Honor 70 Review

Honer 70 rear

Do you want a phone with a unconfined screen unconfined processor upper topics storage and decent memory? Do you want this phone to have a cracking camera with increasingly video modes than you can shake a stick at as well? How nice, would it be if you get this for under £600 sim self-ruling in a sleek package with a hint of glitzy diamond thrown in for good measure? Sound pretty good, doesn’t it? Well luckily for you the new Honor 70 has launched recently and this phone ticks most if not all of these boxes including the forfeit one (if you are willing to sacrifice storage space you can get it for plane cheaper!).

I have been fortunate to have been given the use of an Honor 70 for the past few weeks and I have had some time to get some thought on the device. It is that time then when I try and string together my rambling into a readable and enjoyable review for you our dear reader. So without remoter ado let’s jump right in with the design.
Design

I have gone through the diamond of this phone on my unboxing and first impressions post and moreover covered it a little in my launch event write-up. If, however, you didn’t reservation those articles, let me review them again.

Staring at the top is where we will find the normal pinhole speaker and that is it. The top whet is at least unappetizing which is something I do like to see as it reminds me of the Note Series (RP) from Samsung.

Moving lanugo the right-hand side we can see the volume rocker switch that sits whilom the power key which will moreover acct as a Google Assistant key on a long printing if you wish to set it up this way. You can notice how slim this phone is scrutinizingly immediately as when you pick it up the skinny edges just mold into you hand. this feels really nice and it still feels durablem

Around the marrow things get a little bit busier here as we have a dual sim vellum slot, one of the speakers (this one is bottom-firing), flipside pinhole mic and the USB Type C port that Support Honor’s propriety SuperCharge tech at up to 66w in this instance. Then like up the top this is unappetizing whet which has made capturing the glamour shots of this phone a damn site easier!

The sim vellum slot does have a waterproofing ring virtually it but this phone does not have an IP rating, unfortunately.

On the left-hand side, we are met with a waterless expanse of nothingness which is fine with me as I am right-handed but could be worrying for left-handed users but then this is true of most phones on the market.

Going virtually to the when is where we find the gorgeous shimmery, colour-changing (it is subtle but it is there) when panel which I believe is toughened glass but at this point, I am not certain. It does finger good and it is not a fingerprint magnet which I really like.

Nestled up in the top left quarter of the phone is where we can find the twin camera setup which consists of three variegated camera sensors including the world’s first Sony IMX800 54MP Super Sensing Main Camera (f/1.9 aperture), a 50MP Ultra Wide & Macro Main Camera(f/2.2 aperture) and a 2MP Depth Camera (f/2.4 aperture). These cameras will moreover pull double duty and work video recording withal with various AI tweaked and assisted modes. I am looking forward to trying them out, expressly Solo Shot.

Up front, we have the Exhibit withal with a 32MP Super Clear Selfie Camera (f/2.4 aperture) slum dial camera that then will work for video and AI Assisted modes for those nuts-and-bolts selfies.

Above the exhibit is the earpiece which is nestled into a minuscule gap between the whet of the frame and the screen itself.

Onto the exhibit though. This measures in at 6.67 “diagonal and has an FHD 2400 x 1080 resolution with a PPI of 395 and a 20.1 speciality ratio. It will support 1.07 billion colours and it is rated for DCI-P3 with a wide colour gamut.

I have to say it looks really good and I am a fan to see that it has a variable refresh rate although this is limited to 60hz or 120hz instead of stuff infinitely variable like on some other devices. I moreover have to say that I really do like the lines to the whet of the phone. It feels really smoothly washed-up and natural and it makes the phone finger a lot slimmer than it unquestionably is.

This genuine a really nice and well-designed phone that looks like it should be a lot increasingly expensive than it unquestionably is. However, is all this glitz and glamour hiding a visionless and haunting secret under the skin as they do say that eyeful is only skin deep!

Hardware
Well, I am very pleased to say that in this specimen that eyeful is much increasingly than skin deep and I would unquestionably have loved to have seen a teardown of this phone as the components inside are all top-notch with what you can expect for a top of the mid their phone. but that is unbearable of my depravity for phone internals! Let’s take a closer squint at what it takes to make this phone sing!

Before I really get into this there is a small matter of the spec sheet to be dealt with.

Specs

The vibration heart of this phone is nothing particularly special as it is comprised of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 778G Plus processor which is mated with the Adreno 642L GPU. This is by no ways a ground-shaking paring but it is one that will serve you well and it is increasingly than good unbearable for the stereotype user. One speciality of this processor and GPU philharmonic is that it sips power which is unconfined to hear as the shower is not a yahoo by any ways at 4700 mAH pack size. It does however pack dial expressly when it comes to charging it up as this phone thankfully supports the inclusion of Honor’s Supercharge 66W.

