Xiaomi MI6 VS Huawei Honor V9 Review, Which One Will Be Better

Recently, Xiaomi has released Xiaomi MI6 flashship smartphone, aiming at dual rear camera, four curved screen and Snapdragon 835 processor. As smartphone leading brand, the best rival for Xiaomi is Meizu and Huawei honor, which also aim at flagship, dual rear camera, etc. So Huawei Honor V9 can be the latest rival for Xiaomi MI6. Which one is better between Xiaomi MI6 and Huawei Honor V9?

Xiaomi MI6

Design

In terms of design, Xiaomi MI6 and Huawei Honor V9 have different design, the former adopts glass or ceramic design, and fingerprint scanner on the front without opening a port . But Huawei Honor V9 uses metal design, and the fingerprint scanner on the back. Xiaomi MI6 has 5.15 inch screen, with four curved screen, which is an impressive smartphone, especially ceramic black version.

Huawei Honor V9

Huawei Honor V9 has 5.7 inch 2K screen with better black frame control, due to 2.5D glass, it looks very exquisite. And its 2K screen adopts CE color enhancement technology, improving color saturation and more colorful color, which is better for image quality.

In terms of screen experience, Huawei Honor V9 has larger experience, because if you want to experience VR headset, 2K screen resolution is more important.

Hardware

As for their performance, Huawei Honor V9 is powered by Kirin 960 Octa core processor, while Xiaomi MI6 adopts latest Snapdragon 835 Octa core processor, both of them have big gap. Because the performance of Kirin 960 is weaker than that of Snapdragon 835. As for Antutu test, Huawei Honor V9 antutu has got over 120,000 points, but Xiaomi MI6 has got over 180,000 points. They both have RAM 6GB ROM 64GB/128GB version. Therefore, Xiaomi MI6 is more powerful than Huawei Honor V9.

Camera

Xiaomi MI6 Camera Samples

Huawei Honor V9 and Xiaomi MI6 both have dual rear camera, Huawei Honor V9 adopts dual 12MP black+white and color camera to support PDAF and deep focus. In fact, in most scene, it can support seconds focus. It is worthwhile to know that in order to improve photographing experience, Huawei Honor V9 adopts Lite OS algorithm, which has faster image speed and keeps higher quality about images.

Huawei Honor V9 Samples

Xiaomi MI6 has dual 12MP back camera, besides one wide viewing angle camera, there is also a new long focus camera, supporting twice optical focus, which can take distant objects in close distance. It supports four axis OIS, it is built in gyroscope and accelerometer, high speed detecting the shake from eight directions.

Therefore, they are similar in camera quality. But if you take photos about people every day, Xiaomi MI6 will be winner, but if you don’t take images about people, you can choose Honor V9.

Battery

Xiaomi MI6 Battery

Huawei Honor V9 adopts 4,000mAh battery, which is larger than Xiaomi MI6 with 3,350mAh battery, just as what we say, Xiaomi MI6 processor and internal storage can save more power, Honor V9 has larger screen with higher resolution, so they should have similar battery life.

Conclusion

Huawei Honor V9 runs EMUI 5.0 OS based on Android 7.0 OS, and Xiaomi MI6 runs MIUI 8.0 based on Android7.0 OS, they have their own features in terms of OS, but according to comparison, Huawei Honor V9 has some advantages like 2K screen, VR experience, but Xiaomi MI6 is famous for four curved screen, performance, and price, we highly recommend Xiaomi MI6 in terms of competition. After all, if you enjoy Huawei Honor V9 with better resolution, you can also choose Huawei Honor V9.