Honor 7 review
Honor 7 design and build quality
If you've seen the Huawei Ascend Mate 7, you'll immediately recognize its design influence on the Honor 7. The Honor 7 is a smaller version though at only 5.2-inches (the Mate 7 weighs in at 6 inches). The all-metal housing is just as well-crafted in the Honor 7 as it is in the Mate 7 but the Honor 7 gets an added bonus of a polished frame surrounding the display glass.The Honor 7 is definitely not in the thinnest smartphone race though, with a thickness of 8.5 millimeters, a whopping 2 mm thicker than, for example, the Huawei P8. It has so be stated that the Honor 7 has nicely rounded sides though, that actually makes it feel more comfortable in the hand than the blocky P8, despite its added thickness.
The back of the Honor 7 is virtually all aluminum, with a fingerprint scanner located right underneath a large square camera lens, flanked by a dual-LED flash. The entire back isn't metallic though, with metallic-look plastic at both the top and bottom of the phone. This detail is to allow the antennas to operate unhindered by interference from a full metal chassis.
At the bottom you'll find a centered micro-SUB port with small holes on either side. Don't let the appearance of stereo speakers fool you though, as we have seen multiple times in the past only one side emits any sound. The other side just holds the microphone for calls. There is something to be said for design symmetry but stereo speakers would be even better.
The power button and volume rocker is located on the right hand side of the Honor 7. There's a slight flaring around the power button so it is easier to identify with touch alone. There's another button on the left hand side which is a little confusing to start with, but it is simply a user-configurable hardware key. In the settings you can set it as a shortcut to your favorite app, camera or any other useful action.
Above this user button lies the SIM card slot that can accommodate two nano-SIM cards (in the 64 GB version of the Honor 7) or a SIM card and a microSD card in the 16 GB version. These combi-slots are typical Huawei devices and we've already come across them in both the Huawei P8 and P8 Lite.
Honor 7 performance
Again, as a subsidiary of Huawei, the Honor 7 specs center around the Kirin processor. The honor 7 packs a Kirin 935, an octa-core processor with four cores clocked at 2.2 GHz and four at 1.5 GHz. These clock speeds are basically what you find in comparable chips built by Qualcomm, for example the Snapdragon 810 (when it hasn't been under-clocked to avoid thermal throttling and overheating).
The Honor 7 specs also include 3 GB of RAM, but our comments on performance are limited to the 64 GB version, which isn't currently available anywhere in Europe or the US. We can only assume the changes between the two versions are limited to available storage though and not to any additional performance enhancements.
Honor 7 technical specifications
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