OVERVIEW: Honor 7 - a smartphone that turns the idea of ​​a Chinese technology

Previously, I had Honor smartphone, so the text will be cut off from the other models from this manufacturer. This clean, nezamylenny view with occasional references to Google and its devices.

The size

The smartphone seems pretty impressive, especially if you have not yet got used to the trend to an increase in the average cell size. Screen size is 5.2 inches, the dimensions - 143.2 × 71.9 × 8.5 mm, weight - 157 g

This is not PHABLET, but fans of miniature art do not reveal the delights of big screens, better get accustomed to something pokompaktnee.

Housing materials, heating

Honor 7 is made of aluminum, and further coated with a ceramic coating. Available color options "light gray" and "silver metallic". From a technical standpoint metal casing facilitates better heat sink. The manufacturer also focuses on the special arrangement of internal components and their processing special termosostavom, which is still better heat and distributes it evenly.

How does it work in practice? Acceptable. Eight-processor and powerful graphics really need to be cooled, especially in games, and Honor 7 is obtained. Overheating is not observed when using 3D-applications smart phone becomes toplenkim, but not hot. Heating does seem uniform, highlight some particularly hot area failed.

Why ceramic spraying? To make it more enjoyable and easier to handle. Under plastic inserts are above and below the antenna, and perform these parts of the metal housing is problematic because pure physics.

For the user this means heterogeneity when touched to the back cover. The transition from metal to plastic visible to the skin of hands and may cause some discomfort. Pottery solves the problem. Feels like a metal with coated resembles something more in keeping with the plastic. In addition, the smartphone becomes much less slippery. Very elegant and useful solution.

Plastic inserts are adjusted with high precision. To detect the boundary between them and the lid can be, but not because of the joints, and because of their own texture mesh inserts. It looks good and adds confidence when holding the device in his hands.

Play, by the way, no. Absolutely. However, for the whole body without a removable cover that should be the norm. Cutouts for speaker and microphone bottom perfectly ordinary. About them even have nothing to say.

In spite of its elegance and refinement Honor housing 7 has an unpleasant jamb by the camera. Her unit sticks out from the body, and it would be logical once it smooth.

Engineers not only take into account this fact, but also made of metal frame camera, rather angular and sharp-edged. If you put the smartphone in the not too resistant to damage the table, just press and hold the side, the more likely to get such a good scratch.

button

Buttons at the Honor 7 are also made of metal, are quite compact and does not dangle.

Fingers them easy to find, and the only thing that will have to get used to - it is an additional button on the left side.

It runs a user-selectable most necessary applications and functions and supports three types of pressing: single, double, and long. Total three applications with one button.

Unfortunately, the engineers did not occur to plant an additional effect on the power button, as did Google's sixth version of Android (Double pressing causes the camera), but one can be sure that subsequent updates program filling is small omission correct. Physical system buttons ( "Back", "Home", "Manager") of Honor 7 not, and it is perhaps even better.

Fingerprinting from a hardware point of view,

Last worth mentioning housing element - this is the fingerprint reader, designed as a recessed rounded square on the back cover for the camera module. For more information about its features I describe below, and now the convenience.

Until now, there are disputes about what kind of approach to the location of the scanner correctly: Apple-style on the front panel below the screen or on the back cover? If we talk about the scenario in which the smart phone in your hand, then there is no difference. Just a matter of habit.

And now imagine that the smartphone is on the table and you have to get into it. Not taking his hand, because it's too much movement. With Android this trick will not work, because the scanner back. We have to admit that the "apple" scanner location is not that much more convenient, but more versatile.

In the case of finding Honor 7 Fingerprint very easily. The deepening of the housing more than palpable, you do not get confused and do not promahnotes.

Screen

In Honor 7 is protected 5.2-inch Gorilla Glass third generation IPS-matrix with a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels (Full HD) at a density of 423 ppi. Talk about the quality of the image on any modern smartphone - it is rather boring, because the screen for a long time at all normal. Even excellent. Here and highly customizable color reproduction and brightness that cleverly adapts to the environment due to the sensor and software tools, and located far beyond the possibilities of human perception of the density of the eye pixels.

