Honor 200 Professional Evaluate: Enjoyable Digital camera Methods – Uplaza

Honor 200 Professional in a nutshell

Honor launched its 200 Professional cellphone in June 2024, after a Chinese language-only launch in Might. The higher mid-ranger (or accessible flagship?) is priced at 800€/£700 for the 12/512 GB mannequin. The cellphone is not going to be obtainable within the US.

The cellphone comes with an enormous 6.78-inch curved OLED show, a real triple-camera setup with a telephoto and ultrawide cameras, and is powered by a flagship-level Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 processor.

Design and show

There’s a sense of dejà-vu when first seeing the Honor 200 Professional. It has been some time since I final noticed a sub-$1000 cellphone with a curved show. And the retro vibes continued on the cellphone’s again, with a curved digicam island. 

Professionals:

• Strong construct.
• Glorious show.
• Display screen protector from the manufacturing facility.
• Fingerprint-proof again. 

Cons

• Digital camera island design isn’t for everybody.

In accordance with Honor, the digicam module was impressed by the curves of Casa Milá from Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí. The glass cowl has a special form from the underlying steel base, which curves to satisfy the glass forming an uneven body. It undoubtedly seems to be well-built, however wasn’t precisely for my style (from a self-admitted Gaudí fanboy…).

The remainder of the again is comprised of glass, our evaluation unit got here in with a black matte end which not solely seems to be good and feels good to the contact but in addition was free from fingerprints.

The curved again floor is mirrored within the entrance, not not like each single flagship cellphone from 5 years in the past. Whereas flat shows have gained within the West, curved shows are nonetheless sturdy in Asia, apparently.

However I digress, the show is an enormous and delightful 6.78-inch AMOLED that not solely refreshes at 120 Hz but in addition is specced to achieve 4000 nits. We couldn’t attain that brightness stage, however had no points utilizing the Honor 200 Professional outdoor.

To utilize that massive space, the decision is an equally excessive 2700 x 1200 pixels, leading to 437 DPI. And beneath the show lies the fingerprint sensor, which labored as anticipated throughout our evaluation. On prime sits a pill-shaped notch which homes the twin selfie setup.

The Honor 200 Professional felt excellent on the hand and its massive display screen didn’t end in an enormous cellphone because of the curved show and skinny bezels. Button placement was additionally effective, and on the whole, the cellphone felt like a real flagship.
 

MagicOS nonetheless carries the EMUI legacy

The Honor 200 Professional comes with MagicOS 8 on prime of Android 14. The corporate guarantees three Android upgrades and 4 years of safety updates. It nonetheless carries the identical total design as its EMUI predecessor, which feels slightly dated in some locations.

Professionals

Cons

• Interface design feels dated.
• Underwhelming replace coverage.

After a recent set up, we counted 9 third-party functions, one thing that we felt didn’t match with a premium cellphone. After updating these apps, the system reported 31.28 GB of used storage.

MagicOS 8 nonetheless looks like a straight EMUI successor, with its iOS-based navigation and format beginning to really feel misplaced with Android, particularly after just a few years into the Materials You design. Lengthy-time Huawei and Honor customers, nonetheless, will really feel at house utilizing MagicOS 8.

For extra particulars on MagicOS 8, you may test Camila’s evaluation of the flagship Magic 6 Professional, and extra particulars on the AI options on this Magic AI hands-on. Usually, regardless of the outdated look, utilizing the system felt snappy, however some inconsistencies across the interface—together with the default Microsoft SwiftKey keyboard—had been distracting.

One private nitpick was that the pure holding place made it barely cumbersome to achieve UI components on the underside of the show. Even reaching for the house bar whereas typing pressured the hand to seize the cellphone in an unbalanced means.

Flagship efficiency from the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

Powered by the just lately launched Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, the Honor 200 Professional provides a flagship-level efficiency that’s virtually indistinguishable from the 2024 crop of premium telephones. Using fashionable reminiscence requirements for storage and RAM is helped by the beneficiant capacities on supply.

Professionals

• Good efficiency in day by day duties and video games.
• Good thermal administration

Cons

• Telephone throttles all the way down to preserve cool.

Honor appears to have opted for a extra conservative implementation of the highly effective CPU, not sacrificing consumer consolation for the very best efficiency as some rivals often do. As a substitute, on longer heavier duties, the cellphone reduces the velocity to keep away from getting too scorching.

The impact is noticeable on the 3D Mark Stress Check, through which the Honor cellphone dropped its efficiency to virtually half by the top of the take a look at.

