Honor’s Honor 70 smartphone and Honor Pad 8 tablet will be available in the U.K. in September. Since being sold to Huawei, Honor has produced the Honor Magic4 Pro, which we liked. Two new smartphones promise huge features and performance for little money.
Honor 70
This midrange Honor 70 has 8GB of RAM, 128GB or 256GB of storage, and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G processor. 6.67-inch OLED with 120Hz refresh rate, HDR10+ certification, and 1920Hz PWM, which Honor says reduces flickering. A 4,800mAh battery and 66-watt charger offer electricity.
Honor touts the Honor 70‘s camera. It uses the Sony IMX800 54-megapixel camera and sports a “Dual Ring” design like the Huawei P50 Pro and OnePlus Nord 2T. 50MP wide-angle and 2MP macro cameras are also included. Solo Cut is a video function of Honor’s Image Engine. AI focuses on a single person when filming video, placing them in a picture-in-picture window.
It focuses on human movement to capture the subject and refocuses whenever a person leaves and reenters the frame. Main picture and Solo Cut window are both 1080p and 30 fps. It’s a rare characteristic that will only be useful in certain scenarios. Night Portrait option with bokeh effect and 32MP selfie camera in screen.
Honor 70 and Magic4 Pro aren’t related. It’s pretty but typical. The frosted glass back looks great and feels cool, but the dual camera modules protrude from the otherwise slim body, spoiling its appearance. The tapering sides make it difficult to hold.
MagicUI worked great on the Magic4 Pro and does so again. 120Hz screen scrolls smoothly, helping. We haven’t tested the camera, but will soon.
The Honor 70 will be launched on September 2, with pre-orders beginning on August 26. It comes in Midnight Black, Crystal Silver, and Emerald Green. 8GB/128GB costs 480 British pounds ($570), and 8GB/256GB costs 530 pounds ($625)
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Honor Pad 8
It’s Honor’s first foreign tablet release. Instead of going all-out with an iPad Pro competition, it priced the Pad 8 modestly. Pad 8 costs 270 pounds ($320). For that, you get a 12.1-inch 2K screen with 7.2mm bezels for an 87% screen-to-body ratio. Aluminum, 520g, 6.9mm thin.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 processor, 7,250mAh battery, and eight speakers with DTS:X Ultra Hi-Res audio. The Pad 8 utilises Honor’s Magic UI 6.1 software built on Android 12, with four-app multitasking.
As you can see in our example of a 21:9 aspect ratio trailer, the black bars above and below TV shows and movies aren’t as bothersome. The tablet feels responsive despite its average chipset. The slender chassis is easy to handle, but its width makes it feel unbalanced when held with one hand.
Screen is bright and vibrant, but refresh rate is only 60Hz. First impressions are positive. The software is fast and elegant, provides access to Google Play and all streaming and reading apps, and is affordable.
Even the cheapest Android tablet lags behind an iPad. Recent software upgrades improve the experience. If the Honor Pad 8 keeps performing well, it may change all that for consumers on a budget.
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