ISSUE 45 • ANDROID ADVISOR 41REVIEWThe Honor looks a lot like Huawei’s Mate 10 Pro, but
saves on cost to bring the price right down.
Design
Let’s start with the screen, as it’s the most obvious
feature. On paper the specs – 5.93in, 18:9 aspect,
2160x1080 resolution – could fool you into thinking
it’s the same display as the Mate 10 Pro. But it isn’t.
OLED screens are more expensive, so Honor has
gone for an IPS panel in the 7X. It makes sense, and
it’s still a great screen. Viewing angles are wide, it’s
nice and bright and colours are surprisingly vibrant.
Obviously it doesn’t have the option of an
always-on clock with notifications, but it still looks
impressive with tiny size bezels and much smaller top
and bottom borders than other phones at this level.
There’s no room for a fingerprint reader so this
is on the back in the middle. You’ll also find a pair
of cameras at the top with an LED flash. Rather
than spoiling the design, the antennae lines add a
bit of interest to the otherwise featureless expanse
of matt-finish aluminium.
Talking of finish, the 7X comes in black or blue
– the gold version won’t be sold in the UK.
The bottom edge reveals a standard headphone
jack, microphone and mono speaker and – slightly
strange at the end of 2017 – a Micro-USB port.
Maybe the 2018 Honor phones will move to USB-C.
In any case, it makes it easy to charge as you’ll find
Micro-USB cables just about everywhere you go.
Nothing but a pinhole for a microphone breaks
up the top edge: the SIM tray sits at the top of