Huawei Y6 (2018)

  • Released 2018, May
    150g, 7.8mm thickness
    Android 8.0; EMUI 8
    16GB storage, microSD slot
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  • 5.7"
    720x1440 pixels
  • 13MP
    1080p
  • 2GB RAM
    Snapdragon 425
  • 3000mAh
    Li-Ion

Huawei Y6 (2018) - Specs

Network Technology GSM / HSPA / LTE
2G bands GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - SIM 1 & SIM 2
3G bands HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100
4G bands LTE band 1(2100), 3(1800), 7(2600), 8(900), 20(800)
Speed HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE Cat4 150/50 Mbps
Launch Announced 2018, April
Status Available. Released 2018, May
Body Dimensions 152.4 x 73 x 7.8 mm (6.00 x 2.87 x 0.31 in)
Weight 150 g (5.29 oz)
SIM Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by)
Display Type S-IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 5.7 inches, 83.8 cm2 (~75.4% screen-to-body ratio)
Resolution 720 x 1440 pixels, 18:9 ratio (~282 ppi density)
Platform OS Android 8.0 (Oreo); EMUI 8
Chipset Qualcomm MSM8917 Snapdragon 425 (28 nm)
CPU Quad-core 1.4 GHz Cortex-A53
GPU Adreno 308
Memory Card slot microSD, up to 256 GB (dedicated slot)
Internal 16GB 2GB RAM
Main Camera Single 13 MP, PDAF
Features LED flash, HDR, panorama
Video 1080p@30fps
Selfie camera Single 5 MP
Features LED flash
Video
Sound Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes
 Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
Comms WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot
Bluetooth v4.2, A2DP, LE
GPS Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS
NFC Yes (ATU-L11 only)
Radio FM radio
USB microUSB 2.0
Features Sensors Accelerometer, proximity
Battery   Non-removable Li-Ion 3000 mAh battery
Misc Colors Black, Gold, Blue
Models ATU-L11, ATU-LX3, ATU-L21, ATU-L22
Price About 150 EUR

Huawei Y6 (2018) - User Reviews

  • I've bought the phone last year October and I'm still using it til today, I play Pubg, Fifa Mobile, no lag however I'm not impressed with the selfie camera. It's been an hour since I took off charger and it's still on hundred percent. Yall must learn how to use the phones and stop being negative all the time

  • To SSR: Forgive me but your comment is way too funny. I understand your frustration but thanks for the laugh. Your comment is epic. Probably the best comment ever on GSMArena. Thanks again for making my day.

  • Absolute waste of money. The thing freezes,sometimes you can't take calls because it's so f@&*en slow,it takes eons for it to respond it overheats,long story short. It's a shit phone.

  • Worst phone ever. Freeze Lag Temperature All shits this phone is total garbage. Also the FLUCTUATION OF DATA.

  • hate this phone, app2sd blocked, 16gb but i have 3 gb after setup. cant install any app because of that. all people asked for huawei to unlock that feature but answer is always a no.root also no. you have to pay hacker sites and give your imei and boot code to get. if you buy huawei buy only top edge phones. others are only garbage and disaster. and you cant find any help.

  • Even for browsing is terrible. Do not buy. Just buy a smasung galaxy a40

  • Yes it is slow however the phone is cheap at $150 aud. Quad core and 2gb ram means things run slow.

  • Totaly agreed with the delayed incoming messages - not worth buying at all.

  • You can use 2 sim with sd card at the same time. The sim tray has 3 slot 2 for nano sim 1 for sd card

  • Whoever designed this Medieval piece of torture should be burned at the stake on an oil rig. Not a month after use, the phone grinds to a lower-than-sluggish pace, making everyday menial tasks not a chore but a test in faith and your own capability of not suiciding. Phone calls or messages are received later than they were actually sent, maybe because some demonic force tries to alert you to drop this cursed item into a well and seal it with all 8 Seraphim keys. Absolutely not worth the money, it's more akin to a scam rather than to a serious company providing a product.

  • how can I use ram?

  • Absolutely terrible, do not buy. It kills background processes even when set to keep awake. It cannot read genre information from music files. It is temperamental with USB connections (will freeze halfway through file transfers, even when using Huawei's own HiSuite.) Moving files to/from SD card may corrupt the files. You cannot arrange apps in the app drawer in any way other than alphabetical order (no folders or groups.) There are many things that any Android devices can do easily that EMUI makes very difficult. Wish I kept my old phone.

  • What's wrong is that the phone runs Android Oreo. Oreo is a cut-down version of Android with limited functionality e.g. it cannot multi-task properly...

  • Ist phone have 2 slim slot and memory card slot? Can we use this at the same time???

  • Its at the settings

  • Hahahah

  • Very bad phone. Doesn't allow multi tasking. No app runs in background. Company sent me a claim mobile which has the same fault.

  • The hell is wrong with this phone when i download games with 1gb or higher playstore suddenly stops and stop downloading

  • Never buy this phone for heavy-gaming. Absolutely terrible. Buy this only if you are going to use it for browsing.

  • S

  • Same problem sir. Pm sir

  • What did you expect from a 150 Euro phone? Snapdragon 855 and 12GB of RAM?

  • so slow and crappy phone.. its not design for gaming like ML or pubg.. for youtube and facebook only.. its cheap though..

  • Tell me guys. What I play pubg in this phone? And Huawei y6 2018 is best or Nova plus

  • Same as mine bro sometimes when i play mobile legends too my joystick gets stock in the middle of a game and saometimes i always punch my crappy phone "HUAWEI Y6 2018" bcz its so slow

  • Slow phone. Unable to select items when drop down option boxes appear 😠

  • When I'm paying mobile legends my joystick got steady for a second 3 to 4,, why? How to fix it

  • Facing the same problem. But not only in mobile legends but all entire games.

  • How do I activate app twin on this phone with Android 8.0 and Emui 8.0?

  • yes it is

  • why when i play mobile legend its so lag and my joystick stock a sec

  • How to use screenshot

  • Facing same problem. How to fix this? My mlbb joystick stucked for a long time.

  • all phone hv 8digit standard, just change pw to 8chars of ur router..

  • HI Guys Just got a Y6. when I try to connect to wifi at home it won't accept password. I have a 6 digit password and it keeps asking for an 8 digit one??. Anyone had this issue

  • HI Guys Just got a Y6. when I try to connect to wifi at home it won't accept password. I have a 6 digit password and it keeps asking for an 8 digit one??. Anyone had this issue

  • formatting doesnt work either

  • i lost have my huawei y6 can you help me to find it

  • Oh well. I'll just have to wait for future EMUI updates. Kinda ironic because the update I installed says "better performance".

  • i dont update mine bc might result in unwanted bug, waste of data and u cant rollback officially either if something goes wrong..

  • Its not just with MLBB. I have experienced it also from other games like Arena of Valor, GTA SA, etc. This just happened after I updated my phone to the latest OS version.

  • This phone working is very slow, this is ridiculous & odd. I have never seen this tyep of phone.

  • Its not a bug.. Other mlbb gamers arent facing this prob..but other huawei y6 2018 user playing mlbb are also facing this prob.. Maybe its just the phone..lol

  • game update mightve been the cause, you'll hv just to wait an update fix, see if others hv d same bug.. try to change phone see if it still happens..

  • Already tried reinstalling the game and formatting my phone... It still happens... But it wasnt like this before..even playing mlbb in high graphics its not laggy.. But now im playing in low graphics but its laggy

  • Maybe its your phone automatically downloaded the software update.. Go to setting - system - software update

  • I already tried formatting my phone and reinstalling the game.. But it still happened.. Also happens sometime when im playing pubg... I only encountered this prob on my 3rd month of using this phone.. It wasnt like this before.. Before when i play mlbb in high graphics its smooth.. Now even im playing in low graphics it lags

  • maybe game bug? try reinstall game or u might need format phone..

  • Im using this phone for 3 months now..theres a major problem i am encountering.. When playing mobile legends joystick moves by itself... Like when i move my joystick up its stays uo fir like 3 - 8 seconds.. Please help me how to fix this ASAP

  • very much depends, ofc not for heavy ones

  • It's very laggy on games.

  • app list, chrome, storage and u see it there

  • how to erase the data through chrome browser?

  • How to fix the speaker plss answer

  • is this OTG supported?

  • i feel you bro, same as mine its slowly eating my memory, 2gb available for now even i didn't intall any apps or some videos, this phone shit,

  • its already available .. infact that's my phone

  • It is also available on Mindanao. Just bought it yesterday

  • well.. newer is better

  • Better get redmi 7. 2/16 is only 5300, 3/32 is 6000 pesos. Check the specs here in gsmarena.

  • phone manager, for cache.. app settings for apps

  • disable data, check ur operator charge even if ur not subscribed to any promo.. also check accidental message n calls just to b sur

  • my huawei y6 keeps consuming my load without my permission, how do i fix that?

