Honor 7 : Magazine UI

Honor 7 : Magazine UI will your phone feel more premium , A simple Video about this feature. 

Honor 7 : Utopia Theme

Honor Smartphones provide's very classy theme , A simple video to show how to apply Utopia theme on your Honor 7 Smartphone:

Honor 7 : Simple Video to show how to Enable "Ok Google" From Any Screen

Simple Video to show how to Enable "Ok Google" From any Screen on your honor 7 Device :

Honor Power Manager & Utility App Features

Phone Manager is a unique solution provided on Huawei phones. This is a one stop solution for optimizing the Phone Storage, Memory, Battery, Network, Security, Notification Customization. This unique integrated solution has been developed using Huawei’s EMUI.

The app features a one-touch optimization feature that frees up memory space and gives you settings recommendations for maximum battery performance. It's quite a slick feature that even Nexus 5X does not support.

The following are some of the key features:

Phone scanning

Phone scanning lets you run a full check of your phone’s operation status and quickly optimize the system.

After the scan is complete, the application clears the trash files, optimizes the system and removes potential threats to the phone.

Phone accelerator

Helps in making sure that the phone runs at an optimal performance, This feature helps in clearing the used RAM, by displaying the unwanted applications running, the user can choose and close the selected unwanted application.

Storage cleaner

Storage cleaner is used to optimize the file storage by cleaning up the cache and trash which has been accumulated over the period of time.

Power manager

Setting the power saving mode

This feature helps the user to save the battery power depending upon the mode of operation the user is doing, User can choose one among the following modes :-

·         Ultra Mode: - which keeps only the call and message functions available and disables all other features light BT, WiFi , Data, flash light which helps in saving the battery power.

·         Smart Mode: - Automatically adjusts the CPU and network usage for balance performance , make sure that network apps are optimized for better battery performance.

·         Normal Mode: - for online vide and gaming purpose, this helps in turning of the network optimization if any for hassle free user experience.

This feature also provides the following features :

List the Apps which are power intensive and run in the background and consume power.

Protected apps which can be run even if the screen is turned off

Consumption report each component from hardware side, and from software side from each app

Harassment filter

This feature is used to define the black list and white list of the people from which the user does not want to receive the call and message. User can choose to get the notification when blocked called or message is intercepted

Notification manager

User can configure the apps which can be allowed to use the notification bar so that unnecessary apps do not disturb the user.

Traffic usage  

This feature is very useful in giving the user the detail info about the traffic use and further segregates if the data is mobile network or Wi Fi data, this report can be daily or monthly depending upon user choice. So the user can choose which apps they want to run only in WiFI network and with apps can use the mobile network.

Do not disturb [DND]

User can schedule the time when he does not want to be disturbed, user can choose to block following:-

      1. Events and reminder

      2. Allow call or message from selected contact

      3. Block only call or message or both

4. Block or un block the repeat call within 3 minutes

App Lock

This feature helps the user lock the selected applications so that, even if the user gives the phone to any other user, the private info stored the app cannot be accessed by other users.

Honor 7 Camera features - Phase-detection technology (PDAF) + Contrast focus

The camera performance is one of the most critical factors to evaluate a Smartphone.  Here are some of the, technological advantage features which are promising High quality picture   Honor 7.

Latest Camera sensor form the world leader in camera technology

Honor 7 camera features the Sony IMX230 Exmor RS Senor with an ultra-high resolution of 20 MP. World's first Smartphone, that comes with Sony IMX 230 camera sensor which was Sony latest launch. Compare to OnePlus 2 with 13MP primary camera 

The world's first second generation SLR-level ISP for best power saving during photo shoot. 

Its Second-generation independent image signal processor (ISP) at the single-lens reflex level (achieving a 50% power consumption reduction) . After image data is captured by the front-end camera sensor, the data is processed by an analog signal processor (ASP), analog-digital converter (ADC), pre-SIP, and post-ISP before the final image is displayed on the viewfinder. The ISP is the brain of a camera and plays a role in autofocus, filter of unwanted information from images, Honor 7 saves power across the pipe-line

Honor 7 is with Dual-color temperature and dual-LED flashlight for best photo shooting in a dark environment, while Oneplus2 provide simple Dual LED Flash

LED flashlights are made from blue LED and fluorescent powder. These LED’s increases the blue light energy while reducing the green and red light energies. As a result, the photos taken with this kind of LED flashlight will have color distortion (pale colors and cool color tones).

Because the human eye is most sensitive to the green color and less sensitive to the blue and red colors, these single Blue color LED flashlight results in red eyes in dark environments.

Instead of simply increasing the number of blue LED flashlights, In Honor 7 used the dual-color temperature dual-LED flashlight along with an amber-colored warm-color LED to produce softer color tones in images and achieving more accurate white balance.

The dual-color temperature and dual-LED flashlight is especially suitable for dark environment.

Rear camera is with sapphire protective layer for long life scratch free photos

Sapphire is the hardest oxide crystal with unimaginable hardness.  Sapphire has highest resistance to impact and scratches its is hardness 9 on the Mohs scale, Lenses made of sapphire can withstand scratches during a long time of use, thereby ensuring good image quality.

Non-spherical lenses best image quality

Spherical lenses cannot focus parallel light beams at a point completely, which affects image quality. Non-spherical lenses outperform spherical lenses in photo shooting, and the effect gets better with more lenses. The honor 7 camera consists of six non-spherical lenses

The high dynamic range (HDR) function allows users to take photos of high-contrast scenes (such as backlight) with bright backgrounds and subjects.

