Unlocked smartphones are attractive to customers who are looking for ways to avoid a long-term contract with a carrier, replace a broken phone, or travel overseas. If you've shopped for an unlocked phone, you'll likely have come across a company called Huawei .

The market for affordable Android phones continues to grow at a rapid pace, with many of the Chinese phones continuing to flood the market. Huawei is one such brand; after launching its much vaunted Huawei P8 smartphone, it's little brother, the Huawei P8 Lite makes its way here to the Malaysian...

Price; Camera

Heat; Occasionally lags

Huawei isn't a well-known name in the US market so they're trying to grab attention with decent budget friendly phones like the new Huawei P8 Lite. It costs jus

While the P8 Lite has a lot of things going for it – namely, its attractive build and beautiful edge-to-edge display – it's somewhat difficult to recommend it due to its very poorly-implemented Emotion UI.

Priced at just $250, the Huawei P8 Lite is a good entrant in the budget-friendly smartphone space, but it does fall short in some key areas when compared to its competition.

Reliable and long lasting battery life Expandable storage Limited yet fluid user experience

Poorly lit display Uninspired build Ships with old software

It or really easy to operate love the design and weight of the Huawei.would definitely recommend to all my family a.d friends.

Very good for basic usage, taking pictures or even as a starter phone, the P8 Lite will do well until you need sheer grunt power or better battery life. But for the price it is a solid handset and quite popular with the paying population according to my discreet enquiries with retailers.

Value handset; slim design

Underpowered processor; low internal memory; Underwhelming battery life

Here at Ausdroid we get to review a lot of high end phones and it's what we all love to do. The problem is that the high end phone is not for everyone. Some people just need a phone that does the basics and manages to do that with relative ease.

Small form factor; Solid build; Minimal software additions

Small form factor; EMUI is average at best; Android 5.0

Huawei isn't necessarily a household name in the US smartphone environment quite yet. They've been making a stronger push to get into the US market recently, but they've been a leader in the Global market for some time, as their #3 global ranking in smartphone shipments can attest.

Huawei's Emotion UI isn't obtrusive, provides some nice customization options for an older version of Android; Good price; Nice camera options

I had some issues with reception; and a bump up in display on this phone would be great

The Huawei P8 Lite was designed to a budget, for users who don't want to splash out a fortune on a new smartphone, yet want to enjoy the P8 aesthetics. However, somewhere along the way, Huawei overdid it on a couple of fronts.