By: Mohamed Abdulrahman & Yara El-Hemaily

Huawei is one of the companies that was able to impose its name on the mobile market in Egypt and the whole globe, thanks to the attention directed to fulfilling the needs of the user on one hand and the low price on the other, aiming to satisfy a larger segment of users.

Today, we will talk about one of its most successful mobile phones that were produced in 2017: Huawei GR5 mobile phone. In this review, we will tell you more about the pros and the cons of the phone, along with the user review for more reassurance. If you like it, you can order it online via Yaoota and have it delivered to your doorstep in no time.

*Prices listed in this article are the ones provided at the time of its publication, and are subject to change according to the supply and demand of the market.

Huawei GR5 2017 Specifications

You can see the detailed specs of Huawei GR5 2017 on Mobihub here.

Mobihub is an Egyptian website offering you a wide variety of mobile phones from the largest mobile phone companies in Egypt and the world. Through this website, you can know of different types of mobile phones, their specifications and features, pros, cons and price.

Huawei GR5 2017 Evaluation

• A fully-metallic design.
• The right-hand side of the mobile phone has the sound controls and the power key.
• The left-hand side of the mobile phone has a separate port for the SIM card.
• On the top of the mobile phone, we can find the earphone jack and an extra noise-cancellation microphone.
• The bottom side of the mobile phone has the handset, microphone and charging port.
• The mobile screen has a selfie camera and a LED notification light.
• The backside of the mobile phone has dual cameras, a LED flash and a fingerprint sensor.

Design

Pros

• Elegant metallic design.
• The mobile phone is equipped with an extra noise-cancellation microphone, LED notification light and a fingerprint sensor.

Cons

• None concerning the design.

User Review

• The mobile phone comes with a shiny metallic design that adds to its aesthetic shape in the sunlight. We notice a slight curvature on the sides of the mobile phone, which makes it easy for the user to hold the phone and use it with one hand without falling. The risk of falling, in general, is also low due to its low thickness, which is approximately 8 mm.
• Huawei designed the sound controls button separate from the power button so that the user can easily distinguish between them when using the mobile phone.
• The location of the mobile’s fingerprint sensor is similar to the other versions of Huawei (underneath the camera). Many people think this place is the best, as it facilitates access to the fingerprint sensor in usage.

Screen

Pros

• An IPS screen with an appropriate size of 5.5 inches, 1080 pixel resolution, 401 ppi pixel density, and equipped with 2.5D screen glass.
• The screen supports multitouch (up to 10 fingers).
• The mobile screen is equipped with a LED notification light.

Cons

• The screen is not equipped with an additional protection layer against breakage.

User Review

• The screen comes in a suitable size for all fans of watching videos or movies on the mobile phone.
• The colors and angles of vision and mobile handling are very distinctive, even in direct sunlight.
• The screen offers a nice feature for long-time readers or those who like to read in poor lighting: by reducing the brightness of the screen and giving it a yellowish hue, the reader can read for longer time without feeling fatigue or eyestrain.
• Although there is a LED notification light for the mobile phone, which gives more than one color with different notifications, that lighting is, unfortunately, reduced in the direct sunlight and may become hard to notice.
• As a user, you have to protect the screen with a screen protection layer against fracture and cracking, since the protective layer that comes with the phone is made of plastic.
• The screen size is convenient and the screen is easily accessible with one hand.
• The mobile navigation buttons are available on the screen, which can reduce the user’s sense of the screen size and makes them feel as though it’s smaller than 5.5 inches.

Performance

Pros

• The mobile phone comes with a HiSilicon Kirin 655 octa-core processor (divided into four 1.7-GHz cores and four 2.1-GHz cores), a Mali-T830 MP2 graphics processing unit with 32/64 GB internal storage capacity and 3/4 GB RAM. You can add external memory up to 256 GB.
• The mobile phone supports FM radio operation and 4G connectivity.
• The mobile phone supports Gyroscope and OTG technologies.

Cons

• The mobile phone does not support NFC technology.
• The mobile phone doesn’t come with Nougat Android version, unlike its “younger brother”, Huawei GR3 2017.
• You cannot run both SIM cards and the memory card simultaneously; you have to forgo one of them.

User Review

• The mobile’s performance is suitable when running multiple programs simultaneously, whether apps or games, and the user will not notice any lag in responsiveness to commands or freezing.
• Huawei’s interface enables the user to open two programs on the screen simultaneously and move back and forth between them. It also introduces to you the feature of changing the background every while so that you do not get bored with your wallpaper and to save you the trouble of changing it yourself.
• The performance of the mobile’s fingerprint sensor is strong and smooth, and through it, you can protect your programs and private photos. You can also open the camera, move between the photos, stop the alarm and answer calls through it.
• The mobile’s sound is pure, clear and loud, but it is not the best among competitors.
• The mobile is a convenient choice for you if you are a games fan, and you will not feel any overheating with prolonged use.
• If the phone comes with 4 GB RAM, the user will have 2 GB left after the OS version and the main apps are installed, which is quite a suitable capacity. The user will be left with 1.5-1.6 GB RAM in case of the 3 GB RAM version of the phone.
• With OTG, you can transfer your important files to and from any external device.
• The mobile accepts the update of the latest Android version, Nougat.

Camera

Pros

• The mobile phone comes with dual rear cameras (one is 12 megapixels and the other is 2 megapixels) equipped with a LED Flash.
• The mobile’s selfie camera is strong and comes with 8 megapixels.
• The mobile records videos at 1080p.

Cons

• The camera is not equipped with OIS (optical image stabilization) technology.
• The mobile’s flash is mono-LED and not dual-LED like most of the competing phones.
• The mobile’s selfie camera is not equipped with a flash.

User Review

• The dual camera gives a variety of options for the user in photography, such as adjusting and intensifying the focus on a particular body in the image. After capturing the photos, you can change the focus of the body photographed.
• The performance of the camera is suitable and fast.
• The mobile camera offers more than one photography mode and filter, and its colors are beautiful and realistic. A lot of users think that the camera of Huawei GR5 2017 is the best in its price category and better than many competitors’.
• The selfie camera comes with a photography angle of 77 degrees and is equipped with Splash technology, which can capture and isolate the white and black image colors like professional photographers.
• Despite the absence of a flash, the selfie camera’s photos are clear even in poor lighting.
• For all those who are fond of controlling lighting levels and the other factors of photography, the mobile offers the Pro Photo Mode, which allows them to significantly control the editing of the photos.
• The camera may be prone to scratches if the phone were placed on its back, as the camera stands out of the mobile’s back ever so slightly. That problem, however, can be overcome by using a mobile phone cover.

Battery

Pros

• The battery has a large capacity of 3340 mAh.

Cons

• You cannot change the mobile phone’s battery yourself.
• It does not support fast-charging technology.

User Review

• The mobile battery offers a satisfactory performance for more than a day, and it can live up to 6 hours in case of 3G internet operation and 7 hours in case of Wi-Fi internet access.
• The mobile fully charges within over 3 hours, which is a relatively lengthy period of time. This is considered a shortcoming for the mobile’s battery.

Check out Huawei GR5-2017 Mobile Phone here.

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