Huawei Y9 (2019) review: Quad-cam budget hero with 4000 mAh and Kirin 710.
Pre-ban Huawei budget hero.
Y9 2019 was Huawei's quad-cam budget bestseller — sub-$250, FHD+, 4000 mAh, with the Kirin 710 doing duty across the entire Y/P-Lite line. It sold tens of millions before the US ban froze Huawei out of Google services.
01Display
70/100At 70/100 this is one of the strongest display showings among budget phones of 2018 — 12 points above the cohort average.
02Camera
60/100At 60/100 this is one of the strongest camera showings among budget phones of 2018 — 8 points above the cohort average.
03Performance
60/100At 60/100 this is one of the strongest performance showings among budget phones of 2018 — 15 points above the cohort average.
04Battery
76/10076/100 puts it above the 73-point average for budget phones of 2018.
05Build
60/10060/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2018.
- Big FHD+ 6.5" display sub-$250
- Quad-cam setup unusual at this price
- 4000 mAh + microSD
- Kirin 710 lukewarm
- Mono speaker
- 2 MP depth filler
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 14-phone cohort of budget devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .