The Honor 9 is a smartphone made by Huawei under their Honor sub-brand. It is a successor of the Huawei Honor 8 within the Huawei Honor series of mobile phones. Specifications Hardware The Honor 9 is a flagship smartphone made by Honor, a sub-brand under the Huawei Group, as part of the Huawei Honor series. The phone has a HiSilicon Kirin 960 octa-core processor (four 2.4 GHz cores and four 1.8 GHz cores), a Mali-G71 MP8 GPU, and a 3,200 mAh non-removable battery. It measures by by and weighs . The phone comes with 64 or 128 gigabytes of storage and 4 GB or 6 GB of RAM, depending on the region. It has a display with a pixel resolution of 1920x1080 and pixel density of 428 ppi. The Honor 9 has an 8 MP front-facing camera and its dual rear camera setup consists of a 12 MP RGB lens and a 20-megapixel monochrome lens. It can record video in 4K and has electronic image stabilization for Full HD video. Other features include dual-SIM support, furthermore includes a USB-C port, and a fingerprint reader located on the lower bezel. The Honor 9 has a metal frame and a 3D curved glass rear, and its official tagline is "the light catcher." The phone comes in "Glacier Grey," "Sapphire Blue," "Midnight Black," and gold, but some colors are not available in certain markets. During IFA 2017 in Berlin, Honor announced the new color variant for the Honor 9, which was the limited edition "Robin Egg Blue." The color became available in China in August, and was released in the United Kingdom in September. Software Huawei launched Honor 9 with Android Nougat (version 7.0) and Huawei's EMUI 5.1. In the spring of 2019, Huawei began to roll out Android Pie (EMUI 9.0) for the device. Release The phone was released in China on June 12, 2017, and revealed in Berlin on June 27, 2017. It became available for pre-ordering across United Kingdom on June 27, 2017. Reception Overall, initial reviews of the Honor 9 were positive, averaging 8.8 out of 10. Android Authority's Gary Sims gave the phone a rating of 8.7 out of 10, and wrote in his review summary: "The Honor 9 certainly ticks a lot of the right boxes: great performance, dual cameras, sleek design, and an IR blaster! The only downsides are the lack of toughened glass over the