Huawei's Subsidiary Honor has launched a budget smartphone Honor 7X with two cameras. This smartphone can spoil the game of many smartphones in this segment. The price is quite aggressive. Now let us know in the review what is its specialty and how it is in real life. As you all know, in today's smartphone review, we do not trust the benchmark very much. We test the smartphone using real life.
That's because a customer buys a smartphone, there are no tools to test it or it does not want to support the benchmark. Customers are always worried about how the camera clicks on the phone in the phone? How much does the battery back up? Does the phone hang or not? What is the design and how good the display is. Such questions are mostly in the minds of the customers and so we have come up with a review of this budget smartphone. Reading this, hopefully you will find answers to all your questions.
Design and build quality
The design of Honor 7X will look similar to the Honor 8 Pro. Body is of aluminum and build quality is good. There is a dual camera bump in the rear and the front is mostly display and the bezel is less, which is also good. The LED flash is given on the left side of the camera. The phone is not heavy enough so it is easy to use and it gives a premium. A fingerprint scanner is also included in its rear.
The 3.5mm headphone jack, micro USB port and speaker grill have been given at the bottom of the phone. Antennas Lines are just like the other smartphones in the company. Overall, it feels good to use the metal smartphone. The design is good and you will not feel like while using this device that you are using premium smartphone.
The Honor 7X weighs 165 grams which feels about right in the hand. It measures 7.6mm in thickness.
Honor 7X specifications, software
In the Honor 7X the battery is 3,340mAh. Along with this there is an ultra mode for power saving, by enabling you to use the last battery to the breathless breath. The company claims that it will run more than 1 day. Normally the claims of companies are to be hollow, but this is not the case in this phone. Our experience with the battery has been good and the mixed use goes one day and the battery is still left. Its display is large, if you take care of this, you will find its batteries even better, because in such a display, there is usually more battery consumption.
Many Honor phones are powered by Huawei-made processors, and the 7X packs in a HiSilicon Kirin 659 SoC, the same processor powering the Honor 9i. It is an octa-core chip with four cores clocked at 2.36GHz and the other four clocked at 1.7GHz. With the Honor 7X, you get to choose between 32GB and 64GB of internal storage, but both variants have 4GB of RAM. Both also let you expand storage up to 256GB using a microSD card in the Hybrid dual-SIM slot. If you aren't using that capability, the 7X can accommodate two Nano-SIMs. There is support for 4G and VoLTE on both SIMs, but only one can access the 4G network at a time.
The Honor 7X's screen boasts a full-HD+ resolution with 2.5D curved glass, but there is no mention of any type of protection. Viewing angles are good and Honor lets you tweak the colour temperature to suit your preferences. Brightness is good indoors but we had to bump it up all the way or shade the screen with one hand when using this phone outdoors.
Like all other Honor devices, the 7X runs on Huawei's custom EMUI skin, specifically EMUI 5.1 on top of Android Nougat. You get the option to choose between layouts with and without an app drawer. The UI also includes theme support for a degree of customisation. Honor has been thoughtful enough to include a single-handed mode which makes the phone easier to use despite its big screen. You can also force apps to run at the 18:9 aspect ratio if they aren't scaling automatically.
Along with the essentials, you also get a fair share of bloatware. The Honor 7X comes with Honor’s support app called HiCare, and HiGame, a gaming app store. There are also Web shortcuts called Hi Honor and Honor Community. You get demo versions of Spider-Man: Ultimate Power, Asphalt Nitro, Bubble Bash 3, Modern Combat 4 Zero Hour, and Danger Dash preinstalled, but you can get rid of them to free up space.
The performance
In this smartphone, the company has given the HiSilicon 659 Octaort 4X Cortex-A53 launch processor. Mali - T830 MP2 GPU has been given for better graphics performance. We have used it throughout the week and have not had any problem with hangs in it. Average gaming can be done. The display is good and the processor is also fine, so our experience in watching videos is good.
This smartphone has 4GB RAM, it helps to make the smartphone fast. An attempt has been made to smooth the app transition. Switching from one app to another is easy. Browsing is fast. Many apps can be used together Many apps are running in the background, but you can still use many apps comfortably. Overall, in terms of performance, if the price is seen, then this smartphone is better in this case.
Like high end smartphones, the new version of Asphalt can also be used without lag. However, after long gaming, you may have trouble that the phone is slightly hot.
The display
One of the features of Honor 7X is the display given in it, which is Aspect ratio 18: 9. The Bezel Lace Display is a trend of smartphones and therefore this smartphone is on that trend. The display resolution is HD Plus and therefore looks great. Especially if you look at movies or videos on mobile, this smartphone meets your expectations.
The 2.5D Curved Display Panel has been used in this smartphone. Its viewing angle is much better. Color temperature is also correct, but there may be some problem in sunlight and it can be improved. There is no X factor in total display, but still it is better for general use.
The camera
The company has highlighted its camera significantly during the launch. Dual camera setup in this price range is unbelievable. It has 16 megapixels and 2 megapixl lenses. Face Detection Autofocus has also been given. For the selfie, it has an 8 megapixel front camera and has been given features of the beautification. Talking about the camera performance, people usually take two cameras, because they want to have pictures like DSLR, that is, by background blurring.
The pictures clicked by Honor 7X look good with the Deep Effects and the background is also blurred. But sometimes you will get blurred on the edge of the subject, along with background. Photos with Boko effect look beautiful, but sometimes it is not accurate.
Simple pictures are good clicks, especially if you are clicking pictures in good light then it is a good experience for you. Photos are sharp and look good. It is better if you expect less than this phone in low light. Talk about the quality of the pictures, it develops different types of photos.
Talk about selfie camera, you get a 8 megapixel camera here. The specialty is that it also has the option of blurring the background. Since there is no dual camera and this software is based, so it will not be like a rear camera. But if you rightly clicked on the click, then the photo gets a good click. There may also be background blur in Selfie. Overall, its camera is average, you can buy it for everyday use.
Conclusion
With the Honor 7X, the X series has been brought up to date with the latest trends. You get a big display with the 18:9 aspect ratio and powerful hardware which should keep you happy. We found that camera performance isn’t really impressive, and battery life could have been a little better. If you want a modern-looking phone, then the Honor 7X is a good choice, but if you want an all-rounder the Xiaomi Mi A1 (Review) would be a better pick.
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