I am very grateful to see this as one of the omissions on this phone is QI Wireless charging which is excusable for a phone at the price point we are looking at. The inclusion of a QI Wireless charging whorl would have widow some increasingly thickness which would have ruined the diamond stimulating of this phone so I can understand why it was omitted here. We are starting to see a unshared semester in the market where QI Wireless charging is concerned, increasingly and increasingly of the mid-tier devices are not including the wireless charging option in their spec sheets. I think up to a unrepealable price point this is winning but manufacturers need to tread thoughtfully as if you don’t include it in a device that tips over the £600 price point without including Wireless charging then you are going to start to tire people and put them off ownership your phones. Fortunately, Honor is on the correct side of this price point and has gotten yonder with it.

The Honor Supercharger 66W charger is thankfully moreover included in the box, which is a very good thing as this is a propriety charging system much like the SuperVOOC system employed by Oneplus and OPPO. The vast majority of the heat from the charging process is taken up by the charger brick and it allows simultaneous charging of 2 cells within the shower with a very short undeniability balancing program built into the final stage of the charging session. You can moreover stop the phone from charging as this superfast speed from within the settings for the battery, allows you to prolong the shower life of your device and reduce the strain stuff placed on the shower over long tuition times meaning you don’t have to worry well-nigh it as the software takes superintendency of things for you.

In terms of the memory options available, you can get the phone with only one option for RAM and that is stock-still at 8GB. You can however get 2 storage capacities depending on which colours you choose. if you go with Midnight Black or Emerald Green you can get either 128GB or 256GB of onboard storage. If however you go with the Crystal Silver then you are limited to only getting the 128GB storage option. I guess if you are pretty you don’t need much space to store memories as you’re the most memorable thing in the room! *Editors note We are not quite sure what has got into Garry too much exposure to shiny things I think we get him the counselling he needs we promise!

I cannot move yonder from the hardware section of the review without talking well-nigh the materials used in the build of this phone. Of course, upfront, we have got a hardened (not GorillaGlass though) curved screen panel.

This then goes virtually to a plastic mid-frame in every smooth way with very little to indicate the transition noninclusion a protrusion of a fraction of a millimetre that you can barely see but can feel. It doesn’t finger bad but if you squint for it you can see it. Continuing virtually this curved soul takes you to a frosted when panel which is well-balanced of Frosted Glass. I am glad that they have used the frosted when panel as this ways that the when is not a fingerprint magnet and it doesn’t turn into a smudgy mess as soon as you go near it. It would plane be possible if you wished to do so to use this without the uneaten (and included) specimen that allows for increased grip as the phone is pleasantly grippy with the when panel the way it is. With the mid-frame of the phone stuff made of plastic, this gets yonder from the need to have ugly antenna bands but gives the opportunity for 360-degree coverage for the antennas built into the phone’s skinny frame.

It is a shame that there is no official IP rating on this phone but then this is a cost-saving measure as the phone does have a protective rim virtually the dual sim tray and I would hazard a guess that the various other apertures are suitably protected as well. There is however no official rating so now swimming with this one! I would have moreover liked to see a recognised trademark name for the glass on the front panel as it gives reassurance to the potential proprietrix seeing a name they recognise on a spec sheet.

Moving on from hardware, the big reason that people are going to want to buy this phone, of course, is the camera or cameras to be increasingly accurate.
Camera

Honor have made some big claims well-nigh the camera performance for the Honor 70 and I have been reasonably impressed with the performance of the camera for normal day to day shots. i have included a few images of these unelevated for your review.

I have found that the camera is really true to what you see with your vision and this is due to the new Sony IMX800 sensor workbench with a rated megapixel count of 54. Honor have tabbed the camera a SuperSensing camera. The camera does yank on the AI part of the Snapdragon chipset to help with the super sensing capabilities and this does work when you are using it to take various images. For example, the picture of the Cat correctly identified that the picture was of an unprepossessing and made the various tweaks to the setting and parameters to correctly capture the cat’s features and the end result is pretty good. The same was true of the sunset and this one is a bit trickier as I am asking the sensor to unbend an extremely unexceptionable source of light and not wash out the rest of the image, then I think it does quite a good job.

