Honor 8 Pro goes West: VR-ready elegance with best-in-class battery

For starters, the Honor 8 Pro is armed with the latest Kirin 960 processor, which is accompanied by blazing Mali-G71 graphics. Manufactured by honor's parent company Huawei, it's the same octa-core chipset found within the Mate 9 which, as we noted in our review, is plenty powerful, with the latest Cortex-A73 top-shelf cores. Furthermore, on offer are no less than 6 GB of LPDDR4 RAM, and 64 GB of expandable storage, so honor is bringing its A-game to Europe. 

The display is a 5.7-inch TFT LCD effort, boasting a QHD (1440 x 2560) resolution. Also adorning the front of the device is an 8-megapixel selfie camera, while the dual 12-megapixel main shooters tout f /2.2 aperture, dual-LED flash, and 4K video recording an 30fps. Interestingly, Honor doesn't mention a 3D-modeling laser focus feature here, as it did with the V9, offering users a chance to 3D-print stuff they've captured. Instead, Honor touts "fluid VR streaming" for the 8 Pro, and even includes a bundled cardboard viewer and pre-installed Jaunt VR app containing a wealth of video content. Users will also be able to dive into the world of Galaxy on Fire 3, the first 3D game running on the Vulkan interface, all for free. Good guy Honor.

The Honor 8 Pro gets a sizable 4000 mAh battery, which is the same capacity as the Mate 9's juice pack. We managed to get 12 hours' non-stop usage out of the Mate 9 in our battery benchmarks, which saw it comfortably outlast the iPhone 7 Plus, or the Galaxy S7 edge. While the Honor 8 Pro's QHD resolution display is likely to eke away battery at a quicker rate than the FHD Mate 9, Honor still touts two full days of battery life out of the pack, or 1.44 days with "heavy usage," whatever that entails. Being able to charge the battery completely in an hour and fifty minutes, however, is an amazing feat at this capacity.

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