Huawei P9 Review – Redefining Smartphone Photography

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Huawei is one of the most trusted brands on global turf, when it comes to smartphones and packed with its powerful camera performance, Huawei P9 is taking the company’s legacy of innovation for consumer another notch up towards perfection.

Priced at INR 39,999, the Huawei P9 is a flagship phone that has got all what you need in terms of camera performance. It features dual 12-megapixel primary cameras co-engineered with critically acclaimed German optics maker Leica.

Power by Leica - Huawei P9 lens can surely deliver a great photography experience that stands out, beyond offering everything you'd expect from a flagship device.

Look and feel

The Huawei P9 comes with the much in fashion - all-metal unibody. This smartphone is quite light on weight and comes with chamfered edges.

Even though this is a flagship phone, Huawei P9 is extremely light and is more than easy to hold. On the whole, the P9 is a very good looking smartphone.

Interestingly this smartphone comes with a fingerprint sensor that can be unlocked by touching the sensor even when it's in standby, which is quite useful. While reviewing the phone, we were quick to notice that it has one of the fastest sensors available in the market today.

This smartphone is quite unique in terms of the way it features two lenses. It has twin camera lenses, as well as the dual-tone LED flash and laser autofocus window – every bit of this perfected in order to reinvent smartphone photography for end customers.

The Huawei P9 comes with full-HD IPS LCD screen with Corning Gorilla Glass protection. The screen delivers sharp perfection in detail and quality.

Software and Specifications

Huawei P9 is powered by the top-end octa-core Kirin 955 SoC clocked at 2.5GHz for four cores and 1.8GHz for the other four. The smartphone comes with 3000mAh battery, 3GB of RAM, and 32GB of internal storage, which is expandable by up to 256GB using a microSD card. It runs on Android 6.0, with Huawei's Emotion UI 4.1 on top.

The super efficient phone manager app in this smartphone is ideally designed to deliver better control over system optimisation, battery consumption, data usage, and even securing apps with the fingerprint sensor usage.

Super Camera Features

Huawei P9 carries a signature camera performance and capabilities that is very difficult for competition to match. The camera delivers extreme flexibility in creating wonderful results, primarily because of its dual cameras and engineering partnership with Leica.

Huawei P9 uses two 12-megapixel camera sensors sitting side-by-side, one of them is a normal RGB sensor and the other is a monochrome one. And hence, with this smartphone one can be sure of getting perfect results even in black and white combination.

The Khirki Mosque - shot in Monochrome with P9

Huawei P9 camera supports hybrid autofocus system that uses the laser and phase-detection autofocus methods together to deliver best in class color accuracy and sharpness. This kind of unique use of two sensors also allows for better depth-of-field perception so that users can refocus on different parts of the picture even after the shot is taken.

The Magnificent Roomi Gate in Lucknow, shot in low light situation with P9

With this smartphone, users also get support for RAW format pictures, long-exposure night shots, and a detailed pro-shooting mode – all this makes this smartphone – a perfect companion for professional photography as well.

The camera app and software is quite responsive and comes filled with features and settings that are ideal for users to enhance their control over the camera.

Light Rails shot with P9

With this smartphone, one can be sure of getting great results, even in low light conditions, thanks to the camera's ability to capture detail no matter what the lighting conditions. While reviewing it became clear to us that Huawei P9 can capture pictures in quite hard pressed lighting situations and this is quite unique for this phone.

Final Verdict

The Huawei P9 is a great smartphone and comes with wonderful looks and delivers an excellent camera. Interesting combination of two sensors and the Leica capabilities make this smartphone a very special proposition for photography enthusiasts who like taking quick photos on the move. All in all, this is an all round performer and does well in all departments of customer usage.