Honor 200 Professional Evaluation: Enjoyable Digital camera Methods – Uplaza

Honor 200 Professional in a nutshell

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

The telephone comes with a giant 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 telephone with a curved show. And the retro vibes continued on the telephone’s again, with a curved digicam island. 

Execs:

• Stable construct.
• Wonderful show.
• Display protector from the manufacturing facility.
• Fingerprint-proof again. 

Cons

• Digital camera island design just 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 distinct form from the underlying steel base, which curves to satisfy the glass forming an uneven body. It positively appears well-built, however wasn’t precisely for my style (from a self-admitted Gaudí fanboy…).

The remainder of the again is constituted of glass, our assessment unit got here in with a black matte end which not solely appears good and feels good to the contact but additionally was free from fingerprints.

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

However I digress, the show is a giant and exquisite 6.78-inch AMOLED that not solely refreshes at 120 Hz but additionally is specced to succeed in 4000 nits. We couldn’t attain that brightness degree, however had no points utilizing the Honor 200 Professional open air.

To utilize that large 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 assessment. On prime sits a pill-shaped notch which homes the twin selfie setup.

The Honor 200 Professional felt superb on the hand and its large display didn’t end in an enormous telephone due to the curved show and skinny bezels. Button placement was additionally tremendous, and typically, the telephone 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 general design as its EMUI predecessor, which feels a little bit dated in some locations.

Execs

Cons

• Interface design feels dated.
• Underwhelming replace coverage.

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

MagicOS 8 nonetheless appears 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, nevertheless, will really feel at house utilizing MagicOS 8.

For extra particulars on MagicOS 8, you may verify Camila’s assessment 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—have been distracting.

One private nitpick was that the pure holding place made it barely cumbersome to succeed in UI components on the underside of the show. Even reaching for the house bar whereas typing pressured the hand to seize the telephone 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 affords a flagship-level efficiency that’s virtually indistinguishable from the 2024 crop of premium telephones. The usage of fashionable reminiscence requirements for storage and RAM is helped by the beneficiant capacities on supply.

Execs

• Good efficiency in each 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 person consolation for the very best efficiency as some rivals normally do. As a substitute, on longer heavier duties, the telephone reduces the velocity to keep away from getting too sizzling.

The impact is noticeable on the 3D Mark Stress Take a look at, during which the Honor telephone dropped its efficiency to virtually half by the tip of the check.

On a gaming-oriented telephone 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 Responsibility Cell and Genshin Affect was good. The latter was in a position to run on the highest graphical settings on the 60 fps choice, though the telephone did get heat, particularly across the steel body.

For less complicated each day duties, the Honor 200 Professional carried out on the identical degree as any flagship telephone, with app transitions, animations, and results being utilized virtually instantaneously. Artificial benchmarks present that the telephone falls barely under 2024’s prime telephones, however not on a degree that we may discover whereas utilizing the gadget.

Digital camera gimmicks

The digicam setup on the Honor 200 Professional consists of a major 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.

Execs

• Versatile digicam setup.
• Wonderful daylight and evening pictures 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 large 1/1.3’’ major sensor captures loads of gentle each day and evening, with digital zoom pictures at 2x proving very usable. Coloration replica was good, with punchy, saturated colours.

The truth is, in some circumstances, 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 provided extra muted colours.

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

The ultra-wide digicam carried out tremendous in daylight, with out the extent of element from the principle digicam, however nonetheless good for its 12-megapixel decision. At evening, nevertheless, the restrictions of the smaller sensor (in each decision and space) turn out to be 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 coloration filters for the portrait mode on prime of the digital processing utilized by the telephone. The results 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, nevertheless, the button merely turns off the blurring, outputting the identical photos as the principle Photograph mode. As the selection is saved, many pictures have been misplaced throughout this check.

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

One additional factor: The Macro mode on the digicam app makes use of the ultra-wide digicam, and the outcomes have 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 consists of assist 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.

Execs

• Quick wired and wi-fi charging.
• When non-obligatory, the charger is normally provided as a bonus.

Cons

• Charger is non-obligatory in some markets.

Honor didn’t provide us with the maximum-rated adapter with the 200 Professional, so the checks under have been executed with third-party USB-PD chargers. Outcomes have 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 can be used with a regular Qi charger at a decrease energy.

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

Within the artificial PCMark battery check which calculates the runtime beneath a simulated workload going from 80% cost to twenty%, the Honor 200 Professional bought solely a 11h24 rating. Nevertheless, its efficiency rating was 17091, indicating that the telephone was not holding again through the check, one thing which may have influenced the rival OnePlus 12R end result, for instance.

Honor 200 Professional technical specs

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