Honor 70 review

There’s nothing to dislike, but there’s nothing that you can truly be awed over with Honor’s latest mid-range device.

It’s been 2 years now since Honor separated from its the parent business Huawei. This means that unlike Huawei, like Huawei the company is now able to offer phones equipped with Google applications and other services installed that means they’re worth considering if in the country in which Honor offers phones. This includes a number of European markets, but not the US at least, at present.

However, while the new design has enabled Honor’s latest phones, such as the last year’s Honor 50 and the Magic4 Pro, to be competitive in the highly competitive Android smartphones market, the company isn’t quite finding its distinct advantage. The phones haven’t met expectations in every single area such as camera or performance, screen quality, or the length of support for software.

You can choose between 128GB or 256GB of storage

This isn’t changing with Honor’s most recent international phone model, Honor 70. Honor 70. Over the last week that I’ve used the phone I’ve not found any issues that I would consider to be a problem. It’s fine. the battery lasts for a long time and the camera’s capabilities are adequate and performance is excellent overall. There’s just nothing which is outstanding enough for me to suggest to others the Honor 70 over any number of cheaper mid-priced phones that were launched this year. This Honor 70 needs a showstopping feature to be noticed, but it doesn’t really possess one.

Honor 70 is priced at PS480. Honor 70 starts at PS480 (roughly $566 USD) for a model that comes with 8GB RAM as well as 128GB storage. Upgrading the price to PS530 (roughly 625 dollars) gives you the capacity of 256GB. I’ve been using this version.

With its 6.67-inch curve OLED display and hole-punched front camera cutouts The display on the front of Honor 70 looks very similar to the last season’s Honor 50. It’s an all-day display that has 1080p resolution and a dynamic 60Hz refresh speed, as well features an in-display fingerprint scanner which was fast and reliable to the point that I didn’t even notice using it.

The only thing I had an issue with was the fact that the display is curved in the middle, with both sides of the screen disappearing to the right and left edges on the phone. It’s true that it provides the phone an attractive look, comparable to flagships such as those of the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra and Pixel 6 Pro and makes the bezels on both the right and left sides appear to be smaller than they are. However, it also means that the edges of the screen have some shadowy hue because you’re constantly viewing them off-axis and the edges that are curved are prone to focusing the light reflections into sharp lines at sides of displays. I’ve generally been more accepting of displays with curved edges in previous years however, in this case, with Honor 70, it’s a problem. Honor 70, it makes the screen of the phone less effective and less usable, with the sake of gaining nothing.

In the back to the back, the Honor 70’s design is more sophisticated in comparison to that of the Honor 50. The two circular camera bumps have been removed and are joined by a raised section that gives the back of the phone an easier, more modern appearance. In the UK it is available in three colors. phone comes in three colors: black, silver and the green model that I’ve used. It doesn’t have an officially-issued IP classification for dust or water resistance, there’s no headphone jack, and there’s no expansion of storage.

From the beginning, it appears that the Honor 70 is running Android 12. Honor’s Magic UI 6.1 software running on top of it. I really liked Magic UI eventually, but it took some effort to achieve it switching from the sloppy and unorganized SwiftKey keyboard (which was constantly trying to capitalize my username, which is all lowercase) to Gboard as well as uninstalling half a dozen of bloatware applications (sorry, TrainPal, Booking.com, Lords Mobile, Game of Sultans, etc. ) and then re-enabling the application drawer.

Once I got it set to my liking I found it to be a clean, neat Android launcher that does not interfere or get in the way of. It does have some built-in ecosystem tools that I’m not sure how that many users will find useful, such as Honor Share that is designed to transfer files between Honor devices. However, these features are enhanced by additions like a menu of shortcuts that can be accessed by swipes up from the lower right corner of the screen. Make sure to note that the swiping gesture that opens this menu is identical to the gesture used to open the home screen if you’re using the face unlock feature, which can be confusing. I’d recommend sticking with fingerprint unlock.

The Honor 70’s Snapdragon 778G Plus processor effortlessly handles the demands of daily life. The scrolling experience when using visually-rich applications like Twitter is smooth and lovely with the display’s 120Hz and I didn’t feel any significant lags or glitches when I swung between apps. One issue are the phone’s vibrations that can be a bit harsh and cheap-feeling in comparison to the smooth clicks that you get from other handsets.

The quality of the speakers is not great as is the sound generated by the phone’s one pair of speakers that fire downwards. They’re sufficient volume that I could play a music podcast in the kitchen while dishes However, overall, they sound thin and hollow and I noticed it was more difficult than usual to discern the dialogue in some YouTube videos that have the excessive background noise.