  • But HOW?

  • was able to check and ask on some stores here in visayas (Philippines) and the C1 just got release and it was sold out right away. the C3 will be released by April. and yes the C1 is 6k

  • depends, around 6k for c1 and 7k for 3,u shud canvas store for comparing price rangd

  • ahmm how much is is it? the realme C1 or 3?

  • go for realme c1 or 3 than this

  • it might be cache, apps or app data thats eating some space check em out

  • I recently got new Y6 2018 and checked the memory it was like only 8gb instead of 16gb. Then i transfered some videos it took like 5gb+ of videos so the remaining was 2gb+ then i noticed the storage slowly comes down by itself, why is that? how to fix it? it went down from 2gb+ to 800+mb by itself.

  • I still think it is a great phone, regardless of what you all say...

  • It seems like he didn't read the specs, and used the phone beyond its capability. Hhhhh

  • Did u use this phone for gaming?

  • Tell us yours reasnons for that kind of opinion

  • system update, check if urs hv one available..

  • So laaaaaag, worst phone ever

  • How to upgarde sir

  • bloated with unnecessary apps u cant remove

  • This phone internal storage problam

  • I also had the same problem until i checked out the data in chrome browser, it took around 4GB, so i tried to delete the data and i got free memory again.

  • mines about 10gb left aftr reset, try to uninstall/disable unused and google apps, also check running apps via dev options, another risky option is to upgrade/change to un official firmware or even root as last resort tho..

  • been using for a while and it is qyluite laggy. firmwafe ate up 4GB of the internal. memory and now, mmy internal's almost full. can someone help? I've reformat this phone many times but the storage after formatting always stays at 8GB zzzzz

  • theres better alternative now at this price range, not worth the money anymore..

  • it could be that your OTG is broken. try to restart your phone and use OTG again. or try using another OTG compare the two if your phone will accept one of the OTG's or not

  • exactly hahahhhahahahaha

  • I don't think so

  • This phone has terrible GPS capabilities. It is laggy and can not find the GPS signal. There is no fix for it and Huawei doesn't respond to emails about it. Do not get this phone if you have to use the GPS for anything. It will tell you 5 blocks late that you were supposed to turn. It's crap.

  • Hmmm Let's see... Outdated cpu, outdated gpu, low ram... Well, not the best gaming phone you could get for such a price... But at least its affordable...

  • I got my huawei y6 2018 this January. Before i use it. I upgrade it to the latest version and format it. And it's grate, there's no problem amd im happy to have it.

  • well its normal the phone will ask to connect wifi d 1st time u open it but its optional to conect and after proceed as normal, never heard u cant use phone if u donnt conect to wifi xcept iphones

  • I have a new Huawei Y6 2018. But before I can make use of it it says that I have to connect to wifi before i can us e it. Anyone had tyhi problem?

  • try using another brand, format phone, format sd from pc/another phone/updatephonefirmware.. just throwing ideas.. mine complains from using slow class 2 sd so i switch to class10 and all good.

  • don't accept any sdcard but my games don't log injustice 2

  • u cud format it with another phone also

  • otg prob?troubleshooting.. try reformat phone and change otg cable or usb itself, its one of these 3 are faulty imo.

  • close all unnecessary running apps before u play heavy game, restart game/phone every hour coz it will lag no matter what u do..use class10 sd card, format reset phone if memory full..u got 1gb ram usable too.. ram/cpu is too small to ask a no lag in a online/heavy game.. from my experience with d phone so far

  • check running apps in dev options and close unused ones, use hard reset key combo if software don't work, youtube on how

  • very bad for pubg mobile

  • what you do with phone I use facebook,snapchat etc and phone lagg too much do you change any settings or what??

  • Just like to ask how to fix my Huawei y6 2018. It's been supporting my OTG USB but lately, my phone can't read my OTG USB. Hope someone can help me fix my problem.

  • Its true I have y6 and is the only phone that handles my task with no lag

  • how?

  • Smooth gaming like mobile legend

  • The best phone in the world!!!

  • Thats not true. You can play any games without lag.

  • this phone is lag for mobile gaming.

  • Unable to charge mine still stuck on 0% for the past 2 days

  • Android pie GSI's are here

  • Same here. And it suggests "reformat" but it jumps on 20% of reformatting process then get stuck on 20% then boom it will say error. Ugh

  • how to delete clean master??? please help

  • Why my phone can't read my sd card? What is the problem?

  • It lags way too much and sometimes when it lags it goes black

  • It's a pretty good phone but I would like in the box to have headphones and in the phone a finger scanner to unlock the phone but it's a very good phone and cheap!

  • Great phone love the display battery is great Phone surpports usb host i have tested and can confirm on ATU- L22 pls Update it on Gsmarena spec sheet never mention host surport

  • why?

  • never buy this phone, better but a3s or realme

  • I'm really happy for you to know that ur Device has now fixed.Anyways I was also playing Pubg few minutes ago.So we play together?

  • Still super slow cant play any games because its so slow

  • Managed to fix the problem by deleting clean master and resetting it it's much more faster and pubg is a lot more smoother now, thanks so much for the advice!

  • Really? I'm not facing any of these problem.I'm pretty sure You may have downloaded some app including Virus,Booster,Space cleaner,etc.These kind of apps make smartphone glitchy laggy,By My experience.If You did so delete them quickly.Clean Useless files.then restart your Smartphone.Then tell Me what's your experience...

  • bro... your not using a high end phone.. so don't expect too much..

  • well,its have 2 gb ram and quard cpu 1.4GHz,maybe u will have lags.Try to play and if is not laging,keeep playing :)

  • can rules of survival played in this device

  • IV had this phone for about 2 weeks now it was great until recently it became laggy especially when playing pubg and it also over heats a when I'm playing games especially with pubg, just wandering if you've HD any solutions to this.

  • Download an App for Camera.I also did one Called "B612"You may propably know it...It got Fixed.

  • Mate you've must have updated it or you just got other I guess.I'm Having this Smartphone,Its been 1 Week or maybe just more days.Its been so great experience.I just set My mind to buy Huawei smartphone and if not then S8 maybe,I will be buying other.I've been Playing PUBG too much,It did had shutters but it was little.But I think that Huawei and Samsung is the Best!! Give Me Update about yours what's happening to it right now?

  • It has a yellow border line in the screen.. So bad to see..

  • where do i start with this? my bf got this phone for me, it was wack, so he threw it at my eye. £19 a month though sold it for some lines.

  • Wish we at Tesco Mobile were on commission for that exact reason. I'd make a fat load of £ from the Y6s

  • bad phone, sells bare i work at o2 make bare commission off it. not a goood phone though

  • i bought huawei y6 prime and i regret it so much ..it is the slowest phone i ve evr seen in my life ..... like i cant enter an app without waiting for a long time and i am so angry about it ..the shop i bought the phone from refused to change it for me '(orange) like someone to help please i spent lots of money to nuy it and then voila nothin in return

  • I bought my Y6 2018 on Sunday 25 November but the selfie camera is very very poor 😥😥😥

  • Got mine at april 2018 produced and fabricated in south korea and made in same country. *#06# showing no signs of mb usage or crackings failed tests or jamming whit phearbing phone was not visible iv2p4 connection. Serijal numbers must not have - 1 - 2.0452 or anything like it so to be clean will be good phone. Charging etc 3 hours 2.5 fully charged or 1 hour more than 60 % it has teo disprayed and divorced cell in battery thats integrated so was the posibility to bind it that way. Upper ussage from 60 to 100 proccent is 1.5 hours in need to fully charge. Battery can last for over and more than 24 hours. Easy configuration and navigation system whit extreme cloud info storage as much as 2 and 1 gb of ram memmory that runs this cpu thats on higghest optimal level running for Best performanse. Only minus is u dont get a case and u need to buy one sd card 16 or 8 gb New series 4g and 2.3 to 3.0 usb speed connection. Dont try to insert older sd cards then 2017 produced when sd was in merged and combined whit ssd from newest drive systems for cells whit memmory and are giving higghest and better performance then old could ever and expecialy if u put it it will warn u not to do it if it dosrnt recognize. Lots of People complainimg about bugs cracks freezes and other. Its depended on shell and updates installed ussualy there is auto update file that u dont and cant Control that will ask u will u Want to upgrade install or change somwthing in your phone. Because phone is 2018 and updates are just make up for some things except criticals try to install them all while in first run od phone ever on installing all and charging in for the first time. I did my that ways and i also connected to computer to find it and install it and driver for djevice so it gaved me option before entering other parts of system to fully upgrade to newest version. Y6 is complete unique system and operative console, since the begining and market entering users underrestimated power of New unique fast reliable in the begining copy operative systems and were told as and pronounced as cheap copyes and frauds. People offten dont know what they are buying so can be includes customer is not in age whit newest technologes having problem whit camera flashlight microphone sound reciving sound inputs connection speed and realibility on given terms security cleaning resources management and others that can be mention as programi g in open sources notepads can be check and shoukd be checked on the moment of buying not Onl y6 but any other New age oroduct as also to scroll manual and ask all the dumb qwestions. There is no dumb qwestions only problem later on because of not understand in materials. I did put it on benchmark runned a few test like graphic installed most demanding games on free storage i think 10 gb or 2 whatever i installed PUBG exit all others turned off some processes u can do it mannualy or just Google on how to improve performance on high demanding games. Game is.1 9 gb and the space left was fight on low disk storage but then again not that bad performance, game was going well u need to be positive and a bit patent can produced high lag and freezes just dont touch too many buttona and try to start it like tetris game on the end takes 88 proccent of cpu energy usage. If u have problem ever whit in os or keyboard cuz of movings and other or position od fingers or HE just freezes and lag always use turn off on button on left bottom part of right part of your mobile, press it wait for dark and remember in that moment its like u turned task manager but pressed switch to proces so it can unlock it start it and produced next step, that ways not only in game u can turn it step backward and start whats been bugged. Phone is cheap 1300 kuna in Croatia and 180 euro cca im Europe no more then 200 what gives a big give in technical way and a lighter solution for your money in spending decision.

