This year Huawei came to the market with a new device, Honor 4C. Its price is slightly less than Rs 9,000 and its specifications are also fine. We have reviewed this phone. This time we have tried to know whether Huawei managed to make the best budget device this time.
Look and design
When you pick up Honor 4C, the first feeling will be about its weight. Its weight is 162 grams, which is more than other smartphones found today. And this phone also does not have a lot of capacity battery, which makes the situation worse. Also the thickness is 8.8 millimeters, whichever is more. Plastic has been used to make Honor 4C, while the rear side has a taxcord design. It is good to look at, but the phone cannot be gripped well. It was repeatedly slipping from our hands. The top of the rear cover has a mate plate on the left side, which has a cutout for primary cameras and flash. At the same time, there are machines made from machine for loudspeakers in the lower back. On removing the rear cover, the battery appears which cannot be taken out of the handset. In addition, three slots remain- for a microSD card and two micro-SIM cards.
Volume rockers and power buttons remain on the right side of the phone. Metal has been used for power button, which can be identified by touching. Micro-USB ports and microphone are at the bottom of the handset, while the top also has a 3.5mm audio port. Three capsitive buttons are built under the screen to use the operating system in the phone, but they are not backlits. Above the display, earpieces, front facing cameras and LED indicators for notifications remain.
Specifications and software
Huawei has used its 1.2GHz Octa-Core Kirin 920 SoC in the handset and has 2 GB RAM for its support. The inbuilt storage of Honor 4C is 8 GB, which can be increased to 32 GB via microSD card. The phone has a 13 -megapixel primary camera, which is excellent and the handset also has a 5 -megapixel front facing camera for selfie.
Honor 4C is a disappointing thing that it does not support 4G network. We believe that this should be a default feature as LTE rollouts are happening very fast. The rest of the connectivity features include Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, Bluetooth V4.0 and FM Radio. The battery capacity is 2550mAh.
The resolution of the 5 -inch IPS panel is 720×1280, which has a pixel density (density) 294ppi. Screen Crisp and Colors are natural, but it is also the most on brightness. The viewing angles are also bad. It becomes a little difficult to read anything on the screen in the sun.
The phone runs on Android 4.4.2, above which Emotion UI 3.0 skin of Huawei has been used. It is very disappointing that the phone out of the box does not come with Android Lollipop. There is no app drawer in the skin, so the homescreen appears full of apps. UI looks sleek and is also smooth in using. Like the previous Honor device, this handset has One-Hand UI and suspended button features. Overall, its experience is good.
Performance and camera
Huawei has done a great job of optimizing the performance of software and hardware. The Octa-Core SoC and 2 GB RAM pair are used to smooth the phone and we never have any problem. Some buyers of this handset have complained about the heating of the phone on many platforms, but we did not like it during the benchmarks and battery tests. With this, high-end games went on without stopping.
In the AnTuu and GFXBench Tests, the phone got 24,139 and 6,435 points respectively. Even though the score of GFXBench is low, the antuu score is much higher than the second phone of this price range itself. In the 3DMark Ice Storm Test, the phone scored 5,803, which is once again more than many phones.
The phone did not have difficulty in playing all our video samples. We have always been a complaint about Honor’s phone, that is its sound quality. The speaker and earpiece cause a very slow sound. You will need a headset to enjoy music and videos. We did not face the problem of cocol drop and during our Tests, the connection in the network congested area also remained intact. The video loop lasted for 8 hours 5 minutes before the phone switch off during the test, which is quite good.
The 13 -megapixel rear camera shoots fast. It takes very little time to focus and take pictures with full details, most important. Natural colors give the eyes a very pleasant feeling. We did not complain of any kind of chromatic abuse and barrel distortion. We are very happy with the performance of the camera. Performance in low light is not spectacular, but not bad either. The camera captures the video of 1080p, whose quality was fine. A 5 -megapixel front camera can also capture photos with good details.
Our decision
We believe that Huawei has introduced a very good handset at this price. Honor 4C has a good camera, it performs rapid task and does not have waste software. It would have been good, if the weight of Honor 4C was slightly lower and the quality of voice was good, but these are very small problems. If it is not so necessary for you to take 4G phone, then Honor 4C is a good option for Rs 8,999. In this price range you can buy Yu Yureka, Lenovo A6000 Plus and Lenovo A7000.