In recent years, Huawei have proven themselves as the game changer in current smartphone market with introduction of awesome devices such as the P9, P9 Plus, Honor 8 & also the newly launched Mate 9. From my point of view, it seems their refined EMUI with its own HiSilicon Kirin chipset together with collaboration with Leica have boosted up their branding & market share to capture more Samsung & Apple users (Am I right? Hehe)
So here are 5 Huawei & Honor features that I would like to highlight:
1. Always-listening
The Huawei Mate 8 comes with some innovative features within. The voice control lets you operate the Mate 8 entirely hands-free with the ability to trigger a voice command, even when the phone is locked, and its screen is off.
Huawei does this by always listening for a "trigger word", which by default is... "Okay, Emy." Once triggered, it awaits further voice instructions, like placing a call. Speech awareness is also customizable. You can record your voice to configure the record wakeup keyword as image below. The wake-up phrase can be changed, (okay emy) to a wakeup keyword of your choice. When you frequently use this feature, it will train the device to recognize your voice better.
2. Knuckle Gestures
With these features, you can use your knuckles on the screen to capture a normal, scrolling (very useful) or cropped screenshot, or initiate screen-recording. The usability is similar between Mate 8 & P9/P9 plus knuckle gesture. You can also use your knuckles to draw letters in order to open applications (letters ‘c’, ‘e’, ‘m’ and ‘w’, so four shortcuts in total). These work surprisingly well for the easier gestures, scrolling screenshots & screen recording.
3. One – Hand UI Mode
Even with big hands, using a chunky phone one-handed such as the Mate 9 or the Mate 8 isn't an easy task. Huawei looks to help people use it comfortably with a special "One-hand UI" mode. It's also available on the Huawei P9 & P9 Plus.
Enabled by default, it works by minimizing an app or page screen size. For those times when you wish the phone’s display was a bit smaller, you might want to turn on the phone’s One-hand UI setting which shrinks the phone’s interface and positions it on either side of the phone.
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4. Fingerprint security & sensor
A unique feature on most of Huawei & Honor devices is the Fingerprint sensor. It can be use to unlock the screen, access the Safe and App Lock, and authorize payments in third-party applications. For additional security and to ensure that you can still access your data if your phone fails to recognize your fingerprint, there is an option to set a backup password when configuring fingerprint unlock.
In addition to waking and unlocking the screen, the fingerprint sensor can also be used to take a photo, answer an incoming call, and disable an alarm. You can also touch or swipe the sensor with any finger to perform common tasks.
5. Dual Leica Camera
The P9 Mobile Phone was released on April 6 in London, and it features an eight million-pixel camera in front and a rear-facing, 12 million-pixel, ultra-high-resolution camera. Now note the word Leica just next to it. Indeed, Huawei and Leica have recently announced their cooperation, bringing the decades of optical technology to Huawei products.
Now let's take a look at the P9's Camera interface:
From the Camera interface, scroll up to the snapshot interface and there will be some indexes as seen in the photograph below. The phone will enter Professional Camera mode:
You can manually adjust the settings parameters according to your photography needs and produce the best quality picture.
ISO: For light sensitivity, this adjusts the camera’s sensitivity to light. Adjusting the ISO will have a noticeable effect on exposure and image quality. A high ISO value can make up for a lack of light, but the image noise will increase. Supports both manual and automatic adjustment.
S: Fast shutter speed, controls photo exposure time. Supports both manual and automatic adjustment.
EV: Exposure compensation. Select an exposure value to make it darker or lighter. Hold down this icon to lock the exposure value.
AF: For focus types, supports automatic single focus, automatic consecutive focus, and manual focus. The default is set to automatic consecutive focus. While in automatic consecutive focus mode, hold this icon to activate the focus lock.
AWB: Color balance, adjusts the color balance in photos. Provides many types of color balance parameters to adapt to varying lighting levels, such as sunlight, incandescent lighting, and fluorescent lighting; it also provides professional-grade color temperature K values. Hold down this icon to lock the color balance.
