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Welcome. In front of me I have the
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Huawei Nova 8i and today I will go of unboxing along with a quick overview of this
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phone. So let's get started and pop this straight open. So just grab a knife, now
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we go. Now we go cut and we can now pop it open. So nothing obviously in here
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Then we get the phone right up here. Oh, that's really light
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Almost feels like a toy. I do have to say the finish of it is kind of interesting
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Anyway, I'm going to place it down right here. We get the typical garbage right here, waste of paper
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Obviously, it's Huawei, so Google services be gone. So instead of Google search, we have pedal search
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We have also App Gallery instead of Play Store and anything else that you can't get from
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Ab Gallery because it's App Gallery you can basically get from other device
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It's kind of hilarious how problem solving will literally require you to have another phone that's actually running Android
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Because this one can't Oh, well, it's kind of running Android But I mean with Google Play Store
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Which means you can basically have other device Download the application that you need
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and then use phone phone to basically move it over to this phone. It's a gimmick, but at least it is a viable way of getting apps that aren't on the app gallery
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Then inside of here we get a actual screen protector. I'm not sure why they didn't include it with the Nova 9
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Oh well. Obviously, oh my goodness, this is the flimsy screen protector I have seen
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We also get... No way we're getting the same. Oh wow nice I am surprised by this considering this is a cheaper version of the Nova 9 by
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decent amount about a hundred and fifty bucks and they still included this brick this massive
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unit an absolute unit of a charge at 66 watts this is nice I actually I have to give props for that one This is sweet
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Then cable. So, type C to type A, obviously nothing really special right here
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and that's all we get in the box, so... Yeet that to the side. It's power on phone
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So, once you start powering on, that's kind of where a lot of the things will look a little bit crappier
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in terms of the price drop from the Nova 9 which I have right here so this is the Nova 9
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so right of the bat i'll start kind of mentioning the differences number one would be the price
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150 bucks less it's also not running an OLED display it's running a way weaker processor
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snapdragon processor it has i believe a slower refresh rate just like 60 hertz instead of the
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120 that the other one has smaller bad oh no battery is the same my bad same battery smaller cameras or weaker ones and again
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he included the two megapixel micro and depth that is painful so yeah now
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lastly probably the biggest difference this is actually running Android 10 while the
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Nova 9 is running a Harmony OS so there's the blatant obvious right here now
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honestly I don't know which one will be better I think I would prefer to have
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Android considering it should get the Google treatment of security patches and
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stuff like that while Harmony OS strictly relies on Huawei doing their job
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so let's quickly go to the setup so I'm getting into specs this is a 6.67
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inch INJ display. It is 1080p by 2376 pixels which puts it at 391 pixels per inch. It has an 89.4
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screen to body ratio and LCD IPS display which is just meh. Additionally it doesn't have any
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kind of high refresh rate which again mech considering this device is kind of brand new and doesn boast anything higher than 60 just feels like a step back Honestly this entire device kind of feels like a step back to two year more about a year old phone
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It has this like dual kind of cut out here, a flat display, non-amelette, non-high refresh rate
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It's just mediocre device all around. Okay. So right here we have access to the home screen now
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And obviously you probably can see the similarities. It looks virtually almost the same as this
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So yeah, it's about the same. The only difference right here is pedal
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or not pedal, but the Harmony OS has this literally ripped from iOS
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kind of style of shading. So pull down from right side to get all your taggles
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and pull down from the left side to get your notification. I like it, but honestly it is literally ripped from iOS
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Like even their mate pad that I unboxed like 10 minutes ago also
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A literal clone of iPads. So anyway, let's keep on going. We do have a fingerprint sensor mounted on the side
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No underfinger display one, unfortunately. What else we get? We get 128 gigabytes of storage with either 6 or 8 gigabytes of RAM
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of a RAM. Let's max out the brightness.nder. Okay, this is maxed out. This is fairly dim
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to be completely honest. So yeah, moving on to the camera setup, which is at the back, quickly
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I'm just kind of going to glance over basically everything, just so you have a vague idea of
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what this phone has. 64 megapixel wide, 8 megapixel ultra wide, 2 megapixel macro, and 2 megapixel depth
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The two cameras that are 2 megapixels, don't even count them in
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and you only have two cameras. The other two are sticker cameras that are just absolute garbage
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and shouldn't be even included in the phone. And including them and, I don't know
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boasting about them is just an insult to a consumer. Like, we're not absolute, I think, idiots
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to not figure out that your cameras are absolute garbage when you're including two megapixel sensors
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Just get rid of those. There's no point for them. Major of the time when you have two megapixel
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for instance, depth sensor, and you take a portrait the portrait will look like absolute garbage because of that sensor Just keep that in mind when you wondering why your portrait might look like absolute trash
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That might be the reason. Now moving on, we get a Type C charging port, no headphone
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Never mind, we do have a headphone jack, actually. That is a surprise. And 4,300 million-hour battery, 66 watt charging, like I mentioned before
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and apparently it charges in 17 minutes up to 60%. and in 38 minutes, basically full charge
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So that is really nice. Obviously I have to, again, prop the fact that they did include a charger
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and they included such a decent charger in the box. Like 66 watts, it's like significantly better than what Samsung includes or Apple
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I mean, actually, I just told you about two brands that don't include any kind of charger actually
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But when they did include, this is still just miles way better than what Samsung or Apple includes
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The two basically top brands. And yeah, there's not much more to say about this device
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It is just a mediocre phone for about €350. And to be fair, for that price, I think I would go for Xiaomi anyway
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because at least I have then placed services with my device. and also most of the time probably better performance
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Huawei is still one of those brands that when they were on top of the game
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their phones might have been worth that much but they're not on top anymore but they're still trying to preserve that's the same price range
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which no you should not like there is no point for this device to cost that much
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it's running a Snapdragon 6662 it's just mediocre phone all around It's a mid-range device and that's about all I can say positively about it
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Obviously the best part of this device is this charge right here, which I am kind of surprised that they actually included in there
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So yeah, it's basically it. So if you found this very helpful, don't forget to hit like, subscribe and thanks for watching
