Huaway y6 review. Huawei Y6ii smartphone review: I will hit the old filling on new competitors! Information about the brand, model and alternative names of a particular device, if any

Huawei Y6 2018 At first glance it seems a slightly enlarged copy of the model. But in fact, the differences are quite a lot, ranging from other SOC and ending more high quality cameras. However, not only is distinguished by a test smartphone from the younger relative. For example, at a primary inspection, it can be noted that the experimental has a second microphone, as well as a highlighted system speaker that is not more affordable. But, as our testing has shown, there are no differences on this.

Specifications

Size and display type	5.7 inches, 720 * 1440 Points, LCD (IPS)
CPU	Qualcomm Snapdragon 425, 4 kernels (4 * 1.4 GHz)
Graphic accelerator	Qualcomm Adreno 308.
Built-in memory, GB	2
RAM, GB	16 (10.36 GB available)
Memory expansion	microSD (up to 256 GB)
Number of SIM cards	2
Communication standards 2G.	GSM GPRS / EDGE
Communication standards 3G.	UMTS HSPA +.
Communication standards 4G.	LTE CAT4 (150/50 Mbps)
Wi-Fi	Wi-Fi 402.11b / g / n, 2.4 GHz
Bluetooth	4.1
NFC.	There are (not in the test modification)
Irda.	Not
USB connector	microUSB.
Audio	TRRS (MINI-JACK 3.5 mm)
FM radio	there is
The fingerprint scanner	Not
Navigation	A-GPS, GLONASS, GPS, Beidou
Built-in sensors	Gyro, approximation, illumination, accelerometer
Main camera	13 mp, f / 2.2
Front-camera	5 mp, f / 2.2
Operating system	Android 8.0.0
Protection class	Not
Battery	3000 mA * h
Gabarites, mm.	152,4737,8
Weight, gram	150

Appearance

Externally, Huawei Y6 2018 is barely noticeably different from less large. If you do not directly compare, then these two smartphones distinguish quite difficult. However, there are still differences. The test smartphone is significantly thinner, and the surface of the plastic frame is not matte, but glossy. In addition, in the area of \u200b\u200bthe chamber block there is a second microphone, and on the bottom of the dedicated system speaker.

The quality of the assembly is very high, but because of large dimensions and quite a small thickness, the smartphone is good when you try to twist, but, which is noteworthy, does not publish any sounds, and the rainbow divorces on the display do not appear.

The front / illumination sensors, a spoken speaker, front camera and front flash and front flash and led indicator status. From the back, a block consisting of a chamber and flash, as well as a dedicated noise reduction microphone, which is also used during video recording.

On the left side surface is noticeable only the tray of the separate installation of a pair of SIM-cards and nanosim format media. On the right end are the usual blocking keys and adjust the volume level. It is worth noting that in contrast to when tapping on the case, the data of the keys will not rattling.

Only a standard audio sector is installed on top. At the bottom there is a system speaker, microphone and microUSB connector. In 2018, at the price that is asked for a test smartphone, I want to see USB Type-C. Of course, the system used does not allow to implement uSB port 3.0, but even without this, symmetrical USB Type-C is more convenient to use.

Display

The smartphone uses a rather large IPS-matrix with a diagonal of 5.7 inches, a resolution of 720 * 1440 points (HD +) and, accordingly, the aspect ratio of 18: 9. With such a large display and a relatively small resolution of the hotel dots you can see, but for this you have to try. But if you remember that Y6 2018 is still a relatively inexpensive smartphone, then such flaws can be forgiven. The display supports up to 10 simultaneous touches, which is twice as much as in the case. However, it is impossible to say that this significant advantage, Indeed, it is often for the work of more than quite simultaneous recognition of 5 touches.

The maximum brightness of the white field is 391.05 kD / m 2, which is slightly lower than that. At the same time, the brightness of the black field, on the contrary, is slightly higher - 0.397 cd / m 2, which is why the final static contrast is less than 985: 1. However, the indicator of static contrast by the standards of smartphones is still good.

