I wonder if it will ever get that far before L 5.0


I hope everyone knows that Huawei has changed the way they refer to ROMs now. Instead of calling it a B623 they call it by it's release date hence the 4.8.1 or 4.7.16 or 4.7.1

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I would say you will be happy with the phone in almost every way. The only thing that you might want to do is to buy 1 or 2 extra batteries and a charger. Sounds like you will be doing some HD use of it. The OEM battery from Huawei was going for about $16 USD which I thought was a little high. I bought 2 aftermarket batteries and a charger for about $10 USD. I have had no trouble with them and see no difference in use time between stock and aftermarket.
Screen is great, call quality is great, no lag and 4.4 makes it even faster. Chinese version has had 3 OTA 4.4 updates where and International version has not had any yet. They have an 8 core version of this phone for just a bit more money but I have not doing any reading on it so don't know much.
They have also just come out with an Honor 6 for twice as much money that I guess they are trying to compete with the new iPhone 6