**Focusing on Cameras: A Review of the Panasonic GX8 and 5x**

As I sat down to review these two cameras, I couldn't help but think that this was one of those readjusting Focus type things. You know, where you're trying to focus on something specific, but it keeps refocusing on something else entirely. In my case, it was the little flower in front of me. But as I began to explore the features and settings of both cameras, I realized that the issue wasn't with the camera itself, but rather with how I was using it.

The Panasonic GX8 is a compact camera that offers a range of features and modes for capturing high-quality photos and videos. It has a 1/2-inch CMOS sensor and a 10-megapixel resolution, which is quite impressive for its size. One of the standout features of this camera is its optical image stabilization (OIS), which helps to reduce camera shake and blur when shooting in low light or using long zoom lenses. However, I found that this feature wasn't always able to overcome other issues with the camera's performance.

In terms of photo quality, I was generally happy with the results I got from the GX8. Skin tones looked natural, and colors were often vibrant and accurate. However, there were also times when the images came out looking too sharp or over-contrasted, which detracted from the overall quality. Additionally, the camera's autofocus system could be slow to respond at times, making it difficult to capture sharp images in fast-moving subjects.

Moving on to the Panasonic 5x, I was struck by its sleek and compact design. It has a slightly smaller sensor than the GX8, but still offers impressive image quality and features like OIS and optical zoom. One of the standout features of this camera is its ability to track objects in real-time, allowing you to focus on moving subjects with ease. However, I found that this feature wasn't always reliable, and there were times when the camera struggled to keep up with fast-moving subjects.

In terms of video quality, both cameras left me underwhelmed. The GX8's autofocus system is particularly slow to respond during video recording, which can result in blurry or out-of-focus footage. Additionally, the camera's color rendition can be inconsistent, leading to images that are either too bright or too dark. The 5x fares slightly better in this regard, but still struggles with low-light performance and exposure issues.

Another feature that sets the 5x apart from the GX8 is its fingerprint sensor, which provides a convenient way to unlock the camera and access settings. However, I found that this feature wasn't always reliable, and there were times when it took longer than expected to recognize my fingerprint.

**Setting Up and Using the Cameras**

One of the things I appreciated about both cameras was their ease of use. The GX8 has a simple interface that makes it easy to navigate the different modes and settings. However, I found that the camera's menu system can be overwhelming at times, with too many options and features competing for attention.

The 5x also has a user-friendly interface, but I found that its fingerprint sensor added an extra layer of complexity to the setup process. Additionally, the camera's OIS feature is easy to access and use, but it can take some time to get used to its unique behavior.

**Front-Facing Camera: A Special Feature**

One of the most interesting features of both cameras is their front-facing camera. The GX8 has a high-quality 22-megapixel sensor that allows for impressive selfies and video calls. However, I found that the camera's ability to track my eyes and add features like lipstick and eyelashes was hit-or-miss at times.

The 5x also has a high-resolution front-facing camera, but its performance is slightly more inconsistent than the GX8's. Additionally, it lacks some of the advanced features available on the GX8, such as object tracking and facial recognition.

**Conclusion**

Overall, I was impressed with both cameras, despite their limitations. The Panasonic GX8 offers impressive image quality and a range of features for advanced users, but its autofocus system can be slow to respond at times. The 5x, on the other hand, has a sleek design and convenient features like OIS and optical zoom, but struggles with low-light performance and exposure issues.

If I had to choose between these two cameras, it would depend on my specific needs and preferences. The GX8 is ideal for advanced users who want high-quality images and video, but may require some patience when using the camera's autofocus system. The 5x, on the other hand, is a great option for those looking for a compact and convenient camera that can capture good images and videos without breaking the bank.

**Rating and Recommendation**

I would rate both cameras as follows:

* Panasonic GX8: 4/5 stars

+ Pros: High-quality image sensor, OIS, optical zoom, advanced features

+ Cons: Slow autofocus system, inconsistent color rendition

* Panasonic 5x: 3.5/5 stars

+ Pros: Sleek design, OIS, optical zoom, convenient fingerprint sensor

+ Cons: Low-light performance issues, exposure problems, slow autofocus system

If you're in the market for a new camera and are looking for high-quality images and video, I would recommend the Panasonic GX8. However, if you're on a budget or prefer a compact design, the 5x is still a great option to consider.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everybody this is Erica the technology nerd likes to film stuff and before me I have two phones that I find very interesting because they have a lot of the same specifications but for two very different price points so we have the honor 5x and we have the Huawei gx8 this is a $200 phone and this is a $350 phone with a lot of the same specifications of course there are some differences but I want to talk about them review them together they are similar enough phones to where I feel that I can review them together hopefully I can help you decide which one of these that you would like to go for the first thing you're going to notice is that both of these have different branding even though they do look kind of similar this is the honor brand and this is Huawei brand Huawei owns honor entirely so honor is a subset of Huawei and the idea is that Huawei is able to to sell their phones through honor at a lower price point so that people can get these into their hands at that lower price point they cut out the middleman there is no brick and mortar store you can only purchase these online so you can get this one already from Amazon or from honor and the gx8 is going to be available at Best Buy there is your brick and mortar store starting the 17th that's the 17th of March so $200 phone $350 phone being sold as an entry-level phone this is being sold as a mid-tier phone what is it that you get for the extra 150 bucks that's the first thing that I want to talk about and then I wanted to get more in depth and review these phones I will mostly be focusing on the gx8 because these are so similar so what is different between these well on the camera you have Optical image stabilization on the gx8 you have a nicer build design on the gx8 and then you have Gorilla Glass on the front so Gorilla Glass 4 this also has an oleophobic coating as well so really helps with fingerprints where the honor 5x does not they do have a screen protector that comes pre-installed although I took it off for the sake of this video so fingerprints stick more easily they're not as easy to wipe off as what we have on the gx8 and this is some type of tempered glass I can't say whether this is Gorilla Glass or not they just they don't say this is a flat type of glass where this one has that nice rounded bit to it the glass on the gx8 really does feel much nicer but other than that I really don't see any differences you've got your fingerprint sensor in the same spot you have a 3,000 mAh battery inside of both of these you have a 13 megapixel camera on both of these I think it's the same sensor so the big thing here is that this is being sold through honor and because of that they can sell this at a cheaper price but still there are things about the gx8 that does make it worth going up that extra step whether you would like to prefer to purchase this over another phone within the same price range that's going to be entirely up to you but I prefer the gx8 just because it feels much nicer and the optical image stabilization does make a pretty big difference in reality and that's what I'm going to be showing you a little bit later when we get into the more in-depth part of this review so we can take a look around these devices just to get a look at the build and the design so the gx8 has that nice unibody aluminum it's got a matte finish to it I think it looks really quite nice then you have the honor 5x which is also aluminum I can't say whether this is the same grade of aluminum but it doesn't feel as premium it's got this brushed type of look to it both of these have these plastic parts on the top and the bottom this is so that you get antenna reception you can't have all metal phones and expect to get antenna reception you can see that we have a dual tone LED flash here on the gx8 and this is just a single LED flash just monotone so this looks really really nice on the gx8 you've got that nice chamfer Edge all along the side here the display is seated really nicely we're on the 5x you can see that the display is screwed here it's got this plastic bit that sits here and then it's screwed on the bottom and it looks okay it looks nice enough but it certainly doesn't have the design effect of the gx8 if you look at the right hand side you have your volume rockers and your power buttons in the exact same place you have this nice bit of texturing on the gx8 you do too on the 5x it's just a little different then on the bottom we have our micro USB charging port and we have a speaker and a microphone I'm not sure which one is the speaker or the microphone I'm sure I will put an annotation to note that it's not dual speaker it just ends up looking nice to have them both uniform like this then on the left hand side this is where it gets interesting we have a SIM card slot and this actually is a SIM card slot that can take two Nano Sims or it can take a nano SIM and an SD card slot where this one you can take two Nano Sims excuse me I meant to say that the 5x has a micro SIM and a nano SIM not two Nano Sims and you can also add an SD card slot so you can have all three of those at the same time or this one you have to do either or I'm curious as to why this feature is not on the gx8 the more expensive phone on the front they both have a 5.5 in 1080P display IPS display these are not the same display I did some measurements and I was able to find that essentially this is a wider gamut display both of these have very bluish looking displays we'll get into that a little bit later so don't expect color