Needed a new phone and this one got good reviews. Good price, good amount of storage. Loads of great features for a phone in this price bracket. Battery lasts me 2 days, and I'm quite a heavy user of Spotify and YouTube etc. Very good camera with good quality pictures. Fast start up time, able to cope with lots of apps open, fast when in use.fingerprint reader on the back is in a great position but also allows you to take photos by using it and can control notification bar with a swipe of it.. Nice size screen and good quality for games and video watching. Fast charge time. Only slight issue is face regonition is a bit hit and miss I find in low light conditions, other than that works fine.
All in all a great phone at a sensible price for a phone with this amount of features, works out a good price if you buy handset and then get a sim only deal.
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Full View Display6.3-Inch Honor FullView display. The device is the display. Honor Play fills the hand and dazzles the eyes. |
GPU TurboGPU Turbo brings up-to a 60 percent performance improvement, up-to a 30 percent reduction in power consumption and almost full FPS and FPS stability in large games, which means it’s crazy fast to keep you on top. |
AI Camera16MP+2MP Dual AI camera phone. With the independent AI NPU, it identifies 22 different categories and 500 more scenarios in real-time. It even recognises and retouches the different parts of what you are shooting at the same time. |
BatteryThe honor Play supports 1.5-days of heavy usage with a 3,750mAh (typ.) battery and 9V/2A quick charge. |
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 September 2018
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 November 2018
I must admit I have been a faithful OnePlus owner for a number of years, however I noticed that the price on the Honor Play had dropped and I thought I would buy it and give it to my sister after a week of using it in New York first.
First things first, the phone has a very classic metal feel, it does feel heavy but in a strong sturdy way (I haven't attempted to drop it), my immediate practice with any new phone is to slap on a tempered glass screen protector (A standard film protector is already applied to the phone) and wrap it in a case (Already provided in the box). The phone is big slightly smaller than my OnePlus 6 with a tiny chin with Honor branding on the front. The back looks all neat. The bottom has a headphone jack, speaker which is loud and a USB-C port.
Powering on the screen seems very bright and you are taken through the initial setup, which was quick and easy. If you're already an Android user porting your apps and details is fairly painless. Once into the homescreen some adjustments are needed, the interface is different to my OnePlus 6 with a iPhone layout of just apps on your homescreen that can look daughting at first but you can change this in settings or install a different launcher.
Using the Honor Play as a day to day phone seems to be fairly positive the battery life is incredible, I say this having my general notifications going and my Google Fit tracking going I managed to use only 25% battery from 8:30 in the morning until 19:00. Putting the phone into airplane mode in the evening it got me to the end of a 2nd day perfectly.
The one thing I do need to touch on is the camera, I had read the reviews that seemed to knock the Honor Play and said that photography wasn't its strength, this might be the case but the day and night shots I took on the Honor Play compared to my OnePlus 6 are more vivid and just look better (hopefully the attachments have worked and you can see this). You can also enable a Quick Photo mode, by enabling you to double press the power button quickly it will take a snap from an off state, the only issue is you don't know exactly what it has captured until afterwards and I found that the majority of pictures seemed out of focus. The front facing camera does a good job although it did seem soft as the focus is fixed, this is great for the Instagram crowd and it has a number of different lighting effects that seem to do a good job.
Additionally the phone supports facial unlock, finger print and pin you can also enable a glove mode so you can use standard gloves to tap and swipe, it does make the screen more sensitive in general but it's a welcome addition especially when it's cold. Simply hold the phone up as if you are looking at it and it will turn on the screen and away you go.
Performance seemed smooth, every now and then it would skip if I was running a game and then swapping to Whatsapp or a browser session, it never impacted the experience just ocassionally felt like it disrupted the flow slightly. But this is a minor niggle, games played great, apps opened super fast, some faster than my OnePlus 6 and I can't work out why but this is a high end processor in a affordable mid price point.
Overall I am incredibly impressed and am now an Honor converted fan.
First things first, the phone has a very classic metal feel, it does feel heavy but in a strong sturdy way (I haven't attempted to drop it), my immediate practice with any new phone is to slap on a tempered glass screen protector (A standard film protector is already applied to the phone) and wrap it in a case (Already provided in the box). The phone is big slightly smaller than my OnePlus 6 with a tiny chin with Honor branding on the front. The back looks all neat. The bottom has a headphone jack, speaker which is loud and a USB-C port.
Powering on the screen seems very bright and you are taken through the initial setup, which was quick and easy. If you're already an Android user porting your apps and details is fairly painless. Once into the homescreen some adjustments are needed, the interface is different to my OnePlus 6 with a iPhone layout of just apps on your homescreen that can look daughting at first but you can change this in settings or install a different launcher.
Using the Honor Play as a day to day phone seems to be fairly positive the battery life is incredible, I say this having my general notifications going and my Google Fit tracking going I managed to use only 25% battery from 8:30 in the morning until 19:00. Putting the phone into airplane mode in the evening it got me to the end of a 2nd day perfectly.
The one thing I do need to touch on is the camera, I had read the reviews that seemed to knock the Honor Play and said that photography wasn't its strength, this might be the case but the day and night shots I took on the Honor Play compared to my OnePlus 6 are more vivid and just look better (hopefully the attachments have worked and you can see this). You can also enable a Quick Photo mode, by enabling you to double press the power button quickly it will take a snap from an off state, the only issue is you don't know exactly what it has captured until afterwards and I found that the majority of pictures seemed out of focus. The front facing camera does a good job although it did seem soft as the focus is fixed, this is great for the Instagram crowd and it has a number of different lighting effects that seem to do a good job.
Additionally the phone supports facial unlock, finger print and pin you can also enable a glove mode so you can use standard gloves to tap and swipe, it does make the screen more sensitive in general but it's a welcome addition especially when it's cold. Simply hold the phone up as if you are looking at it and it will turn on the screen and away you go.
Performance seemed smooth, every now and then it would skip if I was running a game and then swapping to Whatsapp or a browser session, it never impacted the experience just ocassionally felt like it disrupted the flow slightly. But this is a minor niggle, games played great, apps opened super fast, some faster than my OnePlus 6 and I can't work out why but this is a high end processor in a affordable mid price point.
Overall I am incredibly impressed and am now an Honor converted fan.
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