Although smartphone sales in Indonesia market are still dominated by smartphone devices at affordable prices. But the development of high-end smartphone segments also experienced quite interesting developments. It is known that more and more expensive smartphones are available in the market. Vendors who present high-end smartphones are also quite a lot, call it Samsung, Honor, Huawei, and Oppo. This smartphone vendor is quite diligent in presenting its top class smartphone.
The
Samsung Galaxy A8 star and Honor 10 are smartphone devices that have a selling
price of Rp 6 million which is still widely circulating in the market. By
offering very tempting specifications and features, these two smartphones also
come with complete functionality to support current millennial user activities.
However, which of the two smartphones is more tempting to have. To be clearer,
here is the comparison of the two smartphones, starting from the specifications
and embedded features and the attractive capabilities they have.
Design
We start from the side of the design implanted; these two smartphones have very different design sizes. The star of the Samsung Galaxy A8 looks huge with dimensions of body 162.4 x 77 x 7.6 mm and a weight that reaches 191 grams. The size of the body that is embedded in this device, affects the screen size. The Galaxy A8 star comes with a 6.3-inch screen panel. Meanwhile, Honor 10 comes with a much smaller design size. This smartphone has a body dimension of 149.6 x 71.2 x 7.7 mm and weighs only 153 grams. This smartphone has a screen size of only 5.84 inches.
Both of these smartphones come with contemporary design concepts. Both the Honor 10 and Galaxy A8 star have a design similar to the current flagship smartphone that comes with a bezel-less design combined with a slim body.
The size of the Galaxy A8 star, even though the smartphone has a large screen size, but this device does not have a notch at the top of the screen. Even so, it does not really affect the appearance offered. Having a large body size, this is quite difficult for users who have a small hand size, especially women. In addition, the weight of the body that is quite heavy makes the user can not linger in using his smartphone device on the move. However, the Galaxy A8 star has its own flagship where this device is equipped with a special button dedicated to the features of their virtual assistant, Bixby. The laying of this button is still the same which is on the left; the position is below the volume button.
Meanwhile, the Honor 10, which comes with a smaller screen size, comes with a very contemporary design. The screen on the front plus the body cover that is wrapped in tempting colors makes this device Tamil very attractive. Both of these smartphones come with body material which is dominated by glass both the front and the rear which is implanted.
Both of these smartphones also carry
a dual camera on the back but have a different configuration. In addition, the
two smartphones are also equipped with fingerprint sensors, but the placement
is different. The Galaxy A8 star places a fingerprint sensor on the back that
is positioned right in the middle next to the camera sensor. Meanwhile, the
fingerprint sensor on the Honor 10 comes in the front of the device precisely
at the bottom of the screen.
More interesting, both of these smartphones have been equipped with frame aluminum using a type-C USB port as a gateway for data cable connections and chargers, which can also be used as a connector to the 3.5 mm audio jack, but this phone still provides a special 3.5 mm port audio. Unlike the Galaxy A8 star, Honor 10 does not have a special button to connect it to a Virtual assistant.
Display
From the screen sector, these two smartphones have a very different appearance between the two. Some high-end smartphones, the Galaxy A8 star has been equipped with AMOLED super screen panels. For the quality and sharpness of the image, this Samsung screen is arguably quite perfect.
The Samsung Galaxy A8 star carries a 6.3-inch screen with full HD + resolution. The aspect ratio of the cell phone screen is the same as the Galaxy Note 8 which is 18.5: 9. Suitable for displaying multimedia content such as video games. One thing that is unfortunate, the video content displayed by default is still a lot of people who do not support this aspect ratio. Automatically when the display orientation is made full screen, the video display will look like stretch. To provide user comfort, the Galaxy A8 star provides a fairly complete screen setup and can be easily traced.
To maximize its function, the Galaxy A8 star has been equipped with a 'Blue light filter' feature for the comfort of the eye when looking at the screen for a long time. Another distinctive feature of Samsung also being carried by this phone is Smart Stay. By activating this feature, the screen will remain lit when the sensor detects a face. To provide comfort when accessing the screen using one hand, the Galaxy A8 star also provides one hand mode settings. Operation can be through gesture by pulling the bottom corner of the screen diagonally, or by tapping the home button three times.
Meanwhile, the Honor 10, which has a smaller screen size, comes with a 19: 9 full screen screen design that meets around 80% of the face area. The screen size that is close to 6 inches that belongs to Honor does not make the physical as a whole so follow up. There is a notch in the upper area of the screen that holds the camera, earpiece, notification light and some sensors. Since its emergence, screen trends have bangs or notches as if dividing users into types, pros and cons. In this case, the Honor 10 seemed able to accommodate both. If you are a user who doesn't like this design, you can hide the notch via settings. Another feature in the screen sector is smart resolution. when this feature is activated, the screen will automatically decrease the resolution under certain conditions to save power. For example when running an application that does not require resolution up to full HD + (2160x1080). Users can also manually lower the resolution to HD + (1440x720) to save battery power. Honor 10 also underlies smart rotate smart features. If this feature is activated, the user does not need to worry about the orientation of the mobile screen changing when using the cellphone while lying down, the screen orientation will still follow the user's eye orientation.
