Huawei P9 Plus

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                         I TALK ABOUT A FANTASTIC MOBILE (HUAWEI P9 PLUS)

KEY FEATURES

• 5.5-inch 1080p screen
• 2 x 12MP Leica engineered cameras
• USB-C
• Kirin 955 CPU
• 4GB RAM
• 64GB storage
• microSD
• EMUI
• Available: May
• Manufacturer: Huawei
• Review Price: £500.00

WHAT IS THE HUAWEI P9 PLUS?

After the success of the Nexus 6P, Huawei continued its impressive run with the P9. While its Leica branding was more of a gimmick, the P9 was a great phone capable of rivalling the HTC 10, Samsung Galaxy S7 and LG G5.

I never felt the phone needed to be bigger, but clearly someone in Huawei’s product development team did. So here we have the Huawei P9 Plus. It mimics the smaller model in just about every area, but ups the screen size and improves a few of the components.

HUAWEI P9 PLUS – DESIGN

I'm a big fan of Huawei’s industrial design. It’s never been wholly original, but the continued use of metal and glass on even budget phones shows it really cares. The P9 was peak Huawei design, and that also goes for the P9 Plus: it looks identical.

Obviously it’s much bigger, thanks to the boosted 5.5-inch display, but it’s still mightily thin.When I first got my hands on the P9 Plus at the phone's launch it felt too thin, but the dimensions grew on me during the reviewing process. For a 5.5-inch phone, the Plus is surprisingly comfortable to hold in one hand.

The sides curve ever so slightly and there’s a light chamfer that adds a bit of flair. A black bar runs across the top of the back surrounding the dual-lens camera setup, flash and obligatory Leica branding.

There’s an air of the Nexus 6P to the Plus, but it’s more rigid and less sloping.

A square fingerprint sensor sits below the camera sensor and it’s easily one of the fastest I've used. Flash your digit across its surface and the phone unlocks, and bypasses the lockscreen almost instantly. I’ve long preferred the fingerprint scanner to be placed inside a home button on the front, as to me it feels much more natural, but there isn’t much to complain about here.

Unlike the iPhone, Huawei managed to keep the antenna bands colour matched to the phone and they blend in far better as a result. I also like how the headphone jack is on the bottom, next to the USB-C port and speaker grilles.

HUAWEI P9 PLUS – DISPLAY

It might not be quad-HD, or mobile HDR-enabled like the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, but the 5.5-inch AMOLED display on the Huawei P9 is one of its biggest strengths.

It’s one of the best cases for saying that phones with quad-HD, 2,560 x 1,440-pixel displays really aren't worth it. I can’t discern individual pixels on the 1080p panel on the P9 Plus, and the use of an AMOLED screen ensures blacks are inky and colours have a good amount of pop, without looking oversaturated.

You can also alter the colour temperature, making it warmer or colder depending on your personal preference. I like to keep it at the default, but it’s nice to see the option there for people who like to tinker.

When our Reviews editor, Alastair Stevenson, reviewed the P9 he felt the displays only downside was its slightly muddy whites. This remains true on the Plus, but it’s far from a real issue. Whites aren’t as clear as an LCD panel on an iPhone 6S Plus, but they're among the better ones I have seen on AMOLED. Viewing angles are suitably wide, and visibility in direct sunlight is ace thanks to screen’s impressive brightness. It won’t jack up the brightness to ridiculous levels in sunny conditions like the Galaxy S7, but it’s still very good.

The P9 Plus has a little trick in its display that the regular version doesn’t have: it’s pressure sensitive. Huawei first did this with its Mate S last year, days before Apple announced the 3D Touch-toting iPhone 6S Plus, but I never really saw the point. It works here just like it does on an iPhone, just on a much smaller scale.

Press down harder on the camera icon, for example, and you’ll be able to quickly shoot a selfie. Repeat the process on the Calendar and you can pop in an appointment without opening the app. Unlike Apple’s effort, which is by no means perfect, there’s no third-party support here and that severely limits its usefulness. It’s also nowhere near as responsive and half the time doesn’t work at all.&&

HUAWEI P9 PLUS – PERFORMANCE

Huawei’s in-house made Kirin chips have come on leaps and bounds in recent years, and the version used in the P9 series is one of the fastest, reliable and efficient yet.

The Kirin 955 CPU is backed up by 4GB RAM (that’s a gig more than the smaller P9) and it’s a potent combination. During my time with the phone, it hasn’t been challenged by anything. 3D games run without a hitch or frame drop, and loading times are on par with the Exynos 8890-rocking Samsung Galaxy Note 7 and Snapdragon 820-equipped HTC 10.

Huawei has done a great job at finally optimising its software (if not actually designing it properly, see below). The constant crashes and app issues that plagued the company's pre-2016 devices have been culled.

On AnTuTu the P9 scored a respectable 99,000, which is just about the same as the smaller P9. It’s still behind competing Snapdragon 820 handsets, like the HTC 10, and those running an Exynos 8890. The Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge scored 129,468 by comparison.

The P9 Plus ran in with respectable 1,825 single-core and 6,300 multi-core scores in the GeekBench 3 test. The multi-core score is particularly impressive and puts the phone on a par with the Samsung Galaxy S7, which scored 6,307 on Geekbench.

There’s a decent bottom-facing speaker, but it’s not going to replace your dedicated boombox. The sound is aimed away from you and as such is easily blocked, it also lacks bass and detail in vocals.

Internal storage stands at 64GB, with 52GB usable. There’s a microSD slot for expanding that further.

Call quality is excellent, with voices loud and free of distortion. The microphones do a great job at blocking out any pesky background noise.

HUAWEI P9 PLUS – SOFTWARE

Huawei has a track record creating great phones with awful software. The software's improved recently but the EMUI skin used on the Plus is still one of the worst user interfaces I’ve seen.

EMUI is now on its fourth version and is based upon Android Marshmallow. To give Huawei some credit, at least all of Google’s functionality works better now. Notifications are no longer broken, Android Wear watches stay connected reliably, and it has finally removed the ugly border that used to surround each and every icon.

But, it’s still an unneeded overhaul to what was already a well-designed operating system. The culling of the app drawer is a decision that irks almost everyone I ask, with apps now splayed out across homescreen in no particular order.

Huawei has taken a very iOS approach to the software; with soft transparency effects and frosted glass styled apps. The default apps themselves are fine, but Google’s alternatives are so much better.

I’m also a bit wary about when exactly users will start to see updates to Android Nougat. Huawei has been slow with software updates in the past, and there doesn’t seem to be any reason why that’ll change here. A Huawei spokesperson couldn't confirm if the phone will be updated to Nougat at the time of publishing.

It’s easy enough to ditch EMUI using a launcher, such as the official Google Now launcher, but it’s still a pain. Even if you replace the launcher, you'll still be left with dregs of EMUI, with the notification pane and lock screen still showing sign's of Huawei's rubbish software.

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HUAWEI P9 PLUS – CAMERA

Leica is a big name in the world of photography, so slapping the highly respected brand’s logo on your phone implies it’s going to have some seriously strong camera prowess.

Let’s get the elephant in the room out the way first; while there is Leica branding on the back, this isn't a Leica-made camera. The only thing Leica did was give Huawei its blessing to use the branding.

A marketing gimmick it may be, but I still really like the Plus' cameras. They’re not quite as good as the Samsung Galaxy S7, Note 7 or LG G5. But, they’re comparable to the iPhone 6S and HTC 10 and come with a load of neat tricks thrown in.

Instead of just one, there are two 12-megapixel, Sony-made sensors on the back of the Huawei P9 Plus. One is your typical RGB sensor, which captures the colours, while the other is just monochrome. There are a couple of reasons why this is more than just gimmick; it lets you take excellent looking black and white shots that aren’t covered by a filter and it lets tonnes more light in, improving low-light performance.

Daylight photos are really good. Colours are vibrant, focusing is fast and and skin tones look accurate.

It’s not perfect though, The auto setting works well most of the time, but it does suffers from a few odd issues. Pictures are all more than usable, but the camera has a tendency to add a subtle vignette effect around the border of snaps. The camera also struggles with exposures in bright conditions, resulting in unbalanced images with slightly inaccurate, exaggerated contrast levels.

I had the same issues with the regular P9, and put it down to the way the dual-lens system was set up. It’s a minor criticism though, and you’ll probably only notice it if you look out for it.

 Daylight shots are good, with plenty of detail

The P9 sensors have 1.25μm (micrometer) pixels and the lenses have a rather disappointing f/2.2 aperture. A wider aperture (lower f-number) means the camera sensor will be able to capture more light and perform better in darker situations. The Galaxy Note 7 has an f/1.7 aperture and captures 1.4µm pixels while the HTC 10 has an f/1.8 aperture and captures gigantic 1.55µm-sized “UltraPixels”.

The extra monochrome sensor appears to offsets this slightly narrow aperture, as low-light results are still pretty good however. Details aren’t full of noise and the software manages to add some brightness in that doesn’t look wildly inaccurate.

 Monochrome pictures get good results, but they're hard to focus

 Even in the dark it takes some decent pictures

 Colours are bright

 And there are plenty of sharp details

The Huawei P9 Plus also has lots of camera modes. There are 14 in total, ranging from the awful Beauty mode to the pretty but time-consuming Light Painting. Monochrome is my favourite, as the results look exceptional.

A lot was made of the ‘bokeh’ effects you can achieve with the Leica branded camera. But, it doesn't live up to the hype. Instead of achieving a bokeh (this is where the foreground stays in sharp focus, while the background blurs out) through the camera tech, the Huawei P9 Plus does it through software. This leaves some odd blurring around details and a general unnatural tone.

Video recording is limited to 1080p, but it looks great and the 8-megapixel selfie camera is also good. Just steer clear of the beauty mode, as it makes you everything but beautiful.

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