Huawei’s Honor series is known to provide great value for money smartphones. The smartphones like Honor 6, Honor 7, Honor 5x have kept this reputation strong. Now we have another budget offering from this brand-Honor 5C. Priced at Rs.10,999, it will compete with the likes of Moto G4, LeEco Le2, Redmi Note 3 etc. So here is the Honor 5C Review which will help you to decide whether to buy this smartphone or not.
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Honor 5C comes with slightly curved back which is made up of brushed aluminium alloy. The textures along the sides and near the top and bottom gives a nice feel to the device. As it has 5.2inch screen, it is compact and comfortable to handle compared to most of the 5.5 inch smartphones selling in this price segment.
Honor 5C sports 5.2 inch full HD IPS display screen with pixel density of 423 ppi. The screen brightness, colour accuracy, viewing angles are good. The automatic brightness adjustment struggles a bit while moving from dark to bright environment. The touch screen is quite responsive. Overall it is a good display panel in the price segment.
Honor 5C is powered by latest Kirin 650 Chipset with Flagship FinFET Plus 16 nm Chip Technology and 2GB of RAM. It has 16GB of internal storage. The device comes with hybrid sim card slot. You can use 2 sim cards or 1 sim card and a microSD card. It runs on EMUI on top of Android 6.0. General performance is good. The games like Asphalt 8, Nova 3, Dead Trigger ran well without any issue. Even with extended gaming, Honor 5C didn’t exhibit any heating issue. However, there was a bit of delay in opening of apps. We have got benchmark scores of 52666 in AnTuTu, 19fps in GFXBench, 902 for single core and 3916 for multi-core score in Geekbench 3.
Honor 5C has fingerprint scanner. It is fast and accurate. Good thing is it has more functions other than just unlocking the device. Using fingerprint scanner on Honor 5C, you can take photos, start or stop video recording, recieve incoming calls and stop alarms.
Honor 5C house 13MP primary camera with single LED flash and a 8-megapixel secondary camera. Both cameras are capable of recording upto 1080p videos. The camera app on Honor 5C provides lot of useful functions such as pro photo/Pro Video mode which allows you adjust individual settings such as ISO, shutter speed and exposure. It also has object tracking, smile capture, self-timer, HDR, slow-motion video, time-lapse video and panorama. Though there is bit of noise and loss of colour detail in low light, overall picture output is excellent in this price segment.
Honor 5C sample video
Honor 5C Camera interface and Settings
Honor 5C packs 3000 mAh battery. In a single charge, we got around 1 and half days of usage. As it does not comes with fast charging it takes around 2 hours to completely charge. Call quality, network and data connectivity are good in this device.
Honor 5C Review Verdict: Honor 5C is a good all round performer. Considering the price, it performed decent in all segment. If you are looking for a good compact smartphone with good features and performance in the price range of 11k, then it is worth considering this smartphone.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Honor 5C
Pros of Honor 5C
- Good Design and Build Quality.
- Decent display panel.
- Fast and Accurate fingerprint scanner.
- Decent performance.
- Good battery life.
- Good camera performance.
Cons of Honor 5C
- Hybrid sim card slot.
- No USB OTG support.
- No fast charging.
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