Huawei P9 review: The phone that started the Huawei + Leica partnership.
The phone that put Leica on the smartphone map.
P9 launched the Leica + Huawei partnership in 2016 — dual-cam was uncommon then. The brand has come far since.
01Display
66/10066/100 is one of the weaker display results among flagship phones of 2016 — 10 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
02Camera
72/10072/100 puts it above the 70-point average for flagship phones of 2016.
03Performance
60/10060/100 is one of the weaker performance results among flagship phones of 2016 — 8 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
04Battery
60/10060/100 is one of the weaker battery results among flagship phones of 2016 — 7 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
05Build
76/10076/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2016.
06Value
58/10058/100 trails the 60-point cohort average for flagship phones of 2016.
- First Leica-branded smartphone camera.
- Light at 144 g.
- microSD + 3.5 mm.
- Solid aluminium build.
- No OIS.
- Stuck at Android 7.
- Pre-USB-C.
- Older Kirin chip.
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 109-phone cohort of flagship devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .