Huawei's OS touches are largely cosmetic: some apps have been re-skinned, and there are few generic widgets littering the homescreen. There are quite a few Huawei apps pre-installed, including a phone manager that will "optimize" your phone's performance by shutting down background apps. You'll see Huawei-branded support apps and generic productivity tools as well, like a flashlight, a calculator, and an FM radio app. These preloads aren't especially onerous, but the fact that I can't uninstall them or remove them from the homescreen annoys me immensely.

There's also no app drawer, which means every app is dumped onto the phone's homescreens, iPhone-style, I've always found this incredibly annoying, but if you're coming from an iOS device or aren't really a stickler keeping things tidy, then maybe you won't mind, You can of course arrange everything into folders, and create new home screens to drag apps to -- I've taken to dumping the bloat into ghostek nautical series iphone x waterproof case - black a folder titled "Do Not Want" and leaving it at that, The "SnapTo" name comes from the 5-megapixel camera's Ultra Snapshot mode, Press the volume-down button twice when the phone is locked, and it'll snap a shot of whatever you're looking at, It works well enough, taking an average of about 1.5 to 2 seconds to fire up the camera and take a shot, Ultra Snapshot mode uses the camera's automatic settings, so you can speed things up by being in ideal conditions: a static object in a well-lit environment will do a bit better than a moving subject in a shady room..

Ultra Snapshot is a neat trick, but I would've preferred a dedicated camera shutter button. It also defaults to the camera's automatic mode -- I would've liked to set the mode to HDR mode or some other function, to make it a bit more useful. And trying to frame a shot and double-press the volume button, with the display off, while the phone is in landscape mode, is kind of hard to do on the fly. I suppose I could practice, but I missed so many shots it became far easier to just unlock the phone.

A quick-release shutter isn't going to be very useful ghostek nautical series iphone x waterproof case - black if the camera isn't up to snuff, and the SnapTo's 5-megapixel shooter falls flat, Both the rear camera and the 2-megapixel camera up front churn out images that are full of noise, their details muddled, Video recording suffers from the same issues, and the SnapTo is also limited to 720p recording, further limiting its utility, The first great smartphone of 2015, Beautiful and bold..with complications, The new no-compromise MacBook, A stellar on-ear headphone..

Crave-worthy curves for a premium price. The Good The unlocked Huawei SnapTo has a 5-inch, 720p HD display, a budget price and has LTE connectivity. It's got great battery life for a budget phone, and is simple to use. The Bad The device looks rather plain, with performance that lags behind similarly priced devices. And its marquee feature -- the 5-megapixel camera -- takes mediocre photos. The Bottom Line Despite its strong battery life, Huawei's entry-level Android-powered SnapTo fails to live up to rival phones that cost the same or less.