How to challenge Apple? Huawei Honor 6 Plus first experience

Apple released the iPhone 6 Plus, and Honor brought out the Honor 6 Plus. Although the names are a bit "unique", at the most attractive price point of 2,000 yuan for domestic mobile phones, with excellent hardware configuration and an extremely rare bionic dual rear lens design, Huawei has added an absolutely heavyweight flagship product to the market this time.

What we are most concerned about is whether the Honor 6 Plus is "Plus" enough?

The front of the white version of the Honor 6 Plus is simple in design. Like the Apple iPhone, it does not have any logo or other elements. The narrow bezel design and the tightened "forehead" and "chin" highlight the high screen-to-body ratio of the phone.

In direct comparison with the Apple iPhone 6 Plus which also has a 5.5-inch display, the Honor 6 Plus has a shorter body and has certain advantages in controlling the width of the body. In addition, the protruding camera of the Apple iPhone also forces users to wear a "condom", further increasing the size of the device. Overall, the Honor 6 Plus is more suitable for palm-held operation than the iPhone 6 Plus.

The Honor 6 Plus has an earpiece with a metal dust cover, a light sensor and an 8-megapixel front-facing camera on the top of the front. A noise-cancelling microphone, an infrared sensor and a 3.5mm headphone jack are arranged on the top of the machine. However, the layout of the various "holes" on the surface of the machine is a bit random and lacks "sentiment". In addition, due to the metal frame of the Honor 6 Plus, there are plastic antenna openings on both sides.

The treatment on the bottom of the machine does seem to be a bit of a "tribute" to Sony, but the metal frame of the Honor 6 Plus does not extend to the bottom of the machine. One of the card slots on the right side of the machine supports the alternating use of nanoSIM cards and TF expansion cards to achieve dual-SIM dual standby or storage capacity expansion.

The back of the Honor 6 Plus is said to have undergone 6 processing techniques. Visually, its smoothness is close to that of a glass back cover. Huawei even provides a protective film for the back cover in the product packaging. However, the back cover of the Honor 6 Plus is obviously much more durable than the pure glass back cover of the Hammer T1.

Although the white version is not very obvious, the back of the Honor 6 Plus can show a hidden grid texture at different angles and light, and the details are carefully crafted. This approach is a bit like the Nexus 4, the "fourth son" manufactured by LG for Google, which looks simple and meaningful.

It is a pity that there is nothing more designed on the bottom of the Honor 6 Plus except the MicroUSB port and the sound pickup hole. The external speaker is placed in the hole on the back of the machine. When the phone is placed flat on the table, the sound effect will definitely be affected.

Finally, we come to the "high-end" rear dual camera. Both lenses have 8 million pixels and can take photos with a maximum of 13 million pixels. In addition, the Honor 6 Plus is also equipped with a dual flash. The materials are of high quality, and most importantly, there are no protrusions in the 7.5mm body thickness.

The biggest advantage of dual cameras is that they can truly achieve "shoot first, focus later", and the Honor 6 Plus can also readjust the aperture size after taking a photo.

Take the iPhone 6 Plus on the table as an example. After taking a normal photo, you can focus on the raised camera of the iPhone 6 Plus in post-production...

Or the reflective Apple logo...

Or the iPhone logo...

Even a pencil on the side of iPhone 6 Plus is powerful and versatile.

In terms of screen display, Honor 6 Plus has chosen a 5.5-inch fully laminated 1080P full HD display produced by JDI. The overall performance is excellent, and there is no "death diagonal" phenomenon common in other JDI screen phones in terms of viewing angle. Compared with Apple iPhone 6 Plus, the maximum brightness is slightly lower and the color tone is slightly colder.

The performance parameters of Honor 6 Plus are much better than those of Apple iPhone 6 Plus, but it is undoubtedly unwise to compete with the iPhone with the "magic oil" iOS system. It can only be said that both phones run very smoothly, but with a large 3GB running memory (RAM), the multitasking performance of Honor 6 Plus is much better than that of iPhone with 1GB RAM.

The performance of Honor 6 Plus was tested with two large games, NBA 2K14 and GTA VC. After several generations of development, the overall strength of the eight-core HiSilicon Kirin 925 processor in Honor 6 Plus has been quite stable and outstanding.

With a built-in 3600mAH large battery, of course we have to talk about the battery life performance of Honor 6 Plus. After about 8 hours of normal use a day, the Honor 6 Plus, which was initially fully charged, still had 67% of its remaining power, while the iPhone 6 Plus on hand had less than 50% remaining. In short, if you want to charge your phone once every two days, Honor 6 Plus will be more comfortable to use.

Although both are called "6 Plus", there are still too many things involved if we insist on making an in-depth and comprehensive comparison between the iPhone 6 Plus and Honor 6 Plus on iOS.

The naming method is only a very superficial aspect of the product. From the Honor 6 Plus, we can see that Huawei and the Honor brand are working hard to create a more comprehensive and balanced product that takes into account multiple dimensions such as design, performance, and battery life. The efforts in the imaging part of the mobile phone also prove that Huawei is making up for the shortcomings in its products. Perhaps the Honor 6 Plus should be another milestone for domestically produced smartphones. In the future, domestically produced high-quality mobile phones will surely be more user-friendly, more fun, and more innovative.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.