On June 12, Huawei Honor officially releases the latest new smartphone, Huawei Honor 9, adopting 3D curved glass and dual rear camera design, which has quite beautiful design, after it is released, most users compare it with Xiaomi MI6, we find they have similarity in design, and price, so which one is more worthwhile to have a try? Let us make a deep comparison between Xiaomi MI6 and Huawei Honor 9.
Check here: Huawei Honor 9 vs Xiaomi MI6 specs
Design
According to its design, Huawei Honor 9 and Xiaomi MI6 are similar, they both use curved glass design, different from Xiaomi MI6 with four curved glass, Huawei Honor 9 uses dual curved glass, they both use 5.15 inch FHD IPS screen, adopting fingerprint scanner on their home button.
Huawei Honor 9 uses first 15-layer 3D curved glass body with sleek design, compared with Xiaomi MI6 with four curved glass body, claiming 40 processing making, combining stainless steel high gloss frame, it looks quite high quality. The frame of Xiaomi MI6 blue version is not blue but golden color.
On the back details, they are different in the back camera, and the place of their logos, if we remove their logo, it is hard to tell which one it is. By the way, Xiaomi MI6 removes 3.5mm earphone jack, but Huawei Honor 9 keeps it.
In addition, Huawei Honor 9 uses dual rear camera, 20MP+12MP, but Xiaomi mi6 with dual rear camera, 12MP+12MP.
According to comparison, they have minor difference in their design, as for which one is more beautiful ,it is up to your interest.
Hardware
In their performance, Xiaomi MI6 is powered by the latest Snapdragon 835 Octa core processor, RAM 6GB ROM 64GB/128GB internal storage, while Huawei Honor 9 is powered by Kirin 960 Octa core processor, RAM 4GB/6GB ROM 64GB/128GB. the former can not support TF card to expand, the latter can support up to 256GB by TF card. In general, they have big gap in their processor, Kirin 960 processor will be worse than Snapdragon 835. According to Antutu test, Huawei Honor 9 can reach over 140,000 points with system optimization, but Xiaomi MI6 will be over 170,000 points.
According to test, Xiaomi MI6 got 181,118 antutu points, which has only 3000 points gap from iPhone 7 Plus. Therefore, Snapdragon 835 processor is weaker than A10 Fusion in CPU, but its GPU performance is better than Iphone 7 plus.
Huawei Honor 9 has got over 120,000 points according to general test.
Therefore, we can see Snapdragon 835 processor is quite powerful. Xiaomi MI6 will be a better smartphone to play large games.
Camera
In camera, Huawei Honor 9 and Xiaomi MI6 both use dual rear camera, Huawei Honor 9 uses 20MP+12MP dual rear camera, supporting PDAF, laser focus, deep focus, contrast focus, two camera has 27mm focal length, supporting Hybird zoom, 1X-2X continuous focus, according to specs,Huawei Honor 9 has excellent photographing experience. Let’s see the sample first.
Huawei Honor 9 Camera Sample
It is cloudy day, Huawei Honor 9 has accurate control for white balance, the image is quite transparent. equipped with Honor 9 with DCI-P3 color gamut screen, the photos look vibrant with quality. It has good capturing ability with faster shutter.
In night scene, Huawei Honor 9 has excellent focusing speed, the brightness is high, controlling glare and noise well. The image purity is good. But Huawei Honor 9 doesn’t have OIS, which will affect the quality of image to some degree.
While Xiaomi MI6 uses two 12MP camera, one is used for wide angel, the other is for long focus, supporting twice optical zooming, which can take the photos in long distance to the close distance, supporting 4 axis OIS. It uses inner gyroscope and Accelerometer, detecting 8 direction shaking, adjusting the motion.
Xiaomi MI6 Samples
Xiaomi MI6 has rich photographing mode, panoramic,countdown, sound shutter, beautification, etc. HDR is put in the main interface. Rich modes will meet your different needs.
In outdoor strong light, it can focus fast and accurately to take clear photos.
In indoor environment, Xiaomi MI6 has good performance without noise and blurring, thanks to four axis OIS. The image quality of mi6 is high.
Under micro distance, thanks to dual rear camera, Xiaomi MI6 has obvious background blurring.
At night, when the light is strong enough, Xiaomi MI6 has same performance as that of daylight, the image is quite clear, rich.
Under the ultimate low light, Xiaomi MI6 adjustment style tends to reduce the image brightness to get pure sample.
Therefore, in general, they both can take photos with high quality, but Xiaomi MI6 has four axis OIS, however, Huawei Honor 9 doesn’t have.
Battery
As for battery life, Huawei Honor 9 is built in 3,200mAh battery, while Xiaomi MI6 has 3350mAh(typ) battery, in general, they have similar battery life to support at least 5 hours for playing.
Conclusion
Huawei Honor 9 runs its latest EMUI 5.1 based on Android7.0 OS, while Xiaomi MI6 runs MIUI 8 OS based on Android7.0, supporting NFC function. In general, Xiaomi MI6 is better in design, performance, etc. If you want a monster smartphone, you can choose Xiaomi MI6, using coupon code: MiK4G at $406.99, otherwise, try Huawei Honor 9.
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