Honor 7X

Honor 7X Review

It's easy to forget the value of Honor 6X launched at the beginning of 2017. This phone is not a mistake; It quickly became one of our favorite budget options. But when we saw a parade of cheap phones offering more premium features than Motorola, ZTE and others, then there was an error in the reshuffle in Honor 6X.

Huawei went back to the drawing board and emerged with a successor: Honor 7X. The new phone packs a new processor and updated design, which is already one of the most compelling budget offers on the market, and offers even more value.

And yet, Huawei's Honor brand has discovered a way to slash $ 50 from the price of 6X, which is reducing the company's arch rivals by significant margins. You think that all this sounds great to be true, but I am happy to report it; Honor has done it again.

Updated on 27th April

Honor has announced that he will release Android 8.0 Oreo for Honor 7X on April 30. Updates will bring those features that have recently made their way to new devices of Honor and Huawei, including Face Unlock, a new Alternative Navigation interface and more.

Honor 7X Price and availability

You can purchase Honor 7X directly from Honor's online store at $ 199.99. There is only one model for American buyers - one unit with 32 GB storage and 3 GB RAM - and the phone comes in blue or black. Amazon will also sell phones starting January 25, although you can still pre-order Honor 7x. On 14th February an RAd model will be available from Honor's website.

Honor 7X is an unlock device, although it is only compatible with GSM networks, such as AT & T, T-Mobile, Cricket and Metropos.

Honor 7X Design: Full screen, but not attractive

Wearing Matt Aluminum secretly, Honor 7X follows and improves upon its predecessor's aesthetics. To make a smooth contour from face to back, the game has a curved edges and slope 2.5 d glass in the game. For the price, this is definitely premium-free, if it is a little uneven. It is not unusual to see that the sub-$ 200 handsets do metal work over the plastic, so as much as possible, I appreciate the reluctance of Honor to be cheap of the material, the novelty has got a little worse.

However, one of the benefits of Honor 7X is that you will struggle to get it at this price: 18: 9 display. The 5.5-inch screen in Honor 6X has 5.9 inches on this new model, and its bejels have also been squeezed. This year is defined by the "full-screen" flagship, which started with LG G6, which is for the recently released OnePlus 5T, and would like to thank Honor for bringing you trends for budget-sensitive buyers. is.

This is because of the bigger screen that 7x looks like the cousin of Huawei Met 10 Pro rather than any previous Honor device. From other angles, however, there is a winner of 7X different slabs.

With its top-left placement and antenna band running through it. Fingerprint sensor looks small and deeply rebuilt, but its centralized placement gives a light of Android phones. And the drill sparkle hole flanking the micro USB port and the headphone jack on the bottom is a hallmark of the mobile devices of the apple.

Exhibit: size sets it apart

In 5.9 inches, 2160 x 1080, Honor 7X the LCD screen is not setting any record for the brightest or most vivid colors, but it does not disappoint. Trailer for Avengers: The Infinity War was good on the panel, with solid contrast and good visibility from many angles.

When you are watching the video, then what a bit of basal melts, and in those moments, Honor 7X is actually three to four times more expensive.

However, compared to other devices with 18: 9 display, Huawei's EMUI interface is a bit weird with the nataladial aspect ratios. You need to manually set the app to fit the entire screen - an option that reveals itself as a button above the navigation bar in the app, the first time you open it. Otherwise, they will display in 16: 9 mode. Inner 18: 9 provides a universal toggle in settings for displaying all applications, warning that compatibility problems can interfere with displaying some applications correctly. While I think that this is part of the deal as a change in the industry's wide format, it is an extra and unnecessary step that does not worry with other smartphone users at all, and well.

When you're finally using every inch of the screen, the content looks more sinking. When you are watching the video, then what a bit of basal melts, and in those moments, Honor 7X is actually three to four times more expensive.

Look closely at the color, then the Honor 7X reproduced 105.5 percent sRGB space and saw the 0.38 delta-E score, which gives realistic and accurate signals. (Delta-E number is better than zero.) Honor 7X does not have many display modes offering different color profiles, nor does it avoid the kind of overset that became common with many latest smartphone displays There are so many things to see that you do.

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Fortunately, this is also a bright demonstration. In 510 nits of full-screen brightness, the Honor 7 x handles trumps the 433-night smartphone average. Moto G5 Plus is not as lively as the 591-night panel, but externally, it is practically simply visible, and Motorola can not match the 7X screen size.

Honor 7X Camera: Hit and Miss

In the last one year it has become common to see double-camera photography in budget instruments, but in $ 199, Honor 7X still manages to reduce its partners. For that price, you will find a 16-megapixel main shooter with a f / 2.2 aperture, which will be connected with a 2-megapixel secondary lens to help in taking the portrait.

In the front, there is an 8-MP camera, which has gesture control facility, so that you can always trigger the shutter by turning your hand without having to contact the device.

Compared to the Moto G5 Plus, pictures of Honor 7X are more dramatic and aesthetically pleasing, though I would not call them realistic.

Motorola is one of the primary competitors in the budget space, and $ 279 Moto G5S Plus also avoids dual-cameras. To find out what you gain and lose with what handset cheap handsets, we took both the tools into the wild.

To compare, I traveled on a cloudy day at union square in New York and pulled these photos on a fruit stand. Moto G5S Plus set the mark with a more balanced exposure, which extracts details from highlights and shadows. Compared to the presentation of Honor 7X, there is a greater range of colors on display. This picture reached high peak saturation with its sharp red and greens, but failed to capture the fine upgrades between those extremes.

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