This is honor's new mid-range phone it is the honor 70 it's got its global release now
and this phone in my time using it is very good for what is on offer and it's the first phone to
use a sony imx 800 it's a new gen flagship sensor and this one here is 54 megapixels
so it has a 50 megapixel ultra wide we've got 32 megapixels for our selfie camera
and a very nice oled screen 120 hertz 6.67 inches and it's all powered by the snapdragon 778 g plus
it's a mid-range chipset that does actually have some really good performance around about the 500
000 point mark with antutu can game really well and of course this is running magic ui and android
12. it does have 66 watt charging which is very fast it can fully charge in under 50 minutes the 4
800 milliamp hour battery and this is what we do get included so you get a tpu case the sim tray
tool of course our type c to type a cable the charger relatively small it's 66 watts honors
supercharge as you can see here with the honor 70 we do have an end screen fingerprint reader
we have an always on display oled so it unlocks very quick it has been accurate for me my only
complaint is that the location of it so when you're holding it i think about here would be good
there's some manufacturers move that sensor right up but perhaps they must have something or some
reasoning behind it being so low there so that's just in a little bit more of an awkward location
but yes you do get used to it so i am nitpicking a little bit now this phone in hand feels excellent
solid build quality when you have it in hand give it a bit of a flex nothing's creaking it does not
feel cheap it feels very premium so in the cutout at the top we do have a 32 megapixel camera and
on the back then you'll see we've got those two camera modules there well the two lenses they're
circular design it looks a little bit like two binoculars to me and with our cameras well we've
got that new imx 800 and that is the first time actually this is going to be the first time i'm
testing out this camera so it's 54 megapixels with an f 1.9 aperture and we have a 50 megapixel ultra
wide that one's f 2.2 and a 2 megapixel camera for depth so it's good to see they didn't end
up putting four cameras on here two of which you wouldn't use like an eight megapixel ultra wide
two megapixel macro camera that you just probably wouldn't use in the end anyway so there's no
two times optical camera or three times but the digital zoom on that imx 800 is actually not bad
at all you can see the honor branding right there so curvature to the glass on the rear it does
have this pattern you can see like a diamond-like finish to it and then it sparkles with the silver
so in direct sunlight it sparkles quite a bit it actually looks very nice and the frame around the
outside this is a plastic frame although it looks metal and it actually feels metal too when you're
handling the phone it's 178 grams of weight of it but it doesn't feel like it is all plastic it's a
very solid dense plastic they've gone with glass on the back here we have glass on the front with
the curvature of the screen too of course so both sides curved means that it just feels really nice
there in the top of the phone you'll find just a lonely microphone up here for noise cancellation
it's also used for stereo recording for our video and down the bottom so the type c port
this is usb 2 spec i believe or the speeds don't seem to be usb 3 and it doesn't support
video out at least with what i've been testing plugging into it i can't get any signal out of it
i wouldn't expect it with a mid-range phone anyway but with a flagship yes i'd love to have
video out so just a single loudspeaker here this is one of the cons of the phone that it doesn't
have dual loudspeakers later on in this video i will give you a sample and talk a little bit
more about the sound we do have a sim tray that of course takes two nano sim so dual
set up there but no micro sd card support and our microphone so the thickness it is 7.9 millimeters
this phone a little more on that screen so 6.67 inches it's oled it is a super punchy vibrant
screen i do have it set to the vibrant preset but that's just for my video here that i've done
that i actually prefer just the natural so touch response really good you'll notice that at the
very edges because it is a curved glass and if you look at it on the edge there you see how
just along here that it's starting to shift out a little bit those colors that's just
of course because of the curvature of the screen personally i would have preferred a flat screen
but let me know in the comments what do you prefer flat oleds or do you like the curved screens
i know the curved screens do have some benefit to them when you're swiping for the gestures
it's a little better and of course when you're holding it it feels a little bit more comfortable
so the screen looks really good very nice and it's bright too it gets up to 658 nits is what
i'm measuring with the screen now we do have a pulse width modulation brightness control
of 1920 hertz and i don't see any flicker on it but you will notice that sometimes there's
a little bit of banding like right now you can maybe see that come through it is just on camera
that that is happening settings wise we do have your typical settings that you'll see with android
12 phones and just a few other little extra bits and pieces in there that i wanted to point out
so you'll see along here we've got our color mode and temperature so i have it actually
