Introduction
Ever
since huawei parted ways with google
we've seen quite a bit less hype for their phones and
honor phones here in the west but now honor is an independent brand and its new
honor 50 brings the full suite of google services on board this is good news
for a lot of people in western markets but does the honor 50 pack enough punch
to be competitive and let's find out in
our full review
6.57'' OLED screen with 1080p resolution and 120Hz refresh rate
Just like the back the
front screen of the phone has a curve to it it's a 6.57 inch oled with a 1080p
resolution and a super fast 120hz refresh rate the high refresh rate coupled
with a low touch latency means that swiping and scrolling here are super smooth
and responsive and they're support for high frame rate gaming too plus there's support
for 10 bit color and you get the great contrast you'd expect from an oled color
accuracy is respectable depending on the setting you choose and brightness is
good too we measured 525 nits maximum with the manual slider and it boosts up to
750 nits in bright
Under-display fingerprint reader
Conditions
under the display is an optical fingerprint scanner which is responsive and
reliable for audio you don't get a traditional headphone jack and there's just
a single
Single bottom-firing speaker, no headphone jack
Bottom firing loudspeaker the loudness score was just average on our charts and the sound quality is clear but far from rich one of the more exciting things about
Software and UI
The honor 50 is its software package at least if you're one of the people bummed out by huawei's lack of google support the magic ui shares the aesthetics of huawei's emui 12 but with the intrinsic features of android 11 and of course access to google apps through the play store the default apps like the gallery and the phone are proprietary though one thing worth noting is that you don't get to split notification shade like on emui
Storage options
A traditional one here
and you don't have expandable storage on the honor 50 but the choice of 128 or
256 gigs on board under the hood of the honor 50 is a
Snapdragon 778G 5G performance
A pretty popular chip
these days offering both 5g connectivity and flagship grade performance that's
not quite as high tier as the snapdragon 888 both the interface and games run
well here but we did notice some thermal throttling
Battery (4300mAh) endurance and charging
(66W) test
Battery life is pretty
good considering the 4300 milliamp hour battery capacity the honor 50 was able
to score 100 hour endurance rating in our proprietary tests charging speed is
reasonably fast too but not lighting fast even though it comes with a large 66
watt charger with it we charge the phone from zero to 61 percent in half an
hour the major hardware difference between the honor 50 and the huawei nova 9
is that this one has a higher res main
Camera specs
Camera here you get a
108 megapixel nine in one main cam the others are the same as the nova 9 though
an 8 megapixel ultra wide cam a 2 megapixel macro cam and a depth sensor during
the day 12 megapixel photos from the main cam look good they're sharp and contrasty
with saturated colors and okay dynamic range but we've seen a bit better
rendition of fine details in the competition portraits look pretty good with
great sharpness and detail and subject detection which is better than what we saw
on the nova 9. 8 megapixel shots from the ultrawide are nothing special you get
the benefit of the wider field of view but the images are rather soft and low
in detail and have limited dynamic range the macro camera's photos are okay the
detail is limited by the 2 megapixel resolution and colors could be punchier but
sharpness is fine if you get the
focus distance right in
low light photos from the main cam are pretty good there's a decent level of
detail in the shadows and highlights are well contained too there's also great
contrast and low noise if you shoot with a night mode on the
results can be even
better especially in more challenging scenes the shadows are boosted a bit the
remaining noise is cleaned up and there's additional
sharpness and the colors
are a little bit more vivid shots from the ultra wide at night aren't very good
they're fuzzy and lacking in detail with a narrow dynamic
range and there's no
night mode support on this camera selfies are taken with a 32 megapixel front
facing cam and they're good they're detailed colorful and sharp enough plus the
dynamic range is pretty wide and the selfies come out usable even in backlit
situations
Video quality
Videos can be recorded
with the main cam and up to 4k resolution at 30fps footage comes out sharp and
detailed with great colors and contrast dynamic range is wide too the ultra
wide cam is limited to 1080p resolution and its footage has similar contrast
and colors to the main cam it's a lot softer and less detailed though electronic
stabilization is supported in 4k on the main cam and it does a good
Conclusion
Job in
smoothing out the shakiness from walking around so that's the honor 50. it has
an impressive 120hz curved oled display dependable battery life fast charging
and a good camera experience at least from the main cam and you get google
services on and on our phone the problem is that the way the honor 50 is priced
it's up against some tough competition flagship killer phones that can offer
more in both the chipset and the camera department you're also missing some popular features like stereo speakers so while the honor 50 is a decent phone you can find more bang for your buck elsewhere
thanks for
reading guys stay safe
see you on the
next one
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