Huawei Y9 Prime 2019

Huawei Y9 Prime is attractive enough to get you hooked. Priced at Rs. 15,990, the pop-up camera-enabled phone will draw your attention when your attention if you find it in the store.

While it pairs up style with a good battery, the Huawei Y9 Prime cuts corners and does not look like it is trying enough to impress its users. It looks good, but the build quality is inferior, and the performance is not mind-blowing either. Overall, it is an okay phone, which is not recommended since its competitors are way ahead to provide quality to the users.

The Huawei Y9 Prime comes with a plastic back and has a reflective coating to it, which gives it a premium touch. Based on how light falls on the rear panel of the phone, it gets a glittery effect. The phone has a pop-up selfie camera. However, it does not have the design that can symmetrically place the pop-up camera on the phone. It is almost thin at 8.8mm but is quite heavy at 196.8 g. Regarding the design, the Y9 Prime fails to make a mark. Plus, the back panel is a fingerprint magnet which can be frustrating, since that’s the only premium touch the phone provides.

Huawei Y9 Prime comes with a 6.59-inch Full HD+ display which has an IPS panel and a 19.5:9 aspect ratio. Unusually enough, it has no protection, which is a necessity in mid-range phones and can be found even in budget handsets. The display is quite decent, but there is a banding on top. Plus, in harsh sunlight, the display quality tends to fall.

Huawei Y9 Prime gets its power from the Kirin 710F which is an octa-core CPU clocked at about 2.2GHz, and it has Mali-G51 MP4 as GPU. It is paired with 4GB RAM which makes multitasking easier. However, the Kirin 710F is not a blazing-fast processor. While multitasking does work like a breeze, it stutters when intensive tasks are introduced. Gaming is also great at moderate presets, but in high settings, it might start to lag. The phone does come with a GPU Turbo 3.0, which will boost your gaming performance.

The Y9 Prime comes with a three-camera-module with the primary 16MP camera, an 8MP ultrawide lens and a 2MP camera for depth sensing. Plus, there is a 16MP pop-up camera in front. The pop-up camera pops up when the front camera is activated, and it gets retracted when the phone is about to hit the ground. Huawei has done stress tests and says it can withstand a pressure of about 15Kg. However, the cameras were not satisfactory when it comes to performance. The pictures were grainy, and it fails to keep the natural colors, even in ideal light situations at times. Indoor shots were poor. However, the ultra-wide lens can do a load of good when you are clicking in a natural setting.

The phone is fitted with a 4,000mAh battery. It is a decent battery which will keep the phone chugging for most of the day with light to moderate use. However, charging can be time-consuming as it does not support fast-charging and can take 2-3 hours to charge.

The Huawei Y9 Prime fails to impress the user. It comes with an unattractive design, poor cameras, and no fast-charging battery -all of which are requirements in a mid-range phone. The lacks seem to outnumber the pros of the phone, which are a decent performance and minimal bezels around the screen. Both advantages have been replicated better in many other phones, and so, overall, the Y9 Prime fails to place itself as a strong contender in the mid-range smartphone market.