Teardown of the Sony a7R II on August 18, 2015. Use this guide to remove or replace the central motherboard for the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX1.Checkout the Full Video DIY how to build a Curve LED Screen and controll the WS2812b Panels from your ipad or iphone ! Sorry, the page you've requested does not exist.You can be forgiven for not being familiar with Huawei (pronounced "wah-way"). Other than , the Chinese company hasn't had much presence in the US. Despite mostly not dealing with the United States, Huawei is the largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer in the world and the third-largest smartphone OEM behind Samsung and Apple. At the beginning of this year, though, Huawei finally started bringing phones to the US. Today we're looking at the value entry from Huawei's sub-brand, "Honor," called the "Honor 8." The Honor 8 occupies Ars' favorite $400 price point (£370 in the UK), which hits the (hopefully) perfect balance of high-end specs without all the often-gimmicky bells and whistles of $700 to $800 phones.

SPECS AT A GLANCE: Huawei Honor 8 1920×1080 5.2" (423ppi) LCD Android 6.0 with EMUI 4.1 Eight-core HiSilicon Kirin 950 (four 2.3GHz Cortex A72 cores and four 1.8 GHz Cortex A53s cores) 32GB plus a Micro SD slot 802.11b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS, NFC USB 2.0 Type-C, 3.5mm headphone jack Dual 12MP rear camera, 8MP front camera 145.5 x 71 x 7.45 mm (5.73 x 2.8 x 0.29 in) 153 g (5.4 oz) NFC, 9V/2A quick charging, fingerprint sensor, notification LED, IR blaster The Honor 8 can best be described as the Huawei P9's cheaper cousin. Huawei's more expensive phones, like the P9, get metal bodies, while the cheaper devices like the Honor 8 get glass backs with a metal frame. The Honor is basically built like a Samsung flagship, but for around half the price. The glass back's "15-layer" construction catches light and shows different patterns depending on the angle. The downside is that any drop onto a hard surface will probably result in a shattered panel.

The other problem is that a perfectly smooth glass back with no camera protrusion makes for a very low friction surface—once or twice the Honor 8 slowly slid off my desk over the course of a few hours. On the back you'll find Huawei's usual rear fingerprint sensor, but this one doubles as a clickable button. Huawei calls this the "Smart Key," which has programmable actions for "press," "double press," and "press and hold." little miss matched zany black curtainsYou can open an app, start the flashlight, or take a screenshot for each of the three actions.newton black eyelet curtains Another oddity you'll find on the back: dual rear-facing cameras. sanderson adele curtains blue

The phone's 12MP color camera and 12MP monochrome camera supposedly combine to capture more light than a single lens. The Honor 8 spec sheet contains something a little different: the phone uses one of Huawei's own SoCs, an eight-core HiSilicon Kirin 950. If you're going by CPU horsepower, the Kirin 950 is a high-end chip that can hang with the fastest Samsung, Qualcomm, and Apple stuff out there. the tortilla curtain buchBut the GPU and storage speed of the Honor 8 is weaker than we'd expect from a high-end device. curtains michael guineysThe rest of the specs are in the high-end ballpark: 4GB of RAM, 32GB of storage (with an SD card slot), and a 3000mAh battery.weco curtains The phone's aluminum rim is rounded for a more comfortable hold, along with chamfers on both sides of the rim where the metal meets the glass. dobby tab top curtains

On the rim you'll find volume and power buttons on the right, headphone, speaker, and USB Type C ports on the bottom, a SIM/MicroSD slot on the left, and a mic and (surprise) an IR blaster on the top. There isn't much to say about the outside. The fragile glass back is a bummer, but as far as glass phones go, this is made as well as anything else out there. The Honor 8 runs Android 6.0—an old version of Android—with Huawei's "EMUI" skin on top. Huawei started EMUI in 2013, and it's more or less an exact copy of Xiaomi's "MIUI" interface, which itself is heavily influenced by iOS. You're getting a copy of a copy. Expect a full reskin to make the OS look less like Android and more like iOS. The problem with these big Android reskins is that OEMs can't reskin the Google apps or the millions of third-party apps out there. This means you'll never have a consistent software experience—Google and most of the good third-party apps are following the Material Design guidelines, while the core OS and OEM apps are following whatever their design guidelines are, if such guidelines even exist.

The iOS influences abound: the Honor 8 has no app drawer because iOS doesn't have an app drawer. All the included apps have a colored square background instead of the unique silhouettes Google and third-parties use. The notification panel uses a frosted glass background, just like iOS. The recent app screen has been changed from vertical to horizontal scrolling, because that's how iOS works. The settings are a carbon copy of iOS, too. You're also missing some Android features. No notifications appear on the lock screen. Adoptable storage doesn't work. Direct Share is broken. Always-on voice commands are not supported. On the plus side, Android 6.0's permission system is present and working, as is the fingerprint API. User accounts survived Huawei's paint job, too. The built-in apps, like the operating system, have their own interface design that is completely different from what you'd get from a normal Android app. Most handle navigation with iPhone-style bottom bars, along with an ever-present bottom-right "menu" button that hides a bunch of extra options.

The whole package doesn't quite match Android or iOS, and, in general, it feels like something from another dimension. We don't expect fantastic software support from Huawei. The Honor 8 is currently one major Android version behind (shipping 6.0 versus 7.0), and it's missing two monthly security updates (it's still on "July"). You won't get Google's security updates every month. Huawei recently stated it would provide software updates for its devices for 24 months after the initial launch, with "at least once every three months during the first 12 months." That sounds like the same "quarterly" monthly security update plan Motorola adopted. Also, like Motorola, we do not recommend a device that doesn't have timely monthly security updates. The performance of the Honor 8 is going to be interesting. As I mentioned before, Huawei outfitted the Honor 8 with one of its own SoCs instead of the cookie-cutter Snapdragon 82. Huawei's HiSilicon Kirin 950 is an eight-core chip containing four 2.3GHz Cortex A72s and four 1.8GHz A53s.