Honor that lasts for 3 days

MANILA, Philippines - What does it say about a person with an Honor that lasts for three days? The answer is he or she is a practical mobile phone buyer.

Huawei, maker of mobile phones and other communication devices, now offers a smartphone called Honor with a three-day battery life on a single charge. This makes Honor currently the smartphone with the longest battery life in the four-inch screen range. It might sound a bit trivial because, let’s face it, nobody really raves about or shows off his or her smartphone’s battery to anyone, but as every smartphone user knows, these gadgets are power-hungry and simply useless without their batteries.

Huawei equipped Honor with a 1,900 mAh battery so it could keep up with the most demanding smartphone users today.

“The Huawei Honor has an impressive long battery life, so critical to the performance of smartphones but is often downplayed,” said Johnson Ma Xiaoqiang, Philippine country manager of Huawei Device.

Using it on regular mode — by that I mean a good amount of daily texting, voice calls, occasional games and bursts of browsing — Huawei Honor held on for as long as it could, about 65 hours.

It would probably have fulfilled its three-day promise had I not repeatedly used it to help me perfect my dismal touch-screen (speed) typing using the built-in Notepad app — a feat that took quite some time.

I must say though that among the handful of smartphones I have tested and used, Huawei Honor’s virtual keypad, for some reason, has given me the least amount of errors and frustration when I speed-type.

With Honor, Huawei puts in users’ hands a smartphone that cuts a sleek 10.9mm-thin body and weighs only 140 grams. Does it look like a product of the same cookie-cutter used to make other brands of smartphones? In terms of appearance, yes — shiny face, textured back, and it’s black.

However, some improvements — albeit nothing revolutionary — in certain key features and technology that most consumers usually inquire about and base their purchase decisions on keep Huawei Honor at par or a tad better than others in its class.

Huawei Honor boasts of a 16M 16:9 true color high-definition (HD) 4-inch touch screen, runs on a 1.4 GHz processor, and features an 8-megapixel HDR-enabled camera and a 0.3-megapixel front-facing camera. This Android phone still runs on Honeycomb OS, but is upgradeable to the Ice Cream Sandwich version.

It’s good to know that Huawei Honor is also supported by Huawei’s own Cloud+ services, an exclusive cloud-based storage service for Huawei customers that provides up to 160GB cloud disk storage.

The Cloud+ also extends to Huawei customers other services such as the Cloud+ Synchronization and Backup of information and third-party applications, Message+ service, Phone Finder to track lost units, Huawei App Store, and SNS and Contacts Integration.

Honor also comes with an exclusive Huawei user interface that I find “clean” and easy to use — not so quirky like other smartphones’ interfaces that would make you mutter words like “how” and “where” several times before you get settled and start liking them.

Another important thing people will like about the Huawei Honor is its price. You can buy Honor for P13,990. Now isn’t that cheap for Honor?