In the display settings, only the color temperature adjustment is provided. With default settings, the color temperature is significantly overestimated, the blue component is significantly dominated in the color balance, and the deviation of the color Delta E on the gray wrench is quite large - up to 18.7, but does not exceed 9.5 on the main colors (RGBCMY), which is a good result For a relatively inexpensive smartphone. The gamma correction curve is far enough from the reference value.

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Sound

Camera

The smartphone is equipped with a front camera with a resolution of 5 megapixel and the lens indicator F / 2.2. It seems that everything is the same as. That's just a matrix, judging by the pictures, completely different, and most importantly, with a large physical size, which allows you to get too noisy pictures even with typical lighting in the residential room. Smartphone with low lighting is able to shoot quite good selfie with good details, which do not expect from the budget solution.

Like the younger model, the experimental smartphone is equipped with a frontal LED flash. And at least an externally outbreak modules and Y6 2018 are extremely similar, but their power is significantly different. The test smartphone at a distance of 1 meter was able to provide illumination of 3.27 LCs, against the pitiful 1.37 LCs from the younger model. But it is not necessary to especially rejoice, because the result shown is actually extremely modest. For example, the front flash was able to issue 24.7 LCs, which is currently a record indicator among all the smartphones tested.

The rear flash is also more powerful than the younger model, and the advantage is not purely formal, but very significant. When measuring 1 meter from the smartphone, a level of 33.7 LCs was recorded. This is not a record, but a very good indicator.

The rear camera is based on the sensor base with a resolution of 13 mp and lens with aperture F / 2.2. Optics are more qualitative than in, so the bumping of the angles is expressed significantly less. The manufacturer declared a 5-point phase autofocus, thanks to which the test smartphone is pretty quickly focused even with weak illumination. The overall quality of the photo is higher than that of the younger model, but there are still enough disadvantages. To begin with, it is worth noting a rather narrow dynamic range. And everything would be nothing, if there is a large amount of brightness in the frame with a large difference, automation is not able to correctly set the exposure - snapshots are either strongly overexposed, or, on the contrary, substantially under-offspace. In principle, the HDR mode could be saved here, but it is not automatically activated, and to call this function you have to enter the mode menu, which is not too convenient. If there are no large brightness drops in the frame, then with good lighting, your smartphone is capable of making frames quite decent quality.

Manual mode in the settings is not provided, the capabilities of selecting the level of sensitivity or the white balance setting is not, although in frankly budget data features are provided. But experimental has a hidden trump card - the ability to transmit camera control using Camera 2 API third-party applicationswhere all the standard settings are available. In addition, in third part, there is a possibility of shooting in RAW, which is extremely rare in budgetary smartphones.

To assess the quality of the image, the test template was captured in adobe program Lightroom with ISO 100-3200 sensitivity in 1 EV step. Below are crop fragments.

Examples of pictures

Macro

Lighting 3 Lux + Flash

Video

Used in the smartphone system-on-chip with video recording is limited to 1080 / 30p mode. The manufacturer of the smartphone did not further limit the already modest video of SOC, implementing the video recording mode in full possible volume. In contrast to the test smartphone, there is no pronounced problem with the maintenance of edges and angles of the image, and in general the video quality is significantly higher.

Autonomous work

Huawei Y6 2018 is equipped with a battery capacity of 3000 ma * h, which for such a large smartphone may seem insufficient. But, as testing has shown, the experimental is able to work quite a long time on one charge. In the reading mode, the smartphone lasted 870 minutes, in FullHD video playback mode - 671 minutes, as well as 278 minutes in game mode.

Complete charger Not particularly powerful - only 5 W (5V / 1A), although the SOC used supports technology fast charging Quickcharge 2.0. From 0 to 85%, the battery is charging about 127 minutes, and completely - 160 minutes.

Conclusion

The test smartphone is extremely very similar to the newly considered, and both outside and inside. But at the same time in small, but important details of the differences are very much. For example, Huawei Y6 2018 has a second microphone, a highlighted system speaker is provided, and a very high class by the standards of budget smartphones. The front camera, judging by the claimed characteristics, it seems to be identical, but noise levels below, and the overall quality of the photo is higher. The main chamber is equipped with a sensor with phase autofocus, and the size of the rear photomatrice is clearly more than that of the younger model. In addition, the experimental is significantly more powerful rear flash. The performance of the system used-on-chip is similar, but its energy efficiency is higher. It is also worth noting that there are modifications of Huawei Y6 2018 with an NFC module.

