Huawei Y560 review

[Adoxographist]

I just got the huawei y560 from Edgars for 999 and here is my feedback:

Specs:
Screen: 4.5 FWVGA TN (glass, capacitative)
CPU: Qualcomm MSM8909 - I think its the snapdragon 210
OS: Android 5.1+EMUI 3.1 Lite
RAM: 1GB
Storage: 8GB
Network: 3g + LTE
Sensor: Light, proximity, accelerator.
Battery 2000mah.

Pros:
Android 5.1
1gb ram
LTE

Cons:
Bad viewing angles
No led notification

Really good for its price. Feels solid but on the upper middle of the back there is a slight flex.
Had it for a few hours and the battery life feels like it will last me a whole day of heavy use.
It has 4g LTE, and the screen seems responsive and accurate enough
The camera quality sucks. Its terrible. Like vga quality.
Its running android 5.1 so thats a plus.
The screen feels hazy? Don't know how to explain it, with the galaxy core prime the screen looks washed out, with this the screen is sharp-ish but a bit off?
Will play around with it a bit more.

 

[Chad_29]

I'm thinking of getting this phone.. Can you provide a more detailed review of it?

 

[Adoxographist]

When doing heavy mulittasking, such as chrome with multiple tabs and feedly in the background, I experienced force close of the active app.
The battery life is normal, about 4-8 hours on wifi depending on brightness. Much better than the gobii ivp.
I played around with the vodafone smart grand? at game and I can say the huawei is more snappier than the vodafone.
Call quality is good, but I don't care as much about that, it gets good reception, I see with cheaper phones people complaining about wifi strength but no problems with this one.

A minor annoyance I had was with lack of backlight on the capacitive buttons, hard to use at night. Multi-touch (2 finger pinch to zoom) is 90% reliable... A bit finicky at times.
Storage space could be a issue. I get 4.6gb available space and after all the apps I installed (email, browser, doc readers, notes) I have 2,4gb remaining.
There are also no accessories for this phone. Only place available is ebay/aliexpress etc and it goes by the name of Huawei Honor Bee/Y5

Camera is terrible but with good brightness you can get some decent looking photos but don't depend on it.

One finger Touch sensitivity and accuracy is good (I had the lumia 535 and the touch was all over the place, worse phone ever). Also when you press hard on the screen you don't get that funny rainbow blur compared other budget phones
The performance I have no issues with, and I'm very finicky with performance. I dumped phones on gumtree within a week if I'm not happy with it and with browsing, email, youtube, feedly, reddit this phone runs smoothly.
I didn't play any games on it so I can't tell you much about game performace But temple run, angry birds should run smoothly on it.
GPS is good, It found my location quickly and I hardly waited for it to get my position.

I had several hauwei devices before so I'm okay with the brand they seem reliable.

Overall if you are going to browse web, whatsapp, and email. This phone is more than good enough.

 

[Chad_29]

Thanks man this is exactly what I was looking for... Google couldn't help me .... I'm currently considering this phone along with the Vodafone you mentioned, and also the Hisense Glory U602 seems interesting. Have you come across any Hisense devices? Their prices are competitive

 

[Adoxographist]

Unfortunately haven't had the chance to try out any hisense devices.
The hisense website tells me the U602 has only 512mb ram and 1500mAh battery. While the hi-fi page tells me it has 1gb ram? Weird.
The good thing about the huawei is that its lolipop 5.1 not 5.0 which has memory leaks and the battery is 2000mAh.
It doesn't have dual sim but has lte and its R300 cheaper the hisense.
Vodafone Smart Grand has nearly identical specs as Huawei but battery is 1800mAh but bigger screen at 5', battery life might suck on it.

Some further annoyance with Huawei: Every few days it looses signal and doesn't get it again until I restart it. Could be telkom mobile problem.

 

[Chad_29]

With the Hisense I'm sure it has 1GB ram as takealot.com also states that. The Huawei seems like the most promising device. I just want something reliable for everyday use. I'm also looking into Lumias as I want to take Windows Phone for a test drive. The Lumia 535 seems like the best candidate as it's expected to also get a Windows 10 update.

 

[skaapgif]

Could you post some example photos? I'm looking at getting one of these for an employee to use as a cheap scanner for photographing documents. I've tried the Zest phone (the one afrihost marketed at some point), but close up photos were terrible and it was impossible to get it to focus.

 

[I O U]

I'm looking at getting one of these ...... to use as a cheap scanner for photographing documents.

It's the same price as the CANON LIDE SCANNER 120, which is a dedicated scanner - why not just get something tasked for the job, rather ? http://www.incredible.co.za/departments/printers/scanners

I tested taking some pics of docs using my old Huawei Y300 ; I can get them to result in not being blurred by playing around with distance held from the docs. & using the zooming slider on the phone, but it does require playing around with. I presume then, that the Y560's results would be equal to or slightly better than the Y300's camera.

 

[chickenbeef]

Got myself one of these last month as a backup/spare phone.

It's excellent for the price (R899 now). The screen can be a bit iffy if you type too fast so I end up relying on autocorrect most of the time. Viewing angles could be better but I suppose it's on par for phones in this segment. Would be nice if the local ones were the dual SIM variant.

Will recommend.

 

[The Number 1 Knoxxman]

Do not buy this crappy phone. had it for almost two months. (1) Whenever i play music on my headphones, the music level keeps changing while playing a song. You have to open a web browser in order for the volume to be stable. (2) I paired it with my VW polo Vivo radio via bluetooth to play some music, my radio went into safe mode. For those of you who dont know what safe mode is: Anti theft for car radios. Popular with VW's and Audi's. Safe mode means i have look for a code in my service book only to find that bloody VW hasn't provided me with. Now i must drive 200 km to the nearest VW to get it rebooted. I thought i was the only one. When i told my friend, who also drives a polo vivo and uses this useless piece of crap of a phone, his car also went to safe mode due to pairing.

 

[chickenbeef]

That looks like a problem with the piece of crap they call the Vivo

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/630295-Samsung-Galaxy-S5-to-VW-bluetooth-issue

The fact that you have to drive 200KM to get your radio sorted is also VW's/your fault for not having the code on hand.

Mine's permanently in my car being used as a GPS and for streaming music to my headunit - haven't had any issues with it.