Impressive facts about Honor 8

[yalokiy]

Let's gather all the great "Did you know?" facts about Honor 8!

I'll start with what was a pleasant surprise for me:

1. Did you know flash optimized f2fs filesystem is used for internal storage? (why that is impressive? )


Updating the list with new findings:
Did you know...
2. Starting with EMUI 5 default camera has gained support for RAW format?
3. You can take a quick shot by double pressing volume down? (with the screen being off)
4. Kirin 950 (the SoC used in honor 8) Geekbench 4 multicore score beats exynos 8890 and Snapdragon 821?

 

[jkccl9]

what does that do

 

[masterhugo]

Did you know that on Honor and Huawei devices, it plays ambient music when it snows?

 

[yalokiy]

what does that do

Gives you better disk I/O performance.
XDA and anadtech measured the OP3 transition from ext4 to f2fs and mentioned noticeable improvement:
https://www.xda-developers.com/clea...-and-op3t-storage-speed-differences-and-f2fs/

Did you know that on Honor and Huawei devices, it plays ambient music when it snows?

joking? how to reproduce?

 

[masterhugo]

Gives you better disk I/O performance.
XDA and anadtech measured the OP3 transition from ext4 to f2fs and mentioned noticeable improvement:
https://www.xda-developers.com/clea...-and-op3t-storage-speed-differences-and-f2fs/


joking? how to reproduce?

Not joking! I'm not sure how to reproduce It, but it happens when it is snowing. So if you're somewhere snowy, watch out for it!

 

[Dominikrod]

Not joking! I'm not sure how to reproduce It, but it happens when it is snowing. So if you're somewhere snowy, watch out for it!

Could it be this? This is the inbuilt weather app. I've never heard a thing and I live in the Midwest. I'll turn it on and see if it plays.

 

[yalokiy]

Could it be this? This is the inbuilt weather app. I've never heard a thing and I live in the Midwest. I'll turn it on and see if it plays.

We had quite some snow for a few days and I opened the weather app, had this tones on and plugged my headphones, but no sound did I hear.. I'm on beta though.

By the way, I think the tones option is related with app background colors, not sounds.

 

[Dominikrod]

I just found out these two things were possible in my Honor 8. At least in EMUI 5.0

1. Lockscreen wallpaper scrolling.
2. and Lockscreen shortcuts pull up bar.

Probably I'm the only one that didn't know about this. Oh well, is my very first Huawei phone, not counting my wife's Honor 5x which she does not let me touch it at all. I wonder why?