Minuses:
- low rigidity of the casing case;
- no fingerprint reading sensor;
- MicroUSB connector that in 2018 only frankly cheap models;
- almost useless front flash;
- Low performance at the level of more affordable Huawei Y5 2018.
Pros:
- high contrast of the display;
- Loud system speaker with very worthy sound quality;
- very good front camera;
- relatively powerful rear flash;
- Long offline work.

In the headphones, the sound, however, far from the reference. On the one hand, the sound is very "smooth", that is, the bass enough, and the vocals sounds normal, and "decorations" in the songs do not fall anywhere. The volume of the volume is good, even high-level headphones smartphone can "scold" to a sufficient level.

But the quality of sound, I would say, "folk" - no matter how rich in the details or there was an audioist in your player, in the headphones anyway the sound is as if you listen to mp3 with a bitrate of a 128-160 kbit / s. So it seems due to the fact that percussion sounds "poisonous", and hissing sounds are reproduced with a metal tint and cut the hearing.

Will you say? In comparison with the sound in Snapdragon 410/615, and the truth is nothing good. But smartphones based on MT6735 / 6737/6753 sounds even worse, and about the sound in the processors Spreadtrum without Mata will not be able to tell. Therefore, simple workers of the musical potential Y6ii are badly enough enough, and nobody invited audiophiles to the class of cheap filboxes.

Iron

In the best traditions of the Russian automotive industry, our hero received an old filling with a new appearance. Say, "E, Brother, Na Call a Lada Satellite Machine when it comes to VAZ-2114!". Harasho, Daragoy, I will not argue about marketing positioning, but the processor in Huawei Y6ii will not name even with the stretch, and it is worth talking about it.

Huawei has long seen what to create cheap smartphones It will be possible only if the processors do not have to buy on the side. Therefore, the Chinese have long designed their own Hisilicon Kirin, and then their friends from TSMC stamps chips on an industrial scale. First, Huawei produced extremely slow "freaks" like K3V2 (culprit of the torment of the MEDIAPAD 10 FHD owners) and KIRIN 910 (Loefully basic MediaPad X1 and Mate 2), but later the situation was a little recovered. In 2015, Huawei and Honor smartphones received quite intelligent KIRIN 620 (for state employees) and KIRIN 930-935 (for senior models).

Huawei, as usual, in his repertoire: "reissued" the existing model, calling differently, and introduced the device in the international market. Huawei Enjoy 5, Honor Holly 2 Plus, Honor 5x Play, Honor 4C Pro is the same smartphone. Only now it is called Huawei Y6 Pro. Announced in 2015, but for sale to this day.

Y6 Pro is a budget model, but is interesting due to the solid battery capacity and a decent volume random access memory. The minimum price that managed to find in online stores is $ 135. Famous and propagated shops sell goods just more expensive - for 155 USD. Specified prices are approximate, and valid at the time of writing this review.

The smartphone got a good filling for a budget device.

Design, buttons and connectors

There are no surprises in terms of design: a typical plastic rectangle, with rounded corners. The thickness of 9.7 mm and the weight of 160 g is obliged to be the capacious battery. The height of the product is 143.1 mm, the width is 71.8 mm.

The back panel of the slope is covered with a diagonal pattern that you can feel your fingers.

Not far from the front and grilles of conversational speakers are the event light sensor. Most elements on the housing received a classic one, the usual location.

Power / volume buttons are on the rib on the right, multimedia speaker and microUSB - bottom.

3.5 mm audio part - from above.
But the navigation buttons are programmatically removed on the display. The model is available in three colors: in golden, white and gray.

CPU

Since in this model, the main emphasis is on autonomy, an economical 64-bit MEDIATEK MT6735P processor with the MALI-T720 video chip is installed, so reads information on the official website and most of the visits. But installing the CPU-Z application it became clear that in the smartphone there is another chipset, namelyMT6582 with MALI-400 MP video chip. And this is a weaker chipset. The difference in the Antutu test is 10,000 points: MT6735P dials 35,000; MT6582 - 25,000 points. Why is this happening?

