44 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 45
REVIEW
in line with what you’d expect: this isn’t a flagship-
rivalling device, and it isn’t meant to be.
Benchmark results show that isn’t far from super-
fast, but in real-world use it’s perfectly quick. Apps
may take a little longer to launch, but they run
smoothly and you can run most games (such as
Asphalt 8 and Pokémon GO) without issue: they
won’t look quite as good as on much faster phones,
but they also won’t run like the slideshows we saw
in GFXBench, which is designed to highlight the
differences between phones.
Honor is working with certain developers including
Gameloft to optimise games for the 18:9 screen so
you see more of a scene. With most games, forcing
them to use the entire screen just crops them so youGFXBench
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