The next thing i wanted to test was the variable vent mode to get some preliminaries mistiness or Bokeh. Whilst the phone does have an inbuilt bokeh mode which I did try but i wasn’t that happy with so use the willowy vent mode to get the effect i wanted on the two shots below.

I am happy with the result in the shots whilom as they requite me the effect i was looking for and it was easy unbearable to get.

One of the other features of the camera that was flipside zone stuff talked well-nigh a lot at the printing event was the video functions. And I was keen to have a play. So first up is the fairly normal dual camera modes that we have seen on various variegated devices over the past few years. They are useful if you want to requite a variegated perspective to your footage but I can’t see myself using them very much. If I were TicToc creator or an Instagrammer then this may be increasingly interesting. Check these samples out below.

Here is a regular video just to requite you an idea of its capabilities.

The big one that is shouting from the rooftops, it is tabbed Solo Cut. This is a very interesting full-length that is something that I have never seen before. The video will automatically track a subject that you identify from the preview screen this will track the subject as it moves wideness the frame. I have tried to capture its functionality for you below.

The first video is the raw footage

The second video is the Solo Cut

You can see that in the first video the tracking is not as smooth as i move wideness the frame as the camera was stuff panned and the motion is not that smooth. whereas in the second video the tracking is stuff handled by the SoloCut software that is urgently tracking my motion wideness the frame and it does create a smoother panning motion. While this may not be the weightier sit-in of this full-length it gives you an idea of what it can do. The demo we were shown at the launch event showcased a group of people where one of them was selected as the target or “Solo” and the camera tracked the movement of that “Solo” as they moved virtually in the frame.

Here is a demo video unelevated that might requite a largest impression of it in action.

The camera is a well-rounded component of the phone and if you like taking photos and are on a upkeep then this is potentially going to be a key selling point for you on this phone. Solo Cut mode is something that is very interesting and I can see it stuff extremely useful in a concert wits or at a family get-together.

Software

Honour has been getting quite good at cleaning up their software loadout on the Android lately and this is no variegated on the Honor 70. The phone comes with Magic UI 6.1 loaded onto it and this is based on Android as the OS. I would have liked to have seen the phone come out with Android 13 from the get-go but as the phone’s software would have been iterated a few months ago i can understand why it is not here. The UI is fairly wipe and it doesn’t have too many worrying hangups as I have observed on other devices that i have reviewed and used in the past few years. In terms of bloat, there are a few of Honor’s own apps that do replicate the cadre Android apps but these can very hands and quickly be disabled from the main screen without a few long presses. It only took me well-nigh 3o mins to get the phone set up how I like it. This could be sped up if you use a 3rd party launcher like Nova Launcher which can store a replacement of your Home screen layout in an online space. I like to try and run the phones i test with the stock launcher and UI where I can and i was pleased to say that with the Honor 70 i have not found any need to move yonder from their inbuilt launcher. I would have liked to see increasingly options for waffly the iconography though as the inbuilt icon sets are a bit too cartoony for me. This is something that you use to be worldly-wise to do when in the Honor<->Huawei days via the Themes app. Unfortunately, this is no longer possible and the Themes App is a bit of a waste of time now, to be honest. Plane if we had the worthiness to use the wallpaper colour match option as introduced in Android 12 then that would have been something but this is not misogynist to you which is a shame in my eyes.

There are a few special tweaks that Honor has made in the software that are designed to help with daily tasks and the longevity of the phone. I will go over the Longevity part first as this is a big part of this phone’s personality.

The phone will hands last me 2 days with very light use of Emails, Soical media, Youtube, Music playback from local storage and so Web browsing during the evening. At the time of my writing this review, the phone is currently on 11% and it was unplugged from a power supply the morning before. I started today with virtually 47% in the tank. This is pretty damn good but there is a forfeit to this shower performance. The AI in the snapdragon chipset works with the very warlike shower management software within the phone to pretty much skiver most preliminaries processes.

An example of this is the App I use for music playback on my device tabbed Musicolet, I install it on every phone I use and it works really well. On my Pixel 6 Pro which is running on Android 13 it just works with no issues with playback when the screen goes to sleep etc. On the Honor 70 I noticed that I would get issues with playback when the screen went to sleep, I unquestionably got a prompt through the app that I needed to enable it to run in the preliminaries if I wanted it to return when to normal functioning. This is a real-world example of one of the apps that i have had to tweak to work virtually the over-eager shower management tools employed on the phone. Whilst it is not a massive issue it is something that is worth stuff enlightened of if you are an intensive user of the phone. Fortunately, I did not have any issues with receiving any of my notifications on the phone during my time with it as this used to be something that the shower management profile would strop in with laser focus and try to skiver off anything other than a stock default app from delivering notifications.

