Honor 8 review: Glass-sandwiched dual-camera mid-flagship.
Glass and dual cameras.
Honor 8 paired a glistening 15-layer glass back with an RGB + monochrome dual camera borrowed from Huawei's P-series, delivering premium looks and detail-rich photos at $400 — a defining device for the young Honor brand.
01Display
76/100At 76/100 this is one of the strongest display showings among mid-range phones of 2016 — 9 points above the cohort average.
02Camera
72/100At 72/100 this is one of the strongest camera showings among mid-range phones of 2016 — 12 points above the cohort average.
03Performance
74/100At 74/100 this is one of the strongest performance showings among mid-range phones of 2016 — 18 points above the cohort average.
04Battery
68/10068/100 — right at the average for mid-range phones of 2016.
05Build
80/100At 80/100 this is one of the strongest build showings among mid-range phones of 2016 — 12 points above the cohort average.
- Striking 15-layer glass back catches light
- RGB + monochrome dual cam for detail
- Compact 5.2" / 153 g
- EMUI 4.1 dated
- Mono speaker
- Average low-light camera
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 47-phone cohort of mid-range devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .