Huawei Honor 7 is a stylish feature rich Android smartphone with affordable price tag. It has fingerprint scanner, 5.2 inch IPS full HD display, metal finish design, 20MP primary camera, 8MP primary camera and dedicated smartkey. Huawei Honor 7 price in India starts at Rs.22,999.
Huawei Honor 7 sports 5.2 inch full-HD IPS-LCD screen with 424 ppi pixel density. The display panel used in this device of good quality. It is bright and offers great viewing angles and good colour reproduction. The screen to body ratio is 72.4% and has on-screen soft keys and narrow borders. Overall, it feels good to hold it in hand. Unlike a big 5.5 inch phablets, this feels more convenient for me.
Honor 7 is powered by octa-core Hisilicon Kirin 935 SoC(four cores operating at 2.2GHz and the secondary four cores at 1.5GHz) with 3GB of RAM and ARM Mali-T624. The device runs on Android 5.0.2 with Huawei’s Emotion UI 3.1 on top. The UI offers lot of customisation for practically every function including the navigation bar, smart key, motion control, and one-handed operation. The day to day performance is excellant. Even gaming performance is good. However, highend graphic intensive games at times shown bit of lag. Overall performancewise, it is good.
Honor 7 sports 20-megapixel primary camera with dual-tone flash and an 8-megapixel front camera with single-tone flash. Both camera supports full HD video recording. It takes excellant outdoor images. The indoor performance also decent. But as it doesnot have optical image stabilisation, when taking images in low light hand should be steady. Otherwise images tends to washed out.
Huawei Honor 7 available in India is single sim variant. The connectivity features of the device includes 4G LTE, Bluetooth 4.1, IR blaster, WiFi, WiFi tethering, USB tethering and USB OTG. The internal storage capacity of the device is 16GB and supports microSD card upto 128GB. Honor 7 houses 3100 mAh battery which with heavy usage lasted for a complete day in my testing.
So lets summarize the Huawei Honor 7 review with its merits and demerits.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Huawei Honor 7
Pros of Honor 7
- Responsive and fast Fingerprint scanner: Huawei also provides gesture customisation for fingerprint scanner such as accessing notifications, multitask page etc by swiping.
- Good cellular call quality and network reception: The call quality is loud and clear.
- Very good design and Build quality: The metal finish design gives premium feel to the device.
- Good camera performance: Both primary and secondary camera performance were satisfactory.
- Good Display: 1080p 5.2 inch display is good.
- Good overall performance: Overall the device performance is very good.
Cons of Honor 7
- No Dual sim variant in India: Honor 7 which is available in India supports only single sim(nano sim).
- No optical image stabilisation.
- Outdated Android version: The device runs on Android 5.0.2. That is 2 generation old version.
- No 4K video recording capability.
- Non user replaceable battery.
Honor 7 Tips and Tricks
Download PC Suite for Honor 7
For downloading the official PC suite for Honor 7, you can read my detailed instruction post How to download Huawei PC suite.
How to take screenshot on Honor 7
For taking screenshot on Honor 7, you can press and hold volume down key and power button simultaneosly. Another method using the dedicated smartkey.
Huawei Honor 7 Specification
- Octa-core Hisilicon Kirin 935 SoC with 3GB RAM and ARM Mali-T624.
- Android 5.0.2 with Huawei’s Emotion UI 3.1
- 5.2 inch 1080p IPS display.
- 20-megapixel primary camera with dual-tone flash and an 8-megapixel front camera with single-tone flash
- IR blaster and Fingerprint scanner.
- 3100 mAh battery
- 16GB internal storage and support for microSD card upto 128GB.
