Monday, April 2, 2018

Honor 7A brings 18:9 display and dual cameras to the masses

Huawei Honor 7A

Honor

Huawei's flagship devices might dominate the tech headlines, but its budget phones are exponentially more popular, offering plenty of features for the money. Now, the firm's Honor sub-brand has revealed the Honor 7A, essentially a cut-price version of the already cheap P Smart.

For one, you're looking at a 5.7-inch 1440×720 display complete with 18:9 screen ratio (as opposed to the P Smart's much sharper but still tall 5.65-inch 2160×1080 screen). Then there's the 13MP+2MP f/2.2 rear camera pairing and 8MP f/2.0 selfie shooter, being near-identical to the P Smart once again.

Honor 7A

The dual-camera setup means you have features like simulated aperture adjustment, allowing you to tinker with depth of field effects. Meanwhile, the firm is claiming advanced facial recognition via the front camera, but I doubt it's more secure than Apple's sensor-laden Face ID.

Nevertheless, the Honor 7A looks like a solid low-end buy, offering a somewhat old, but still capable Snapdragon 430 chipset, 2GB or 3GB RAM, 32GB of expandable storage, a rear fingerprint scanner and a solid but not huge 3000mAh battery.

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In the software department, you're looking at Android Oreo and Huawei's EMUI 8.0 skin.

There are notable compromises though, such as microUSB instead of USB Type-C — but at least it still has a 3.5mm audio jack. Then again, the Honor 7A starts at RMB 799 ($127 as a straight conversion) for the 2GB/32GB variant. For that price, I'd probably put up with microUSB.

Of course, Huawei/Honor isn't the first brand to offer an 18:9 display and dual cameras at such a cheap price tag. We've seen efforts from the likes of Ulefone and Leagoo, but the Chinese colossus is certainly one of the first major brands to step into this arena.



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