  • Got this phone on black Friday. Absolutely in love with it!

  • good

  • Camera and Flashlight not responding.Only had it for two months.

  • Stock EMUI sucks and so damn slow... if you want a better experience unlock your bootloader and flash a custom rom

  • At a time?

  • Camera is increadebly SLOW. Slow phone but the but you can use it if you newer use your camera. Battery life is excellent and build quality is good.

  • Worst phone ever used. So disappointed in my purchase the specs seemed alright but doesn't preform. Apps crashing keyboard won't stay open. Not receiving any notifications until hours after if at all. Can't stay connected to wifi or Bluetooth. I just downloaded the nova launcher it seems to be working better the picture is noticeably better. Seems to be running smoother. All that being said this is my first huawei and I will never buy another. As for you people talking about what would you expect with such a cheap phone my first smart phone was a Samsung in 2016 and it worked better than this one and was almost the exact same price if not cheaper. -Samsung for life

  • Never think about that even by mistake. No offense.

  • After 1 month of usage, it started lagging in opening browser, youtubing, watching videos, playing games, using social media and even using its default keyboard. And now it's been 5 months since I have bought it and I'm facing same problems I have had earlier. I have reset it three times to see if it performs better but it still sucks. The good thing about it is its interface, some extra features like screen recording, pinch to zoom out to small screen and some other accessibility functions. It is just nothing performance wise, I mean it bugs on every click even in typing this, I don't know how many times I had to swipe up the keyboard, it gets down automatically. It just let me down.

  • Can i do slow motion in y6 prime ?

  • goto Apps & Notification and disabled notification for whatever apps

  • It should not behave as you mentioned. if that happens, most likely the OS needs to be reinstall.

  • How can I hide the notifications for y6 2018? Every time I choose the options hide notifications content.. Still the contents shows everytime I received text messages.. Thank you

  • My phone work with 2 sim

  • I have replaced my Nokia Microsoft 2010 with the Huawei Y6. I didn't have any problems with the 2010 running Windows 10 and the only reason I changed it was the ending of the Microsoft Apps store. Yes the Y6 is a little slow and takes a bit of getting used to, but all in all I am quite happy with it. I have an O2 contract and the Y6 is costing me £5 a month x 24 months I think thats a pretty good deal. PS I have never had an iphone as I believe that Apple are a con.

  • Have you ever tried checking these: Settings>System>About Phone Click many times on the tab "Build number" and notif about 'developer something' would show up then back to 'System' pane, you would see a "Developer options" tab, click on that. That'd direct you to the many other tabs in it, scroll down to "Drawing" tab and you can see 'Window, Transition, Animator' scales then you can change it to .5x for each. After that, go to "Apps" tab, click 'Background process limit' then change that to 'At most 4 processes'. Hope that works on your phone...

  • My phone does not accept dual sim. It is me or the phone only accept single sim. Help

  • How can I know it supports VoLTE or not?

  • Hi! my Huawei y6 just arrived earlier today... But every time I lock it using the power button then the screen turns off, maybe after 15 seconds the phone restart on it's own.. can someone help me with this? Please... I need your help... Thanks...

  • I think EMUI sucks the performance... Same chipset runs the phone better in other phones than this. I have been using Y6 18 for five months (more or less)..It's kinda okay though after getting the update having Sept. patch!

  • Thanks deathslayer, it worked

  • I had to return it. It's freaking slow even after updates. There's something deeply wrong with the hardware/firmware. The screen was pretty cool though, I'm Thad.

  • what software plz tell all detail.

  • I got this phone I never experience any problem. suggestion try to download nova launcher into the phone. since I download it I never got any problem. I never try to update even there is an update required. over all im satisfied with the phone

  • r u sure about that

  • I have purchased Y6 premium 2 month back. My experience is very bad. this phone is to slow to run and several time hanged. sorry to say is is not a perfect mobile set.

  • If its linked to gmail, u can go on this website and u can brick it, track it or anything u need:)

  • Is this normal when someone calls me and i cant answer in 2...4 seconds and the volume goes so loud?

  • please i need some response :(

  • guys my y6 got snatched. is there any way to track my phone?? my huawei id was registered and my gmail too. please i need help got some important files on that phone

  • Guys, it is not bad. My kid still using around 6 months and like it. Not for big games, but face all his needs on different type of applications and have good battery for one day.

  • I Bought this phone about a month ago and it still works fine..but that doesn't mean it's perfect. PLEASE WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT CHANGE THE ANIMATION SCALE!! IT WILL MAKE THIS PHONE WAY WAY WORSE!! Anyways,the phone has worked pretty well. I have used this phone everyday since i bought it, and yet, it still hasn't had a single camera freeze. So i don't know, what's the fuss about this phone.It's actually a very good phone for 125 euros. I'm using it as my daily driver, because i'm very cheap.

  • This phone is by far the worst phone I've ever owner Nokia N6 kicks this phone in the nuts. I've had it one month and I can't even take a picture with this piece or trash without it permanently in freez mode. CAN HUAWEI GIVE ANSWERS HERE, with all your other awesome phones then a noise dive on this one what the hell is going one.

  • have you updated the phone?? phone needs to be updated

  • Mine was the same my phone was fine before it was up dated now the only speaker to work is the one you hear phone calls from the one on top of the phone which is not very loud hopefully someone can fix this

  • guys for those people who keeps on saying that the phone is dreadful, try buying the phone then update the software. swear all the issues will be solve.

  • try to update your software. it will solve the lag problem tho not that much but rest assured that the phones quality will be great once you update the software.

  • mine was fine. have you tried re installing your MLBB?

  • After the update, my mlbb started lagging and I don't know why... what do you think is the cause of this?

  • vpn problem continued killing vpn after its connected fix this please

  • Thank you!!

  • Updated mine to ATU-L22 8.0.0.142(C636). First off, it fixed every app that kept crashing on me from before. Also lag has virtually gone away. You may still get a few hiccups on some resource heavy apps, but IMO not a deal breaker at this price point. Camera sped up a bit, but still lags at times. Haven't noticed much about the battery so I can't say anything about it.

  • Buy a Micro SD and set it as storage and then you'll have more storage

  • My favourite crayon is red as it reminds me of my dogs favourite organ. The red is great on this phone just like the sound quality as I listen to my favourite loyalists tunes by Rab C

  • with ram 2/16 gb really? piece of sh*t huawei makes this model

  • I play MLBB too but after the 8.0 something update. The phone started to really lag even if you turn the settings to the lowest resolution. Pls if the dev reads this, pls fix it. I have no problems before. And my internet is so fast. I have only 33-60 ms when playing MLBB

  • got one second hand what sim for those . please as all it looks for is google thanks

  • Phone takes too long to charge. More than 3 hours. It lags so bad that id like to throw it sometimes. Apps crashes most of the time. My xiaomi redmi 5a is so much better than this with just the same processor. Camera takes too long to load and capture time is just too annoyingly long

  • Thanks guys for your feedback..i wont buy this model

  • if software is updated will it be okay? for it always asking me to update the software. and for the phone comment. well its not that bad tho. simply you just have to accept the phone because you bought it. its your choice as if you were forced to buy such phone. pfft.

  • Its the most annoying, dreadful, evil phone that i have ever used. It lags, freezes all day long. Camera is pretty unrealistic. It lags so much that after sometimes it rings after the call has been ended, and sometime it even does not bother ringing at all. It shuts down internet everytime you get out of wifi zone and puts data connection on your approval. It even switches of data if it come across some unknown wifi zone. I wonder what the designers were smoking while designing it.

