The new Honor 5X

[Golfdriver97]

Announced at CES, this looks like it's going to be a pretty good phone given the price point.

Honor 5X specs | Android Central

What do you all think of it?

 

[SharkyNY]

Looks really nice. Iffy on the use of the 615, but it is what it is. And for $200 there isn't much to complain about.

 

[LeoRex]

I wouldn't be too worried about the SoC... a lot of the thermal issues that plagued the new 64bit chips from early 2015 are pretty much all taken care of. And from my experience, they know what they are doing as far as putting phones together.

 

[belodion]

Nice bit of metalwork.
UK equivalent price would be about £135.

 

[Ry]

Moto X Play/DROID MAXX 2 competitor, without the big battery.

 

[Javier P]

Moto X Play/DROID MAXX 2 competitor, without the big battery.

Exactly. And maybe the camera. Good specs for an excellent price. I would like to know how the EMUI works in general.

 

[Ry]

Nice bit of metalwork.
UK equivalent price would be about £135.

+ £40 for random fees/taxes though.

 

[belodion]

+ £40 for random fees/taxes though.

Doh!

 

[Golfdriver97]

Phil wrote up a review: Hands-on with the Honor 5X | Android Central

 

[LeoRex]

Nice....

I'd have two questions for Honor though... Are they considering making some stylistic adjustments to the EMUI to make it a bit more familiar to North American audiences? And with the extremely positive reception of the Nexus 6P might trickle down to the rest of Huawei and lead to a more scaled back UI, more closely aligned with 'stock' Android?

 

[Golfdriver97]

more closely aligned with 'stock' Android?

Or, better yet, have a theme than resembles Vanilla, that is easily applied and overwrites even the stock app icons.

 

[wimbet]

Huawei recently established a global design center in San Francisco. They will continue to improve the user experience.

 

[paging dr b]

I would love to see how a solid mid-range device like this performs as a daily driver

 

[Laura Knotek]

The hardware looks nice for the price, but EMUI looks terrible. Why would anyone want an Android device without an app drawer?

 

[Greg Wenzler]

I use a P8 Lite. Hard to describe just how bad the EMUI experience is. Google Now Launcher doesn't really take care of it, as the atrocious icons are still there. Nova alleviates a lot of it, but not all. Whatever the "global design center in San Francisco" is doing, it would be hard to purposely screw up the "Android experience" more than they are.

 

[Ry]

The hardware looks nice for the price, but EMUI looks terrible. Why would anyone want an Android device without an app drawer?

Definitely not for everyone but I can see it being an easy transition from an iPhone.

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[LeoRex]

I can only assume that a US presence, and the market feedback that comes as a result, will lead to improvements. I mean, this is their first real foray into the 'home' market for Android... and iOS. Making the former more like the latter isn't going to lead to a lot of success.