accuracy on either of these guys but hey there's a $350 phone and a $200 phone respectively then we also have our receiver ambient light sensor and proximity sensor and both of these have a 5 megapixel camera on the front now their interfaces are really very similar you can see just go in inside of these go to about phone and you can see that both of these run em UI 3.1 I find that this has some additional fingerprint sensor capabilities that this one does not I don't know why the gx8 doesn't have some of those fingerprint abilities both of these have 2 gigabytes of RAM both of these have 16 GB of internal storage both of these have the exact same s so also both of these have a 3,000 Mah hour battery inside of them so we have the Snapdragon 616 sfc inside of both of these guys so very much the same phone now when it comes to the fingerprint sensor functions both of these fingerprint sensors work very very well you can see just touching on the back from both of them they're both on there are some added features that we have here that you don't see on the gx8 I'm not sure why that is so you have touch control click and touch control so we have back where this one does not so you can see it says press the fingerprint sensor to go back to your previous action you also have back to home so if you press and hold on this fingerprint sensor it's going to take take you to the home screen which I find to be really nice I love that shortcut I really wish we had that on the gx8 both can take a photo and also can take video if you touch and hold on the fingerprint sensor when underneath the camera application both can answer a call both can stop an alarm also if you swipe upward on the 5x no matter where you are it's going to bring you into your recent applications it does not work the same way on the gx8 but where both of them are similar though is if you scroll downward like this you can see that you get to your notifications and your shortcuts so that works the same way on both of them and then on both of these if you double touch it's going to clear those notifications for you so considering that these are both UI 3.1 I don't know why the gx8 doesn't have these features I could only hope that in a future up date we will get those features or maybe they're an exclusive to the 5x now also both of these have theming options full theming options that work essentially the same way you have more options here underneath the gx8 I don't see a theme store though oddly maybe I'm missing something you can also customize the various theming options on both of these interface wise neither of these has an app drawer so that is the Emi looks very much iPhone esque of course you are free to use folders like you would on the iPhone and of course if you don't like this you can put a different launcher on it no problem there you can swipe up from the bottom on both of them and access some shortcuts both of these have the phone manager which I have come to really really like some really nice features that Huawei adds on top of Lollipop this is Lollipop by the way it's not marshmallow I hope that this has a marshmallow update sometime in the near future because it would be really nice to have the adoptable storage so it feels like you have more internal storage on this because it's only 16 GB for both of these so you essentially here can scan your phone to get it to work in a more optimized way helps with battery life cleans out your storage gets rid of application that it senses are making the phone run more slowly power saving on both of these you can choose between the ultra smart or normal I would prefer to keep it on the normal mode for gaming and videos or if you're going to be doing more intense tasks this really takes a look at your consumption level and what is power intensive so if it seees something that's power intensive you can decide to close them and here is a full breakdown of your consumption level between hardware and software so Hardware of course will be the screen then for software we can see what is the heaviest hitter as well that would be Gmail so this is a setting that I have really really liked so you can just scan the entire thing it's going to run some optimizations for me just overall I think that it helps make the phone run a bit more smoothly and helps to optimize the battery it's a very very cool Huawei that is a feature that I have come to really love now speaking of battery life I mentioned that both of these have a 3,000 mamp hour battery inside of them and both of them get really great battery life I'm able to get 5 hours of onscreen time no problem that's even when on the normal mode and it lasts me a full 24 hours almost so very very happy with this now given this isn't the most powerful phone but it does have a nice sizable battery inside of this and it will certainly last you through the day or 2 days I had no trouble whatsoever really really liked that on both of these guys you've got other various cool features such as being able to double tap on the volume button and it's going to open up the camera quickly for you you can enable Ultra snapshot which is allowing you to not only execute the camera but snap a picture all at the same time very quickly or you can disable that and simply have it execute the camera application that's nice reminds me very much of the Nexus 6p also by Huawei you can open up various applications by drawing on the screen so here is a w that opens up weather you can program whatever application you want it to you put an e it opens up the web browser so A+ for the cool features that have been packed into this on top of Lollipop now I've been testing both of these devices side by side and I can see that they're pretty much smack dabbed the same in terms of performance they've got the same s so inside of this so this is the Snapdragon 616 now we have three devices here running geekbench 3 this is the Huawei Nexus 6p you can see how similarly the gx8 and the 5x perform CPU wise very very much the same but comparatively to something like the Nexus 6p with a Snapdragon 810 so see inside of it you can see that it's it's of course it's not performing as good as more cream of the crop going around the interface on both of these phones I do notice a little bit of stutter a little bit of lag here and there they're not the most smooth performing phones sometimes they run pretty smoothly and other times I notice that they do have a few hiccups here and there so that's where I really can tell that these are not top quality phones the gx8 more so kind of creates a little bit of a disparity there because this really looks like a nicer phone but under the hood performance-wise just going around the interface and when opening up applications you can feel that this is not the most powerful of phones but it's good enough certainly certainly it's good enough now looking Graphics wise comparatively to the Nexus 6p this is gfx Benchmark you can see for the on screen you're getting 5.9 frames per second versus 15 for the offscreen 5.6 versus 23 frames per second you've got for T-Rex 15 frames per second versus 38 and also 14 versus 48 so this is much much more powerful game wise the performance has been okay just as with many Android games these devices are more than powerful enough to play these Android games I was able to play Asphalt 8 for a half hour without any trouble whatsoever the device really didn't get that hot either neither did the 5x for that matter of course frame rates aren't the absolute most smooth and I'm not expecting that but it can run games really just fine no complaints whatsoever now taking a look at the displays side by side both of these have a 5.5 in 1080P IPS display as I mentioned earlier the gx8 has a wider gamut than the the honor 5x so this is showing a wider range of colors than the 5x is although the 5x you see a lot of oversaturation such as in the cyan the blues the magentas the greens most certainly so both of these make images look more saturated than they should be also both of these have quite a cool white point so whites look on the bluish side really quite bluish please don't expect any type of color accuracy for either of these the display on the honor 5x is brighter it's about 100 nits or so brighter than the gx8 is I think it's somewhere in the 500 nits where this is somewhere in the 400 nits the contrast ratio is better a little bit better on the gx8 though these displays are just okay displays coolish tone to both of them and oversaturated colors weird processing with the colors now connectivity wise for both of these these make good phones I think call Quality has sounded pretty all right I am bummed that this only has the 2.4 GHz band for Wi-Fi No 5 GHz band that's something that's actually kind of irking me also we don't have a gyroscope in this so keep that in mind you have an accelerometer but no gyroscope we also don't have NFC either so you're not going to be using Android pay with these phones if you wanted to know very briefly about the speaker between the two on the bottom of these I feel that the speaker quality is a little bit better on the gx8 it doesn't sound as Tiny now the last thing that I want to talk about in this review SL comparison are the cameras the 13 megapix cameras also the 5 megapixel cameras on the front now it's really nice that the gx8 has Optical image stabilization especially even at this price point and it does help it quite a bit over the honor 5x so if you are counting on pictures loone it may be worth the extra 150 bucks to get the gx8 if you are so inclined to stick with the huway brand of phones so I'm going to show some samples but certainly certainly Optical image stabilization helps this one thing that I notice immediately though for both of these phones is that they do not have continuous autofocus I figured okay fine the $200 phone maybe there's a reason for that it's a cheaper phone entry level doesn't have continuous Auto Focus okay I can live with that but this is Optical image stabilization but no continuous autofocus and video that's weird so you can touch to focus of course but you can go as close as you want and I noticed this during recording out and about unfortunately on some of my video samples that it just won't focus and there's no option anywhere in all the menus for this so it's simp simply does not have continuous autofocus there it is so that's weird that's a bummer now for what it is I feel like this is a pretty full-featured camera you can switch to your 5 megapixel front facing camera here is the control for the flash here we have some options you have HDR best photo a audio note I haven't used that yet after you take a photo you can record up to 10 seconds of audio then you have Panorama all Focus which was really quite strange with all focus it allows you to change the focus of the image after you've already taken the photo and I found it not really work very well at all you can see underneath your gallery it gives you this little icon so you know that this is one of those readjusting Focus type things so you can see I'm touching and it's refocusing but it's not focusing on the thing that I was trying to focus on initially which was this little flower so that kind of defeats the purpose I don't know I would have to play around with this more but I really wasn't so convinced then you can save the new Focus that you've chosen then under settings you have several options so you can choose your resolution 1 2 megapixel 10 megapixel you can choose between different aspects Optical image stabilization object tracking you can touch the object you want to focus on the camera will then track and focus on that object didn't find that it worked that well then you've got advanced settings you can adjust ISO white balance image adjustment so exposure saturation contrast brightness restore default there's a lot of things in here then you've got some various modes on the side good food beauty photo video time lapse and of course with the video you have some extra settings as well you can choose full HD 1080p for the resolution 720p VGA and so on and so forth then of course you can switch to the front and you have another setting called makeup and you can create all kinds of heinous effects it tracks your eyes and adds lipstick and eyelashes now in terms of photo quality I really only got to test out the gx8 but both of these have the same camera except for the optical image stabilization out in daylight these should be performing about the same but in indor scenarios is where this really does a lot better having the optical image stabilization in terms of photo quality a lot of the times I find that the photos are pretty good pretty happy with it I find that skin tones look pretty natural a lot of the times colors look natural but then other times I find the images end up looking like they have way too much contrast added to them so again I think it's just kind of give or take but I think that there's plenty of detail in the images I've overall been pretty happy with these as a camera just as for point and shoot but able to take some nice close-up photos get a nice blurred background but where I'm really not happy though is with video recording video recording really leaves much to be desired preserves where many magical things happen I think that trash bin is preserving some nature right now very fresh there's dog pooping next I don't like dog poop H do you like dog poop johnan it is a necessity of life unfortunately everything poops except you I pooped too no you don't yes I do don't believe her it's not true she's perfect I pooped she does not poop I pooped this morning no it's not quite something I can put on YouTube videos end up having way too much contrast so colors don't look good at all and having the lack of continuous autofocus just kind of spoils the whole experience so it's nice to have Optical image stabilization but what's the point if it's not also allowing you to focus and use it as a video camera so results have been kind of give or take Sometimes good sometimes not so good it does okay in low lighting not too bad an indoor restaurant type low lighting I still see a nice bit of detail but really low lighting is where it's going to struggle I really didn't expect it to do very well anyway but even there Optical image stabilization isn't going to help it so here is the front facing camera on the gx8 so you can kind of see what this quality looks like it's a front phed camera that was Jonathan he's the most handsomest in the whole world the strange ways that we canor our body in order to take Vlogs that's attractive have to go squeeze him so overall both of these are really nice little phones 350 bucks 200 bucks the only thing that really has me jumping between the 5x to the gx8 is that Optical image stabilization otherwise yeah you know body build build is nice I do prefer the build on this one indeed but it's not going to make me jump up $1150 to have I don't think plus I like how I have two SIM card slots and an SD card slot on this so you guys are going to have to let me know what you think about both of these phones which one you would go for specifically and it's interesting that the 5x has some extra features for the fingerprint sensor for the interface that the gx8 does not so let me know what you guys think this has been Erica the technology nerd who likes to film stuff please rate comment and subscribe as aside note I am giving this away as continuing my giveaway Series so please stay tuned for this giveaway I will make a video for that in the very near future so again let me know what you guys think and have a good nighthey everybody this is Erica the technology nerd likes to film stuff and before me I have two phones that I find very interesting because they have a lot of the same specifications but for two very different price points so we have the honor 5x and we have the Huawei gx8 this is a $200 phone and this is a $350 phone with a lot of the same specifications of course there are some differences but I want to talk about them review them together they are similar enough phones to where I feel that I can review them together hopefully I can help you decide which one of these that you would like to go for the first thing you're going to notice is that both of these have different branding even though they do look kind of similar this is the honor brand and this is Huawei brand Huawei owns honor entirely so honor is a subset of Huawei and the idea is that Huawei is able to to sell their phones through honor at a lower price point so that people can get these into their hands at that lower price point they cut out the middleman there is no brick and mortar store you can only purchase these online so you can get this one already from Amazon or from honor and the gx8 is going to be available at Best Buy there is your brick and mortar store starting the 17th that's the 17th of March so $200 phone $350 phone being sold as an entry-level phone this is being sold as a mid-tier phone what is it that you get for the extra 150 bucks that's the first thing that I want to talk about and then I wanted to get more in depth and review these phones I will mostly be focusing on the gx8 because these are so similar so what is different between these well on the camera you have Optical image stabilization on the gx8 you have a nicer build design on the gx8 and then you have Gorilla Glass on the front so Gorilla Glass 4 this also has an oleophobic coating as well so really helps with fingerprints where the honor 5x does not they do have a screen protector that comes pre-installed although I took it off for the sake of this video so fingerprints stick more easily they're not as easy to wipe off as what we have on the gx8 and this is some type of tempered glass I can't say whether this is Gorilla Glass or not they just they don't say this is a flat type of glass where this one has that nice rounded bit to it the glass on the gx8 really does feel much nicer but other than that I really don't see any differences you've got your fingerprint sensor in the same spot you have a 3,000 mAh battery inside of both of these you have a 13 megapixel camera on both of these I think it's the same sensor so the big thing here is that this is being sold through honor and because of that they can sell this at a cheaper price but still there are things about the gx8 that does make it worth going up that extra step whether you would like to prefer to purchase this over another phone within the same price range that's going to be entirely up to you but I prefer the gx8 just because it feels much nicer and the optical image stabilization does make a pretty big difference in reality and that's what I'm going to be showing you a little bit later when we get into the more in-depth part of this review so we can take a look around these devices just to get a look at the build and the design so the gx8 has that nice unibody aluminum it's got a matte finish to it I think it looks really quite nice then you have the honor 5x which is also aluminum I can't say whether this is the same grade of aluminum but it doesn't feel as premium it's got this brushed type of look to it both of these have these plastic parts on the top and the bottom this is so that you get antenna reception you can't have all metal phones and expect to get antenna reception you can see that we have a dual tone LED flash here on the gx8 and this is just a single LED flash just monotone so this looks really really nice on the gx8 you've got that nice chamfer Edge all along the side here the display is seated really nicely we're on the 5x you can see that the display is screwed here it's got this plastic bit that sits here and then it's screwed on the bottom and it looks okay it looks nice enough but it certainly doesn't have the design effect of the gx8 if you look at the right hand side you have your volume rockers and your power buttons in the exact same place you have this nice bit of texturing on the gx8 you do too on the 5x it's just a little different then on the bottom we have our micro USB charging port and we have a speaker and a microphone I'm not sure which one is the speaker or the microphone I'm sure I will put an annotation to note that it's not dual speaker it just ends up looking nice to have them both uniform like this then on the left hand side this is where it gets interesting we have a SIM card slot and this actually is a SIM card slot that can take two Nano Sims or it can take a nano SIM and an SD card slot where this one you can take two Nano Sims excuse me I meant to say that the 5x has a micro SIM and a nano SIM not two Nano Sims and you can also add an SD card slot so you can have all three of those at the same time or this one you have to do either or I'm curious as to why this feature is not on the gx8 the more expensive phone on the front they both have a 5.5 in 1080P display IPS display these are not the same display I did some measurements and I was able to find that essentially this is a wider gamut display both of these have very bluish looking displays we'll get into that a little bit later so don't expect color accuracy on either of these guys but hey there's a $350 phone and a $200 phone respectively then we also have our receiver ambient light sensor and proximity sensor and both of these have a 5 megapixel camera on the front now their interfaces are really very similar you can see just go in inside of these go to about phone and you can see that both of these run em UI 3.1 I find that this has some additional fingerprint sensor capabilities that this one does not I don't know why the gx8 doesn't have some of those fingerprint abilities both of these have 2 gigabytes of RAM both of these have 16 GB of internal storage both of these have the exact same s so also both of these have a 3,000 Mah hour battery inside of them so we have the Snapdragon 616 sfc inside of both of these guys so very much the same phone now when it comes to the fingerprint sensor functions both of these fingerprint sensors work very very well you can see just touching on the back from both of them they're both on there are some added features that we have here that you don't see on the gx8 I'm not sure why that is so you have touch control click and touch control so we have back where this one does not so you can see it says press the fingerprint sensor to go back to your previous action you also have back to home so if you press and hold on this fingerprint sensor it's going to take take you to the home screen which I find to be really nice I love that shortcut I really wish we had that on the gx8 both can take a photo and also can take video if you touch and hold on the fingerprint sensor when underneath the camera application both can answer a call both can stop an alarm also if you swipe upward on the 5x no matter where you are it's going to bring you into your recent applications it does not work the same way on the gx8 but where both of them are similar though is if you scroll downward like this you can see that you get to your notifications and your shortcuts so that works the same way on both of them and then on both of these if you double touch it's going to clear those notifications for you so considering that these are both UI 3.1 I don't know why the gx8 doesn't have these features I could only hope that in a future up date we will get those features or maybe they're an exclusive to the 5x now also both of these have theming options full theming options that work essentially the same way you have more options here underneath the gx8 I don't see a theme store though oddly maybe I'm missing something you can also customize the various theming options on both of these interface wise neither of these has an app drawer so that is the Emi looks very much iPhone esque of course you are free to use folders like you would on the iPhone and of course if you don't like this you can put a different launcher on it no problem there you can swipe up from the bottom on both of them and access some shortcuts both of these have the phone manager which I have come to really really like some really nice features that Huawei adds on top of Lollipop this is Lollipop by the way it's not marshmallow I hope that this has a marshmallow update sometime in the near future because it would be really nice to have the adoptable storage so it feels like you have more internal storage on this because it's only 16 GB for both of these so you essentially here can scan your phone to get it to work in a more optimized way helps with battery life cleans out your storage gets rid of application that it senses are making the phone run more slowly power saving on both of these you can choose between the ultra smart or normal I would prefer to keep it on the normal mode for gaming and videos or if you're going to be doing more intense tasks this really takes a look at your consumption level and what is power intensive so if it seees something that's power intensive you can decide to close them and here is a full breakdown of your consumption level between hardware and software so Hardware of course will be the screen then for software we can see what is the heaviest hitter as well that would be Gmail so this is a setting that I have really really liked so you can just scan the entire thing it's going to run some optimizations for me just overall I think that it helps make the phone run a bit more smoothly and helps to optimize the battery it's a very very cool Huawei that is a feature that I have come to really love now speaking of battery life I mentioned that both of these have a 3,000 mamp hour battery inside of them and both of them get really great battery life I'm able to get 5 hours of onscreen time no problem that's even when on the normal mode and it lasts me a full 24 hours almost so very very happy with this now given this isn't the most powerful phone but it does have a nice sizable battery inside of this and it will certainly last you through the day or 2 days I had no trouble whatsoever really really liked that on both of these guys you've got other various cool features such as being able to double tap on the volume button and it's going to open up the camera quickly for you you can enable Ultra snapshot which is allowing you to not only execute the camera but snap a picture all at the same time very quickly or you can disable that and simply have it execute the camera application that's nice reminds me very much of the Nexus 6p also by Huawei you can open up various applications by drawing on the screen so here is a w that opens up weather you can program whatever application you want it to you put an e it opens up the web browser so A+ for the cool features that have been packed into this on top of Lollipop now I've been testing both of these devices side by side and I can see that they're pretty much smack dabbed the same in terms of performance they've got the same s so inside of this so this is the Snapdragon 616 now we have three devices here running geekbench 3 this is the Huawei Nexus 6p you can see how similarly the gx8 and the 5x perform CPU wise very very much the same but comparatively to something like the Nexus 6p with a Snapdragon 810 so see inside of it you can see that it's it's of course it's not performing as good as more cream of the crop going around the interface on both of these phones I do notice a little bit of stutter a little bit of lag here and there they're not the most smooth performing phones sometimes they run pretty smoothly and other times I notice that they do have a few hiccups here and there so that's where I really can tell that these are not top quality phones the gx8 more so kind of creates a little bit of a disparity there because this really looks like a nicer phone but under the hood performance-wise just going around the interface and when opening up applications you can feel that this is not the most powerful of phones but it's good enough certainly certainly it's good enough now looking Graphics wise comparatively to the Nexus 6p this is gfx Benchmark you can see for the on screen you're getting 5.9 frames per second versus 15 for the offscreen 5.6 versus 23 frames per second you've got for T-Rex 15 frames per second versus 38 and also 14 versus 48 so this is much much more powerful game wise the performance has been okay just as with many Android games these devices are more than powerful enough to play these Android games I was able to play Asphalt 8 for a half hour without any trouble whatsoever the device really didn't get that hot either neither did the 5x for that matter of course frame rates aren't the absolute most smooth and I'm not expecting that but it can run games really just fine no complaints whatsoever now taking a look at the displays side by side both of these have a 5.5 in 1080P IPS display as I mentioned earlier the gx8 has a wider gamut than the the honor 5x so this is showing a wider range of colors than the 5x is although the 5x you see a lot of oversaturation such as in the cyan the blues the magentas the greens most certainly so both of these make images look more saturated than they should be also both of these have quite a cool white point so whites look on the bluish side really quite bluish please don't expect any type of color accuracy for either of these the display on the honor 5x is brighter it's about 100 nits or so brighter than the gx8 is I think it's somewhere in the 500 nits where this is somewhere in the 400 nits the contrast ratio is better a little bit better on the gx8 though these displays are just okay displays coolish tone to both of them and oversaturated colors weird processing with the colors now connectivity wise for both of these these make good phones I think call Quality has sounded pretty all right I am bummed that this only has the 2.4 GHz band for Wi-Fi No 5 GHz band that's something that's actually kind of irking me also we don't have a gyroscope in this so keep that in mind you have an accelerometer but no gyroscope we also don't have NFC either so you're not going to be using Android pay with these phones if you wanted to know very briefly about the speaker between the two on the bottom of these I feel that the speaker quality is a little bit better on the gx8 it doesn't sound as Tiny now the last thing that I want to talk about in this review SL comparison are the cameras the 13 megapix cameras also the 5 megapixel cameras on the front now it's really nice that the gx8 has Optical image stabilization especially even at this price point and it does help it quite a bit over the honor 5x so if you are counting on pictures loone it may be worth the