Huawei Honor 4C Pro — review, reviews of Huawei Honor 4C Pro |

Main characteristics of Huawei honor 3 (model hn3-u00)

• SoC HiSilicon K3V2E, 1.5 GHz, 4 Cortex-A9 processor cores
• GPU Vivante GC4000, 600—800 MHz
• Operating system Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean
• IPS touch display, 4.7″, 1280×720
• RAM 2 GB, internal memory 8 GB
• Communication GSM GPRS/EDGE 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz
• Communications 3G UMTS HSDPA 850, 900, 1700, 1900, 2100 MHz
• Bluetooth 3.0
• USB OTG/Host support
• Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n (2 bands), Wi-Fi hotspot, Wi-Fi Direct
• GPS/A-GPS, Glonass
• Dust/moisture protection IP 55/57
• Camera 13 MP Sony Exmor RS
• 1.3 MP camera (front)
• Li-polymer battery 2230 mAh (HB5R1V)
• Dimensions 133×67.2×9.9 mm
• Weight 138 g

Introduction

In April of this year, Huawei held a presentation of three smartphones in Russia: Honor 6 Plus, Honor 4X and Honor 4C; For those who are interested in checking them out and not reading the full reviews, please follow the link below:

Huawei presentation

Review of the Huawei Honor 6 Plus smartphone

Review of the Huawei Honor 4X smartphone

In the review of Huawei Honor 4X, I described in sufficient detail the positioning of the 4X and 4C — these are devices for those who want to get powerful hardware for relatively little money, at least now it’s difficult to find a device for 9,000 rubles with two gigabytes of RAM «and an 8-core processor. I would like to repeat once again that the price will not change, despite rumors that Huawei allegedly carried out a promotion in order to attract more attention to itself and its gadgets, and would later raise the price of the 4X and 4C.

It should be noted that there is a slight shortage of these devices, so Honors are supplied to the online store in batches. The next one will be after the May holidays. And so, at the time of writing the review there were no devices available.

Battery — 4.0

Compared to its predecessor, Huawei Honor 4C Pro works for a very long time, but is still slightly inferior in terms of autonomy to other “long-lived smartphones”, such as Lenovo Vibe P1m or Lenovo P70. In daily use, the phone lasts for one and a half, and sometimes two days of work.

Autonomy was one of the weaknesses of Honor 4C, so the company decided to radically solve the problem and increased the battery capacity from 2550 to 4000 mAh (like the ZTE Blade X3 or Xiaomi Redmi 3).

In HD video viewing mode, the smartphone worked for about 9 hours — this is a lot, but more could be expected from such a battery; the same Lenovo Vibe P1m lasted an hour and a half longer. But in audio player mode, Honor 4C Pro performed well — 105 hours, comparable to the Huawei Nexus 6P phablet.

An hour of work in the GeekBench Battery Test benchmark consumed only 6% of the charge, an excellent result, but partly due to low performance. In an hour of playing Thumb Drift, the battery lost only 16%, at this rate it will run out in about 6 hours. Shooting a 10-minute HD video took only 3% of the battery, a kind of record. True, this is due to the low resolution, but the camera simply does not record video in Full HD.

In daily use, the phone lasted us for one and a half, sometimes two days of use. As expected, the phone has an energy-saving mode — the interface becomes black and white and only telephony and SMS messages remain available.

In the box with Huawei Honor 4C Pro you can find a 2A charger; it fully charges the smartphone in over two hours.

Play video

To test the “omnivorous” nature of video playback (including support for various codecs, containers and special features, such as subtitles), we used the most common formats, which make up the bulk of the content available on the Internet. Note that for mobile devices it is important to have support for hardware video decoding at the chip level, since it is most often impossible to process modern options using processor cores alone.

According to the testing results, the test subject was not equipped with all the necessary decoders that are necessary for full playback of most of the most common multimedia files on the network. To successfully play them, you will have to resort to the help of a third-party player — for example, MX Player.

¹ sound in MX Video Player was played only after installing an alternative custom audio codec; The standard player does not have this setting

Testing of video output features was carried out by Alexey Kudryavtsev.

We did not find the MHL interface, like Mobility DisplayPort, in this smartphone, so we had to limit ourselves to testing the output of video files on the screen of the device itself. To do this, we used a set of test files with an arrow and a rectangle moving one division per frame (see

“Methodology for testing video signal playback and display devices. Version 1 (for mobile devices)»). Screenshots with a shutter speed of 1 s helped determine the nature of the output frames of video files with different parameters: the resolution varied (1280 by 720 (720p) and 1920 by 1080 (1080p) pixels) and frame rate (24, 25, 30, 50 and 60 frames/ With). In the tests we used the MX Player video player in the “Hardware” mode. The test results are summarized in the table:

Note: If green ratings are given in both the Evenness and Skips columns, this means that, most likely, when watching films, artifacts caused by uneven alternation and skipping of frames will either not be visible at all, or they will not be visible at all. quantity and visibility will not affect viewing comfort. Red marks indicate possible problems with playback of the corresponding files.