Hybrid focusing technology fastest auto focus within 0.1sec

Adopts a hybrid focusing algorithm Phase-detection technology (PDAF) + Contrast focus technology gives Honor 7 for ultra-fast 0.1s focusing on moving objects 

The honor 7 adopts a hybrid focusing algorithm that combines the strengths of phase detection and contrast detection.

·         Its camera calculates the distance that the motor should move to bring the subject into focus based on the phase difference.

·         After the motor moves to the in-focus position, the camera performs contrast detection to determine the accurate focusing position.

·         This algorithm ensures focusing precision while increasing the focusing speed. The honor 7 also adopts the Hybrid optimization algorithm to achieve 0.1s focusing time.

Honor 7 built in advanced image processing engine provided amazing experience with never see effects which not found most Oneplus2 ,Nexus 5X ,MotoX play ... in most the flag ships these features are not available.

o   Perfect selfie

o   Food mode

o   Personalized filter

Perfect Selfie 

Every time we take self we want to edit the picture to adjust its, brightness Wight balance, smoothness and eyes enlarge etc.. If user has to do this work every time after taking selfie its   required lot of time and may not get best editing effort. Honor 7 can adjust all your slfie once u configure your required configuration on your photo this make taking selfie every an amazing experience

Here is example

Configure your perfect selfie once

----Selfie after editing Will look more better like below using Honor 7 Perfect selfie Configuration----

Honor 7 applies same effects every time you take selfie 

Personalized filter

These days most of the smart phones come with filters which can applied to photos to get different effect , what is missing is most of the time user want to apply filter which  is similar to his previous photo 

For example user has taken following photo during autumn early fall

But the following photo was taken after many days and user want to apply filter so that this photo looks like it has been taken during autumn fall. This is not possible with provided predefined filter. Honor 7 provides feature where user can define new filters from existing photos so that they apply same on other photos

Following is the effect of above photo after applying user filter 

Feature Name	Honor 7	Oneplus 2	Nexus 5X
Rare Camera	20MP	13MP	12.3MP
Front Camera	8MP	5MP	5MP
LED Flash	Dual-color Temperature Dual-LED flashlight	Normal Dual LED	Dual Flash
Auto Focus technology	Hybrid focusing   PDAF + Contrast focus	Laser Autofocus	laser auto focus
Image Effect Food Mode	YES	NO	NO
Image Effect Perfect Selfie	YES	NO	NO
Image Effect User filters	YES	NO	NO

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Honor 'Voice Wake Up' feature

Nowadays of course, nearly everyone with a Smartphone is familiar with Siri, Cortana and Google Now as a natural way to search the web, send messages with voice control.

Siri was originally conceived as an artificially intelligent “do engine” that would allow people to hold a conversation with the Internet, pulling in relevant information from multiple sources to anticipate what you wanted before you even wanted it.  In the Microsoft camp, Cortana tried to do the same thing. Google Now is the solution available in most of the android devices to assist the user.

Smartphone voice assistant can be used for many of the functions on the device like

·         Make a call

·         Send a text

·         Send an email

·         Set a timer/alarm

·         Set a reminder based on place or time

·         Schedule a calendar entry

·         Launch an app

·         Play music

Despite the best marketing efforts by Google, Apple and Microsoft, many people simply never use their respective digital assistants on their Smartphone’s because of these functions required connecting to cloud to analyze and get the requested information. Smartphone user is limiting their usage on Voice assistant to very simple function like making call, find the device when it is misplaced.

As our common habit we always forgot where we left our phone, we try to spend lot of time in find our device in house and offices. Honor can optimize their voice assistant to provide best result for the most used usage “Device wake-up.

Here is the Honor 'Voice Wake Up' feature, which enables you to find a misplaced Honor 7 with voice command.  

Few simple steps to configuring “Voice Wakeup” to find your misplace Honor device within seconds  

1.    Enable “voice wakeup” from settings

2.    Select a wake up Key (Example “Dear Honor” )  

3.    Select the language

You are ready to go with voice wakeup feature to find your Honor.

 Honor “Voice wake up” can be configured  with custom Wakeup Keyword instead of “Dear Honor”.  

Custom wakeup keyword screen in settings, will guide the user to define required wakeup keyword.  

When you choose new keyword for “Voice Wakeup”, you need to train your honor with your voice. Hold the Honor as shown and speak out the command for three times as guided onscreen.  

This nice feature implemented by Honor could be use to find out your mobile or could be used to place the call.

·         ”Dear Honor where you are?”  :  When you speak out this “Dear Honor Where are you” , Honor will responds to you with beautiful voice  saying you  “I am here”

The device flash light will start blinking to enable user to find the device easily when is misplace in hidden place like under the sofa, chair or bed

This Amazing feature works even if your device is connected to headset; the response voice will be placed in device speaker even during the device is connected to headset.

·         ” Dear Honor” “Call James?”  : Voice command will wakeups the device and initiate the call to “james” immediately

Comparison of voice wakeup feature on other latest Android devices

Feature	Honor	OnePlus	Nexus 5s
Voice wakeup	√	√	×
Data connectivity   not mandatory	√	×	×
Voice speaker when  headset connected	√	√	√
Flash Blink Light to find the device	√	×	×
Voice wakeup + Call	√	√	√

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