I am not sure if my next snooping is strictly related to the warlike shower tweaking but i do find that when I pair my device with Android Auto i get an issue where although the pairing goes through and my car will use Android Auto it will not indulge the content of the screen to exhibit or plane be interacted with. It could be that the app has not had permission set up correctly or the phone is killing the screen streaming part of the Android Auto environment but it is somewhat worrying to see this happen as i do a lot of driving so this full-length is important to me. I would like to say at this point that i have had lots of issues with Android Auto on multiple phones so this is not something i am placing on Honor here and it could very well be the car software at fault. I just felt that it is worth mentioning so you know all the gory details!

The second part of the phone’s extras come in the form of neat features like the Multi Windows dock menu that will come in from the side of the phone if you perform a swipe and hold gesture this will indulge you to have some quick launch apps from any screen Within a new window or a split screen mode. While it is something I have never found myself using it is nice that it is here. Moreover having all the usual useful gestures like Raising to wake and flipping to mute are useful little touches that make living with the phone just that little bit easier. The inbuilt storage management tool is moreover pretty neat as a way to help alimony you on top of your files to stop that digital hoarder in all of us.

I am pretty happy with the software overall and I have been happy using the phone in my day-to-day tasks I have found that it all performs smoothly and is a nice phone to interact with. That stuff said I do just wish that i was worldly-wise to tweak a few increasingly things on the UI to get it to squint the way I want it to. I am potentially in the minority on this though as most people who have asked and shown the phone have liked the way it looks. I suppose that this is the expletive of reviewing so many phones you will unchangingly wilt jaded with the first little thing that irks you. Most people who will be using this phone, will find the software a unconfined wits and probably would not question the wrinkles I have observed considering quite simply they won’t notice them. This is a sign that the software has been washed-up right for me so well washed-up Honor you have washed-up a good job on your latest version of Magic UI 6.1.

There is one last big full-length that Honor is keen to talk well-nigh in the Honor 70 and this is Multi-Screen collaboration. Now unfortunately as I don’t have flipside Honor device that I can use with this tool I can tell you that I would have loved to have had this full-length in years gone by as it works really well. In essence, this will indulge you to wangle your files and other phone functions on flipside screen as if you are doing things on the phone. This is in itself nothing new. What is really clever is that you can unquestionably reprinting things from one device to flipside just like you would if you were doing it on the same device I think this is really tomfool and wish I could have tested it for you as part of this review but it was not meant to be. This full-length will work with any of the current lineup of Honor Laptops and moreover the trademark new Honor Pad 8 that was launched slantingly the Honor 70 here is a short video demoing this tool courtesy of Honor.

Pricing

The Honor 70 as mentioned whilom comes in three variegated colours and 2 variegated storage varieties

For 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage in Midnight Black, Emerald Green or Crystal Silver it will be £479.99

For 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage in Midnight Black or Emerald Green it normally financing £529.99 but for the next 7 days you can get this phone £499.99

All the whilom prices are misogynist now from the HiHonor store where you can moreover get some self-ruling HONOR Earbuds 3 Pro in Gray that are worth £169.99
Conclusion

I have been very impressed with the Honor 70 and I have been happy with my time using the phone. I think it is going to be popular with those in the market for a premium-looking midi-tier phone that doesn’t have a mid-tier price point. it does a lot of things right from the stunning diamond to the unconfined cameras and smooth stutter-free performance. I have plane been mostly pleased with Magic UI which has traditionally been a pain point for me.

Who would I recommend this phone to then? Honestly, this is a phone that can capture such a wholesale segment of the market it is difficult to say. Howver one thing i can say with certainty is that if you are a keen mobile photographer then there is a lot on this phone to be excited well-nigh and you will enjoy using its features expressly if you are someone who uses a lot of social media for sharing those photos and videos that you create. Flipside segment is style-conscious and up-and-coming influencers as they are worldly-wise to sire a phone that looks like it should be in the next tier and for the most part, it will perform in that higher their as well. Lastly, for anyone who wants their phone to squint good and make a subtle but strong statement then this may be a phone worth considering as it is certainly one of the nicer-looking handsets I have seen this year expressly if shiny things are your cup of tea (go for the Crystal Silver one as it is stunning)

I hope that gives you an idea of if the Honor 70 is for you, if you think it is then you can order one now from HiHonor and they will plane throw in some HONOR Earbuds 3 Pro Grey for self-ruling which is a nice touch.

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