preface

As a pollen who has used almost all models of Glory mobile phones from Glory 1 to Glory 8, including Happy Play series, and has more than five years of experience in using Glory mobile phones, she has witnessed the birth of Glory mobile phones and their rapid growth in recent years. She has complex and deep feelings for Glory mobile phones. As an old user of Glory, she has a clear position but an absolutely objective view, Express the true thoughts from the heart, and be brave to be yourself~

I didn't expect much before the release of Glory 8, because I was disappointed with the performance of Glory 7. But after the release of Glory 8, I couldn't restrain my excitement and eager experience, because it really amazed me. It was completely different from all the phones before Glory, reaching a new height. Now let's share with you the most real glory in the eyes of the writer 8!  

Unpacking

Glory 8 has five body colors, namely, streamer gold, magic night black, pearl white, magic sea blue, and sakura pink. The author got the pearl white version this time. It's a little pity that I didn't get the most amazing magic sea blue, but pearl white is also excellent.

Glory mobile phones have recently started to reform their outer packaging. This time, the packaging design of Glory 8 is very good. It changes the sky blue that has been filled from Glory 3C for thousands of years (except Glory V8, VR The design is very good) The cheap packaging is replaced by fresh and elegant pure white color matching. The golden honor8 logo printed on the front uses laser marking technology, which looks very impressive. The horizontal lines on the front of the body significantly improve the hand feel and grade of the packaging box, and can also play a non slip effect. The disadvantage is that it is not resistant to dirt.

The back of the box is the product details. This time, we got the highest configuration version of Glory 8, 4G running memory+64G body storage, and the pearlescent white version of All Netcom, which supports all 4G networks of China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom.

The packaging box adopts a pull out design. Slowly pull out the inner box. The long-awaited Glory 8 is about to reveal its true face. At first glance, it feels that the phone is very thin, and the frame emits dazzling metallic luster in the sunlight~

Glory 8 is placed vertically in the box, wrapped and protected with a layer of plastic film. There is a small protruding part above the plastic film I took it out. The small details are very considerate and humanistic.

The plastic film on the back shows and introduces the distribution of mobile phone function areas and card insertion methods in detail. Even though separated by a layer of film, the excellent appearance design of Glory 8's aggressive side leakage cannot be concealed.

There are two accessory boxes. The large box on the left contains the charging head and data cable, and the right contains the card needle, manual and warranty card.

All the accessories are here. The style is very uniform. They are all elegant pure white. It's very comfortable to look at. After careful observation, it seems that there is something missing. The gold card of the membership service is not in it, but it does not mean that there is no gold card member. In fact, the card is just a symbol and has no practical use. After the user logs on the Huawei account, he can activate the gold card membership service on his own. In addition, there is no earphone. It has a glorious style.

Glory 8 is equipped with a 9V2A fast charging charger as standard. From the appearance, it is the same as the fast charging charger I received for free from Glory 7. The data cable uses the TYPE-C interface.

The manual is beautifully printed and perfectly integrated with the overall style of the mobile phone. Compared with the previous glorious mobile phone, it has made great progress. The gilded "Glory 8" is very impressive.

appearance

As the first model of Glory to use front and rear 2.5D glass, the biggest highlight and breakthrough of Glory 8 lies in its amazing ultimate appearance design! Compared with the previous phones of the Glory 8 series (Glory 8 and Glory V8), it is completely new.

The body length and width of Glory 8 are 145.5mm 71mm, 7.45mm in thickness, 135g in overall weight. Although the thickness is not as good as that of many leading slim mobile phones on the market, the author personally believes that 7mm is a very suitable thickness for smart phones, which can bring a very good feel with fine appearance design and workmanship. On the contrary, 6mm or less in thickness can not guarantee battery life except attracting the eyes, It's not very comfortable.

The front of Glory 8 is equipped with a 5.2 inch full HD 1080PLTPS negative liquid crystal display, which still uses the iconic hidden virtual buttons of Glory series. The 2.5D curved glass above the screen is very beautiful, and the mirror coating process is used for the screen frame, which is very bright. From the side, it can achieve a frameless visual experience; Extremely narrow frame design, ultra-high screen ratio, and the size and thickness of the body are just right, making it particularly comfortable to hold with one hand and very convenient to use;

Before the black border was too wide, it was always a criticism of the Glory series of mobile phones, which was also beyond the understanding of the author, especially why the ID frameless brain disabled design was adopted by many models. It should be the attitude of Glory to be brave and not follow the trend! Glory 8 is very beautiful in this respect. The black edge is only 0.4mm, and the visual effect is excellent!

