Huawei Honor 7: overview, specifications and reviews

In recent years, the Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei has shown itself quite well in the mobile device market. At least, it is possible to assert this taking into account the popularity of its models. In particular, we are talking about Huawei Honor 7.

The review, which will be presented in today's article, is entirely devoted to this device. In it we will give the main technical characteristics of the device, we will make some analysis of its advantages and disadvantages, and also we will try to generate some own conclusions about the phone, taking into account also the feedback that is presented about it on the web.

Positioning the smartphone

To begin with, it should be noted that the model is relatively new - it was presented only at the beginning of this year. Therefore, the requirements for its productivity, functionality and capabilities will be an order of magnitude higher than for models produced in 2014 and earlier.

The developer represents the phone under the Honor brand from a slightly more distant side, whereas we are considered to be a Huawei. Apparently, for the future, the Chinese want to introduce parallel development of this product regardless of the "parent" company.

By segmentation and the price of the smartphone it is worth noting that you can purchase the device for 23 thousand rubles. This, you might say, is the "middle" class. Does it meet the characteristics of the gadget? Let's find out.

Appearance

Devoted to Honor 7 review, we begin by examining the appearance of the device, describing its design. And there is something to talk about here - the phone (as it became customary for Huawei) is made of metal, plastic and glass - the most familiar materials at all times. Its case has all the same rectangular lines, which we so often can observe on the devices of this brand.

The front of the smartphone does not contain anything superfluous: there are no inscriptions, any logos or other kind of notation. There is only a camera window, a flash, and also a large screen.

The back side, on the contrary, has the inscription Honor, made on a metal texture. Also there are: the main camera and the flash. A little below placed a fingerprint scanner.

The texture, which is a smartphone Honor 7, as evidenced by the reviews, is very pleasant to the touch. At least, the device does not slip out of the hands, has a rough surface. As the manufacturer assures, the back cover of the device has a ceramic coating, which is designed to make handling it even more practical in terms of wear.

Elements of navigation here are located habitually - the buttons are on the side faces. The front side of the device does not contain any mechanical keys - there are only system buttons on the screen to exit "Home", return to the previous menu and call the options panel.

If you summarize the data about the appearance of the device, you can note the rather high quality of its assembly. In this regard, the device looks really attractive, so, obviously, the developers have achieved what they wanted.

Screen

The diagonal size of the display, to be honest, is not quite standard - on the Huawei Honor 7 16Gb it is 5.2 inches. The frames around the glass (at the sides) are very thin, and the bottom and top are somewhat thickened. The resolution is 1920 x 1080 pixels. The density of their placement is very high - about 420 dots per inch.

For protection, the display was covered with a special, resistant to damage glass Gorilla Glass 3. In addition, an effective anti-reflective coating was applied from above, allowing you to work with the device in more comfortable conditions in sunlight.

As the tests showed, the viewing angles of the display here are very wide - the picture is not "lost" even after the maximum tilt of the smartphone, only a little the brightness disappears.

The work of the screen, we can also note on the positive side, praising the developer.

CPU

The basis for the operation of the smartphone is an individually designed HiSilicon Kirin 935 chip (all - 8 cores, 4 of which have a clock speed of 2.2 GHz, and another 4 - 1.5 GHz). When the experts made a review devoted to the phone Honor 7, they made sure that the hardware works smoothly and without any delays, launches any game presented on Google Play (including - at maximum performance). Regarding the heating in the technical information provided on the official website, it was stated that this problem does not arise from the aluminum back cover of the device.

In practice, working with the model, you can see the opposite. Heating does occur during the launch of another "heavy" game on the schedule. To feel the point at which this occurs is also not difficult. However, this does not cause any special discomfort.

operating system

As the basis of the software platform on the phone Honor 7 installed Android 5-th generation. It is possible that if you start the device now, it will automatically update to the 6th version. It depends primarily on the developer and on whether the device supports the ability to upgrade to the next version of the OS.

In addition, Huawei uses on its device its own "shell" - the graphical interface of EMUI 3.1. Visually, it has some differences from the "pure" Android, but nothing fundamentally different here - the whole architecture is preserved in the same form that users are used to.

Battery

The manufacturer of the smartphone took care to equip the model sufficiently capacious for long-term operation of the battery. And we see it on the technical description of the model: its battery has a capacity of 3100 mAh. With the right approach to optimization of the charge consumption, we can see a somewhat extended cycle of smartphone activity, expressed in the ability to work up to 30 hours in a constant operation mode and up to about 60 hours in "quiet".

As the Honor 7 review shows, a smartphone can "hold" for 2 days in the familiar majority of users mode. However, one should not hope that a gadget with such a functional can work on a single charge for a week. In the end, it's Android.

Camera

In the process of working with the phone you can make sure that the camera function installed on the Honor 7 is very well implemented. The characteristics show that there are two cameras here - a resolution of 20 and 8 megapixels (main and optional), respectively. In addition, there are various software options that allow you to "save" image quality. Thanks to them, the pictures taken by the phone are accurate, saturated and bright. In this case, the device retains the white balance, even if the shooting is performed in unfavorable conditions (with a low degree of illumination, for example, at night).

In order to make the photos more suitable in this or that situation, the user is given the opportunity to apply special filters. They are a set of special parameters, working with which, you can achieve even better photo quality.

Connectivity

In the matter of communication, the device can really be called universal: the phone supports 2G / 3G / 4G-networks, as well as working with Bluetooth / Wi-Fi. Unfortunately, the chip for wireless charging or calculations is not contactless here, but there is an infrared sensor, with which you can control the TV, for example.

Also in the smartphone, the navigation function is implemented using GPS, A-GPS and GLONASS technologies.

Reviews

Most of the recommendations left on Honor 7 in Russia (more precisely, on domestic sites and directories), indicate a positive attitude of customers to their smartphone. People praise the phone, note the high quality of the shell assembly, stable operation, wide functionality.

Among the complaints there are some, for example, regarding the operation of the sensor for reading fingerprints. Users claim that in some cases it works too slowly, or even generally with delays. The second point is the problem with push notifications. A considerable number of buyers complain that sometimes (for some unknown reasons) they miss the incoming messages. Of course, the whole thing in the software shell, but the developer has not yet fixed anything.

In addition, there are some problems with the smartphone's smartphone case. Some argue that it is problematic to control the phone through it (the sensor does not "see" the touch); Others - that it scratches the screen and the case. Therefore, it is better to take care of finding another accessory.

Actually, this and all the "serious" problems. There are a lot of those that are caused by some of their customers' ideas about the ideal phone, but we will not give them in this article.

conclusions

As shown by the dedicated Honor 7 review, this smartphone is really worthwhile and interesting in any way. It is new, relatively inexpensive, but has all the makings for calling itself "flagship". Based on the information described herein, it is safe to recommend this device to those who just look at it.