The two main features that I love the most are the fingerprint gestures and the app twin. Fingerprint gestures lets you take photos , answer calls or browse photos by touching the fingerprint scanner. If you're someone who uses two accounts on the same app like say, Facebook, App twin is a feature that let's you create the same app with another login id.
This phone runs on Android 7.0 nougat with a heavy skin of Huawei's own EMUI which allows lots of customization options. As this phone has a maximum capacity of 64 GB which can be expandable using a micro sd of upto 128 GB, so storage shouldn't be an issue for a normal user.
Performance:
It runs on huawei's own hisilicon kirin 659 which has 8 cores of ARM cortex A53 and is maufactured on a 16nm process. 4 cores run at a max of 1.7GHz and the other 4 run at a max of 2.36GHz. The 4 gb of ram also manages the apps pretty well. There's about 2.6gb free memory when all the apps are cleared. If you're looking to purchase this phone mainly for gaming.
Screen:
It has a 5.9" full hd plus screen. Here, the full hd plus simply means that it has a resolution slightly more than 1080p, to be specific 2160 x 1080p, which makes it 18:9.
It has smaller bezels on the sides and considerable bezels on the top and bottom which houses necessary sensors and front camera.
Screen:
It has a 5.9" full hd plus screen. Here, the full hd plus simply means that it has a resolution slightly more than 1080p, to be specific 2160 x 1080p, which makes it 18:9.
It has smaller bezels on the sides and considerable bezels on the top and bottom which houses necessary sensors and front camera.
Design:
The design feels quite premium and up market similar to the design of the iphone 6s plus. The 2.5D glass that blends with the screen. The hardware buttons are pretty tactile and and the acknowledgement received is pretty assuring. There are no hardware navigation buttons available, so the software one's are your only choice.
Camera:
This phone comes with 4 cameras, yeah you read that right, two dual cameras one in the front and one in the rear. The rear camera is in a 16+2 mp configuration and the front camera comes in a 13+2mp setup. Both the secondary 2MP camera is for portrait mode or in other words "to blue the background". The photos taken in outdoor come out to be pretty sharp and detailed. The depth effect does a very good job even in low lighting condition because of the 2 mp depth sensor. Due to this sensor, more and more light is allowed which makes the photos somewhat brighter.
The 9i can shoot videos at a maximum resolution of 1080 p, but does not have any stabilization. The 9i has front facing dual cameras which is a unique feature of this phone. Undoubtedly, it is a great camera and takes better selfie shots than other phone. The front facing cameras also takes amazing portrait photos. While taking videos from the front facing camera, make sure that beauty mode is not activated which is activated by default, or else it will shoot it at 720p. The camera UI is packed with lots of features, on swiping right, you get various shooting modes, you can easily turn it on and off, the one thing that caught my attention was the more button down here which leads me to believe that Huawei will be adding more camera modes in the future. On swiping right you can tweak camera app settings, you can also capture in Raw format when using the pro mode. There is also an ultra snapshot feature which lets you to capture photos instantly when the phone is in locked state, just press the volume down button twice and it quickly takes a picture within 1 seconds.
Battery:
It has a battery capacity of 3340 mah and the battery lasts for about a day.
It comes with a normal charger that doesn't charge the device fast and outputs 5V at 2 Amp. It takes about 1.5- 2 hours to fully charge the device.