OS,
Interface and Security
Although both have long been circulating in the market, for the operating system implanted Honor 10 has got the latest version of the OS Update, which is Android 9.0 while the Samsung Galaxy A8 star still uses the old version of OS, namely Android 8.0 oreo. Not only that, the application that is embedded in both smartphones is also very different. Honor uses many additional applications on this device. However, Samsung only embeds basic applications on a smartphone device. In addition, Samsung also has features such as smart stay. By activating this feature, the screen will remain lit when the sensor detects a face. To provide comfort when accessing the screen using one hand, the Galaxy A8 star also provides one hand mode settings. Operation can be through gesture by pulling the bottom corner of the screen diagonally, or by tapping the home button three times.
As for honorarium 10, even though the OS version has been updated, the overall appearance provided has not changed much from the previous version. All applications are immediately presented on the home screen without the Drawer app by default. In the far left panel there is a HiBoard that functions similar to Google Now. All important info for users will appear on this panel. There is also a choice of shortcuts (shortcuts) to run certain functions on the applications installed on this phone.
What's interesting is the existence of GPU Turbo, EMUI acts as a link between the graphic API on an application with the GPU on the chipset. GPU Turbo makes GPU work more efficient by deciding which parts of the frame need to be rendered again and which parts do not need to be rendered. Thus, honorariums claim that GPU Turbo makes GPU performance increase by 60% but at the same time saves battery power up to 30% thanks to the efficiency presented.
In the settings menu, there are additional options called smart assistance that already exists on other phones that also use EMUI. Options include HiTouch, one Handed UI, Motion control and Voice control. While for security, both the Honor 10 and the Samsung Galaxy A8 star are equipped with face unlock features, besides there are already biometric features such as fingerprint unlock.
Camera
As a smartphone with a price of 6 million rupiah, both of these smartphones have been equipped with photography facilities that are very qualified in their class. Honor 10 is equipped with a twin main camera with a configuration of an RGB (colored) camera sensor with 16 MP resolution, plus a high resolution monochrome (black-and-white) camera sensor, which is 24 MP. Both work behind the lens with f / 1.8 openings.
The thing that is not less interesting is the features provided by the camera sector. The most important thing to get attention is of course the AI photografhy feature. The AI Photografhy feature can recognize up to 22 types of object categories that are most often the object of camera phone shots, ranging from human portraits, pets, flowers, architecture, scenery and so on. There are 5 modes displayed on the camera's main interface including, Aperture, portrait, Photo, Video, AR Lens. But that does not mean that only the features provided. There are still at least 14 other choices in the choice of modes, ranging from pro, Slo-Mo, Monocrome, Time Lapse, 3D Creator and others.
While the Galaxy A8 star implements a dual camera sensor on the back with a 24 MP + 16 MP main camera that has f / 1.7 lens openings respectively. This aperture is reported to be smarter in adjusting the camera to ambient lighting conditions. The main camera of this phone is also supported by the Phase Detection Auto Focus (PDAF) feature, which can detect focus photos quickly and accurately, including for moving objects. Although not equipped with AI features, this star A8 Galaxy Camera includes a live focus feature that allows you to adjust the level of depth of field manually and directly displayed in the camera viewfinder.
Not only that, through the technology it has, you also still have the possibility to reset the quality of photos directly from the results of the camera in the photo gallery. Talking about the results of the front camera produced by these two smartphones both spoiled the selfie user with the results of a camera that has a feature that is able to manipulate the user's face to look more beautiful.
Hardware
From the performance sector, the two smartphones that have 6 million selling prices have different processor support. Honor 10 uses the upscale chipset made by Huawei, the kirin 970, which has been tested for its quality in accommodating user needs for activities.
Whereas Samsung only uses middle class chipsets which are commonly used on smartphones with prices of 3 million to 4 million. Even so, the embedded chipset, Qualcomm Snapdragon 660, also has high quality in accommodating user needs even though it is not as good as the Kirin 970 quality. This can be seen from the benchmark tests of these two smartphones which are very much different results.
Not only is the chipset support different in quality, the support of the internal memory capacity of the two smartphones is also very different. The Galaxy A8 star only attaches 64 GB of internal memory, while the Honor 10 comes with 2x more internal memory, 128 GB. As for RAM capacity, both of these smartphones are both buried with 4GB of RAM to support their daily activities.
Switching to the Power batrai sector, the Honor 10 with a 3400 mAh capacity battery compared to 3700 mAh belongs to the Samsung Galaxy A8 star. Based on the test, the Honor 10 battery has a accuracy of up to 15% when used to play HD games for one hour. While the Redmi Note 5, with the same activity of drained batteries as much as 13%, this is arguably reasonable, considering the Galaxy A8 star's battery capacity is greater than that of Honor 10.
Conclusion
After observing the various aspects offered can be concluded from the design side, the two appear attractive. Honor 10, in addition to being designed with a compact body that makes it nice to hold also has a charming appearance. In addition, the body cover that has a double color makes this device look very tempting. While the Galaxy A8 star offers more multimedia functions with screen size and the quality of the embedded screen.
While from the performance sector, Honor 10 is higher with its capabilities. With the ability of multitasting, gaming and multimedia, this device makes it more feasible to be a choice.