  • worst camera

  • Disaster... What a Croc. One of the poorest performing phone I have EVER came across. Slow, closing apps and the camera only opens up every 12 hours (12 hours is a lie but its really a long wait 😜). Rating out of 10...2. Im changing it Monday.

  • Mine does not lag.

  • is this really super lag or not ?

  • I have one. Camera takes pretty good photos, and design is nice. I prefer small bezels without notch. But major problem is system, that is really bad and unoptimised. It lags a lot and RAM management is bad. CPU is really slow and outdated. Unlike nearly any Mediatek CPU, this Snapdragon425 can't power off cores while they aren't used, which will cost you battery life. Its idle (lowest) frequency is 960MHz, which is too high (200MHz would be optimal). I am waiting for a lot of improvements over OTA updates.

  • I don't like this phone because it has no compass sensor.

  • I got this phone last week and hated it so much, I put my sim back in to my old windows Nokia. The keyboard is way too small and the phone is a lot more basic than I had expected, eg you can invert colours on keypad; I am poor sighted and struggle to see the "black" letters etc against the white background. I prefer white on black. Ring tones choice is diabolical. The most annoying thing though is its poor response to touch. It took me about 1 1/2 hours to set the darn thing up, having to create accounts with Google then with Huawei and was so disappointed with the lack of personalisation after all my trouble. If anyone can give me any pointers I'd welcome it as I would like to use it and it does look good.

  • what is otg?

  • Dreadful phone. Completely freezes all day long. Thought I'd bought a faulty phone and returned it to the shop. The new one is just as bad!!!

  • Exactly

  • Dont cost more but is with newer better cpu and well not with android 8.0 but while buy so budget then does it really matter that number there ? And well i think it will get 8.0 too but not the PIE version. But you can always set your own ROM on the phone if you want to get the latest. And redmi 5 have fast charger support. In dimensions is a bit smaller too and has 300mAh more battery. Has fingerprint scanner even.

  • It's a decent budget phone however, there is the issue of lag that people have mentioned with the phone. I've also found that the selfie camera isn't great and I find it too high contrast which I haven't figured out if you can change contrast settings on photos yet. Other than that, I'd recommend buying if you need a budget phone

  • sd card duh

  • When buying a new phone. Buy from big name brands that offers the best deals for the specs that you are looking for. Always buy the latest model with the latest android version.

  • The problem i encountered with this phone is the internal storage is small 16gb. Your are left with around 8gb. Installing productivity apps would consume almost 2gb. Big games each consume almost 2gb or more. That leave you with less than than 2gb. Installing a class10 64gb micro sd card and setting it as default storage will give you plenty of space for installing big games. The problem with this setup is when downloading video, the only storage allowed is the micro sd. It will wear out more quickly especially when downloading video and watching video stored on micro sd. If there is extra cash to spend, buy the 32gb or 64gb phone instead.

  • Is worth to buy?

  • Just like mine. It lags.

  • One of the most useful program is "Status Bar Mini Pro". It lets you display a status bar at the top screen of the phone. you could set it to display available ram, cpu usage, battery temp., battery %, date time, storage space. You could see which app uses the most cpu, most memory and heats up the battery. Another useful program is "Greenify". It lets you close program's automatically, when you turn off the screen and help you save battery too by closing background app that drain battery.

  • I have no problem with the phone so far. I play MLBB with the setting of high resolution. I don't know why others having a lagging problem with the device. What I can suggest, disable some unnecessary apps that was pre-installed and have at least 3 GB free storage.

  • To Reduce Lag on Phone. Restart your phone daily. When you will be playing big games like Pubg, always restart your phone, to free up memory. after playing big games and moving to another big game, restart your phone again, you will notice faster load time and less lag.

  • when you phone lags. try to remove all old sms messages. this causes big lag especially when the sms messages reaches thousands. In "developers option" there is "running services" wherein you could check the free ram available and the programs that are consuming big amounts of ram. Try unistalling the program that you don't use or install the lite version. having a free ram of 1gb lets you have a lag free phone.

  • This phone is Super lag very disapointed

  • Ya.. Your right. this phone is super lag. you cannot play like mobile legend and pubg or your phone will be hang and automatic restart

  • I bought this phone when it first came out-1st week of May. I have't have any problem with this phone. I installed a 64gb Samsung Evo Plus and set the default storage to sd card. It let me install big games w/o having problems on storage ex. pubg and rules of survival. The phone will notice sd card slowdown when there are 2 seperate apps downloading at the sametime. I try to keep as much free internal memory as possible. I remove all bloatware that i don't use and keep social media apps to a minimum to conserve ram and battery. My phone does not lag and i don't have any battery drain problem.

  • yes OTG can worked in this phone. I have a 32GB usb OTG it worked

  • Check if your system version is EMUI 8.0.0.142. If not try to check for updates. If no update wait for it. ...142 solved all the lagging issues. You may also need a fast SD card and keep a strict control of the background apps. This is not a bad phone just needs a bit of attention on the technical side. I'm happy with it.

  • I really cant deal with this phone like, its not even a month yet but it freezes. I took it back to MTN and I got a new one, there is still no difference. The Camera is the worst part about it. SUPER SUPER SLOW , its really irritating. My apps freeze , whether its whatsapp, games , reading apps , even the gallery ... very very slow to respond. Sometimes it locks itself.. like what the hell????????? you guys better do something,, stop releasing this phone. Clearly it has a factory fault . I want my refund Back ... this phone is worse than my old phone. I'm so disgusted right now.

  • Yes

  • Is this phone OTG capable?

  • What is the kind of problems ??!!

  • Interesting... Actually I checked any after today's update 8.0.0.142 the animations are turned off completely. What was the setting for you before you changed the values to 0.5?

  • Good news! Recently received 2 OTA updates: 8.0.0.140 Security update 8.0.0.142 Performance update (!) The phone is noticeably faster. Camera opens in 2-3 seconds.

  • I am also facing same problem.

  • That's good to hear.What kind of Apps Sir?

  • ohh? really,, to tell you the truth man😏 this is not awesome,, because it kind a hang on gameplay when im playing MLBB and PUBG my godd

  • Thank you for sharing. I tried the steps and it really worked. My niece has this phone and it keeps on lagging. Thats why she doesnt have games on it before. Did follow the instructions that you have given and now we have installed 6 apps without any lag. GOD Bless. 😇

  • Huawei brand is awesome! My whole life I've been buying 'em and never had a problem so far, the screen is so resistant and I've dropped 'em a lot LOL. its processor is good and for this one, the Y6 2018 I'd say is too cheap, offers a good functioning and the camera takes pictures as a 20 mgpx camera.

  • is very slow hiawei y6 2018

  • I had a budget phone anyway and thought you know what, because of this 13 map camera, I'll upgrade to this.. Big mistake, honestly.... I've read other reviews as well now and there are quite a lot of us.. The Camera...You want to take a picture really quickly.. . You press the icon, you press it again and you press it again... Now you're on the camera.. You want to take a picture really quick remember, so you line it up press the button... Nothing happens, you press it again, again, again and again, you've missed the shot now yeah and as you look at your phone the camera takes a picture for everytime you pressed that button. It takes about 2-5 minutes of keeping the camera open and then it works properly. Still rubbish and a waste of your money. Everything is slow on it.. You press any icon and you end up double, triple tapping it. It's worse than my old budget phone and that's saying something so if you want a good quality camera on your phone, don't get this in fact just don't get this phone because it's bad in every way apart from its looks, but that could easily change when you get frustrated with it and start punching it instead of pressing it. My return bag actually arrived today so I'm rid of it already... I gave a week and nothing changed so if you are reading this, thinking of buying it or upgrading /downgrading just don't do it. Honestly you'll be disappointed. James

  • You're correct mine is dual sim. Their device might be fake :D

  • I completely agree. I was misold this by o2 I sent it back after 3 days I nearly threw it up the wall.. It was the worse phone I've ever had.

  • they are some versions that include dual sim slot, here in MX they don't have the dual sim in stores, only online.

  • Yes, it works just fine.

  • I just bought my y6 last month and the built in camera apps is not functioning normally, result if the pictures is always broken and corrupt.

  • I just purchase the unit recently, last 09 Aug 2018. When you re start the unit it doesn't work'asking for your password. When you entered your password the unit is not accepting it until your device id locked. what is the procedure for unlocking the unit? How to reboot it? Anyone around can help me...

  • Touch screen what a joke you've to practically punch it to get any response

  • I've had many phones that are around this price range and I have never ever come across a phone as bad as this! I had this within 1 day and it froze, it freezes now and again and you can't even turn your phone off, you have to hold the power button for 10 seconds to reboot the phone. Camera isnt very good, you can't even take a photo on it, when you do, it takes around 2 minutes to actually take the photo after you push the button as it laggs so much, it sometimes shuts you out of the camera app and other apps too. This phone is horrible, I will advise you not to buy it at all, you can get many other phones cheaper than this that will work better. Hope this helps yall

  • worst phone........ camera is just garbage....performance is also laggy

  • How to set alarm clock?

