Huawei P9 The price of the smartphone is Rs 39,999. This phone is designed keeping in mind the camera performance. It has two 12 megapixel rear cameras. They have been created in collaboration with the Optics company Laika of Germany. This camera setup claims excellent performance in the P9 photography department. Apart from this, all the other specifications of the handset are with flagship devices. Let us try to know whether the Huawei P9 will be able to challenge other popular flagship phones.
Look and design
Like other top and smartphone, Huawei P9 comes with full metal body. It is thin and lighter than other flagship handsets. It is very easy to hold it in hands due to compact texture. The front panel has a 5.2 -inch display and its edges give a feeling of slightly curved.
Power and volume buttons are on the right side. SIM and MicroSD card tray right side. The 3.5mm socket, speaker grille and USB Type-C port are at the bottom. The rear of the phone has a fingerprint sensor and camera on strip top. It is like the Nexus 6S made by Huawei in appearance. Overall P9 is a great smartphone in appearance. It feels a flagship in every way. The fingerprint sensor is present in the back of the phone. Staying in its rear part means that you have to use the index finger for this. You will be able to use it to unlock the handset. If the phone is also in standby mode, it will work. It is accurate in identifying the fingers and works rapidly. However, it is so good for the sensor of OnePlus 3.
There are two camera lenses on the rear part. It also has dual-tone LED flash and laser autofocus window. On the right side of the strip is the branding of Laika.
The Huawei P9 has full-HD IPS LCD screen. There is a protection of gorilla glass on top of this. The pixel density of the screen is 423 PPI. The company has not used quad-HD resolution in the handset, but it is very sharp. You will not realize things like details or lack of quality. The screen is quite bright and its black level is also fine according to the IPS panel.
Color reproduction is also good, but it is not excellent. You can change color temperature through settings. This is a fine screen. If the display quality is very important for you, then you can get more good options.
Specification and software
Like Samsung, Huawei makes its chipset. It is responsible for Huawei’s subsidiary, Hyssilicon. Most of Huawei and Honor’s phones are used only to do high -suilicon Kirin chipsets and Huawei P9 has not tried to do anything different. It uses an octa-core Kirin 955 chipset with 2.5 GHz clock speed. It has 3000 mAh battery, 3 GB RAM and 32 GB inbuilt storage. You will be able to use microSD cards up to 256 GB.
Its single SIM variants have been made available in India, it is also equipped with NFC chip. There is also support for Wi-Fi 802.11 A/B/G/N/AC. You will get basic in-ear headsets, power adapters, USB-S with the handset with the handset.
The Huawei P9 smartphone will run on Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Huawei’s Emotion UI 4.1 has been used in this. It is a layer user interface. There is support for Android Marshmallow’s important feature Now on tap, dose mode and app permission system. Magazine lock screen is as interesting as usual.
The best phone manager app has returned. You will be allowed to secure apps through system optimization, data use, battery conference and fingerprint sensor. Sometimes the Emotion UI of Huawei looks slightly slow and simple.
Camera
The camera is the most important feature of Huawei P9. After the branding of dual rear cameras and Laika, it further increases expectations. Even though the company has done tremendous marketing of branding of Laika, let us tell you that the sensors and lens are not made by Laika. The German company has given inputs in the development of camera systems, hence ‘Co-Engineer with Laika’ has been used.
The P9 has two 12 megapixel sensors which are in front of each other. One of these is RGB sensor and the other is monochrome. The color sensor collects color information in any scene.
The monochrome sensor is capable of highlighting more lights and details. Its task is just to meditate on the light and it has nothing to do with the color. The software takes the information collected by both these sensors and creates a single color image for you. Sadly, none of these lenses have optical image stabilization.
The camera has a hybrid autofocus system that uses laser and phase detection autofocus features together. The use of both these sensors will give you a chance to choose a better depth of field. You will be able to focus on different parts of it even after taking pictures. Apart from this, the sensor has support for raw format photos, high exposure night shots and pro shooting mode.
The camera app and software at first glance gives a feeling of being extremely complicated. But it is very easy to use it once. It is equipped with a response, well-out and a lot of features and settings. With the help of its settings, you get an innounced control on cameras and photos. There is an easy accessible and a variety of control pro-mode.
Many modes are revealed when swipe from the left to the right, including monochrome, HDR, high exposure night shots, time laps, slow motion, and many more modes. Settings are revealed when swipe from the right to the left. GPS tagging, resolution, timer, and many other features will be found here. The interesting thing is that the user has been given a toge to add Laika Watermark to the photos taken from the rear camera, but we decided to keep it closed.
We found that there was no shortage of details in the photographs taken from the camera. The camera takes the best pictures and looks better in monochrome mode. However, when you zoom in, the pixels start to disintegrate. However, in the normal scale, photos are seen clean and sharp which has no lack of details.
It is also certain that you will not use monochrome mode all the time. In such a situation, it is also important to know how the camera gives performance in common color shots. The P9 camera introduces a picture to the user using the information given by both the sensors, which confirms the presence of details. However, it is not as good as monochrome photos, but it is commendable. These photos are also pixels on zoom in.
You will get three different color modes- Standard, Vivid and Smuth. In the first mode, you will find the most natural pictures, in the remaining two mode, they are slightly more saturated in the process of showing the pictures more vibrant.
Photography with this camera in low light is even more fun. The credit goes to the ability to capture details in any light. If you take pictures by composing and focusing, P9 has the ability to beat any phone camera. It is not that there is no grain in the photos, but it takes more details and photos in compared to other smartphone cameras.
The use of two cameras gives a great depth of field perception. By keeping this mode on switch on, you will be able to take great shallow photos. Refocined photos also look good. It is necessary to mention night shot mode. In this, you will be able to modify ISO and to capture more lights, exposure time can be done for 32 seconds. It would not be wrong to say that all these modes do good work and you get excellent output. But a lot of grains show that the Huawei P9 smartphone is not the best camera phone ever.
The video quality is good, but the 4 of the 4 of the Quality is not able to shoot. Overall, we can convince and say that Huawei P9 is one of the best camera phones used by us.
Performance
Huawei’s Kirin Range’s chipset is not popular like Qualcomm and MediaTek processor. Kirin 900 Series has been a flagship line. This year Kirin 955 has been made part of Huawei P9. With the help of 3 GB RAM, the phone runs very smooth. But in this year, we have met many such flagship devices which run faster than this handset.
By the way, its effect will never be seen in common performance. We had no complaints while using the phone. Heavy graphics games went well, most apps loaded rapidly. We never realized it slow while using the phone. Especially the camera performance is faster and snapy. With its help, you are able to take photos fast and not much of your time is wasted. The benchmark scores were good.
The single speaker of the phone received a satisfactory voice. The audio performance of the headphones was good. There is also no complaint with 4G and Wi-Fi connectivity. We do not have any complaints with call quality. The phone battery lasted 10 hours 24 minutes in the video loop test. It will be called satisfactory, not excellent at all. The phone’s battery will last for the whole day in common use, not more than this.
Our decision
Huawei P9 is a good phone that is best in appearance and the performance of the camera is fantastic. But this is not all rounded like other flagship phones present in the market. Displays and software cannot be praised too much, according to us the price of Rs 39,999 is higher. The cameras are fantastic, but do not exist important features like optical image stabilization and 4K videos.
If you are looking for the best camera, it would not be wrong to consider Huawei P9. This proves to be a great option for photography enthusiasts due to the fun application of two sensors and the branding of Laika. If you want a phone that is all -round and its price is also low, then we would suggest to think about buying OnePlus 3.