The front of the machine body is very simple. From left to right, there are 8 million pixel front camera, distance sensor light sensor and earpiece on the top. Information and incoming call light are integrated into the inner right side of the earpiece. There is a logo of honor at the bottom. The content of this logo is getting higher and higher!

At the bottom of the fuselage are 3.5mm headphone interfaces, TYPE-C charging and data transmission interfaces, microphones and speakers. The overall workmanship is excellent, the openings are very regular, and the edges are polished very smoothly, demonstrating the high level of pride in the process and the attitude to product excellence.

There are two obvious functional areas on the top of the fuselage, one is the infrared remote control module, and the other is the noise reduction microphone. Infrared has always been a distinctive feature of Glory mobile phones. The Glory 6PLUS and Glory 7 used by the author before are also equipped with this function, but the infrared of Glory 8 is more powerful. Its official name is Intelligent Control 4.0. Glory 8 integrates the infrared code library of independent infrared remote control chip presets from the world's outstanding suppliers, and supports a total of 25920 models of 1053 brands, It can also be used as a remote control without network.

The middle frame of Glory 8 is made of aviation grade aluminum and sandblasting technology. It is seamless with 2.5D glass on both sides, and has excellent hand feel. However, the pearlescent white version is slightly less than Meihai Blue. The transition between the middle frame and double glass in Meihai Blue version is more natural and uniform, giving a feeling of integration. There is only one card slot on the left side of the middle frame, and there are power key and volume key on the right side.

The card slot is designed on the left side of the body of Glory 8, which can be installed with two Nano Sim cards or one Nano Sim card and one TF memory card, and can be placed at will regardless of the primary and secondary cards. Two sim card models are originally placed in the card slot, and the text above prompts the card insertion method and precautions of sim card.

There is more than one aspect of beauty, and the back of Glory 8 is more dazzling. A large number of rounded line designs combined with 2.5D glass, like a piece of warm white jade, pure and beautiful, extremely comfortable feel, which is the best feel of all mobile phones I have ever used, and the overall feeling is much better than that of Xiaomi Note with double 2.5D glass! However, while this design is beautiful enough, it also has some disadvantages. First, it is easy to slip on an uneven or equally smooth desktop. Second, it has poor fall resistance and scratch resistance, so you must be more careful when using it.

More than that, there is black technology under the back glass! With 15 layers of exquisite coating technology, brilliant grating texture will appear under the refraction of light, and will change with the change of angle, making the mobile phone different at all times, as brilliant as the aurora.

At the top of the back is another big selling point of Glory 8: the dual 1200 megapixel cameras are wrapped by 2.5D glass backplane without any prominence, which is completely consistent with the overall style of the phone, creating a beauty of balance; Next to the camera are laser sensors and dual color temperature flash lights, which protect high-quality photography; In the middle of the fuselage is the rear circular dual function fingerprint identification of Glory 8, which complements the overall beauty~

screen

Glory 8 adopts 5.2 inch full HD LTPS negative LCD display, with color saturation up to 96%, pixel density up to 423PPI, high clarity and brightness, fine display effect, which can show rich details, and also show a very good display effect in the sun.

Comparison between original picture and mobile phone picture

Comparison between mobile phone picture and original picture

photograph

In terms of photography, the 1200 color&black and white dual lens performance of Glory 8 is also very impressive. Compared with the previous generation of Glory 6plus dual camera, the focusing imaging speed is faster, the light inflow is more than that of the ordinary single camera, and the imaging quality is better. The quality of photography is very high under the condition of sufficient light in the daytime, and it still performs well under the backlight adjustment, and the photo quality and image quality are not reduced significantly; In the dark light, especially in the night, the detail performance is excellent and the noise control is also very good. The effect of dual cameras is not covered.

Turn on the camera and slide left to enter the camera settings. Slide right to enter the photographing mode selection. Glory 8 provides more than 10 kinds of highly playable photographing modes, including food, slow motion 3D dynamic panorama, large aperture photography, streamer shutter (including busy traffic, light painting graffiti, silk flowing water, gorgeous star track), super night scene, professional photography, professional video, skin beauty photography (charming me), skin beauty video, panorama HDR、 Watermark, audio photos, off screen snapshots, smiling face snapshots, voice controlled photos, timed photos, touch photos, document correction, continuous photo optimization, delayed photos, etc., friends who like to take photos with mobile phones can carefully play. The author tested eight or nine of them. Here are HDR mode and food mode. The 3D dynamic panorama function is very innovative. Unfortunately, the samples can only be viewed on the mobile phone. In addition, the night view mode and streamer shutter mode need to be matched with a tripod. I can't bear to see the photos released under the shake mode~

Outdoor samples in sunny days

Outdoor proof sheet in cloudy days

Outdoor sample in the evening

Backlight shooting

Indoor performance

Nightscape

Streaming shutter traffic (handheld)

Super night view (handheld)

HDR mode off

HDR mode on

Dual lens HDR can enrich the details of highlights and dark areas, and further improve the definition under backlight and dark light conditions.