  • I don't want to cry

  • My cp mouthpiece is not working, it only work if you loud speak when someone's calling.

  • It is ok to use the mobile data while charging the huawei y6

  • Too slow responding to camera and other apps.. Any solution or else I wud classify it as whack

  • mi 6a only 90 ??? :-) link pls

  • my huawei y6 is dual sim. dont know why yours is only one? maybe fake?

  • better buy xiaomi mi 6a only 90 eur

  • Worst phone ever..... Too slow n loading😡

  • Is this phone compatible with OTG Flashdrives?

  • What kind of redmi? can u send me the complete name, thanks

  • Is huawei y6 compatible with otg flashdrives?

  • Huawei Y6 2018 or Samasung Galaxy J5 2017?

  • My Huawei Y6 2018 inserts only one nano Sim, why is that when everywhere I read it's dual Sim.......?

  • Tried this. the instruction is very clear, just have to see if it really worked. Thanks!!! :)

  • I bought my Huawei y6 yesterday and i found out that the camera is in a slow motion effect and the sounds when i click like button on facebook is late..However I am not into gaming, so its okay.. Haha this phone is my treat for myself so.

  • appearance wise? check / ........... but when it comes to speed??? xxxxxxxxxxxxxx T.T not advisable if you are an Iphone user who is used to speed of an iphone.

  • You should a message when you tap the build number, keep tapping it until it says "You are now a developer".

  • Got mine for $112. THIS IS NOT A GAMING PHONE AND CAMERA PERFORMANCE IS PRETTY AVERAGE. I own this phone for 2 months and YES I USE THIS AS MY DAILY DRIVER. (From Galaxy S6) And so far the experience is GOOD not BAD not EXCELLENT. Things i hate: •Delay transition specially in the default camera app. •Face unlock is slow and sometimes fails and UNRELIABLE. •LAGS WITH FACEBOOK AND MESSENGER ON BACKGROUND. (WHICH IS TERRIBLE.) Things i like: Nice and loud speaker. Battery can reach 12 hrs. 18:9 Screen ratio. The average camera performance. So far this phone is good but there is a better choice if you invest a LITTLE more like the redmi 5. I DON'T RECOMMEND THIS PHONE. INVEST MORE FOR A BETTER PHONE.

  • Yes you can, go to Configuration, System, Idiom and text, Swift key keyboard, writing and then sound and vibration, in there you desactive the sound and vibration of the keyboard.

  • just update your phone every time it notifies you. my phone isn't lagging anymore.

  • My phone is ridiculously slow. I tried to do the above but can't see development option. Can you tell me where i find it please

  • Tap the build number multiple times to enable developer options

  • I don't have a problem with this phone... At first it was so laggy its lagging but when i fixed sone setting in the developer options the lagging has stooped and the performance became smooth. Go to SETTINGS>SYSTEM>DEVELOPER OPTIONS Then scroll down and find the WINDOW ANIMATION SCALE,TRANSITION ANIMATION SCALE AND ANIMATOR DURATION SCALE adjust those scales to 0.5. After that scroll down again and find Background process limit and you will see "standard limit" then adjust it to "atmost 4 processes" Ps. (if you are still not a developer please just search on google on how to become developer)

  • There is no finger print scanner for this phone Y6 (2018). I think you are on the wrong page.

  • Nope, mine works fine

  • is anyone having a problem with google maps navigational ..it just doesnt move

  • huawei y6 2015 is better than this phone this phone realy sucks

  • Please dont buy this mobile very slow ,lagging lagging lagging , camera is ok ,if u press back button it will take time to go back pressing again will go to the second previous page I fed up with this mobile my previous lenovo k4 note is much better than this

  • for me it's workimg great. Of course there us some lag hare and there, but nothing seroius. Its budget phone. My doughter uses it for facebook, whatsapp, some simple games and music and youtube. No problem with 1,5 day usage. Camera us poor, but as I said its budget phone (i have google pixel 2 xl and huawei p10). So you cannot wait a lagfree phone with superb camera that can run all modern games with full details. If you want that, buy a midrange - highend phone. Or tell me better alternative 150€ 2018 phone.

  • Despite the bad reviews, you can limit lagging by installing a 32GB or higher SD card and saving all roms, pics, books, vids, music, etc.; disabling bloatware (google&byproducts) and uninstall useless apps or updates; setting limits on your phone; cleaning the phones data; having 3-4GB internal space are just some of the few things you can do. There are, however, a few instances that certain apps crash for no apparent reason and using a log to check it won't do it unless you root the phone (mines not rooted so I'll keep as suxh till later). The phone does hang at some point and the lagging that the comments mentioned happened on some apps I DLed off google play. If you need a new phone... Just save your money and use it for something else... But if you really need a phone for

  • The left "speaker", is actually the mic. There is only ONE speaker on this phone.

  • Mee runs fine

  • How do I set my background limit as you suggest? Thanks

  • poor peformance

  • Lol this phone is horrible. Very laggy even with basic games. And seriously, that snapdragon chipset is slow af. Regrets. 😩

  • any one playing nba 2k18 in this.phone ??

  • It's horrendously slow. I got this phone yesterday and fell in love it's amazing for a budget phone, but by this morning it is running slower than my nan and keeps freezing, I got it from o2 on a contract so it's not a fake and I'm only using it for calls texts kindle and Facebook, its really disappointing and I'm sending it back

  • Get the much better Y7 Pro 2018 for only little more money, price is only 150 $...3 GB Ram and 32 GB memory is the minimum nowdays.

  • I thought 2 speakers

  • Try download nova launcher

  • well you can trust on xiaomi and buy redmi 5 plus aka redmi note 5.it is just way better than this phone .even it is better than mate 10 lite.so go for that.if you dont trust on them go serch at youtube and watch some videos of famous youtubers.or watch gsmarena's own review.i hope this will help you

  • Can you suggest this phone to me,Because i plan to buy this unit of huawei and probably this could be my 3rd phone from my whole life.Could you suggest this phone to me ?

  • I just bought this phone last july7, and as far as today the only problem i have encountered is the lagging after i close rules of survival. Other than that, i have no problem so far.

  • poor peformance

  • Haahahahaha

  • I bought this phone recently & found its a great budget phone. Its display & sound quality are even better than P-Smart, the phone I had had three months ago for two months. Performance is fine, the fingerprint sensor is also working Ok. I liked the improvements that Huawei made on this phone as compared to earlier budget phones.

  • goodluck.

  • This phone is not worth to buy. It is slow, it keeps on freezing or hanging most of the time, how much more if you have an SD card in it and few low memory apps. Frequent restarts or optimize is needed in my experience. The camera is laggy or I say you'll have to wait a minute or more for the camera to start or worse it will just present you a black screen. If you have to take a shot it will take a few seconds to take a snap, in short you just lost the moment to capture it. Aesthetic is good, looks good, but the performance is very disappointing. You need a lot of patience for this phone. Not recommended for people on the go or even on emergencies.

  • Hey, I Purchased this phone and the people who are here, they probably have a fake or just download way too much adult videos to have their phone so laggy, I have no problems at all, phone works just fine, and you get what you pay for :) The phone is really reliable and fast.

  • Phone is super laggy

  • I was primerly a fan of Huawei and hence bought a Y6 prime. Now I noticed that it is getting slower and slower day by day and even starts hanging now. Although I have not even installed too many apps. Its wifi and Bluetooth Hotspot is also not working. I Optimized it many times with built-in in optimizer but no good news. I am really disappointed so for.

  • I bought this phone last month, and notice same problem as what other users here. The appearance is okay for me, but the phone is so lag, apps always crashing, the camera also. I even turned off the animation to make this phone run smoothly and it didn't work! I wish there's an update but no, I've been waiting since. They had survey and I gave them honest answer. I won't recommend it to others. First time huawei user here and I'm very disappointed It work very slow.

  • Ive read about the opinion here and saw that most of the comments here said that the phone is laggy, camera is so slow or anything else that is not good. Bought this phone just yesterday and its really great to use. Camera is fast, switching from rear to front back to rear. It takes good photos too. About the lag is that its just as expected. Chip is SD 425 Clocked at 1.4Ghz. What can you expect from that with heavy skins and clocked at 1.4Ghz. Of course it will also lag because of the users multitasking. Remember that this phone only have 2gb RAM. Set your background limit processes to 4 and there you go...Problem solved. Again its a great phone to have, good camera with PDAF( Phase Detection Autofocus), loud speaker and very nice design.

  • This phone is bullshit,i suggest not to buy this laggy shit kind of phone,..

  • its been out for 3 months

  • Two years huh? That's way too lame... And you may want to up your trolling games a little buddy.