According to the criterion of frame output, the quality of playback of video files on the screen of the smartphone itself is good, since frames (or groups of frames) can (but are not required) be output with more or less uniform alternation of intervals and without skipping frames. In addition to 1080p files at 50 and 60 fps, the latter generally begin to be output immediately or after a while as a slide show.

For 60 fps files, one frame per second is always output with an extended duration. Apparently the screen refresh rate is slightly higher than the typical 60Hz at around 61Hz. Why this was done is absolutely unclear. When playing video files with a resolution of 1280 by 720 pixels (720p) on a smartphone screen, the image of the video file itself is displayed exactly along the border of the screen, one to one in pixels, that is, in the original resolution.

Battery life

The capacity of the lithium-ion battery installed in Huawei Honor 3 is 2230 mAh — this is an average value by modern standards. Accordingly, the results of testing the battery life of the device in the most common user scenarios turned out to be average. Precisely average, but not failure or record-breaking.

In general, the constant stability in the results throughout the entire review is reassuring. For example, the flagship Huawei Ascend D2 behaved much more unpredictably, showing much less stable results, either overheating or generally refusing to pass any of the tests. Huawei Honor 3 turned out to be more balanced, reliable and trouble-free in operation, which causes some pride in the line of “people’s” Honor series smartphones that has been proven over the years — you can’t fool people.

Dimensions and design — 3.9

Huawei Honor 4C Pro fits well in the palm of your hand. It is quite convenient to operate even with one hand, but it cannot be called compact and light.

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Phone dimensions: 143.1 x 71.8 x 10 mm, similar in size to the ZTE Blade X5 and much thicker than the Samsung Galaxy J3. The weight of Honor 4C Pro is 160 grams, which is already a lot; another long-lived smartphone, the Lenovo A5000, weighed the same.

The smartphone looks pretty nice, but it’s again the same last year’s design, which has already begun to become boring and boring. Only small details have been changed; otherwise, Honor 4C Pro is very similar to Honor 4C. The only notable things on the front panel are the black frame around the display, which makes it visually larger, and the dotted texture of the white plastic.

There are no separate control keys; they are located at the bottom of the screen. The thickness of the frames is average, the ratio of the display area to the front panel is approximately 67%. The back panel has a diamond-shaped texture — it is not slippery, but slightly ribbed and at the same time slimy to the touch. Other than this, the only things we can note are the Honor logo, a modified camera lens in the middle, and a microphone hole that looks a little strange and not aesthetically pleasing.

The body of Huawei Honor 4C Pro is made of plastic. Despite the fact that it is collapsible, for some reason the battery is again non-removable (like its predecessor). The build quality is good, the phone doesn’t squeak under pressure, and the removable cover fits snugly and is easy to remove. The body is not bad, but for the same money you can find smartphones in metal, for example, the same Xiaomi Redmi 3.

Huawei Honor 4C Pro can be purchased in three colors — black, white and gold.

Productivity

The smartphone runs on the Kirin 820 5G single-chip system, manufactured using a 7-nanometer process technology. This SoC is configured with 8 cores: 1×Cortex-A76 @2.36 GHz 3×Cortex-A76 @2.22 GHz 4×Cortex-A55 @1.84 GHz. By the way, this is the first mobile device released on the new platform.

The role of the graphics adapter is performed by the Mali-G57 GPU. The amount of RAM is 6 or 8 GB, the storage capacity is 128 or 256 GB depending on the configuration (out of 128 GB, about 108 GB is available). You can install a memory card in a smartphone, but only in its own Nano Memory format, and only by replacing one of the SIM cards with it.

Kirin 820 5G SoC has just been released and it is one of the best “sub-flagship” mobile platforms. In synthetic tests, it shows results approximately at the level of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 765; in real use, the smartphone copes with any task and with demanding games, including Injustice 2 and PUBG, without the slightest hitch or slowdown.

Testing in complex tests AnTuTu and GeekBench:

For convenience, we have summarized all the results we obtained when testing the smartphone in the latest versions of popular benchmarks. The table usually adds several other devices from different segments, also tested on similar latest versions of benchmarks (this is done only for a visual assessment of the obtained dry figures).

Testing the graphics subsystem in 3DMark and GFXBenchmark gaming tests:

Xiaomi Mi Note 10 Lite

GFXBenchmark T-Rex

60

60

GFXBenchmark T-Rex

(1080p Offscreen, FPS)

84

97

135

68

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