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Price when reviewed- £200.
The Huawei Honor is an affordable Android Gingerbread smartphone which offers an array of impressive features, including an 8 megapixel camera, a 1.4GHz Scorpion processor and a meaty 1930mAh battery. You’d think the Honor would cost quite a lot of money for its features, but actually it’s quite cheap costing around £200. The Honor comes in white, purple and black.
Design
Holding the handset is not problem, it feels quite solid, although, it felt quite slippery and the buttons felt a bit cheap, reflecting upon it’s £200 price-tag. As we’ve already said, the handset comes in three different colour options – white, purple and black – we got our hands on the black version, and to be honest it’s quite boring. The handset measures 122 x 61 x 77mm, so it’s pretty thick, still, it’s actually quite lightweight at 140g. The Honor is pretty basic, there’s nothing unique about it compared to other Android smartphones.
Display
The Huawei Honor offers a large 4- inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 480 x 854 pixels, which is pretty basic compared to the likes of the Samsung Galaxy SII. The handset has a pixel density of 245 which is pretty decent, plus there’s multi-touch technology which can be used to zoom into images and webpages. Overall, the screen quality was okay. Colours look quite washed out whilst in direct sunlight, but blacks and whites were are quite crisp.
Internals
Powering the Huawei Honor is a 1.4GHz single-core processor with 512MB of RAM. It would’ve been nicer to have seen a dual core processor considering the £200 price-tag. The processor is capable of some decent speeds, however, we had different feelings whilst opening and closing applications - they would often freeze, and sometimes we’d have to soft reset the handset.
The lack of internal memory was quite disappointing, 1GB just isn’t enough for storing multiple applications and files, but there is an option to expand it up to 32GB via the MicroSD card slot which can be found underneath the battery cover.
Software
The Huawei Honor comes with Android Gingerbread out of its box, but Huawei has promised an update to Ice Cream Sandwich, but they never confirmed any dates. The OS is pretty basic, and the homescreen has been heavily customized by Huawei, to be honest we’re not really fussed on it. Animations lookboring, though, we were quite fond on the lockscreen. It offers multiple shortcuts, just like HTC Sense 3.5. The homescreen was quite sleek, and there is a good selection of helpful widgets.
Camera
The camera found on the Huawei Honor is pretty decent, it offers an 8- megapixel sensor with an LED flash. The images we took were excellent considering the price-tag. They looked crisp and the detail was amazing. The Honor also offers 720p video recording, but sadly videos werent the best, in fact the quality looked washed out. The LED flash didn’t do the phone any justice, it just over powers darker shots, something which we found quite disappointing.
Conclusion
The Huawei Honor is a decent Android smartphone with an array of features which you wouldn’t expect to see on a £200 handset. The camera wasnt the best, and the lack of memory was disappointing, though, there is an option of expanding up to 32GB via the MicroSD card slot. The Huawei Honoe is perfect for those who want a decent smartphone, but don’t want to spend a lot of money on one, and we think £200 is quite a bargain for this type of device.
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