Huawei Y9 (2018) Specs and Price

Huawei is one of the Chinese OEMS that has a strong reach in the mid-range smartphone category. The new Huawei Y9 (2018), is a similar model to the Honor 10 Lite smartphone sharing a number of features with it.

The Chinese giant have been doing quite well releasing a number of nice smartphones both in the mid-range and high-end smartphone category. Let’s have a look at the Huawei to see if it follows in the same vein. You may also be interested in the Huawei Y9 (2019) and Huawei Y9 Prime (2019)

Design and Display

Huawei Y9 (2018) is a definition of what you call modern design, coming with bezel-less display, 18:9 aspect ratio and a metallic unibody. The top bezels have been trimmed down so that the much of the display can be accommodated.

This gives you a smartphone that has a large screen without the phone being unnecessarily large. However, am not really a fan of having a logo on both the front (below the display) and centrally at the back.

From a mid-range smartphone you don’t expect more than what you have on the Huawei Y9 (2018). It fits perfectly if you are a fan of large display towering up to 5.93-inch and has a crisp and decent colour representation. Featuring a 2160 X 1080 pixels resolution, you have a 407 ppi pixel density and decent viewing angle.

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Battery and Camera

It also ticks the box for enough battery power with a 4, 000 mAh which is quite sufficient to last a day of normal usage which include chatting, surfing the internet, wi-fi connection and watching clips etc.

Also, it charges through a MicroUSB port using a quick charge feature that delivers more charge in a relatively short time.

As for taking pictures, you are provided with a not too common quad camera arrangement. Which means you have a dual camera at the back and another at the front making it four cameras in total.

There’s a 13MP and 2MP dual front camera and a 16MP plus 2MP dual camera on the rear panel. The small pixel camera is meant for background detail to make a better picture.

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Hardware and Software

Things can only get better with an impressive engine powering the Huawei Y9 (2018) on the inside with a quite powerful Huawei’s own Kirin chipset.

Sporting an 8 core HiSilicon Kirin 659 SoC with the lesser cores clocking at 1.7GHz and the other at 2.36GHz. Also, there is an ARM Mali-T880 MP2 GPU for graphics munching.

It doesn’t end there as you also have a 3GB and 4GB variant. This is accompanied by a 32GB and 64GB internal storage space respectively. With these, the smartphone will run smoothly alongside the EMUI 8 based on Android 8.0 Oreo.

Huawei Y6 (2018) Price and Availability

The Huawei Y9 (2018) price in Nigeria starts at around 55,000 Naira. You can buy at online stores.