Honor 6 review: An early Honor flagship-killer with octa-core Kirin and a glass back.
Honor and Kirin make their pitch.
Honor 6 was an early flagship-killer pitch from the Huawei sub-brand — the octa-core Kirin 920 and a glass body at $320, undercutting rivals. It helped establish both Honor and HiSilicon's in-house silicon as serious players.
01Display
62/10062/100 — right at the average for mid-range phones of 2014.
02Camera
56/10056/100 — right at the average for mid-range phones of 2014.
03Performance
56/10056/100 puts it above the 54-point average for mid-range phones of 2014.
04Battery
68/10068/100 puts it above the 64-point average for mid-range phones of 2014.
05Build
60/10060/100 trails the 65-point cohort average for mid-range phones of 2014.
06Value
66/100At 66/100 this is one of the strongest value showings among mid-range phones of 2014 — 7 points above the cohort average.
- Octa-core Kirin 920 — Huawei chip debut.
- Glass front and back at $320.
- 3,100 mAh battery + LTE.
- microSD + jack.
- EMUI 2.3 was very busy.
- Mono speaker.
- 5 W charging.
- Plastic frame.
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 33-phone cohort of mid-range devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .