Priced at $350 currently on Amazon, the Honor 8 looks and feels like a more expensive phone. It's also fairly well equipped with a Hisilicon Kirin 950 SoC boasting an octa-core processing engine with an i5 co-processor, 4GB of RAM, and 32GB of built-in storage that you can expand with a microSD card. That right there is a potent foundation...

On the software side, the Honor 8 is pre-installed with Android 6.0 Marshmallow glazed with Huawei's custom EMUI 4.1 interface skinned on top. Rumblings on the web suggest that both will be updated relatively soon to Android 7.0 Nougat and EMUI 5, though nothing official has been announced yet...