set a normal vivid is when you get a real punchy looking nice display the screen protector i wanted
to comment on that very nice screen protector that honor uses on this it doesn't seem to show smudges
and it's nice and smooth it's a lot better and of course it's applied perfectly no dust or anything
under it so the screen refresh rate can be set to dynamic uh most of the time i've actually
just changed that before most of them i've had it on high to force 120 hertz 120 frames per second
for the ui gesture to detection very good it has been a very responsive screen and overall it is
basically a flagship display 120 hertz full hd plus resolution oled that is in a mid-range phone
the ui is magic ui and it's running android 12. so i have found things to be very fast
and fluid so just bringing this down swiping to bring up all of those toggles there everything's
quick everything's flawless i don't think there has been a moment that i've seen this lag so it
has eight gigabytes of ram plus the additional two which they call honor turbo ram but it's
it's caching it's an extra additional four file location there just to help things be more fluid
and smooth and even the settings here that is definitely not running at 60 frames per second
that is really smooth and good so performance wise excellent gestures good task manager can sometimes
well it doesn't seem too aggressive here's something that i haven't run in a long time
okay it is going to reload it so that's of course to save on the battery life that it
will eventually kill things off in the background you do need to reload pretty standard there but
really excellent performance very very smooth there i don't have any complaints
about the ui it's been stable fast very fluid really that's all you can ask for with the ui
there is one thing with the ui that is when you turn it on you will be greeted with quite
a few pre-installed bloatware applications so i would just go through and remove a lot of them
it's not hard to do but i really wish that manufacturers brands would tone down a little bit
on the bloatware it's not the worst i've seen but i do see actually a lot less on some other brands
when it comes to pre-installed apps now this is good to see i mentioned it in pretty much every
single phone review and that is audio bit rate and video a lot of companies just go with a default 96
kilobits per second for our audio quality it's quite bad when it's a low bit rate and here it's
256 kilobits kilobytes per second which is great so it's good to see they've gone with a decent
audio bitrate they changed that one light line of code it is the media underscore profiles xml i
used to mod it before in the past wi-fi level one cert is present so netflix full hd that is great
and camera api level three if you wanted to test out a gcam port with of course that new imx 800
main 54 megapixel camera you can do so so my fixed battery life test here that's in all of my phone
reviews so it went for 10 hours and 23 minutes for a 4 800 milliamp hour battery that's not bad real
world use you are looking around about seven hours tops about a squeeze out of it seven and a half
that's at 120 hertz remember so if you lower down the refresh rate you force it on to 60 or use the
dynamic the smart refresh rate you will extend your battery life further of course by doing that
uh you can just see here that 8 hours and 28 minutes is possible if you're using the dynamic
refresh rate there too with it and internal storage so very quick i've got 256 gigabytes
with this model here and you can see those speeds are very decent for a mid-range phone
they're not quite ufs 3.1 speeds but they are still very good with the internal storage and this
does show that it's got actually quite a good bit of power here that snapdragon 778 g plus six
nanometer chip it puts out a reasonable amount of power there you can see it's getting over
half a million points with antutu you compare that to other phones it's very good and this is
what i really like about it it basically doesn't throttle at all this is a very stressful test it's
the wildlife extreme stress test a lot of phones will throttle down to 60 percent stability this we
only lost point four percent and in my books that is really nothing this chipset does not throttle
at all it's a great chipset the snapdragon 778g plus is a capable gamer you did see hopefully
that antutu score over 500 000 points means it's reasonably potent right so with a game like pubg
you can get the extreme frame rate option if you set it to smooth the graphics so on balanced
uh it's on ultra unfortunately anything above that like hd so i'm gonna go with
the extreme and smooth and we'll see how it fares so performance has been really good i've managed
to get two kills already and there's just no lag no lag whatsoever this thing is running
fine not that pubg is a demanding game anyway that would really push it super hard it's not
but this chipset will be able to handle any game that is in play store there so performance wise
it feels a lot to me a lot like a snapdragon 865 865 and 870 865 plus and 870 really really similar
and in thermals too because it really doesn't get that hot at all it barely just warms up a
little bit so as i showed you with that 3dmark extreme test too that this chipset just does not
throttle so the 778g plus is a great chip like the snapdragon 870 is as for audio this is one
area where i can criticize honor here with the on a 70. that we don't have a secondary loudspeaker