extra 150 bucks to get the gx8 if you are so inclined to stick with the huway brand of phones so I'm going to show some samples but certainly certainly Optical image stabilization helps this one thing that I notice immediately though for both of these phones is that they do not have continuous autofocus I figured okay fine the $200 phone maybe there's a reason for that it's a cheaper phone entry level doesn't have continuous Auto Focus okay I can live with that but this is Optical image stabilization but no continuous autofocus and video that's weird so you can touch to focus of course but you can go as close as you want and I noticed this during recording out and about unfortunately on some of my video samples that it just won't focus and there's no option anywhere in all the menus for this so it's simp simply does not have continuous autofocus there it is so that's weird that's a bummer now for what it is I feel like this is a pretty full-featured camera you can switch to your 5 megapixel front facing camera here is the control for the flash here we have some options you have HDR best photo a audio note I haven't used that yet after you take a photo you can record up to 10 seconds of audio then you have Panorama all Focus which was really quite strange with all focus it allows you to change the focus of the image after you've already taken the photo and I found it not really work very well at all you can see underneath your gallery it gives you this little icon so you know that this is one of those readjusting Focus type things so you can see I'm touching and it's refocusing but it's not focusing on the thing that I was trying to focus on initially which was this little flower so that kind of defeats the purpose I don't know I would have to play around with this more but I really wasn't so convinced then you can save the new Focus that you've chosen then under settings you have several options so you can choose your resolution 1 2 megapixel 10 megapixel you can choose between different aspects Optical image stabilization object tracking you can touch the object you want to focus on the camera will then track and focus on that object didn't find that it worked that well then you've got advanced settings you can adjust ISO white balance image adjustment so exposure saturation contrast brightness restore default there's a lot of things in here then you've got some various modes on the side good food beauty photo video time lapse and of course with the video you have some extra settings as well you can choose full HD 1080p for the resolution 720p VGA and so on and so forth then of course you can switch to the front and you have another setting called makeup and you can create all kinds of heinous effects it tracks your eyes and adds lipstick and eyelashes now in terms of photo quality I really only got to test out the gx8 but both of these have the same camera except for the optical image stabilization out in daylight these should be performing about the same but in indor scenarios is where this really does a lot better having the optical image stabilization in terms of photo quality a lot of the times I find that the photos are pretty good pretty happy with it I find that skin tones look pretty natural a lot of the times colors look natural but then other times I find the images end up looking like they have way too much contrast added to them so again I think it's just kind of give or take but I think that there's plenty of detail in the images I've overall been pretty happy with these as a camera just as for point and shoot but able to take some nice close-up photos get a nice blurred background but where I'm really not happy though is with video recording video recording really leaves much to be desired preserves where many magical things happen I think that trash bin is preserving some nature right now very fresh there's dog pooping next I don't like dog poop H do you like dog poop johnan it is a necessity of life unfortunately everything poops except you I pooped too no you don't yes I do don't believe her it's not true she's perfect I pooped she does not poop I pooped this morning no it's not quite something I can put on YouTube videos end up having way too much contrast so colors don't look good at all and having the lack of continuous autofocus just kind of spoils the whole experience so it's nice to have Optical image stabilization but what's the point if it's not also allowing you to focus and use it as a video camera so results have been kind of give or take Sometimes good sometimes not so good it does okay in low lighting not too bad an indoor restaurant type low lighting I still see a nice bit of detail but really low lighting is where it's going to struggle I really didn't expect it to do very well anyway but even there Optical image stabilization isn't going to help it so here is the front facing camera on the gx8 so you can kind of see what this quality looks like it's a front phed camera that was Jonathan he's the most handsomest in the whole world the strange ways that we canor our body in order to take Vlogs that's attractive have to go squeeze him so overall both of these are really nice little phones 350 bucks 200 bucks the only thing that really has me jumping between the 5x to the gx8 is that Optical image stabilization otherwise yeah you know body build build is nice I do prefer the build on this one indeed but it's not going to make me jump up $1150 to have I don't think plus I like how I have two SIM card slots and an SD card slot on this so you guys are going to have to let me know what you think about both of these phones which one you would go for specifically and it's interesting that the 5x has some extra features for the fingerprint sensor for the interface that the gx8 does not so let me know what you guys think this has been Erica the technology nerd who likes to film stuff please rate comment and subscribe as aside note I am giving this away as continuing my giveaway Series so please stay tuned for this giveaway I will make a video for that in the very near future so again let me know what you guys think and have a good night\n"