- Pros
- wonderful show
- Best Huawei package up to now
- wonderful cameras
- Cons
- perhaps has too several options
- Pricy, and not on the market globally
- computer program remains a trifle awkward
Ask any people who've used the P9 what we expect, and we'll quickly tell you that it is the least broken of Huawei's phones that we've used. And whereas that is correct, it is not extremely truthful. Huawei has created some particular (if not essentially inspiring) hardware for a few time currently. It helped unfold sensible fingerprint sensors to the full of humanoid. It's had above-average cameras for a minute currently. The anchor dragging it down has continually been its EMUI package — its iOS-inspired computer program.
That had the maximum amount to to with however EMUI was enforced because it did the actual fact that it's merely completely different than what most people ar accustomed. No app drawer. a special form of notification drawer and quick-settings theme. And within the method of adjusting all that, things were broken — notably once Huawei's phones were sold outside China and Google's services were more back in. however once we say "least broken," that is specifically what we tend to mean. Nearly all of the showstopping bugs we'd old before are fastened. Even the still-niche humanoid motorcar works out of the box — one thing we will not say for a few of the key phones being sold within the U.S.
So with the P9 you get powerful five.2-inch phone (with a 1080p show, that we're simply fine with) that is stuffed with a ridiculous variety of options. you may pay weeks finding new issues to try and do with this thing. (That's each dangerous and sensible.) and also the new Leica-powered cameras ar wonderful, if a trifle slow to launch.
The biggest downside for US at now is handiness, and price. you continue to cannot get phones running Huawei's own Kirin processor within the u. s.. et al, the P9 isn't low cost — beginning at €599 (about $680 USD) for the 32GB storage (and 3GB RAM) choice, and ramping up to €649 ($737 USD) for the 64GB/4GB choice.