  • I bought this phone last month, and notice same problem as what other users here. The appearance is okay for me, but the phone is so lag, apps always crashing, the camera also. I even turned off the animation to make this phone run smoothly and it didn't work! I wish there's an update but no, I've been waiting since. They had survey and I gave them honest answer. I won't recommend it to others. First time huawei user here and I'm very disappointed.

  • I have been using this phone for the last two years and I've never had any problems with it I think it's great.

  • fixed my problem with HiSuite turns out it was my powersuply failing to supply power to my motherboard some have problems connecting to Hisuite an error message with this Because an app is obscuring a permission request, Settings can't verify your response what i did is reset my app notification settings then it connect just go to Apps and notifications Apps -> and click more at the bottom then Reset app preferences i recommend this phone pros verygood for its price i can play mobile legends smoothly con is low internal storage and camera is still slow after the latest update yesterday

  • i think this is ok compare to nokia 3 same price

  • Its true what others here say about Y6. It is laggy, but not that super laggy. It is OK. Phone is pretty much usable if you dont overload it with junk apps. But the camera lag. Man oh man... I have never seen anything like it. You can tap on camera icon and go for a smoke. By the time you finish there is a big chance it will be turned on and ready. DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE if you think you might use a camera on this phone for even once.

  • disappointed ,very slow camera and phone

  • 2 days Huawei Y6 2k18 user here. Great phone for a cheaper price.

  • new update is much better also sd card default location

  • note: i'm from Philippines...

  • I'm so Disappointed to all bad comment, why because you know this phone is lower price but slightly mid specs. be compare vivo, oppo, sumsung and more then compare the same spec then see y6 price is lower right. Do you think if you buy lower price and you get high specs didn't right. if you want high specs buy high price. if you want good games buy high price. if you want spectacular phone buy high price. buy NOVA 2i or honor 7x, 10. y6 is middle specs only.. this coming august I PLAN TO BUY 2 Y6 FOR MY MOTHER AND GF.

  • Samsung V plus is much better than this phone OMG it's high class lagging phone

  • Does anyone have a problem with his/her speaker? My left speaker doesn't work. It's working before, but I don't know what happened. I never played it on highest volume (I lower it two to three from the highest volume). I never dropped it. It is working the moment I got it.

  • Phone is super lag. This is not a good phone just wasted my money.

  • This phone is really a dissapointment! i spent my money for this kind of phone because I trust the company's name..

  • Thats true! I am dissapointed in this phone..i bought mine last week and i found out that the camera is super duper log log log..i thought it will open next year! And when you in installed apps like Facebook or messenger and installed it again it will not open so I had to restore factory..its so stressful!😡 so the next time ill buy a phone i will check everything before buying..because youll regret it later😬😬😬

  • Go to SwiftKey options and disable it

  • When you buy this phone Don update the software it will drain your battery and when is power saving mode is becoming from 2day to 14hrs and when is normal use 1day become 10hrs using it

  • This phone so the greatest phone I've ever got my previous phone was a Samsung J5 This cones camere is amazing who ever thinks the is phone is garbage then buy the real one not the fake one

  • Guys, phone working excellent without any of listed problems. I am happy to have it.

  • Very bad phone.. Very hang.. Front camera is bad.. Very bad performance

  • This phone is log, specially the camera takes so long to open.. From front to back im so sad

  • Whatever you do don't buy this phone. The lag is unbelievable. I have tried resetting the device, and it works well for less than a day. Camera takes forever to open and any attempt to multi-task ends in failure. It is so bad that I thought there was a problem with the particular phone until I read the other reviews here that mostly say the same. I'm going to return it today after 5 days and ask for a refund. It's simply not good enough that Huawei release this garbage without proper testing first!

  • Yes, never seen such a slow camera to launch and take pictures...even with phones with worse hardware.

  • I agree. For some reason launching the camera and taking pictures takes a few seconds longer than what you would expect.

  • Sun Cellular (in the Philippines) is offering a brand new plan and their choices are Huawei Y6 (2018) and Oppo A71 (2018) (Samsung Galaxy J2 Pro is excluded since it has the lowest specs of the three). What's the best pick? Huawei or Oppo?

  • the camera super log log log log omg .

  • For 120 guys, it's not to bad actually for a budget phone, I was on Nokia 635 there, disaster, tried to get a moto g5, argos sold out, so I grabbed this, it is far from perfect, however, it is a good budget fone it really is, I have had it 2 days and it's taken everything I have thrown at it, it has a nice screen and has a chip and ram that will get you there, its worth six twenty pound notes.

  • can't*

  • how to get rid off the vibration keys?? its kind of annoying.. and yes at some point its lag but is the reason why its lag is because of the application that is so heavy? well for me it is heavy. and is the nova launcher thingy really works? and also why can I install webtoon on my phone?? T.T webtoon is life T.T

  • So slow for everything, like camera and file manager... a real pain to use...spend some more money and buy a better one...

  • slow and hang not good

  • I can't download some apps even if I have a big storage (Micro SD Card). I like this phone but the downloading part is my problem. Please HELP. Thank you.

  • I don't think there is a better phone for the price. Go for it guys .

  • disappointed with the slow start up if you havnt used it for a while, camera also takes forever to start up and missed the opportunity, my samsung s5 (yes its old) wil allow playback to the TV the Y6 wont!!! althoug they said it would in the shop (Tesco)

  • got my Y6 2018 2 weeks ago...after update and disable unnecessary apps and install some camera apps. I never experience lag and no problems so far.

  • Same prob. My phone is super lag also. I bought it 2weeks ago im so disappointed

  • I mean it's not horrible but I must say I'm disappointed and I expected more. My Samsung J3 from 2016 has a better front camera but its memory was running out and the phone was dying so I had to get a new one. Didn't have a money for a better Samsung phone. Shame, maybe some day I won't have to put up with this stuff and stay with Samsung but yeah being poor sucks

  • Should I buy Y6 or Y7 Prime(2017)? I found a y7 prime online, I've been thinking about getting it till y6 came out. I think y7 prime has better Specs, but Y6 is newer? Is y6 with emui 8 better than y7 prime with emui5 but more specs? I can't decide.

  • There is a tone of issues on this pfone. Lag, lag, lag, no fp, catastrofic stock camera. Overhiting and lousy battery. Do not buy this phone. It is dead on arrival. Horrible product. Shame on you Huawei!

  • I just bought this phone and I must say I'm utterly disappointed. It's slower than the P8 Lite released on 2015 for around the same price. My mum still has hers and it works fine, no lag, nothing, but the Y6 2018? It lags a lot. What good is facial recognition when paired to such mediocre product. I'd return it if I could.

  • Is this worth buying for an entry level smartphone thanks

  • Since this phone has come to sale at our store we cannot get enough of them. Customers are going crazy for the good quality smartphone at a super affordable price. So far so good, no issues with lag as others have reported? No issues with whatsapp? Best selling smartphone we have had in for a while.

  • I installed the nova launcher but my phone is still lagging specifically when I use the camera. Anyone can help me in this problem?

  • It is a bit laggy. It may be because of bloatware, but one should not expect more from 2GB RAM. All in all, an okay budget phone. 6/10

  • the reason you cannot use whatsapp is coz u haventy downloaded the latest android upsdate that's what I thought when I got the phone but if u download the recent update

  • Its because middle east( in general) has restriction on whatsapp messaging service and any other messaging service apart from SMS. So its not the phone but the laws of the country.

  • HiSuite cant detect my phone y6 2018 Allow HDB on usb set to transfer files the said notification that will pop up on my phone doesnt appear and transferring file is so hard (without using HiSuite sometimes it works sometimes doesnt, and makes my computer hang) i like the phone but it has so many problems right now waiting for system update right now if they could just remove HiSuite and make it optional software it will be better

  • I just bought this phone and first thing i going to install was Whatsapp and shock to see that play store saying or whatsapp saying that "my device is not compatible to install whatsapp" I am in abu dhabi right now can any body tell what is this

  • So, I just had this phone yesterday (the phone is what I am using right now to post this opinion). The problem I had encountered upon using the phone was that it was lagging and I hated it. I tried restarting, cleaning and deleting other staffs but still it was lagging. Later on, I tried to install another launcher "Nova Launcher" and set it as the launcher of the phone. The result made me happy, the phone was not lagging anymore. I can just easily go back to home screen without waiting for the phone to move or open the camera without waiting for 5 seconds. :) May this help. :),

  • install nova launcher on playstore and then set it as your launcher by just hold pressing the tool and then the words Set Launcher will pop up :) hope this will help

  • hi, i also had the same problem. So, what I did was I installed an app called Nova Launcher because Huawei Launcher was too lag for the phone and right now I am using it without lag. :) Hope this will help.

  • this is what i did to turn off the vibrate on my keypad. there's plus sign on left corner of the keypad click it then choose the settings icon then there's setting icon with plus on right corner click it then you will be redirected to swiftkey click typing there's an icon for sound and viration.

