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The Budget Huawei P9 Lite Android Smartphone - Reviewed
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May 30, 2025
When you think of a budget Android smartphone, you might imagine that you're doomed to a device that's all plastic, feels flimsy and runs slowly. Quite the contrary, with the surprisingly affordable Huawei P9 Lite, the newest member of the popular Huawei P9 series. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ gives the P9 Lite a workout and explains exactly how the features in this competent phone might just meet your needs. Or those of a parent or teen prone to losing or breaking gear... Learn more: https://www.gearbest.com/cell-phones/pp_697977.html?wid=4&lkid=11231598 Tip: Use coupon code HWP9L for the discounted GearBest price!!
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is this your next Android phone let's
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check it out Dave Taylor here and this
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time we're looking at the Huawei p9
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light and yes Huawei is how you
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pronounce the company name now you know
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and this is quite a functional little
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Android phone it's really sort of at the
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high end of the budget range so it has a
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very nice vibrant screen a little hard
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for you to see here on camera but it's a
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5.2 inch screen running at 1080p so it's
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like sort of HD resolution which makes
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it 1920 by 1080 so not as high
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resolution as some of the really fancy
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high-end phones but quite quite good
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enough for watching TV movies and
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looking at photos speaking of photos the
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back has a 13 megapixel camera and the
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front has an 8 megapixel camera I'll
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show you an example just a minute down
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the road and has 16 gig of ram and it
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actually is expandable through an
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compact micro SD card or a TF card as
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they call it up to 128 gigabytes now why
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you would need 128 gigabytes of storage
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on your smartphone is a little beyond me
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but maybe you're that person who just
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needs everything so that's cool it runs
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on what's called a Karen 650 octa-core
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at two gigahertz so performance is
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decent I don't know who this company is
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but it doesn't matter it's a nice fast
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Android phone the back features a
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fingerprint scanner which you can use to
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unlock the phone when you want to be
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using it so here I just unlocked it it's
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easy enough
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it's a 3000 milliamp battery which is
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nice it's a nice sized battery for this
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phone because gives you a lot of life
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time probably two or three days without
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a charge or certainly one really full
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day where you start at 8 a.m. and you
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run till midnight it should be able to
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handle that quite neatly which is not
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true of some of the other smart phones
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on the market it is running Android
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marshmallow and it's using what's called
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the
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emotion UI a lot of these Chinese
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Android manufacturers put their own
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layer on top of Android and with varying
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levels of success
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I like the emotion UI but I would
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actually have also liked the option to
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just have it be straight Android and of
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course it's running marshmallow and
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there's nougat and Android just
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announced Oreo which is you know two
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generations so one certainly hopes this
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will at least move to Android n very
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soon and let's see what I was going to
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tell you about it it's a dual sim which
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is great ready for worldwide use it
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supports GSM WCDMA FDD LTE so it's ready
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to roll and with dual sims that means
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you can have for example a sim from AT&T
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or Verizon or Sprint or something and
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then when you go overseas you can
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actually get a local sim for your German
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or African or Chinese visit and then
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just get rid of that sim when you're
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done hopefully not just leaving it in a
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cafe that probably wouldn't work well so
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this is the Huawei p9 comes in silver or
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gold I guess this is the silver color
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although it looks very white to me and
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let's see what can I tell you about it
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it's it's quite a functional little
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Android phone but let's go back to the
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camera so 13 megapixel camera I went
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around and I really thought that would
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be an interesting thing to test so
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here's an example of one of the photos I
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took and you'll notice it's a kind of
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interesting dimension it's not actually
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this sort of sixteen by nine dimension
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that most smartphones up tested take and
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it's not super high clarity here's
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another example and there's a crispness
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that's missing in this photo but it's
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also a budget range Android phone so
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probably it's not fair to compare with
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$1000 top of the it you know
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top-of-the-line Samsung or iPhone or
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something but you know it's worth noting
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that there's really nothing on this
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that's you know groundbreaking this is
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all devices and technologies and
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elements that other phones have that
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Huawei has just put together nice
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in fact the p9 actually has other phones
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in the p9 series and the light is
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intended to be the sort of entry point
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now having said that the only thing left
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to talk about is the price and before we
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get there let me ask can you go ahead
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and click on that subscribe button that
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way we can actually talk and to have
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other videos together definitely always
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interested in your feedback too so feel
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free to leave comments on this video and
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I will read them and I will respond I
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will seriously
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so the huawei p9 light if you get it
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through my friends over gearbest.com
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it's 199.99 but even better there
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actually have a discount code that's in
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the description of this video that drops
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it down to one hundred and seventy five
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bucks now for a hundred and seventy five
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dollars for a teenager or for someone
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who has a problem losing their
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smartphone or something or breaking
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their smartphone because they're in
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tough environments this is a really
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really nice unit has a really nice feel
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to it it feels strong because of the
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metals that they've used so it doesn't
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have that flimsy feel of really low-end
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Android phones and there's a lot to like
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about it you know it's a 5.2 inch screen
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but it's a nice bright 5.2 inch screen
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that definitely is responsive and bright
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and I tried Netflix on it looks terrific
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very very watchable so there's a lot to
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like about this huawei p9 light and I
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would suggest to you that you check it
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out at gearbest.com this is Dave Taylor
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and I'm back to my Netflix and I'll
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catch you in my next video
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