Honor 9X Pro: Better specs can't save this smartphone from a barren app store

But hey, maybe a Google-free experience is a selling point for you

Hands On Smartphone manufacturers love to use the word "pro" in their branding. Perhaps at one point it meant something, conveying a level of power you wouldn't get with cheaper kit. That isn't the case in 2020, with the term awkwardly slapped on sub-250 devices, like the subject of this review: the Honor 9X Pro."