Take any flagship in 2015, and he will have an excellent screen. Honor 7 is no exception. Much more important is that this screen can show, and here is all depends on the filling.

Performance again on heating

In the smartphone installed eight-processor HiSilicon Kirin 935 and quite decent graphics Mali-T628 MP4. At the core of technical sites spread fashionable details and ratings of the synthetic tests, which are not regular users say anything. How do you imagine 49,504 points in AnTuTu?

Using your smartphone, you do not see tsiferok, but feel certain sensations. So I want to talk about how to work 7 Honor at the level of human perception. I think this score is significant.

If you still believe that Android brakes, simply take in hand any new google phone or 7 Honor. Brakes? Friezes? There is not even a hint of some instability and slowness.

You run a long-FullHD video and watch it with pleasure. You turn on the same FullHD-video, but with YouTube and just look at it with pleasure and without the smallest sign of braking. On non-game applications can never say. There is not the current program, which would have pulled the modern mobile processor. Onboard Honor 7 is 3 GB of memory, but because even during simultaneous operation of several processes in heavy background, even when switching between applications and screens and in any other situation, you will not notice the recession performance.

Among the current popular 3D-toys not found one that would have impeded at high chart. At the same time to show a little heat, what was said in the beginning of the review. Perhaps the blame here more than the manufacturer. On the page with the description of Honor 7 cooling is presented well, just like a revolutionary. After reading about this, I imagined in my head literally cool smartphone, even during games. No, he was not cold, but when compared with other representatives of aluminum, the temperature definitely below.

camera

main Honor 7 camera resolution is 20 MP, which certainly will please lovers of big numbers. Safety glass, by the way, sapphire.

If we talk about the resolution, for me it has always been more important than image quality, as well as the ability of the camera to photograph well "out of the box." If you are not a photographer, then deep digging into the settings are unlikely to have to like it, but the result of changes to these settings can be unpredictable. More brains and preset modes, the minimum action by the person - that is, the ideal camera for a modern smartphone.

In Honor 7 installed Sony IMX230 sensor, in combination with intelligent software optimization and dual flash output get great shots.

Even better is that to get them to do nothing, just press a button and watch the result. It is believed that 7 Honor creators were trying to get at once all the latest trends, because a separate mode for shooting meal - this is the edge.

Video is not so good. Smartphone is not able to record 4K-video. The maximum of its possibilities - is FullHD 30 frames per second. With such a filling chamber and could be to try and give something more. Oh yeah, one more minus for the lack of optical image stabilization.

There is good news for girls and males who love taking pictures of themselves. Honor 7 can be called selfifonom. The front camera has a resolution of 8 megapixels, LED to illuminate the face and is able to work wonders in the literal sense.

improve system selfie really cool. Once you create a series of images from different angles, expose correction parameters (remove skin blemishes, color, the size of the eye, lose weight / get better, and so on), and then the camera will automatically apply these settings for each selfie. If desired, all of these bells and whistles are disabled.

System interface, applications, tools

At the time of writing relevant to Honor 7 Android version is 5.0.2 Lollipop. Here I, like other fans guglofonov, I can say, "Yeah, but with the updates then you have not really." In fact, the sixth version of Android is not brought into something revolutionary. Yes, more convenient system a good solution, but in the case of 7 Honor, it seems to me, to do something much more important.

We are talking about EMUI - branded envelope and a set of applications and tools that significantly expand the smartphone capabilities "out of the box", and in general makes the device a more convenient.

It is known that manufacturers modify pure Android and to promote their services, and because of the belief in the ability to make the operating system better than its creator.

It is remarkable that in Honor 7 Android finalized very carefully. Many innovations, and it is unlikely you will want to remember a couple of dozens of chips that can be listed here. I will try to convey the essence: every detail, every refinement and improvement EMUI blends harmoniously with the Android original logic does not create a feeling of congestion or inappropriate and does not harm performance. In theory, you can cause this kind of pure Android from Google, but for that you need a few hours of searching the appropriate apps and widgets.

Changes or improvements evident everywhere, starting with the system of buttons that you can customize to your liking, and ending prilozhenkami useful for different tasks. You open the application manager to unload the excess, and you are shown the current load of memory, suggesting thus the real situation with a load.

Voice Search to Honor 7 allows you to not only search for the information you need, but also the smart phone. If the device is lost in the flat, suffice it to say: «? Dear Honor, where are you» - and smartphone begin to make sounds and vibrate, telling about his whereabouts.

If you reduce the overall impression of this modification of Android to a single sentence, it would sound like this: «EMUI cool."

Fingerprinting a software point of view,

Continuing the theme of better elaboration EMUI, I want to give an example of a fingerprint scanner. In guglofona it just unlocks the smartphone. It would seem, what else is needed? In Honor 7 via fingerprint can take a snapshot of the camera. Conveniently also, especially in the vertical shooting. And yet at the swipe of a scanner, you can assign certain actions.

The process of creating the impression is laid out better. Google does not tell how to create a reference to it is correctly recognized. 7 Honor said. In the process you give a clue: "Touch this part, this is now." As a result, print does best, taken at any angle, and the subsequent unlocking always take place without any problems.

I think the problem is that Google create good new things, but do not pay enough attention detail, not polishes them, does not lead to perfection, does not really user-friendly. The creators of Honor 7 it turned out better.

Working hours

In Honor 7 The battery capacity of 3000 mA⋅ch. On the manufacturer's website has information about some very high density of the battery, as well as software and hardware Drugs, conserves battery power without compromising performance and with minimal impact on picture quality screen. What it does in practice? Smartphone easy to live a day at a fairly active use and still remains 30% charge. Two days - a moderate. All this with a new battery, naturally.

You two SIM cards or memory card?

Upon Honor 7 - dvuhsimochnik, but with one important clarification. The second slot shares space with a cell for a memory card. At some specialized site, I saw a comment of one user who was able to glue the memory card and SIM cards, making all work simultaneously. But if you want to deal with this?

Quite a strange approach, although this is likely only the consequences of the struggle for attractive dimensions.

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In the presence of all relevant types of communications, including 4G cat 6, Wi-Fi ac, Bluetooth 4.1, USB 2.0 c OTG, GPS, GLONASS, and even infrared port, but no NFC. It works stably and in a few days of testing never fell off.

brief TTX

• Dimensions: 71.9 × 143.2 × 8.5 mm.
• Weight: 157 g
• Processor: Huawei HiSilicon KIRIN 935, eight cores, 4x 2,2 GHz ARM Cortex-A53, 4x 1,5 GHz ARM Cortex-A53.
• Graphics processor: ARM Mali-T628 MP4, four cores.
• RAM: 3 GB, 800 MHz.
• Internal memory: 16, 64 GB.
• Memory Cards: microSD, microSDHC, microSDXC.
• Screen: 5.2 inch, IPS, 1080 × 1920 pixels.
• Battery: 3000 mAh.
• Operating System: Android 5.0 Lollipop.
• Camera: 5152 × 3888 pixels (pictures), 1920 × 1080 pixels (video), 30 frames / sec.
• SIM-card: Nano-SIM / microSD, Nano-SIM.
• Wi-Fi: a, b, g, n, n 5GHz, ac, Dual band, Wi-Fi Hotspot, Wi-Fi Direct.
• USB: 2.0, microUSB.
• Bluetooth: 4.1.
• Navigation: GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS.

How to stop loving your smartphone

I confess that after the experience of the use of Honor 7 I do not have such a desperate fan guglofonov. I put the two devices side by side and ask yourself simple questions. Why in many ways worse than my smartphone, and is worth more? Is this is the price for the opportunity first to get the new version of Android? Something is wrong here, and it seems the future is really for Chinese brands.

What can you say about the last 7 Honor? He did not only disappointed, but frankly pleased. I knew that I take in hand, though Chinese, but still a top smartphone, and got exactly the experience that expected from the relevant class technology. With a price of 23 thousand rubles, this is probably one of the best options for those who want to upgrade your mobile today.

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