  • Oh my 8 gb of sytem apps. Just wow Or is it just me who have that problem? Help me to resolve this please. I just bought this phone

  • How to turn off the key press vibration. It is really annoying when you type.

  • How to turn off the key press vibration. It is really annoying when you type.

  • Hello i need help this phone is super duper lag

  • Hahahaha

  • you should send sample files to the sender before you recieve

  • Helloo This phone is full hang idont know but this phone is new🙄🙄🙄pls resolve

  • To send or receive file via share it, you need to connect your hotspot to the receiver or sender.

  • Connect the receiver to your share it hotspot...

  • Cheap And good Phone

  • only 2 gb ram?? can huawei de guzman fix this but vote fo me

  • I checked with 2 test apps "USB OTG Checker" and "USB OTG Tester" both said yes. I connected to my computer and it offers me a MIDI mode that suggests that OTG is working. btw. There are 4 USB modes: transfer photos; transfer files (needs installation of some program on the computer side, I did not try); Charge only; MIDI

  • What problem?

  • Indeed this seems to be important for this phone. See my post below about the stuck bootloader due to SD card. I use a class 10 UHS-1 card now and lag is not bad.

  • How can i fix the problem in huawei y6 2018?

  • Does this phone supports usb otg?

  • Nowdays 2 GB Ram and 16 GB Rom is simply not enough for a phone to run smoothly...3 GB Ram and 32 GB Rom is the minimum so i suggest you buy the Y7 Pro or Prime for a little more money. You'll thank me later.

  • How I can recieved a files via share it,is there any suggestion

  • Y7 Prime is far better than Y6 Prime (2018)

  • the new update should resolve the lag issue. and don't expect greater things to obsolete Snapdragon 425 . use it with 1 to 2 app at a time, this is suppose to be a basic phone not for multi tasking. asphalt 8 works just fine when there's no other application running at the same time. camera is always delay for about 4-5 secs but the new updates cut it down to 1-2 secs. what i like to this phone is the speaker, has good display resolution, 5.7" and LTE connection is fast.

  • its so laggy! can huawei fix this mess?

  • If you can try getting a UHS-1 Sd card like san disk. mine used to stutter with my old class 4 sd card.

  • This phone sucks big time kept on lagging you have to repeatedly touch the screen to make it work all in all this phone should go straight to the garbage..

  • This phone cannot receive a files or apps via shareit causr it neede a QR code to be scan by the sender. Their shareit is no qr code scanner. Im a very sad. And it is so laggy. I hope you can fix this. Thank you very much.

  • I agree it always lagging and hanging Easily drain I'm too disappointed

  • You r right bro

  • Indeed Huawei doesn't support App2SD on any of their phones. You need to format the SD card as internal to do so. More here:

  • Just via the settings, no rooting or hacking.

  • This phone lags a lot especially with the camera, it often hangs just using facebook messenger, viber, or sms. Camera took a lot of time to open and lags just to take a photo too. It wont transfer apps to sd card, all apps are stored on internal storage. It does look good physically but it is a horrible slow phone. Not worth to purchase for a budget segment phone.

  • Hey Andras, how did you update the phone and where did you see the update? Was it through settings, did you sideload it? is it through XDA? or you google 'd it? ^_^

  • I will not pay to try it, but I tried the free NBA Live 18 by Electronic Arts and it works smoothly during the tutorial. Not sure though that the graphics of this game is matching up with the one that you mentioned.

  • Y not

  • Y though?

  • Omg! We have the same issue camera and its to laggy!!!

  • Does NBA 2k18 works well on this phone?

  • Yeah... Thanks!

  • I would go for the Y7 Prime 2017. Faster processor, more memory, more RAM, more sensors and it's glas + alu instead of plastic.

  • and now im think if i buy this phone coz of comments i read the phone is too laggy

  • Hi Guys, I just need some help. I bought a Y6 last week however it got a wifi issue. Hence, they ask for the phone to be sent to the Huawei service center. Now, they are now offering a replacement to the y7 prime 2017. Which phone do you think is better? Y6 or Y7 prime 2017? Thank you

  • is there any way to speed up this phone? is there upcoming update for this phone? why its so laggy while other phones got same specs and price and yet they are more smooth why it cant multi task since im just using 2 apps together meseenger and ml prone to force stop need to resatart just to qork again just slow

  • I purchased this phone as a backup. Does anyone of you have problems with starting the camera app? The phone is generally slow, but with the camera app the startup time is just ridiculous. Can easily take over 30 seconds, will never start within 10 seconds and taking a picture will not work for another 10 seconds... (in quickstart-mode, volume down twice even slower) Should I take it back?

  • I also had to press the "Check for updates" button a few times. The latest version is ATU-L22 8.0.0.110(C636). The out-of-box version was ATU-L22 8.0.0.102(C636).

  • this phone has launched 1 month ago - what update do you want ?!

  • Thanks for your well explained about this phone

  • the big problem how I can update the phone? theres no system update available.

  • thanks Andras.

  • Yeah thebsoftware sucks tho

  • The is the cheapest of the cheap smart phones....but honestly with many apps now taking more than 1GB, 32 GB internal memory and 3 GB Ram is the minimum you should get if you want a smooth experience. If not ready to spend a few dollars more, don't come here whining your phone is lagging....

  • Good question, I haven't checked on navigation so far. I installed WAZE on my new Y6 (2018) to test. I also installed GPS Test to start with. GPS Test locks on very fast in 1 second I have like 15 satellites locked and an accuracy of 5-6 meters. GPS also provides a basic compass (only N, W, S, E) WAZE got my location correctly as well and planned a route to a nearby city 84 Km away. It all looks fine, did not get any messages about warnings or errors. It shows me the road ahead regardless how I turn my phone around in 360 degrees. A compass seems not to be a must-have for this navigation app.

  • Hi, can I use this phone in WAZE? i learned that this phone don't have compass. Thanks

  • Good question. Unfortunately the answer is that "It depends on your needs". First of all what apps do you need? Some Apps can be huge, especially games. The other storage consumer is photos and videos. I did some tests for this on the Y6. I shot a few images with max resolution (13MP) and they are about 3.1 Mb on average since I found no options to influence compression. This means about 10.000 such photos can be stored on a 32 Gb SD card. I made a Full HD video of 1 minute with very challenging conditions that should result lower compression rates (i.e. I walked around my apartment constantly changing the entire view of the camera. Recording something like a theatre play with a stable background would require much less). This test suggests that about a 150 Mb/Minute is needed for 1080p video recording. This means less than 3 hours HD video can be recorded on a 32 Mb SD card with these conditions. I can't give an exact answer. You may load photos and videos to Facebook or Dropbox regularly. You may avoid of large apps. In this case 32 Gb SD card is OK, it can work, but you may take action rapidly to move to the cloud. In all other cases I would go for at least a 64 Gb card.

  • This is very helpful. Thanks a lot.

  • Yes, in the options you can set the default storage. Using file manager you can move photos, videos etc. from internal storage to SD card and vica versa. Apps will be installed to the chosen default storage from the point of time when you switch. I left 6 Gb free on the internal storage and from that point I save everything to the SD card.

  • Thank you sooooo much! But i would like to know how much of a gig does the phone needed ?

  • Phone*

  • Hi andras! I would like to know how much of a gig does the phone's needed? Is 32 enough?

  • hello ,since the storage is just 16 gig.. by inserting micro sd card ..does it have the option to choose default storage like phone storage or sd card ..or u can just use micro sd for transferring photos vids medias etc? bec. 16 gig is not enough storage. thnx

  • There are several people complaining about the same issue with that game. Try to contact the developers via the bug reports at the official forums:

  • I am experiencing lagging but I just bought it 2 days ago, also the camera hangs and I can't play the game like mobile legends etc well, is anyone knows how to fix it?

