Rating 4.1 60 reviews
Huawei P9 is a 5.2-inch smartphone that was unveiled in April 2016 together with the larger P9 Plus model.


What are the differences compared to its predecessor P8? One of the main differences is the camera optics. Huawei has partnered with the well-renowned camera manufacturer Leica to improve the camera performance based on Leica's Summarit lens design. P9 sports two dual rear cameras that increase light sensitivity and improves contrast by up til 50% by employing a monochrome camera sensor that lacks RGB filter. The front camera has a resolution of 8 MP, which means that your selfies will look bright and crisp under a wide range of light conditions.


The Kirin 955 processor with 8 cores and 3 GB RAM memory ensures that the phone handles a great variety of processing tasks with impressive speeds. The phone has 32 GB storage.


Huawei P9 is one of the first phones to run Android 6.0 Marshmallows. The UI is customised by Huawei and is called EMUI. The phone is available in six different colours: haze gold, mystic silver, titanium grey, prestige gold, rose gold and ceramic white.


The battery can be recharged quickly and has a capacity of 3,000 mAh.


What about the weight with such sophisticated camera optics, fast processor and high battery capacity? This phone is remarkably light given its advanced specs and weighs only 144 gram.


Do you like the P9, but don't want to spend $700 on a phone? Then the budget version Huawei P9 Lite might be worth having a look at. It retails for less than half the price of P9.

Manufacturer: Huawei
Stuff.tv
10 years ago

Huawei P9 review review

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Android Headlines
10 years ago

Featured Review: Huawei P9

Huawei is not a name that naturally rolls off the tongue when talking about smartphones. Names that do often end up being "Apple", "Samsung", "HTC", "LG" or even "Sony". This is probably because Huawei does a lot of their business in their home of China, but they've been moving into Europe and want...
Pros:
  • Excellent build quality throughout
  • with a decent enough design for the average user
  • One of the best fingerprint scanners on the market
  • Excellent camera that offers a little prestige through the Leica name
  • Flush camera module!!!!!
Cons:
  • Will remind some of a certain iDevice on shelves
  • Why do Huawei keep shipping Emotion UI on their devices
  • Software lets the overall experience down massively
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ausdroid.net
10 years ago

Though we've not had as much time as we'd like with the phone to really get to know it, an afternoon with the P9 allowed us to explore some of our local surrounds and see how the much talked about camera stacked up next to one of the higher rated Android cameras already on the market, in the form of...
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Brighthand
10 years ago

Huawei P9 Smartphone Review: A Step In The Right Direction

With the P9, Huawei has a flagship that matches the most powerful devices on the market that is an evident improvement compared to its predecessors, especially with its rear-facing camera.
Pros:
  • Dual rear camera is very creative
  • Credible build
  • Solid battery
  • Intuitive Emotion UI
Cons:
  • Poor GPU performance
  • Display lacks contrast
  • Confusing camera software
  • No 4K video recording
  • while Full HD video lacks quality
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Chip Chick
10 years ago

Huawei P9 Review

The song remains the same for Huawei with the P9. This is a really great phone, and for the everyday user, it's also one of the speediest and most powerful. But, this is priced like something more than an everyday phone, and for that reason, the GPU and display really need to be better.
Pros:
  • Excellent CPU performance
  • great at multitasking
  • all-day battery life
  • very fun dual-camera system
  • clear calls
  • lots of color options
  • swiping down on the fingerprint sensor pulls down the notification center
  • runs cool and rarely overheats
Cons:
  • GPU performance lags behind competition
  • display isn't great for use with VR headsets
  • can get scratched and dented easily
  • not water-resistant
  • no wireless charging
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Geekzone
10 years ago

Huawei P9 review

Huawei is quickly becoming one of the largest smartphone presences in the markets and this year's blitz marketing campaign focusing on the new Huawei P9 is just evidence of how much the company is investing on this.
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techguide.com.au
10 years ago

The Chinese company has cleverly partnered with Leica – a company with more than 100 years of experience in photography – to create the impressive dual lens camera on the P9. It is fair to say that smartphones are judged by customers more on the merits of the camera than on their ability to make...
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gadgets.ndtv.com
9 years ago

Huawei has kept a low profile in the Indian market this past year, deciding not to launch its previous flagship phone, the Huawei P8 . Although sister brand Honor has been active in the market all this while, the only significant Huawei-branded device to launch in India recently was the Google Nexus...
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gadgetdiary.com
9 years ago

Do you know about the Nexus 6P? The 5.7 inch Nexus phone that was released last year by Google. The phone was manufactured by Huawei and it is one of the best Nexus phones we have even seen. Not only is the design beautiful, but the whole body and other features of the phone are great.
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fonearena.com
9 years ago

The Huawei P8 was a bold move from the company to follow up the Ascend P7 smartphone. There isn't much to talk about the Ascend P7 but the P8 was an entirely different story. It offered one of the most fluid performances of any Android smartphone at the time and the features too were flagship...
Pros:
  • Great Camera (Low Light Performance
  • Dynamic Range and Monochrome
  • Beautiful and Elegant Design
  • Fast and Accurate Fingerprint Sesnor (Always Active
  • Good Audio Quality
  • Good Build Quality
Cons:
  • No 4K Video Recording
  • Only Single SIM model Available (Not a con for everyone
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