And the thing is that in addition to different names in different regions, the smartphone with the title of Huawei Y6 Pro on the official site is indicated as a smartphone with a more powerful chipset than in fact. There are many assembly numbers, the main:

Huawei Y6 Pro Tit-U02 - MEDIATEK MT6582 + MALI-400MP2
Tit-Al00 (Enjoy 5 and other models) - MT6735P + MALI-T720
Tit-L01 (Honor 4C Pro) - MT6735P + MALI-T720

In Ukraine, the Huawei Y6 Pro Tit-U02 model is sold, it is without LTE and with a weaker chipset.

When buying, go to Settings\u003e About Phone\u003e Assembly Number, And Make sure which device you purchase. Because of the wrong information on the official website, the confusion may occur in Ukraine that the device is sold with the MT6735P + MALI-T720 chipset, and on the fact a weaker chip.

Because of this, many bloggers have written incorrect information about the smartphone, which is sold in Ukraine. Alo, how to hear?)

Someone complain that the resource-intensive games lag and hang. It is simply not always necessary to rely on standard optimization for a specific iron. In modern games, it is possible to independently set the appropriate settings. As a rule, with such glands you need to focus on medium and low parameters.

Memory

The smartphone has 2 GB of RAM. Excellent indicator, as for the budget model. It is enough for an unpretentious user of this "for the eyes" for the simultaneous startup of several applications.

Integrated memory - 16 GB. Take away the fact that the system takes place, and we get 10.55 GB free space. There you can load applications, some games, also the place will remain. And if not - not scary, a removable drive comes to revenue. In the settings it can be selected as the main place to install applications. Maximum size Supported flash drive - 128 GB, for it a separate slot is provided.

Autonomous work

As mentioned earlier, the main pitch of this device can be considered a high capacity of the battery: 4000 mAh. In mixed scenarios of use, an excellent autonomy indicator is demonstrated. If it is thorough to take up the smartphone, turn on wireless transmission Data, and tormented by the Internet, calls, watching video, shooting at the camera - it will uncontrolle the day in the extremal load mode.

With more moderate use, the battery usually grabs two days. If you turn off wireless networks, and run FullHD video on full brightness, it will continuously play up to 10 hours. And for complete recharge, it will take 2 hours.

Like other devices of this manufacturer, there is an advanced power consumption setting mode. It allows you to keep control over charge flow. Up to restriction of functionality for additional hours autonomous work. You can also charge other mobile devicesBy connecting to the MicroUSB connector.

Camera

The main chamber allows you to get pictures with a resolution of 13 megapixel. Value value is F / 2.0. There is autofocus, fast working day, and a LED flash of medium brightness. The camera application is quite functional, while accessible in the development. You can "on the fly" to change the exposure values \u200b\u200band adjust focus. It is possible to customize white balance, contrast, ISO, saturation, sharpness.

In ideal lighting conditions, automation properly selects white balance. The resulting pictures have good contrast and good color reproduction. The overall level of detail is normal, and in the near distances - even good.

If you look at day photos, you can see the graininess and noise. However, we will make a discount on the budget of the apparatus.

When creating panoramas, the frames are well glued together, "seams" are unnoticed. With the subject shot, the smartphone copes best, you can achieve a beautiful bokeh effect (see above the box). In the artificial lighting room, the detail decreases, but the camera is kept by a young man.

In room

Another image in the room:

Even at night, you can get more or less acceptable frame quality.

Suddenly: Stock Make allows you to record videos maximum in HD (1280 x 720) resolution. Even the quality is sad: there is not enough saturation of colors and clarity pictures. The frontal module is 5 meters - wide-angle (84 degrees), so not only the face of the smartphone owner is placed in the frame. The quality of the photos received is quite acceptable.

Snapshot on Selfie Camera

The video is possible in HD resolution.

