. I am totally satisfied with the build of the phone.
Front View of the phone
Back View of the phone
Move forward to the software of the phone. This phone is power by android KitKat 5.1.1 with EMUI 3.1 on top. EMUI is an user interface that designed and customized by HUAWEI. Generally the EMUI is very user friendly. It will not be difficult to use for the new user too. The EMUI have no drawer on home page unlike the vanilla android on nexus device.
Home screen without drawer. 3 on screen navigation key floating at the bottom
About Phone – EMUI 3.1 with Android 5.1.1
The camera interface of this phone is easy to use. he back shoot of the camera comes with SONY IMX214 Sensor which capable of taking 13mp picture, 1080p video recording at 60 frame/s.
On the default camera app layout it come with Good Food Mode, Beauty Mode, Video Mode, Time-Lapse Mode, Panorama Mode, HDR Mode, and All Focus Mode.
Camera Layout
The camera function is pretty much complete for daily use. We move to the camera quality. Here is some sample of the photo that taking from Honor 5x.
Scenery shot using Normal mode
Close up shot using normal mode at 20cm away
Close up shot using normal mode at 5cm away
The quality of picture is pretty much good. The camera is basically enough for daily use purpose. I am ok with the performance of the camera so far.
To get some idea about the hardware performance of this device, I run Antutu Benchmark app for the Antutu score. Here the result of the Antutu Benchmark testing.
Antutu score of 35590
Although the Antutu Benchmark score at 35590, but for this 2 weeks, the phone operate smoothly and without any lag.
When the phone refresh start up, there are 971mb of free RAM.
The finger print touch pad can be use as navigation key.
You can choose different designated finger for launching difference app too
If you ever worried about when your phone got stolen you will lose your information, don’t worry about that. Without the fingerprint unlock honor5x while connecting to PC as mass storage. The content of the phone will not be available in the PC.
Without Fingerprint unlock honor5x, the content of the phone will note be viewable in PC.
The battery life of this device is absolutely stunning. For a normal daily work, it last more than a day. Easily the Screen On Time hitting 5hours under normal usage. However the charge the phone from 20% to 100% it may take slightly some time with the charger that come with from the package.
The charger that come from the package only offer 5V1A output which it may take up to almost 2hours. If you worry about the charging process is slow, you can choose to get the 5v2A charger, which the phone support 5V2A for faster charging process.
Before I end the review, as conclusion, the phone is pretty well solid build, and it surely worth the price tag of RM899. Thank you for reading my review.
Just in case you’re interested in my first Honor 5X review, here it is.
This article is written and contributed by KUA TZE HONG.