Huawei Honor 7i

Overview

Mid-Range Impressive Performer by Huawei

As expected, Huawei finally has announced its brand new smartphone dubbed as Huawei Honor 7i in an officially event held in China. It is the second device which featured with flip-up camera module after Oppo N1. So, we can mould device's rear camera into front camera and can use for self portrait and for video calling. Installation of flip camera on this device is definitely a smart approach done by company without any doubt. We can say this without any doubt that company has put a lot of efforts in the Huawei Honor 7i's camera construction. Moreover, the company assures their customers that they don't have to worry about the flip-up camera, as it is well built and reliable. It also comes with finger print sensor that is placed on the side of this smartphone. If we use the term rugged for its camera than it fits correctly to explain how strong and reliable it is. Lets have a detailed look on its whole design and features.

Design and Build

The Huawei Honor 7i supports all new multitouch metal frame body with 1500:1 contrast ratio. It houses a 5.2-inch FHD LCD negative display with screen resolution of 1920x1080 pixels and a screen to body ratio of 79.8%. It has 141.6x71.2x7.8mm and 160 grams in weight. Power, lock and volume keys lies on the straight sides on this smartphone which gives you easy access of all common features. Apart from that a finger print sensor is fixed on the side of this smartphone which will help you to unlock your phone with your finger impression. It will also allow you to unlock your phone if your finger is wet. Instead of it it can easily observe things automatically based on your usage and you will easily cope up with situation. Installation of this finger print sensor on the side is an interesting placement not usually seen on any other smartphone. One more interesting feature of this sensor is that it acts as camera shutter button for capturing selfies easily. It supports Dual SIM network so, you can easily maintain a distance between your personal and professional life.

Camera

The company has brought a new revolution in its camera. This time they introduced flip camera which gives you ability to use rear facing camera as a front facing camera without altering its pixels. The smart device is equipped with 13 MP flip camera which gives great image resolution capacity of 4128x3096 pixels. You can use it almost at any angle within 180 degrees. It comes with features like auto exposure, auto white balance, automatic face recognition and auto smile shutter, sony sensor, f/2.0 aperture, 28mm wide-angle lens, sapphire crystal protection, dual-tone LED flash. Apart from these features the company claims that the camera gives you excellent low light performance due to SLR grade ISP, which should help at great extent in that area. Its multi-frame algorithm feature also act as boon in low light conditions it fills suitable lighting amount under these conditions. One can record HD videos using its dual 13 MP snapper.

Processor and Battery

The smart device is powered by the latest octa-core Snapdragon 616 (4x1.5GHz + 4x 1.2GHz) processor clubbed with Adreno 405 GPU. The company has introduced this smart with two memory and RAM options One is with 16 GB inbuilt memory along with 2 GB of RAM while other one is with 32 GB with 3 GB of RAM. On the other hand, they also offered expandable memory option of 32 GB using microSD card slot. Android v5.1 (Lollipop) with Emotion UI 3.1 is there for multitasking and hassle free surfing and gaming experience. The smartphone is packed in a Li-ion 3100mAh battery which offers you amazingly good talktime and standby time.

Connectivity

Download all your important files, videos with its 4G network at a very high speed without any stoppage. Other connectivity options are 3G HSDPA+ connectivity, Wi-fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS etc.

Shades and Price

This smart device is available in White and Gold colors. It is priced at 1599 Yuan (US$ 250 / Rs. 16,375 approx.) for the base 2 GB RAM with 16 GB storage version for China Mobile, 1699 Yuan (US$ 265 / Rs. 17,400 approx.). The device is available in Chinese market yet. There is no word on its availability in global market.

Verdict

Chinese smartphone maker always successful to draw customers attention towards its products by introducing new features in their devices. This time also they came with unique features flip camera, new chip-set and finger print sensor. Apart from these features, the specs are pretty much similar to the honor 7 flagship. Lets see how much this smartphone will be like by customers.