Design
Honor 6c comes in three colors — gold, silver and grey. We came across a gray smartphone for review, and, having twirled it in our hands a little, we’ll say that the first impression was “very good,” but over time, the effect of novelty wears off and the feeling comes that in fact Honor doesn’t stand out in any special way. against its competitors from the middle segment.
The smartphone is made in a combination of plastic and metal, or rather, the body of the phone itself is mostly plastic, but the back cover, apparently, is made of honest hardware. Holding the phone in your hands is comfortable, the metal gives a feeling of pleasant coolness, and at the same time the device practically does not slip and does not stick together when pressed hard.
But although the tactile sensations were pleasing, the completely unremarkable design haunts me: the 6c turned out to be absolutely faceless, a gray mass among many similar smartphones. The metal cover is fitted to the plastic elements end-to-end and without any special frills, and for some reason the camera is painted in the color of the body and practically does not stand out.
The phone has very wide frames for its class. On the sides this is not very noticeable, but as for the bottom frame, this is simply the apogee of inappropriate use of space. In more budget Honor models, this can still be forgiven, but in the middle class, if you don’t have mechanical navigation buttons, spending so much free space on a simple “Honor” inscription is the height of waste.
The rest of the functional keys and connectors are in their places. On the front panel, in addition to the already announced inscription, you can traditionally find a speaker, a proximity sensor and a front camera; on the back cover there is a main camera, an LED flash and a round fingerprint scanner, which, by the way, works quite well.
In general, we could talk for a long time about why the smartphone ended up being so unremarkable compared to its predecessor and competitors. But we don’t see much point in this, perhaps the developers this time were not given money for the original design, perhaps the deadlines were running out and they had to send “what we have” into production, it doesn’t matter.
Camera
The smartphone has a 13 MP main camera with dual LED flash and a 5 MP front camera. The main camera has excellent detail, at the level of the flagships Samsung Galaxy S5 or Sony Xperia Z3. You can verify this by looking at the photo below. The photos were sharp—autofocus worked perfectly.
The 5MP front camera is ideal for selfie lovers. For example, when creating your own portraits, you can turn on the Beautify special effect. Its essence is to smooth out skin defects and enlarge the eyes. You can choose the intensity yourself. But don’t get carried away, at most you will look like an alien or an anime character. The camera has a good set of settings and functions, including HDR video, autofocus, touch shooting and much more.
The main camera shoots Full HD video, with stereo sound and tracking autofocus. It doesn’t work very efficiently; we had to wait a while for the camera to start focusing again. At the same time, it is not clear why the front camera only records HD video; with its 5 MP, it could reach Full HD. In general, smartphone cameras are good, of course, not ideal, but excellent for their price.
Cameras
The main camera of the Honor 6c has a 13 megapixel matrix and an f/2.2 aperture, while it is additionally equipped with a single-color LED flash and phase detection autofocus. The flash works well, and, despite its monotony, the pictures are well lit, but not overexposed. However, we immediately find a significant drawback: this camera does not have a stabilization function when taking photos, so pictures in motion often turn out blurry.
The camera performs quite well in daylight conditions. The sharpness of the images is at a fairly high level, color rendition is close to natural, detail is normal in both close-up and distant plans. The camera copes well with shooting panoramas and general plans. It is a little worse at macro photography and blurring the background, but still the quality is quite acceptable.
But as for the photos at night, this could be described with a harsher word than just “bad”. The image immediately loses its clarity, and a huge amount of digital noise appears in the picture. It is worth noting that the “noise reduction” does a good job and often saves photos, only slightly sacrificing additional clarity, without turning the photo into outright soap.
The shooting program is traditionally equipped with many different modes and decorations, among which there are already everyone’s favorite HDR and “delicious food”. The user can also manually set white balance, focus and exposure, which will undoubtedly please those who like to experiment with the camera. If you compare the Huawei Honor 6c with the company’s more top-end representatives, then, of course, the range of functions of this model will seem very limited.
The Honor 6c camera can record video in FullHD format at 30 frames per second. But the video quality itself still leaves much to be desired. Even in fairly bright lighting, digital noise creeps in, detail is quite mediocre, and colors look slightly washed out. There is an electronic stabilization function, but it doesn’t help at all when shooting on the go; the picture still remains jerky and torn.
The smartphone is also equipped with a front camera of 5 megapixels and f/2.2 aperture. The camera focus is fixed, there is no flash. The front camera essentially has the same functions as the main one, but for obvious reasons the shooting quality is much worse. In general, if you are not a demanding selfie lover, then the capabilities of the front camera will suit you quite well. If you can’t imagine your life without a selfie, then in order to avoid disappointment and nervous tics, it’s better for you to bypass 6 on the side.
We invite you to evaluate sample photos of Huawei Honor 6c and draw your own conclusions.