Food mode off

Food mode on

Normal mode

Food mode

After the food mode is turned on, the food color becomes more bright, attractive and bright, and has more appetite.

Before beauty

After Charming Me (Beauty)

The image quality of the 8 million front camera of Glory 8 is also very good. The system has two built-in beauty modes, one is Charming Me and the other is ordinary mode. Compared with the ordinary mode, Charming Me provides more operable content and more obvious beauty effect, which is very practical for friends who like to take selfies.

performance

The overall improvement of Glory 8 is not only reflected in its powerful appearance design and exquisite workmanship, but also in its powerful hardware configuration. Equipped with the most powerful chip of Hisense, Kirin 950 eight core CPU, and adopting the 16nm process technology, the power consumption can be reduced by 30% when the performance is doubled; As the world's first commercially available 16nm 64 bit 8-core processor, the 950 uses big The LITTLE big and small core architecture is composed of four A72 cores with a dominant frequency of 2.3GHZ and four A53 small cores with a dominant frequency of 1.8GHZ. The large core is responsible for large computation tasks such as games and video decoding, and the small core is responsible for daily standby and other tasks with lower performance requirements. This architecture design can improve product performance while reducing power consumption and increasing mobile phone standby time. The coprocessor is also upgraded from I3 to I5.

In terms of memory, this time I got the top configuration. 4G running memory plus 64G super large body storage. The actual memory is about 50g, and the maximum storage expansion capacity is 128G. My mother no longer needs to worry about my memory shortage.

Master Lu's run is about 54000 points. The CPU is powerful, the program runs vigorously, and the multi-core performance is excellent. It is also easy to open 20 apps at the same time. The single core running ability is extremely powerful, power saving and easy to use. The single core floating point computing ability is good, and the single threaded task runs easily; In terms of GPU, Kirin 950 is ARM Mali-T880 MP4, which is still a bit different from Snapdragon 820. However, there is no pressure to run most mainstream 3D games, and it will be difficult to run super large games. In terms of operating memory, Glory 8 is equipped with 4GB dual channel memory LPDDR4, which runs at an extremely fast speed and can perfectly match 64 bit CPUs and 64 bit systems to maximize the performance of software and hardware. The storage performance of the fuselage is excellent, the call ability is super strong, and the transmission speed is fast, which can bring a very good use experience.

In terms of ranking, the 7th place in the performance ranking of Glory 8 is similar to the configuration of the Glory V8 with Kirin 950 (955) CPU, and the performance of the Huawei P9PLUS is similar to that of the flagship machine. There is no oil in the same model that has reached 68000 points; In terms of experience evaluation, Glory 8 scored 105, ranking 9th in all models, surpassing 92% of mobile phones.

In terms of games, the small editor tested his favorite small games such as tribal conflict and large single player games such as Real Racing 3, which ran very smoothly. Small and medium-sized games ran at full frames without stuttering. Large games also ran smoothly, and playing games for a long time did not get very hot, After several years of hard work, the Kirin chip has completely eliminated the serious problems of compatibility and heating at the beginning. At the same time, the power consumption control is also very excellent. If you can further improve the performance of the GPU, I believe it will win more and more applause and applause!

Glory 8 4K video playback

In terms of video playback, the author tested several 4K videos and several 1080p full HD movies. Except for a 4K video in ts format that cannot be played, the rest are very smooth, and fast forward and fast backward are also free of any jam.

system

The system is the same as many previous models. It is equipped with the in-depth customization of EMUI4.1 based on Android 6.0. Users who have used Huawei's recent models should be very familiar with it. The actual change is not significant. After years of evolution, EMUI has made great progress from the 1.5 version of Glory 2 used by the author to 2.3, 3.0, and now 4.1. It can be regarded as one of the best Android customization systems in China. By the way, look forward to the upcoming EMUI5.0 of Mate9. With the support of the powerful hardware of Glory 8, the system runs smoothly without getting stuck. The magazine lock screen, sports health, intelligent remote control, intelligent function and many other intimate practical functions make most users like this system. The disadvantage is that the playability is low, and there are no popular functions such as dual application and mobile phone separation.

