Officially launched throughout my protection of IFA 2022 in Berlin, Germany, the Honor 70 collection, particularly the Honor 70 (official page) is designed to carry a high-end design feel and look to the aggressive $600+ market section. We have had time to look deeper, and right here is our expertise and evaluation of this stunning smartphone.
This cellphone doesn’t have an official retail channel within the USA, so the $650 road value is predicated on dearer import channels. Outside the USA, the official UK value is 499.99 UKP for the bottom mannequin (8GB RAM, 128GB storage). In Spain and France, the official value is 549 Euros. If you need 256GB of storage, it’s 599 Euros.
Design
The Honor 70 is constructed round a skinny and light-weight chassis with glass on either side and a “super dual curved screen,” which implies that the curve is current on the entrance and the again, making the sting feel and look additional skinny.
This kind of design was super-expensive to provide, and it’s good to see it coming into mainstream segments like this $650 cellphone (road value). Not everybody likes curved screens, however I feel they appear actually cool, and the chassis feels agreeable in hand.
Some folks may keep in mind the problems with the grip inducing undesirable contact occasions, however I haven’t skilled this in latest telephones with a curved display screen, in order that shouldn’t be an issue anymore. I’m interested by what different folks assume.
Our unit is the “Emerald Green,” and it seems to be nice with its anti-fingerprint matte textured floor within the again, However, Honor has different cool again covers, notably the Crystal Silver, Icelandic Frost, and Midnight Black.
The chassis is mild (178g) for a 6.67-inch cellphone and really skinny, too: 7.91mm. Many folks like that very a lot, particularly if you carry your smartphone in (tight) pants or shirt/vest pockets.
Unfortunately, there’s no water-resistance certification (IP Rating), so please watch out round water. At this value vary, it’s not stunning because the IP certification does value additional. However, it might have been very good to have some unofficial water safety. It appears that’s not the case.
Sound
A single speaker delivers clear and distortion-free audio on the underside proper. It may be very respectable however will not be loud and good as telephones with twin audio system, it’s simply physics. At the identical time, it’s comprehensible that sources need to be moved round when constructing reasonably priced premium telephones.
Display
The 120Hz FHD+ (2400 x 1080) 6.67″ OLED show seems to be nice and has all types of tuning choices within the settings. I prefer to set the Color and Temperature mode to “natural” slightly than “vivid” (default), however the different default choices work nicely for me.
The dynamic refresh price ought to present ratio between scrolling smoothness and battery life. The refresh variability will not be as granular as dearer telephones and doesn’t go all the best way right down to 1Hz or 10Hz. However, the general system energy effectivity makes up for that.
As ordinary with OLED, colours do look nice, and Honor has included a default background picture that matches the unit’s coloration (inexperienced in our case), a pleasant contact.
We measured the utmost brightness at 784 NITs with handbook settings, which is a superb quantity. There isn’t an additional increase in brightness when you’re in direct daylight, in order that’s just about the ceiling. The costliest shows can spike briefly to greater than 1500 NITs, nevertheless it’s momentary as a result of your eyes will adapt and negate that additional brightness if left ON for too lengthy.
Finally, there’s an under-screen fingerprint reader, which shines a robust mild to learn the fingerprint. In our expertise, it labored nicely and was environment friendly. The most seen draw back in comparison with an ultrasound reader is the acute brightness of the fingerprint reader’s mild when your eyes are accustomed to the darkness.
Honor 70 digital camera
The new Honor 70 digital camera sparked fairly a bit of pleasure on the net as a result of it’s the first to make use of Sony’s new IMX800 digital camera sensor in its f/1.9 27mm major digital camera.
The IMX800 is a 50 MP sensor with 1.0-micron sensing pixels, which due to this fact makes it a sensor that’s roughly 50mm² (54 mm² really) giant. That’s related in dimension to the Samsung GN5 discovered within the Galaxy S22’s major digital camera, for instance.
The Honor 70 ultrawide digital camera is intriguing and includes a 50MP sensor as nicely, though we expect the pixel dimension might be very small, maybe within the 0.6 to 0.7-micron vary (that’s our guess, wanting on the pictures we shot). Ultimately, the f/2.2 13mm lens may not let sufficient mild undergo to totally make the most of this sensor.
The third digital camera is a depth sensor to help with portrait mode background blurring.
Our Ubergizmo CAMERA HW rating for the Honor 70 is 147, which locations it close to the brand new Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4, additionally outfitted with a comparable major and ultrawide set of cameras.
