8 Reasons why the Honor 8 will make your Chinese New Year awesome
The Honor 8 is one of the most powerful midrange flagships seen in ages, packing an array of hardware and a spiffy camera that allows it to punch way above its weight class. It ships in four different colours: black, white, a midnight blue and an ostentatious shade of gold which is ideal for the coming Chinese New Year. Here’s eight reasons why it may just be the ideal phone to make your Chinese New Year awesome…
#1 Easy one-handed use with the Smart Key
The clickable rear-mounted fingerprint reader lets you access apps, the camera and more
Greasy fingers are part of the territory during a Chinese New Year feast. Those butter prawns aren’t going to eat themselves and using a pair of chopsticks would be a gross miscarriage of culinary justice. If a call comes in or if you have to take a photo, you’re up the creek with no paddle. . By double clicking or holding it down the Honor 8’s clickable rear fingerprint sensor, you can select it to fire up the torchlight, take a screenshot or even open any app on your phone, not just preloaded ones so you can still use one hand to indulge with gusto and the other to use your phone.
#2 No need to fight for the remote: use this instead
The Honor 8’s top-mounted infrared blaster lets you control TVs, A/Cs and more
Imagine this scenario: you’re over at grandma’s place over Chinese New Year and after the obligatory post-New-Year food coma, everyone is fighting for the sole source of entertainment in the house – the television. Problem: there’s only one remote. The Honor 8 has an IR blaster that lets you control all manner of home appliances including said TV, air conditioners (thank goodness!) and more. While they’re squabbling, simply bask point your Honor 8 at the TV and change the channel.
#3 Pack two SIM cards and head for the journey home like a boss
The Honor 8’s hybrid SIM card means you can tote two SIM cards in one phone. Sweet
While most folks in Malaysia are returning to their hometowns, some folks call somewhere much farther out of town home. And by farther out we mean like on an entirely different continent. A different country also means having to either rely on roaming or using a different SIM card. The Honor 8 comes with a hybrid SIM card slot that two SIM cards so you can stay connected without busting the bank in roaming charges. Naturally, this feature also comes in handy too if you’re taking advantage of the Chinese New Year period to take a well deserved holiday.
#4 The mirror finish of the Honor 8 makes for an instant conversation starter
Stuck for conversation? The Honor 8’s glass casing is just what you need
While sheathing a smartphone in glass isn’t exactly a new fangled thing, the Honor 8 ups the ante considerably. This is on account of the fact that they took the effort to put not one, but fifteen sheathed layers of laminated glass, each on top of another to create the backplate before slapping on Gorilla Glass to protect it. This causes light refracted on it to reflect in unusually beautiful ways. Now, that’s one heck of a real conversation starter.
#5 An awesome camera for awesomer wefies and food shots
Rear dual 12-MP camera array with F/2.2 lens, dual-LED flash and an awesome Good Food mode
Culled from the higher end Huawei P9, the rear 12-MP camera array on the Honor 8 comes with a monochromatic camera and a colour camera. Both work in tandem: the mono sensor offering depth and the colour sensor for colours and detail. The end result: images with luscious colours and a depth of field akin to higher end cameras. There’s even an awesome Food Mode that makes food snaps a mouth watering experience to behold.
#6 Amazing endurance to survive a whole day worth of Chinese New Year partying
A big 3,000mAh battery and R.O.G Low Power Mode
Picture taking, gaming and navigating about during Chinese New Year requires a phone with hefty battery power and the Honor 8 comes with a 3,000mAh battery that offers exceptional endurance. You can even get it to last longer by kicking in R.O.G Low power mode that reduces screen resolution to 720P, making it last even longer. Really need it to last? You can also fire up Ultra Power Saving mode that keeps to asic call and texting for phenomenal battery life.
#7 Fast Charging
Nippy Fast Charging
There’s no time to sit idle during Chinese New Year which means that you may have to charge your phone in between moments when you’re sitting near a power point and then get as much of a charge as possible. The Honor 8 is ideally suited for scenarios like this as it has swift 9V/2A fast charging via its USB Type-C port, allowing it to get a solid 50% charge in under half a hour to easily last you the rest of the day.
#8 Plenty of performance for gaming
The Kirin 950 processor offers plenty of pixel crunching power for games and more
There’s going to be periods of interminable waiting and a lot of it too during Chinese New Year. If you’ve exhausted all your conversation options, there is only one logical recourse: gaming! Fortunately the Honor 8 is a very capable mobile gaming platform that can handle demanding games on account of packing a hefty Kirin 950 octacore processor paired with 4GB RAM and 64GB of onboard expandable storage. The Kirin 950 was first seen on the Huawei Mate 8, their flagship phone for 2015. It’s still a very formidable processor that’s more than capable of holding its own weight in the pixel crunching stakes.
The Honor 8 is available for RM1,899 at all authorised retailers nationwide as well as online at Vmall, Lazada at www.lazada.com.my and 11street at www.11street.my