(ThyBlackMan.com) Huawei is bringing Honor 8 successor Huawei Honor 8 Pro with full VR and AR support. The company’s subsidiary Honor has given a strong bump to the smartphone’s specifications. And now everything you care about is at a great level in the new phone. You’ll forget P10 because this phone is a lot better and even cheaper than the company’s P10 smartphone.
Honor built the phone keeping virtual reality and augmented reality into consideration. The phone comes with a VR cardboard headset and a VR app full of content. Thanks to the company’s partnership with Jaunt. The Quad HD display brings cinema-like visual standards and it also delivers accuracy in terms of graphic details and colors. In the Jaunt VR app, users can find 360 degree virtual reality videos and so much more.
The new Huawei Honor 8 Pro VR headset is exclusively optimized and configured for the phone, so the use of the headset will be limited. But the Honor 8 Pro’s 5.7-inch screen delivers a great viewing experience and the support for the Google Cardboard means that you can enjoy immersive VR experience without spending any additional cost on expensive VR headsets or content. All you need to do is to just use your phone’s box and turn it into a VR headset by putting the lens in place.
The Honor 8 Pro has a 5.7-inch Quad HD display, offering a resolutions of 1440 x 2560 pixels with approximately 515ppi pixel density. The smartphone is powered by the company’s Kirin 960 octa-core processor. In the smartphone, there are four Cortex A73 cores and four Cortex A53 cores available which are clocked at 2.4 GHz and 1.8 GHz respectively. For more processing power, the CPU is supported by a 6GB RAM.
With the Huawei Honor 8 Pro, Huawei owned Honor is providing the solution to a major problem: poor battery life. The massive 4000mAh battery in the 8 Pro lasts for two days, which is a very smart move by the company. Delivering a phone that at least works for more than a day without charging is really a great deal, especially for travellers.
The Honor 8 Pro follows the last year’s Honor 8 in terms of camera system. Other than the VR support and powerful specs, the Huawei Honor 8 Pro features a dual camera setup with two 12-megapixel cameras. One of the cameras captures in monochrome, while another one in RGB color. The company’s own software processes the images and delivers detailed photos with no quality loss compression.
In the new Huawei Honor 8 Pro, you’ll find dual-SIM support, a microSD slot, NFC, a fingerprint sensor at the back side of the phone and a USB-C type charging ability. The device runs on Android 7.0, which is one of the most complete versions of Android system. According to the company, the Honor 8 Pro predicts the user behaviour very well. Honor has integrated a system called EMUI 5.1 to support this feature. It recognises the use of certain apps and also tracks the time each day. For example if you use Facebook in the night at a certain time, the phone will learn from the way you use it and it will try loading the application in the background at that particular time in anticipation.
In hand, the Honor 8 Pro is very comfortable and it’s a thin phone almost everyone expected from Honor. The phone’s metal casing gives it a classy look and the phone is also not too heavy as it is 184 grams. The Honor 8 Pro sports a matte aluminum finish instead of using glass back. The design makes it look better than the iPhone 7. Despite being larger than its predecessor, the phone appears to be more comfortable when using.
Staff Writer; Corey Shaw
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