we just got the single downwards speaker now it's an okay speaker the quality of it i would rate as
just being average it doesn't have a huge amount of bass the volume is good but it would definitely
help if it was backed up by that secondary speaker and of course as i mentioned at the start
when we looked at the design there is no 3.5 millimeter headphone jack now voice calls
noise cancelling that's good no problems with it there's no problems with proximity sensors
or anything like that so it's all good it sounds like a flagship phone when you place voice calls
i'll give you a sample now of that single downwards firing loudspeaker at 100 volume
now the camera is on the honor 70. so this front facing camera is a 32 megapixel camera
it has quite an aggressive crop on it because of the electronic image stabilization so it's
quite close that's my arm they're fully extended out and it does not have 4k for some reason with
the sense even though it would support it so you get 1080p 30 and 60. the stabilization is
relatively good and recently good quality audio bit rates 256 kilobits per second so great to
see it's not 128 or 96. so this main sensor here is an imx 854 megapixel flagship sensor
it has electronic image stabilization and you can see that the video quality here
is looking quite good it's detailed now we do have a limit a cap of just 10 minutes of 4k 30 and 4k
60 recording now i don't know really why they do that perhaps they're worried about it overheating
but in my experience so far the thermals actually seem to be pretty good and this chipset doesn't
really throttle so i don't know why they impose that limit now i can zoom back here and swap over
to the 50 megapixel ultrawide camera again this is using electronic image stabilization
and i just jog your head stability does seem very good now i have noticed that especially with the
ultra wide occasionally when i pan around you'll see that it looks a little bit jattery at times
should be a bit smoother now of course i could use 60 frames per second but my timeline and
what i record is always 30 so that's why i stick to 30. now with 60 it's a little
smoother but you still occasionally see those jutters so we can zoom in here this is a two
times digital zoom the castle there in the background and 4k footage now at night time
you can see a little bit more jutter when i pan around here
and of course it does not look as good more noise compared to daylight footage but this is normal
and a few quick camera samples so using that 54 megapixel main camera it takes a good shot during
the day lots of detail captured here it is clipping the reds a little but it's a very hard
color this hibiscus flower a lot of the phones do struggle with stitching looks really good that's
portrait mode by the way it doesn't actually miss a beat there and front-facing camera here too the
stitching is excellent so they've done a good job honor with that so night shots now using the night
mode they do look really good definitely a lot better than a lot of other mid-range phones you
can see this photo here it is the ultra wide at the night mode which tends to be the weaker camera
you can see here this is looking a little washed out it's struggling even though it's 50 megapixels
it's just the lens of course is not really adapted or good at low light photography but
all around good cameras with the honor 70. okay so excellent cameras all round cameras really on this
the only thing for me that was missing is probably 4k on the front camera would have been nice from
that 32 megapixel sensor i hope they can add that with firmware updates but that new sony
the imx 854 megapixel sensor does look like it can take some excellent shots and honest
night mode well it's very good it doesn't really disappoint at all so hold up i think this is an
excellent mid-range phone and the reasons why well the build quality okay it's a plastic frame
around the outside but it feels excellent in hand it feels very premium good weight to it
the charge time as well is just under 50 minutes so they say 45 minutes is the charge time for the
4 800 milliamp hour battery but for me it's been around 49 50 minutes to fully charge it which is
still perfectly fine and acceptable anything under an hour is good in my box there the performance of
that snapdragon the 778 g plus excellent really good what i do like about it is it is a chipset
that i don't say this often being a qualcomm doesn't throttle it really doesn't you can run
and stress it out and the performance is constant it's always there it's really good the same goes
for the ui performance it's very fluid and smooth well optimized ui and i have encountered no bugs
in my time using it which is great so it is a solid mid-range offering i think it's a phone
to beat however there must be some downsides and there's not many i'm really struggling here
we don't have a dual out speaker in the earpiece so it's just a single loudspeaker no micro sd card
slot and there is no 3.5 millimeter headphone jack and those are very common the last two
very common things that i do mention that are sadly disappearing even from mid-range phones
but apart from that this is a super solid release i really do like this on a 70. so they also did
launch some other products do check out my review of the magic book 14 and the pad 8 from honor
those videos should be popping up now thanks a lot for watching my review of this honor 70.