Glory 8 first boot video

The system interface is relatively fresh and elegant, with four theme icons in bright colors, simple and atmospheric, continuing the past rounded rectangle, which is very delicate and close to the style of young people. In addition, the desktop style is divided into standard style and simple style. The simple style is more suitable for low battery standby and elderly people.

The pull-down notice bar is divided into the effect of ground glass. The notice and switch are divided into two pages. The pull-down rules can be customized, including intelligent judgment and judgment according to the pull-down position. The author suggests that the pull-down position judgment is more accurate, and the intelligent judgment has a higher failure rate. In addition, there is another disadvantage. There are only 9 options on the switch interface. If you want to add another option, you can only replace it. It is a very unreasonable design. How good it is to put more options into the sliding mode! In addition, the factory version has canceled the one button lock screen. I don't know why, but it is estimated that the next development version will add~

Dial up, contact and yellow page interface, the yellow page interface will KTV、 The hotel, bank, express delivery, ticket booking and other practical life services are integrated together. The information is complete and will be updated regularly, which is very convenient.

The glorious software store is also very powerful. All kinds of applications are available, and the classification management is clear. Users can download the applications with confidence after they have been reviewed. There are also a lot of lottery activities, and they can also get petals when downloading the APP; In addition, there is a separate game center, but there are still not enough types of games. Some of my favorite games cannot be downloaded~

The system integrates sports health, and the lock screen interface will display the daily amount of exercise. Now, if you walk 8000 steps a day for five consecutive days, you are eligible to draw 5 Maimang, reminding everyone to pay more attention to exercise and health.

Finally, let's talk about the account. The Glory account is very convenient to use. It can log on to the mall, cloud service, community, games, and VIP services. When you start up, you can log on to activate gold members. You can enjoy free maintenance and film pasting twice a year and other humanistic services. However, it is very inconvenient to switch accounts after logging in. I hope it can be improved.

fingerprint

The rear fingerprint identification of Glory 8 is different this time. It cancels the smart key that was used on Glory 7 and Glory V8. It is deeply integrated with the fingerprint identification key. Touch can unlock the fingerprint, and press can call out the custom function of Glory Smart. It is the first time to see the fingerprint identification that can be pressed. This design is excellent.

When it is used for the first time, the default is long press to start fingerprint recognition, double click to open situational intelligence, and you can also change the settings in intelligent assistance, and the operation options are very rich.

Glory 8 has rich fingerprint identification functions, including shooting, answering calls, stopping the alarm clock, displaying notification panels, pull-down menus, browsing pictures, accessing application locks, verifying Huawei accounts, Alipay payments, etc., which greatly enrich the experience of fingerprint unlocking, greatly simplify the interaction logic of mobile phones, and make it easy to use.

Endurance

Glory 8 is equipped with a 3000 mA battery, along with the Kirin processor with excellent power consumption control and Huawei's unique intelligent power saving technology, which can be used by ordinary users for 1.5 days and heavy users for one day without problems. It supports fast charging. The type-c interface can be inserted in a blind way in both directions. In the actual test, the author started charging from 20%. From 40 minutes to 80%, the average charging speed is 30% fast every 20 minutes, but it took another half an hour for the 80% to 100% charging period.

advantage

1. Double 2.5D glass, 15 layer coating technology, amazing appearance and good feel.

2. Kirin 950 chip, 4+64G large memory, strong performance.

3. EMUI4.1 runs smoothly, has practical functions and is easy to operate.

4. The 12 million dual camera has fast focusing, excellent imaging, powerful operation interface and high playability.

5. Dual function fingerprint unlocking is super fast, with rich functions and perfect experience.

Insufficient

1. The double-sided glass has poor fall resistance, and it is easy to slip off on the same smooth desktop. In addition, the scratch resistance is insufficient, so it needs to be carefully protected.

2. The humanization and aesthetics of the EMUI4.1 system are still not enough, the theme quality needs to be further improved, and the interactive experience such as the drop-down notice bar is not ideal.

summary

Glory 8, as the brand new flagship of Glory series mobile phones, has achieved new breakthroughs in appearance and workmanship. The beauty is amazing! In terms of hardware, it also maintains a very high standard, and has unique innovative functions such as 3D raster texturing body, dual function fingerprint, dual camera, etc., which truly achieves the unity of beauty and talent, stands out among a number of flagship models of domestic brands, and becomes the most popular model in the market at present, which can be called a milestone product connecting the past and the future, I hope Huawei and Glory will launch more and better products in the future!