If you’ve been following my Dayre you’d probably know that a few weeks ago I smashed the screen of my Huawei Mate 8. It’s funny how you can drop your phone hundreds of times and it’s the one time it drops at the right angle that cracks it. This time was it.
The first thing I did was messaged my friend Emma who works at Huawei and told her about the sin I had just committed. I wanted to pay for it but instead she took the Mate 8 off me and in the mean time gave me another phone to use.
That phone is the Huawei P9. Now I’m an ambassador of the Mate 8 (you can sometimes see me in some of the ads like the one below here) but not the P9. The Huawei P9 is Shorty’s phone.
I did have a couple of weeks of the P9 until I got my Mate 8 fixed and here’s how it felt.
- I loved the camera
The Huawei P9’s main selling point is the camera that is engineered by Leica. Let me show you the kind of pictures you can take with it.
Here’s one that Shorty took.
And this.
The pretty girl in black here is Emma. My friend from Huawei.
The thing that really surprised me though wasn’t just the quality of the back camera but also the front “selfie” camera. I gotta be honest that both cameras perform really well compared to my Mate 8. Since then I’ve recommended the P9 to a number of people and they all seem to love the camera.
2. I began to appreciate the size of the phone…
When I first got it I felt uneasy with how small it was compared to my Mate 8 but I very quickly got used to it. Before long the small size became more of a plus to me and less of a minus… especially considering how my jeans seem to be skinnier and skinnier.
3) Then there’s the USB 3.0 charger head
The Huawei P9 uses a complete different charger head. It’s not the USB 2.0 that we’re all used to and has been made the standard. It’s the 3.0.
As you can imagine my first thoughts were one of annoyance. Why would you fix something that isn’t broken?
Well okay after I did some research I did realize that the 3.0 is better. It charges faster, it transfers data faster and it helps your battery go on for longer.
But the pleasant surprise to me was when I found out that my MacBook uses a USB 3.0 charger. So for the first time in my life I can charge my phone with the same charger I use to charge my laptop.
The day I got my Mate 8 back though I went back to it and put the P9 back into the box. I realize that I really really missed the P9 camera but the Mate 8 had one major selling point to me. It’s insanely long battery life.
So I went back to it.
I have in the past recommended both phones to my friends and many of them have bought and not regretted either of the Huawei. Shorty’s friends too.
It’s not often that I get to work professionally with a brand that makes products that I truly love. Huawei is one such brand.
Oh and here’s one of the Huawei ads you might see me in.
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space