  • This phone is out there for a couple of weeks and deserves a detailed review: I bought this phone in Singapore Airport duty-free to be used as a business phone. Price is about USD 115. Overall I think I made a great value deal and I'm very happy with it. However the beginning was a bit difficult. The phone was lagging, certain applications crushed and I could not access certain sections of the settings. I started a software update and the phone got stuck while loading the bootloader. I thought I bricked the phone. Finally it turned out that the microSD card that I inserted in the very beginning is defected. After removing the faulty SD card the software update successfully completed and all problems are gone. I installed a brand new class 10 microSD card (specifically: Samsung EVOPlus 128 Gb) and now everything works smooth and fast. All the below is after the software update and using the new microSD card. What's in the box: You get the phone, the charger with micro-USB cable and earphones. There's also a transparent plastic pop-in case in the package. The earphones are not adjustable by size, they are the older type plastic ones. The phone body: I have the blue version. The display pane is plastic that comes with a pre-installed screen protector film and has a front camera, an infrared sensor and something called "Smart Selfie Butterflighting" (???) . The back pane is a matte blue plastic and hosts the camera and the flash as well as a secondary microphone (I guess for background noise reduction). None of front or back panes seem to collect fingerprints or other dust. The frame around the front and back panes seems to be made of metal and it's shiny blue. On the left hand side there's the single tray for the 2 nano SIM cards and for the microSD card. On the right hand side there are the volume buttons and the power button. On the bottom side there is a speaker, the primary microphone and the micro-USB slot. The top of the frame hosts the jack slot. The camera pane rises a bit over the back panel, I guess this device was designed to be used with a case (that also comes in the package). Overall the phone doesn't give a feeling of being cheap at all. The inside: I ran Antutu 3D and it gave 45933 points for this setup. The weakest part is the GPU. Clearly this device can't run high end 3D games but it can do run average games (see later). Nevertheless CPU performance is acceptable and RAM performance is much better than I expected from this phone (Antutu gave a score very similar to the Huawei P9 for RAM speed). I tested WiFi with Speedtest by OOKLA. It went to 50 Mbit/s download and 20 Mbit/s upload that are my limits with my internet connection and highly enough to stream movies and music. The phone actually may be capable for even higher speeds. Storage speeds are tested with A1 SD Benchmark: Internal storage Read 36.91 MB/s Write 58.35 MB/s; External microSD: Read 67.35 MB/s; Write 33.84 MB/s. These values highly depend on the quality of the SD card, I used a class 10 card as mentioned before. This speed is sufficient to record full HD videos. Usability: I tried the Netflix app to play movies via streaming. I also tried to jump to different parts of the movie several times. It all worked fast and smooth giving the same experience as on my Dell laptop. I enabled Face Unlock. It works just fine. I found that moving the phone a bit up and down while it's trying to identify you helps a lot to recognize the face. Background light is bad, don't stand against the sun. I tried the game "Ships of Battle: Age of Pirates". This game work well on this phone, no lagging. The phone comes with Android 8.0 Oreo and HUAWEI Emui. This is the newest software available featuring the new Google Assistant with voice control. I also noticed the lagging that other people mentioned and investigated as much as I could. It all seems to come down to the battery power saving features of the software. When I wake the phone after a longer sleep period it takes 2-3 seconds to come online. If I try to open the camera directly from the lock screen after a longer sleep period it takes 6-8 seconds. However if I unlock the phone and lock it again then I try to again unlock/open camera it works instantly. It gives the feeling that after some time like 30-60 minutes the device goes into "deep sleep" to save battery time and it needs a few seconds to "come back". Overall it's acceptable, you just need to be aware of this and if you need to capture a photo in less than 10 seconds unlock your phone in advance. Battery life is another interesting topic since it's one of the selling points of this device. I found that in idle state the Y6 consumes very little energy. By far the top consumer is the cell standby and not the system or any applications as in the case of older phones. After about 12 hours the phone is at 75% charge with average usage so I think it can survive 2 days with careful usage and even 3 days with power saving mode. Summary: Pros: + Price + Android 8 Oreo + Large display + Sound CPU and RAM + Sound Wifi and SD card handling + Good battery life (with the default settings) + A LED flash and a good speaker Cons: - Weak GPU for 3D games - Small storage of 16 Gb, you need a card extension Verdict: I would buy again for sure. For USD 115 or 6000 pesos this is a great value deal as a business phone or a usual phone for not an extreme gamer. However an SD card extension is needed in all cases in my opinion.

  • don't get this phone no no no no no no this like nokia 3310 as speed i'm awaiting 30sec to show the call

  • Is there WIFI direct connection ?

  • Whey not Full HD screen? This screen is not Full HD.

  • I got the blue one and it's plastic. Although quite good doesn't collect fingerprints. It also comes with a pre-installed screen protector and a transparent protector case.

  • It doesn't work in any file sharing app, anybody who knows whats wrong? I need help thanks!

  • It hangs a lot 😭 and another problem is aside from bluetooth how can i transfer files? It doesn't work in any sharing app. Anybody who knows how to fix this?

  • Are you from PH?

  • Big problem is lack of memory, Ram and internal...for your peace of mind and ease of udse, add a little more money and get an Y7 2018...

  • As long as you have the technical report, the store must replace it ( within 7 days warranty). Good thing, when I brought my y6 to their customer service center, they offered me to swap it with a y7 prime (2017 model). Though the store where I've purchased it is willing to replace it.

  • I purchased a Huawei Y6 last Friday because the sales crew convinced me with his sales talk and it was getting late already that’s why I availed it. Unfortunately, when I was about to use it the day after I purchased it, the camera phone hanged. The phone storage is 16GB but the apps that I have downloaded were three only. I got confused why the phone consumed almost 12GB that resulted to lag. So, I returned to the store for the replacement since it got a 7-days warranty and it’s not yet due. They told me to bring the phone to Huawei service center to get a technical report so they could replace it with a new one. Then, I went to the service center and waited for 1½ hours. I thought if they are going to replace the phone with the same unit. The same issue might happen again to the new phone. They have found out that I am planning to upgrade the phone to Nova 2 lite. However, they offered me to swap it with a Y7 Prime unit (2017) that’s worth 10K. Take note, they’re gonna replace the phone with no additional cash. So, I checked the phone specs and it’s not bad. The phone specs are good. I asked them, if they are going to replace the unit with a much higher unit with no additional cash whatsoever, what’s the catch? They told me that there is still no update for the Oreo OS and that’s the reason why the phone is lag. They said the same thing might happen if it’s gonna be replace with the same unit. That’s it. Just wanted to share it with you guys to try. They said that they are willing to replace the phone as long as it still in the warranty date and got the technical report from the service center. So, I’m very happy and satisfied with my Huawei Y7 Prime model.

  • Does anyone know what's the body of the phone made of? Is it polycarbonate, metal, glass, or aluminum? I will gladly appreciate your answers. TIA.

  • The camera is the weakest link. I agree, it hang most of the time. The iPhone 5s camera has better resolution than this.

  • Does it happen all the time?

  • Have you tried it sir?

  • i got my unit last May 4, 2018.. no log experience... the unit is GOOD BETTER BEST... I LIKE IT

  • I'm planning to use this as 2nd phone, just for browsing, youtube and music play. Is this phone OK for those purpose?

  • Very disappointing.The camera often hang up.And so with the other apps. I would not recommend this phone for gaming and taking photos.The worst thing is that the the store staff would not consider replacing the phone for a new one even if it has covered with a 7 days replacement!!!

  • Yes true

  • The main issue i that the camera lags

  • I am now experiencing logging on it I brought it 3 days ago what's wrong?

  • I am now experiencing logging on it I brought it 3 days ago what's wrong?

  • Is it good for waze or google map? Tnx?

  • Tol, is the camera good?

  • Bought this phone for 5990php. This phone has the latest os 8.0 Oreo with 5.7 fullview 18:9 display 16gb 2gb memory and 13mp camera. Its has the best specs for 6k price. Battery life when browsing or watching movies is around 8hrs. But when playing games is around 4hrs. This unit is not recommended for heavy gaming because of the short battery life.

  • If you not have much money, this phone is the best but its lack of memory is a problem and makes it slow...I would advise spending a bit more to get decent 3 GB Ram and 32 GB storage, like Y7 2018....

  • Garbage from Huawei. Get the Redmi 5A instead.

  • big screen low battery

  • Keeps hanging, too slow

  • Yes

  • same here.. too slow.. :(

  • Can anyone help me to this phone. I buy this and when i try its hang up, and always prompt the apps is not working..

  • You didn't mention about the network of this phone

  • For 100 euros you won't find a better phone. Cameras and screen are good, and speaker is amazing, better than s9...Not super fast, and 16 GB is small, but hey, 100 euros....

  • yup

  • is it otg ready?

  • Y6 cheapest smartphone from a brand name. For 100 dollars, 16 GB is a good deal...If you want more you can get the Y7.

  • ROM Not Up to the mark, 32 GB ROM is Good.

  • Yes! Its 5990

  • u Sure bro ? 5990 php? @_@

  • Cannot "beat" Huawei...

  • 16 GB is a bit short, but for 100 € (5990 php in the Philippines from april 28) it is a bargain...and front flash ! Will get it as a secondary phone. Cannot be Huawei, will soon be number one.

  • A good phone considering it's budget price. I like it!

  • For a good price it should be good phone for kids or begginers.

  • I think that this phone is very good it is good for playing games and good photos with a good price it is sort of cheap

  • Nice device - it doesn't have a notch.

  • well see

  • Then why not just get the same priced, but better specced Honor 7x?

  • Rumored to be approx. €150/$200 maximum,Could be cheaper thou.

  • The downside is the lack of RAM.

  • Good display as an 18:9 and a 5.7 screen. But the downside was the lack in sensors.

  • price and feedback about this phone?