Honor 200 Pro Review: Midrange Mixed Bag Leave a comment

Honor’s 200 Professional is an upper-midranger or perhaps a lesser flagship. It has a stunning display, good battery life, quick charging, a flexible digicam, and the AI options of Honor’s flagship, Magic 6 Professional. Compromises are minimal. Positive, the processor is a step down from the flagship tier, it’s barely much less water-proof, the digicam isn’t fairly pretty much as good, and the 200 Professional misses out on safe face unlock, but it surely gives a reasonably related expertise at a way more inexpensive worth (£700 within the UK or 800 euros in Europe). It isn’t formally bought within the US.

Honor centered on the portrait prowess of the 200 Professional within the unveiling, speaking up its partnership with Paris-based Studio Harcourt (a well-known portrait studio). However, like most of the 200 Professional’s AI options, these items feels a bit gimmicky. The true purpose to take a look at the 200 Professional is the {hardware} you get for the worth. Simply bear in mind that Honor’s software program will be jarring, and the design isn’t for everybody.

Traditional or Outdated

Whereas the Honor 200 Professional looks like a cultured telephone, the design provides me grandmother vibes. I acknowledge this may simply be me, however one thing in regards to the cameo brooch-shaped digicam module (supposedly impressed by Gaudi’s “Casa Milá”) and the pale inexperienced (Ocean Cyan), swirly, mother-of-pearl end has me picturing Grandma fishing it out of her purse. There’s nothing fallacious with the design, and I really feel dangerous dunking on an try to do one thing totally different with the digicam module, but it surely’s simply not for me.

The 200 Professional is gentle, slim, and curves back and front into the aluminum body. It is very comfy to carry. However I’ve grown uninterested in curved screens and the inevitable unintended touches. I’ve no different complaints in regards to the 6.78-inch AMOLED display. The two,700 x 1,224-pixel decision is lots sharp, the refresh charge goes as much as 120 Hz, and it is vivid sufficient to learn open air (Honor claims 4,000 nits of peak brightness, however that sounds optimistic). The sound high quality of the stereo audio system can be spectacular.

The fingerprint sensor on the backside of the display proved quick and responsive. I’m not eager on the double cutout for the front-facing digicam, and there’s no 3D time-of-flight sensor, so the 200 Professional doesn’t boast the safe face unlock of its costlier sibling. The 200 Professional scores an IP65 ranking, which means rain and spills are in all probability positive, however it’s best to keep away from submersion.

The 200 Professional depends on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 processor, which is meant for the midrange. Considerably confusingly, it’s a step down from the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, however I doubt many of us will really feel an absence of processing energy. The 200 Professional felt snappy, principally protecting its cool whereas operating video games like Asphalt 9: Legends. Honor has generously appointed the 200 Professional with 12 GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage.

Portrait Pictures

The Honor 200 Professional has a triple-lens fundamental digicam that mixes a 50-megapixel fundamental shooter with a pretty big 1/1.3-inch picture sensor, a 50-megapixel telephoto lens with a custom-made Sony IMX 856 sensor able to 2.5X optical zoom, and a 12-megapixel ultrawide that may additionally deal with macro images. Honor made a giant deal of this telephone’s portrait chops, developed with the assistance of Studio Harcourt. True to that theme, there’s a 50-megapixel front-facing digicam with a 2-megapixel lens for depth sensing.

Honor has been fast to roll AI options into its telephones, and the 200 Professional has its “AI Portrait Engine” in-built, which is meant to profit from shadow and lightweight that will help you nail your required creative fashion with portrait pictures. There’s even a Harcourt Portrait mode within the digicam app that allows you to select between vibrant, coloration, or basic (black-and-white) types, but it surely solely works with the primary digicam, not the front-facing selfie digicam.