More or less, it's quite similiar with Mate 9's UI. So what do you guys think of other best features on Huawei & Honor phone?
So here are 5 Huawei & Honor features that I would like to highlight:
1. Always-listening
The Huawei Mate 8 comes with some innovative features within. The voice control lets you operate the Mate 8 entirely hands-free with the ability to trigger a voice command, even when the phone is locked, and its screen is off.
Huawei does this by always listening for a "trigger word", which by default is... "Okay, Emy." Once triggered, it awaits further voice instructions, like placing a call. Speech awareness is also customizable. You can record your voice to configure the record wakeup keyword as image below. The wake-up phrase can be changed, (okay emy) to a wakeup keyword of your choice. When you frequently use this feature, it will train the device to recognize your voice better.
2. Knuckle Gestures
With these features, you can use your knuckles on the screen to capture a normal, scrolling (very useful) or cropped screenshot, or initiate screen-recording. The usability is similar between Mate 8 & P9/P9 plus knuckle gesture. You can also use your knuckles to draw letters in order to open applications (letters ‘c’, ‘e’, ‘m’ and ‘w’, so four shortcuts in total). These work surprisingly well for the easier gestures, scrolling screenshots & screen recording.
3. One – Hand UI Mode
Even with big hands, using a chunky phone one-handed such as the Mate 9 or the Mate 8 isn't an easy task. Huawei looks to help people use it comfortably with a special "One-hand UI" mode. It's also available on the Huawei P9 & P9 Plus.
Enabled by default, it works by minimizing an app or page screen size. For those times when you wish the phone’s display was a bit smaller, you might want to turn on the phone’s One-hand UI setting which shrinks the phone’s interface and positions it on either side of the phone.
Credit Phandroid
4. Fingerprint security & sensor
A unique feature on most of Huawei & Honor devices is the Fingerprint sensor. It can be use to unlock the screen, access the Safe and App Lock, and authorize payments in third-party applications. For additional security and to ensure that you can still access your data if your phone fails to recognize your fingerprint, there is an option to set a backup password when configuring fingerprint unlock.
In addition to waking and unlocking the screen, the fingerprint sensor can also be used to take a photo, answer an incoming call, and disable an alarm. You can also touch or swipe the sensor with any finger to perform common tasks.
5. Dual Leica Camera
The P9 Mobile Phone was released on April 6 in London, and it features an eight million-pixel camera in front and a rear-facing, 12 million-pixel, ultra-high-resolution camera. Now note the word Leica just next to it. Indeed, Huawei and Leica have recently announced their cooperation, bringing the decades of optical technology to Huawei products.
Now let's take a look at the P9's Camera interface:
From the Camera interface, scroll up to the snapshot interface and there will be some indexes as seen in the photograph below. The phone will enter Professional Camera mode:
You can manually adjust the settings parameters according to your photography needs and produce the best quality picture.
ISO: For light sensitivity, this adjusts the camera’s sensitivity to light. Adjusting the ISO will have a noticeable effect on exposure and image quality. A high ISO value can make up for a lack of light, but the image noise will increase. Supports both manual and automatic adjustment.
S: Fast shutter speed, controls photo exposure time. Supports both manual and automatic adjustment.
EV: Exposure compensation. Select an exposure value to make it darker or lighter. Hold down this icon to lock the exposure value.
AF: For focus types, supports automatic single focus, automatic consecutive focus, and manual focus. The default is set to automatic consecutive focus. While in automatic consecutive focus mode, hold this icon to activate the focus lock.
AWB: Color balance, adjusts the color balance in photos. Provides many types of color balance parameters to adapt to varying lighting levels, such as sunlight, incandescent lighting, and fluorescent lighting; it also provides professional-grade color temperature K values. Hold down this icon to lock the color balance.
More or less, it's quite similiar with Mate 9's UI. So what do you guys think of other best features on Huawei & Honor phone?
