The Huawei P9 is an awesome camera-focused flagship smartphone. It boasts an amazing camera setup, including dual Leica-certified 12MP rear cameras, as well as an octa-core processor, ample RAM, a powerful battery and a fingerprint scanner, amongst other great features.
Where to Buy Huawei P9
Jumia.com.ng₦274,895.00 Buy Now (Nigeria)
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Design and Display
The Huawei P9 flaunts an eye-catching, premium appearance fitting of a flagship device. It parades a unibody design with a chassis made of one-piece metal.
The phone is interestingly svelte at just 6.95 millimetres and is offered in four attractive colour variants, namely: Prestige Gold, Rose Gold, Mystic Silver and Titanium Grey.
Huawei P9 is fitted with a brilliant 5.2-inch IPS LCD display with a Full HD resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels for a pixel density well beyond 400 pixels per inch. Users are in for amazing clarity and superb wide-angle viewing.
Camera
The major claim to fame of the Huawei P9 is in terms of what it offers in the camera department. It packs a pair of 12-megapixel cameras co-engineered with German camera maker Leica.
One of these shooters is RGB while the other is monochrome working together to deliver better lighting and enhanced contrast.
The Huawei P9 features super-fast, laser-assisted autofocus and optical image stabilisation (OIS). You also get a superb 8-megapixel front-facing shooter for great selfies.
Hardware and Software
Under the hood, the Huawei P9 carries an in-house HiSilicon Kirin 955 processor clocked at an amazing speed of 2.5 GHz.
The octa-core CPU is supported by either 3 GB or 4 GB of RAM for robust multitasking. A Mali-T880 MP4 GPU crunches graphics for smooth gaming and content viewing. Huawei P9 comes with 32 GB or 64 GB on-board storage, depending on model.
Extra storage of up to 128 GB can be added using a microSD card. The smartphone boots Android 6.0 Marshmallow operating system with Huawei’s Emotion UI 4.1 skin overlaid.
Juice is provided to the Huawei P9 by a 3,000mAh battery, which looks to support decently long hours of use. There is a fingerprint scanner supposedly intelligent enough to recognise touch at any angle. Huawei P9 comes with a reversible USB Type-C port.
Pricing and Availability
Huawei P9 is now available in Nigeria. You can buy it at leading online stores in the country. Huawei P9 Price in Nigeria ranges from 180,000 to 280,000 Naira depending on your location in Nigeria. Price in Kenya starts at 44,000 KSh
Huawei P9 Specs
Here are a few specs of the Huawei P9:
General Features
- Platform: Android 6.0 (Marshmallow)
- Processor: ARM Cortex-A72 Quad-core 2.5GHz, ARM Cortex-A53 Quad-core 1.8GHz (Huawei HiSilicon KIRIN 955)
- GPU: Arm Mali-T880 MP4
- Memory: 3GB RAM
- Colours: Gold, Silver, Gray
- Dimension: 145 x 70.9 x 6.95 mm
- Weight: 144 g
- SIM Type: Nano-SIM
- SIM Count: Dual SIM
Display
- Display: 5.2-inch Touch Display, 1080 x 1920 pixels (424 ppi)
- Display Protection: –
Camera
- Rear Camera: Dual 12MP Camera, HD Video 1080p @30fps
- Rear Camera Features: Autofocus,Dual-LED flash, Geo-tagging, touch focus, face/smile detection, panorama, HDR, Leica camera, Laser autofocus
- Front Camera: 8MP Camera
Storage
- Built-in Storage: 32GB
- Memory Card Support: MicroSD
- Bundled Cloud Storage: –
Network Support
- 2G GSM: Yes
- 2G CDMA 1X: No
- 3G WCDMA: Yes
- 3G CDMA EVDO: No
- 4G LTE: Yes
Internet & Connectivity
- GPRS: Yes
- EDGE: Yes
- 3G/WCDMA/HSPA: Yes
- HSPA+: Yes, up to 42.2 Mbps
- CDMA EVDO: No
- 4G LTE: Yes, up to 150 Mbps
- WLAN: Yes, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Wi-Fi Direct
- Wi-Fi Hotspot: Yes
- Bluetooth: Yes Bluetooth 4.2, A2DP
- NFC: No
- Infrared Blaster: No
- USB Port: Yes USB 2.0
Messaging
- SMS/MMS: Yes
- Instant Messaging: Yes
- Push Emails: Yes
- Email Protocol: –
Entertainment
- Music Player: MP3/WAV/eAAC+/Flac player
- Video Player: Xvid/MP4/H.264 player
- FM Radio: Yes
- Loudspeaker: Yes
- 3.5mm Jack: Yes
Navigation
- Navigation: Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS
- Maps: –
Sensors & Control
- Digital Compass: Yes
- Accelerometer: Yes
- Proximity Sensor: Yes
- Light Sensor: Yes
- Barometer: No
- SpO2: No
- Pedometer: No
- Heart Rate Monitor: No
- Gyroscope: No
- Fingerprint Scanner: Yes
- Iris Scanner: No
- Intelligent Digital Assistant: Yes
- Motion Sensing / Gesture Control: No
- Voice Control: Yes
Other Features
- Video Streaming: Yes
- Active Noise Cancellation: Yes
- Wireless Charging: No
- Built-in Mobile Payment: No
- Water Resistant: No
- Dust Resistant: No
- Image Editor: Yes
- Video Editor: Yes
- Document Viewer: Yes
- Document Editor: No
Battery
- Battery: Li-Polymer 3000 mAh battery (Non-Removable)
- Talktime: –
- Standby Time: –
