Endurance
The P8 has a battery of 2,680 mAh and that seems on the tight side, but in practice it's not that bad. With a screen on time of about four hours, the P8 managed quite easily to last 1.5 days on one battery charge. We mainly use a number of news and social media apps and synchronization for two email accounts.
Huawei supplies one of the most comprehensive energy saving menus on its appliances from all manufacturers. To start with, you can carry out battery monitoring here. This scans the device for possible 'problems' and saving options. The problems detected are generally not very shocking and the proposed optimisation has a relatively large impact on the normal operation of the device resulting in limited power savings. Furthermore, it is possible to set the power plan. This regulates the CPU and network usage to match performance and power consumption. We chose the smart setting.
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The power saving settings can be adjusted even more. For example, the 'power-intensive prompt' can be switched off here. If you don't do this, the device will give a notification every once in a while if an energy-intensive app is detected. This energy consumption is normally not that bad and Android also takes care of shutting down apps if necessary.
Call quality
In addition to the contact list, the phone application is also merged with the message application. The tab for the number dialler shows the log with a numeric keypad underneath with which the desired contact can be found via smart dial. Pocket mode and virtual HD call, among other things, can be enabled in the settings. Huawei used to score badly on call quality, but this time we had nothing to complain about reception and call quality.
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The P8 has Link+ and a part of it is Signal+. This should, among other things, improve call quality by better reception of signals. We haven't really been able to test it because it is on by default and you can't change any settings. It is therefore rather confusing that after using the device you get a message about this which makes you think that something still needs to be activated.