OVERVIEW: Honor 5X - luxury powerful smartphone at a reasonable price

Body design, quality

The title of the first review comes the adjective "luxury" because the execution of Honor 5X is really impeccable. Engineers and designers have invested in physical form to the maximum, and it is felt with the first touch. Look at the curves elegance, a combination of materials, accuracy of forms and accuracy of fitting the housing components.

Now imagine how much money would have asked for a charm of some popular brand.

The back cover is made of a clever way prepared aircraft aluminum alloy. On the manufacturer's website says about the four-stage processing, and where sandblasting is included. The output is very pleasant to touch metal "velvet." That is, it is certainly not a soft material such as rubberized plastic, but the microscopic surface irregularities create the effect of something warm, not quite metallic.

Texture plastic inserts on top and bottom are made and fitted perfectly.

I tried to catch hold of them, holding the nail on the body, and barely caught the transition metal border into the plastic. The boundaries between the rear and side panels are strict, but not sharp. In these places, a machined aluminum, that is absolutely smooth, without velvety.

Front panel surprising ratio of the total area and the display area. When the diagonal of 5.5 inches and a very small gap between the edge of the screen and the body creates the impression that the entire Honor 5X - this is one large display.

The feeling of slightly extinguished in gold and silver models, but the black Honor 5X with a predominance of dark colors on the screen virtually erases the understanding of where the display ends and the case begins.

Above the screen is the speaker for talking, front facing camera, LED acting as the backlight for a selfie, and barely noticeable color indicator events.

under the screen space does not contain any elements.

The top panel is the standard 3.5mm headphone jack. Bottom - port microUSB, a speaker and a microphone, hidden behind a tidy classic cuts. All this looks very soundly, and two fixing screws next to the USB add even more solidity and luxury.

The power button and volume rocker - on the right. With a smooth texture and a clear way, they are easy to find with your finger and do not hang when you try to shake the smartphone. No complaints here.

The general desire to reduce the thickness of the mobile devices sometimes causes serious miscalculation. The camera module sticks out from the body, but it is still nothing. Much worse, if the module frame made of metal, and its angular shape and sharp. In this case, you can quite accidentally scratch the table. In Honor 5X rounded frame with the same rounded edges. Its nice to touch, it is perfectly safe for even the most unstable to furniture scratches.

Pay attention to the shape and size of a fingerprint scanner. Engineers have significantly reduced the surface area of ​​the reading, which requires a bit more precision on your hands, but as compensation gives almost zero bounce when you unlock.

The manufacturer says about the use of Honor 5X in the new version of the scanner, calling it a "fingerprint Fingerprint 2.0". He's really fast, delays in release no. I just felt the deepening of the scanner, and the screen is ready for operation.

Particularly noteworthy are the slots for SIM-cards and memory cards. As you can see, here they are separated.

The first cap hides the Tandem platform for installation of one nanoSIM and a microSIM, moreover in 4G can run both cards. The second plug is only for microSD cards up to 128 GB or less.

This approach is certainly better for the user. No difficult decisions "two Sims or Sim + Memory Card". All at once, and it's wonderful.

Screen

Having read the written above, you probably wondered, "If everything is so good body, then where is the manufacturer saved?". It is obvious that under the knife went productivity, but about it later. The first weak point was found in the smartphone screen. No, with the clarity, color, brightness, reliability and angles all right, it's Full HD IPS. The problem in the glass. From the box there is a smart phone with a pre-glued protective film. I can not stand all these films, and therefore immediately removed it. It turned out that Honor 5X display quite easily soiled. The prints are easy to remove, but they appear a little too quickly.

And yet I still have a question for the defense. The manufacturer does not have the type of glass. I did not want to carry out the test with hard keys, coins and a knife, because that's how to spoil a technique without knowing its specifications, I do not like. A week of active use on the screen does not appear a single scratch, but indicate the type of glass still needed.

Toppings, productivity, heat

Qualcomm Snapdragon 615, eight cores, four of them - with a frequency of 1.5 GHz and four more - 1.2 GHz. In combination with 2 GB of RAM and Adreno 405 graphics smartphone without heating and difficulties pulls everything that can enjoy the top-end games inexperienced people.

Synthetics showed 33,892 points in the AnTuTu, but she and synthetics to be unrepresentative. Running a couple of toys, you can find out about the performance of much more. Mobile World of Tanks went perfectly, and Honor 5X at this time a little hot. Lara Croft, on the other hand, virtually no heated smartphone, but showed some freezes in the process. However, expect excellent job of filling the average would be naive, and bother the games people certainly choose less status in terms of performance, but more powerful smartphone.

operating system

Over virtually untouched by Android 5.1 in Honor 5X EMUI installed version 3.1 - a proprietary shell and a set of applications and tools that significantly extend the capabilities of the smartphone out of the box and in general makes the device more convenient.

In Honor 5X Android finalized very carefully. Every detail, every feature and improvement EMUI blends harmoniously with the original logic the operating system does not create a feeling of congestion or inappropriate and does not harm performance.

Changes or improvements evident everywhere, starting with the system of buttons that you can customize to your liking, and ending with a set of useful applications for different tasks.

Voice Search to Honor allows you to find your lost smartphone. If the device is somewhere close enough to say: «? Dear Honor, where are you» The smartphone starts to make sounds, vibrate and flash screen, telling about his whereabouts.

Continuing the theme of maturity EMUI, I want to give an example of a fingerprint scanner. In Honor 5X with a scanner, you can make a photo. This is convenient, especially for vertical shooting. And yet at the swipe of a scanner, you can assign certain actions.

The process of creating the impression is laid out better than, for example, in the Google Phone. You are given a clue: "Touch this part of the finger, and now this." As a result, print does best, taken at any angle, and therefore, the subsequent unlocking always take place without any problems.

camera

As the main camera is set in Honor 5X 5-lens module 13 Mn. The aperture f / 2.0, viewing angle 28 mm. Safety glass is covered with a special anti-reflective structure, which increases the quality of images in low light conditions.

For auto-correct and responsible image processing processor SmartImage 3.0. In practice, a combination of hardware and software allows you to create very good photos, no picking in the settings and modes camera.

This is extremely important, especially for those who do not wish to learn the art of professional PhotoBut wants to please yourself and your friends cool pictures witchcraft with parameters.

Special attention deserves the function "perfect selfie." The user creates a time series of images themselves from different angles, and then manually adjust the final picture with a few sliders.

In the future, the smartphone will automatically apply custom settings for each selfie. Girls definitely will love this feature.

Working hours

Honor 5X is equipped with a non-removable lithium-polymer battery 3000 mAh. In the standard scenario, work with social networks, web browser, email, instant messengers, music and YouTube smartphone lose 60-75% of their charge per day. Of course, this is true for the new device, when the battery is not worn. With continuous online video battery has run for 8 hours. Tough game like World of Tanks puts smartphone to zero within 4-5 hours.

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Verdict

Certainly, Honor 5X - this is a great smartphone for their money. Quality, design and performance are impeccable body and do not give a single reason for criticism. The issue with the screen protector is still open, because the manufacturer does not tell about the used glass in a smartphone. Power Honor 5X more than enough for all day to day tasks and most advanced mobile games. Fair simultaneous support for two SIM-cards and memory cards are very happy. Proprietary shell EMUI good, as well as photo and video functions heaped. Availability and performance, but not devoid of aesthetics and quality performance workhorse for 17 thousand rubles.

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