Huawei Honor 9 vs Samsung Galaxy S8: Specs Comparison, Which is the Best?

By Angel Lee / 1497454838
(Photo : YouTube) Huawei Honor 9 comes with powerful hardware but with an affordable price. Could Huawei's newly launched phone outmatch Samsung's most powerful device, the Galaxy S8?

Huawei has officially launched the new Honor 9 smartphone. Just like its predecessor, the new Honor 9 comes with an even more powerful hardware specification but at an affordable price tag. While Samsung, its newly launched powerhouse smartphones are currently the most powerful devices in the world right now.

The Huawei Honor 9: Design, Specs, Features, And Price

The Huawei Honor 9 comes a handy 5.15-inch Full HD display and a default DCI-P3 color space. Powered by HiSilicon's top chipset, the Kirin 960, backed up with 6 GB of RAM with either 64GB or 128GB storage. The device also sports a 20-megapixel and 12-megapixel dual rear camera along with the 8-megapixel front snapper for selfies. Under the hood is 3,100 mAh battery with fast charging support. Other features are 4G VoLTE support, NFC, Bluetooth, GPS, NFC and Huawei Pay service compatibility. The Honor 9 is said to powered by Android 7.0 Nougat with EMUI 5.1 on top, and it's very likely that the device will receive the Android O update. Reports claim price may start at  $340.


The Samsung Galaxy S8: Design, Specs, Features, And Price 

Samsung Galaxy S8 has a 5.8-inch QHD Super AMOLED display. Samsung announced that the new powerhouse phone is the first to be certified by the UHD Alliance as Mobile HDR Premium. Comes with a 12-megapixel dual pixel rear camera with optical image stabilization and 8-megapixel front camera with autofocus shooter for selfies.

The Galaxy S8 is fueled by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 SoC in the US, and Exynos 8895 SoC for the international market. Backed up with 4GB of RAM and with 64GB inbuilt storage, that supports expandable storage via microSD card up to 256GB. Along with Samsung dex and with fast wireless charging and 64GB of UFS 2.0 storage. As for the software, Galaxy S8 runs Android Nougat pre-installed. Price starts at  $750.