The major digital camera captures good pictures which might be detailed with correct HDR, even in troublesome high-contrast conditions, like nature pictures which have a mixture of extraordinarily brilliant (solar, sky, cloud) and shadowed (low vegetation) areas.
There’s no telephoto, however the 2X zoom most likely makes use of a 50MP sensor cropping approach that’s, in our opinion, much like an optical 1.7X zoom. It’s extra helpful for portrait photos (~50mm) than for precise long-zoom (5X-10X).
The ultrawide digital camera can seize pictures which might be sharper and clearer than the iPhone 13 Pro’s ultrawide digital camera. However, the expertise will not be all the time constant. Honor’s ultrawide digital camera captures are usually a bit on the delicate (blurry) aspect for each day and night time photos until you’re actually cautious holding the digital camera nonetheless (greater than regular). The Ultrawide digital camera doubles as a macro digital camera since it could concentrate on a topic situated solely 2.5cm away!
Honor has added a cool software program function known as “Solo Cut Mode” to construct an extra vertical video prepared for TikTok, Instagram, and the like. The concept is good: when you movie a film in panorama mode, you may choose one particular person to be tracked. The cellphone will generate a separate vertical video for that topic, which you’ll be able to put up instantly as a narrative, no enhancing required!
Performance
The Honor 70 is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G (5G), a computing platform initially designed for dearer smartphones. In its value class, it does provide good CPU efficiency, and most customers needs to be utterly glad with day-to-day utilization and fundamental gaming.
Not surprisingly, this cellphone has precisely the identical efficiency as others that run on the identical Snapdragon 778G platform, together with the Honor 60 and Honor 50 smartphones.
Since this chip has been round since May 2021, it’s not stunning that some telephones just like the Oppo Reno8 function a sooner processor just like the MediaTek Dimensity 1300. That mentioned, the Oppo Reno8 has utterly completely different tradeoffs regarding design and splendid supplies.
Heavy customers and players may discover different telephones devoted to efficiency. However, they’ll most likely need to forgo a number of the design or digital camera benefits (together with the selfie digital camera) of the Honor 70. Again, it’s a balancing act in these value ranges.
For customers who actually need excessive excessive efficiency, a cellphone just like the OnePlus 10T is a formidable competitor for about the identical price range, though its major digital camera will not be as highly effective because the Honor 70’s.
Software
It goes with out saying that Honor has full entry to Google Services like different android smartphones. Some folks ask due to the previous Honor standing as a Huawei subsidiary, however Honor is now an unbiased entity.
This cellphone runs on Android 12, with Honor’s Magic UI 6.1 as a high layer and customized interface. For these accustomed to Honor, issues haven’t modified a lot, so that you’ll really feel proper at house. The identical is true for Huawei HarmonyOS since each software program have quite a lot of the identical logic in frequent.
For these coming from one other Android pores and skin, don’t fear, as Magic UI is comparable and intuitive sufficient for any Android consumer.
Battery
The 4800 mAh is a bit bigger than the earlier Honor 60, however the total battery life stays very related due to the upper show refresh. Objective battery benchmarks like PCMark Work 3.0 (200 NITs) present a 10h20mn battery life beneath steady load and on-screen time.
In the actual world, this interprets to a stress-free smartphone expertise, and it is best to go by your day and are available house with battery capability to spare. By the best way, the quantity of capability crammed into such a skinny chassis is exceptional (mAh per cubic inch).
When it’s essential to cost, the included 66W AC adapter (a ~$45 worth at massive manufacturers) will get the battery from 0 to 80% in about 30mn, which is far sooner than the iPhone 13 Pro, though not absolutely the quickest available on the market.
Conclusion
The Honor 70 is a smartphone that caters to customers who demand stunning craftsmanship, premium seems to be, and a fantastic major digital camera expertise. And for them, Honor does ship. Keep in thoughts there are two different telephones on this product line: the Honor 70 Pro and Honor 70 Pro +, so that is the baseline.
Honor-oriented useful resource utilization to particular supplies and elements to make this occur. As such, this isn’t a gaming cellphone, nor it pretends to be the very best digital camera cellphone. Honor has different choices for that, just like the Honor Magic4 collection.
With a road value of about $650, we discover this cellphone to ship attention-grabbing worth for customers who care about its strengths. There’s no query that’s probably the most aggressive market segments, however Honor is extra more likely to sway patrons based mostly on design, model belief and consumer expertise than sheer technical specs and benchmark numbers.
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