Honor 8 lite

  Another new smartphone from huwaei from honor 8 lite it has very good features from the price of around 16000

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Honor 8 lite  great choice for styles and substance.2.5d glass and 7.6mm slim body with stunning light deflection.

Honor 8 Lite: The Good

Something we really liked on the Honor 8 is the slim build and glass back panel, which creates a strong reflective effect at the rear of the phone. The Honor 8 Lite brings back this look, which helps in achieving a stylish aesthetic for the device, and one that is arguably much better than some of the other similarly priced devices in the Rs 10,000-20,000 price bracket. However, the device features a plastic frame, which although sturdy and well-built, doesn t quite have the same premium feel as metal

The back of the phone has one other significant difference; while the Honor 8 features a dual-camera set up at the back, the Honor 8 Lite comes with a traditional single camera set up, with a 12-megapixel standard camera sensor. The fingerprint sensor is still at the rear, while the USB port is now a retro USB Type-C affair. I m a bit disappointed about this, since some manufacturers are opting to use the newer and more user-friendly US Type-C port on mid-range phones, and this was one design and engineering aspect on the Honor 8 that could easily have been carried forward onto the Lite variant.

The front of the phone has a 5.2-inch full-HD screen, which is the same as that on the Honor 8 and carries forward the tradition of having a relatively compact phone with a high-resolution screen. There s nothing much to complain about here, with clean visuals, good color reproduction and decent sharpness.

• The Honor 8 Lite is fairly well-specified for a phone priced under Rs 20,000, with 4GB of RAM, 64GB of internal storage and Huawei s own HiSilicon Kirin 655 SoC under the hood. You also get dual-SIM connectivity with a hybrid SIM slot that lets you have either a second SIM card or a micro-SD card up to 128GB for storage expansion. You also get Android Nougat running on the phone out-of-the-box, with Huawei s EMUI 5.0 on top. The interface was recently revealed with new features and updates, and the Honor 8 Lite is the company s first phone to run the new UI out-of-the-box.EMUI 5.0 has a lot of typical features and functions that earlier versions have been known for, including the excellent Magazine Lock Screen, which gives you a range of great images to use as your lock-screen wallpaper. Another key change is the possibility of having a two-layered home screen interface, creating a separate app drawer for all of your apps. A lot of users do prefer this in order to keep the phone s home screens clutter-free, and Huawei departing from this is a welcome change. Of course, you can choose to go with the typical single-layered interface as well.

The interface has gone through changes in aesthetics as well, with the colors now easier on the eyes by following a white-and-blue color theme. Performance is good as well, thanks to a combination of the efficient interface and software, and the decent Kirin 655 SoC fabricated on the 16nm process. Games, multi-tasking and general use of the phone is efficient, quick and trouble-free for the most part. The fingerprint sensor is accurate and quick to unlock the phone as well.