Display

Diagonal 5 inches, resolution 1280 x 720, IPS matrix. Pixel density 293 dpi. For a state employee - the classic of the genre. The image quality is expected good, both in contrast and color reproduction. Tilting the device in different directions, the user will not notice a strong image fading, or inversion of colors on the screen. The minimum brightness level is quite comfortable to use the device in complete darkness.

If there is direct sunlight, alas, the brightness stock is not enough, and the contents of the screen fad. Who lacks the saturation of the image, or vice versa, prefers more calm colors, it is useful to adjust the color temperature. Touchscreen is able to recognize up to 5 simultaneous presses.

There is an unpleasant moment (not everyone is manifested), sometimes the touchscreen occurs some misunderstandings with sensitivity to clicks. Therefore, you have to either "poke" into it several times, or push the usual one. Usually, to correct the situation, you must find the section " Special abilities" There will be a "sensitive mode" item, and you need to activate. However, our smartphone was noticed for such problems.

Network features

Under the rear, there are slots for 2 micro-SIM cards. Smartphone is designed to work in 2G / 3G networks. WiFi single-band - 2.4 GHz. Bluetooth version - 4.0. All communications work without complaints.

For navigation and geopositioning are responsible: GPS, GLONASS, A-GPS. MediaTek processors have deserved not the best reputation due to well-known navigation problems. Nevertheless, Huawei Y6 Pro surprises excellent gPS work and GLONASS. The satellites "clinging" is very smart, the cold start in just 15 s. With hot start all navigation systems Ready to work less than 10 s.

Sound

The main speaker is medium in volume, the usual sound quality. Compare with many other budget models. The speaker is normal, not "screaming", but also not quiet. Volume margin when listening to music in headphones is not the most impressive. If the environment is noisy, you have to raise the volume level to maximum value. Enthusiasts have found a solution to this problem by making edits to the engineering menu.

Software

As operating system Android 5.1 is used. Shell - EMUI 3.1 Lite, outwardly differs fundamentally from the stock android interface. Lightweight version of the shell is simple without additional chips. Only the most important and useful brand applications remained. Full version EMUI is usually installed on smartphones more expensive, and more powerful.

There is information from the manufacturer's support service that work is underway to update the firmware before Android 6. Specific terms, naturally, no one calls.

Additional features

Smartphone can be turned into Power Bank by selecting the appropriate parameter in the settings section.
In emergency situations, you can imperceptibly activate the video, even if the screen is blocked. To do this, it is enough to produce a pre-known number of clicks on the volume button.

Pros and cons

Pros:

good autonomy;
excellent operation of navigation modules;
good photos;
separate slots for SIM and MicroSD.

Minuses:

low resolution and quality of the recorded video;
problems with sensitivity Tacha;
failure battery in a plastic case.

To whom the smartphone is suitable

Those who are looking for an inexpensive two-minute 3G / 4G apparatus with a decent battery, a normal camera, as well as fast and stable navigation.

Our review about the smartphone Huawei Y6 Pro

On the one hand, in its price category, a smartphone is not bad for most parameters, and has enough weighty pluses. On the other hand, the nuances described in the review with the resolution of video and the buggy sensor is perceived as nonsense. Such ridiculous and obvious errors can not be allowed, despite the fact that this is a budget model. However, there are owners of Huawei Y6 Pro, which does not care about the quality of video filming, and they solved the problem with the help of increasing its sensitivity to touches.