On a gaming-oriented cellphone that will be a nasty signal, however for a tool geared to most people, prioritizing thermals was most likely the higher alternative. We simply want Honor used a beefier warmth dissipation system.

In testing, efficiency in video games corresponding to Name of Obligation Cell and Genshin Affect was good. The latter was capable of run on the highest graphical settings on the 60 fps possibility, though the cellphone did get heat, particularly across the steel body.

For easier day by day duties, the Honor 200 Professional carried out on the identical stage as any flagship cellphone, with app transitions, animations, and results being utilized virtually instantaneously. Artificial benchmarks present that the cellphone falls barely under 2024’s prime telephones, however not on a stage that we might discover whereas utilizing the machine.

Digital camera gimmicks

The digicam setup on the Honor 200 Professional consists of a primary 50 MP sensor, an ultra-wide lens with a 12 MP sensor that additionally serves as a macro digicam, and a telephoto lens with a 2.5x optical zoom.

Professionals

• Versatile digicam setup.
• Glorious daylight and evening photographs on the principle digicam.
• Cool portrait filters to play with.

Cons

• Secondary cameras are a step down from the principle digicam.
• Finicky settings on the digicam app.
• Inconsistent outcomes from the totally different cameras.

The massive 1/1.3’’ primary sensor captures loads of gentle each day and evening, with digital zoom photographs at 2x proving very usable. Shade copy was good, with punchy, saturated colours.

The truth is, in some instances, the 2x digital zoom from the principle digicam appeared superior to the two.5x optical zoom from the smaller sensor beneath the telephoto lens, which frequently supplied extra muted colours.

Talking zoom photographs, whereas the Honor 200 Professional provides as much as 50x magnification, outcomes are blurry as anticipated from different ultra-zoomers. 10x photographs, however, whereas not print-quality, could also be adequate for sharing on social media or messaging apps.

The ultra-wide digicam carried out effective in daylight, with out the extent of element from the principle digicam, however nonetheless good for its 12-megapixel decision. At evening, nonetheless, the restrictions of the smaller sensor (in each decision and space) change into clear, with lack of particulars and synthetic processing.

Honor promotes its portrait mode closely on the advertising materials, with a partnership with the portrait specialists on the French Studio Harcourt. The result’s three shade filters for the portrait mode on prime of the digital processing utilized by the cellphone. The consequences aren’t obtainable on the selfie digicam, even when utilizing the entrance digicam portrait mode.

Confusingly, whereas utilizing the again cameras in Portrait mode, the Bokeh button permits adjusting the extent of background blur digitally utilized. When utilizing the selfie digicam on Portrait, nonetheless, the button merely turns off the blurring, outputting the identical photographs as the principle Photograph mode. As the selection is saved, many photographs had been misplaced throughout this take a look at.

Interface complaints apart, the selfie digicam was very dependable in daylight, with natural-looking pictures in each the conventional and ultra-wide (0.8x) modes. Portrait mode labored okay, with the same old artifacts on the sides when wanting up shut. At evening, nonetheless, selfies appeared barely blurry.

One additional factor: The Macro mode on the digicam app makes use of the ultra-wide digicam, and the outcomes had been surprisingly good. It permits focusing actually shut objects, round 2 cm in some non-scientific measurements.

Honor 200 Professional battery

Honor touts its silicon-carbon battery with 5200 mAh capability, and contains help for 100W wired charging and 66W wi-fi charging. Confusingly, some markets can have the 100W charger included within the field, and a few gained’t.

Professionals

• Quick wired and wi-fi charging.
• When non-compulsory, the charger is often supplied as a bonus.

Cons

• Charger is non-compulsory in some markets.

Honor didn’t provide us with the maximum-rated adapter with the 200 Professional, so the assessments under had been completed with third-party USB-PD chargers. Outcomes had been as common as anticipated, with a full cost taking 1h14min on an Anker 65W adapter and virtually double on a equally rated Ugreen charger.

We additionally couldn’t confirm the bold 66W wi-fi charging claims, however the Honor 200 Professional may also be used with a typical Qi charger at a decrease energy.

Regardless of the novel battery chemistry, the rated 5200 mAh capability fared in addition to anticipated, with slightly bit over a day of normal utilization utilizing the default always-on show mode.

Within the artificial PCMark battery take a look at which calculates the runtime beneath a simulated workload going from 80% cost to twenty%, the Honor 200 Professional obtained solely a 11h24 rating. Nonetheless, its efficiency rating was 17091, indicating that the cellphone was not holding again throughout the take a look at, one thing which may have influenced the rival OnePlus 12R outcome, for instance.

Honor 200 Professional technical specs

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