TFT IPS. - High-quality liquid crystal matrix. It has wide viewing angles, one of the best color rendering performance and contrast among all that are used in the manufacture of displays for portable equipment.
Super Amoled. - If several layers are used in the usual AMOLED screen, between which the air layer is located, then in Super AMOLED, such a touch layer is only one without air gaps. This allows you to achieve greater screen brightness with the same power consumption.
Super AMOLED HD. - It differs from Super AMOLED to a large resolution, thanks to which you can achieve a value of 1280x720 pixels on the mobile phone screen.
Super Amoled Plus. - This is a new generation of Super AMOLED displays, differs from the previous use of more subpixels in the usual RGB matrix. New displays are thinner and brighter by 18% than displays made according to old technology using Pentile matrix.
Amoled. - Advanced version of OLED technology. The main advantages of technology are significantly reduced power consumption, the ability to display a large color gamut, a smaller thickness and the ability of the display a little, without risk to break.
Retina. - Dyspals with high pixel density designed specifically for Apple technology. Pixel density on Retina displays is such that individual pixels are indistinguishable for the eye at the usual distance from the screen. It provides the highest image detail and significantly improves the viewing quality as a whole.
Super Retina HD. - The display is performed using OLED technology. Pixel density - 458 PPI, contrast reaches an indicator of 1,000,000: 1. The display has advanced color coverage and unsurpassed color reproduction. The pixels in the display corners are smoothed at the subpixel level, so the boundaries are not distorted and look smooth. The Super Retina HD enhancing layer is 50% thicker. Smash the screen will be harder.
Super LCD. - This is the next generation of LCD technologies, it is characterized by advanced characteristics, compared with earlier LCD displays. Screens have not only wide viewing angles and better color reproduction, but also reduced energy consumption.
TFT.- A common type of liquid crystal displays. Using an active matrix controlled by thin-film transistors, it is possible to significantly increase the speed of the display, as well as the contrast and clarity of the image.
Oled. - Organic electroluminescent display. It consists of a special thin-film polymer that emits light under the action of an electric field. This type of displays has a large brightness stock and consumes very little energy.

Smartphone Huawei Y6 Prime 2018 - a rare example of a budget gadget, which combines premium functions, stylish appearance and affordable price.

Laconic and stylish

Smartphone received a spectacular and practical design. The strict plastic of the housing with a matte coating is supplemented with a chrome-plated frame, which gives the gadget at the same time classic and modern appearance. The screen, as relying in 2018 - FullView with thin frames, with glossy 2,5d-glass. On the front panel - nothing superfluous, as all navigation buttons are on the screen.

High quality The assembly is complemented by comfort when used. The smartphone is an extremely pleasant ergonomics, which is achieved by rounded edges and corners. The dimensions also contribute to the convenient control of one hand: with a height of 152.4 mm, 73 mm width and a thickness of 7.8 mm, the gadget weighs only 150 grams. So the hand does not get tired even with a multi-hour use of the device.

Full palette of colors

Y6 Prime 2018 received a 5.7-inch IPS-screen with a resolution of 1440 to 720points and the aspect ratio of 18: 9. The display is distinguished by high contrast, good detail and natural color reproduction.

Even in sunny weather, all information remains read without loss of color shades, so you can see the smallest details of the screen interfaces. In addition, there is already an already accumulated technology protection technology. You can configure colors and contrast depending on the time of day, adjust the color temperature, as well as change the screen resolution.

Iron tested

Smartphone works on one of the most popular 4-core chipsets Qualcomm Snapdragon. 425 with a clock frequency of 1.4 GHz. This model "Pebble" perfectly showed itself in several generations of budget smartphones, providing high productivity in multitasking mode. Different with this SOC and excellent energy efficiency indicators, due to which a 3000 mAh battery is able to hold out at maximum modes for a whole day.

3D accelerator Adreno 308 steadily pulls games on medium and high settings. And the RAM into 2 GB is more than enough for the execution of everyday tasks and to start heavy applications. If you do not have enough built-in memory in 16 GB, you can additionally buy a 256 GB card, especially since a separate slot is provided here.

Special attention in the smartphone is paid to the quality of the sound. The audio processing system in combination with a powerful speaker provides a clean and loud sound to 88 dB. At the same time, you can synchronize two gadgets via Bluetooth, creating a truly surround sound of a music partner.

Camera that will not miss any detail

The 13-megapixel main smartphone photomodule is characterized by a shower focus and excellent detail with good lighting. And at dusk to help the HDR mode comes.

Special emphasis in the smartphone is made on the quality of selfie. 8 megapixel front chamber with aperture F / 2,0, except standard settings, equipped with the "Perfect Selfie" function. With it, you can finely adjust the contour of the face, the size of the eyes, skin tone and external lighting. Also ready-made photo can be decorate with cute stickers.

Also, the possibilities of the front module are extended due to the face recognition feature that allows you to unlock the smartphone screen.