this is the new honor 90 model that I've had for two weeks now in fact a little bit over
that I've been using it as my main phone I even went on a trip up North about 900 kilometers
away from where I'm based and I'll be using a lot of those photo examples you see in this
video of the camera performance and what can you expect out of the 200 megapixel main camera
it does have the 12 megapixel Ultra wide and its 50 megapixel selfie now the screen it
is different here because it sets itself apart from the rest of the phones that I've been
covering reviewing well that's very high pulse width modulation rate which is 3840 Hertz
and what this translates into is a phone that has an AMOLED screen 6.7 inches 120 hertz
with no flicker whatsoever if you're someone that's susceptible to that pulse width modulation
flick it well I can tell you now you're not going to see anything with such a high rate
here I don't detect any flicker whatsoever even at the lowest brightnesses so it is powered
by it is snapdragon 7 gen 1 accelerated Edition my model here has got 12 gigabytes of RAM
and 512 gigabytes of storage so this is what I was included with our honor 90 we have our
charging cable so type A to type c the 66 watt charger I'll let you load later on in
the video the exact charge times I can get and include this clear TPU case what is off
camera is the SIM tray tool finds build quality is very good and the weight I like how it's
just 183 grams with a lot of phones being over 200 grams and the thickness is also very
good this is 7.8 millimeters this Frame however around the outside it is plastic now some
people may believe that it's metal but no it's just this chrome style finish to the
plastic the giveaway is there's no antenna lines and when you do look at our type c Port
you'll see that clearly it is plastic so we've got a downward firing speaker here microphone
just type c Port does not support video out and our SIM tray takes two Nano Sims it does
not have Micro SD card support with it up the top there is just a microphone and our
cameras on the rear here so we've got a 12 megapixel Ultra wide 2 megapixel camera for
depth this is our flash right here and very reflective the back of it now they do have
this texture a little hard to see uh you can just see it now on the back of the glass which
is a nice touch here and then main camera that is a 200 megapixel sensor which sadly
does not have Optical image stabilization which I believe is quite a bit of an oversight
on their part it would definitely help out the low light performance as you'll see later
on in this review power button and volume up and down these are made out of metal at
least they do feel like metal to me despite the plastic frame now the location of that
power button is in an excellent position so I don't have any problems tapping that the
fingerprint reader is a little bit low as you can see I'd ideally like it to be about
here which is a bit more comfortable if it's down the bottom but it works really well I've
had no problems with this fingerprint reader it seems to work 10 out of 10 times for me
which is the best thing that of course you want with a fingerprint reader you don't want
it to be unreliable it's definitely reliable this one so we have a screen that is 6.7 inches
and what's special about it is it does have a very high pulse width modulation so the
dimming frequency is 3840 it Peaks up to 1600 nits and in direct sunlight you can see this
screen just fine no issues with it now with that super high pulse width modulation that
dimming frequency you can't see any flicker no matter what brightness I use so if I use
a very low brightness you'll see that it's absolutely solid there is no flicker present
at all and that screen does dim down really nice and dim which I can't say the same for
some other brands which tend to use a reasonably High brightness for the lowest brightness
setting so we've got curved glass here around the edges and it does feel good now the cut
out here for the front-facing camera which is 50 megapixels it's just the hole punch
style there which is pretty typical and I don't find that intrusive and I do like the
fact that it is right in the middle not to one side so the battery capacity within this
is 5 000 milliamp hours which is very good considering how thin it is and the weight
we've got with this mobile I guess them using the plastic frame did help bring that weight
down so just a few more things on this display which I really do find fantastic especially
the lack of flicker there is no flicker that you'll see with it at all so having a look
at some real world images very good the touch response is also excellent I have not had
any issues with it all this is a top tier display it really is great and it's at Flagship
level even though this really is a mid-range phone that we do have so under the settings
here for display just go in and show you that that we've got your typical options okay so
you do have your uh iCare for example ebook mode you can adjust the scaling to as well
the display size and that refresh rate so 120 hertz I'll four step onto that or actually
no it's not at the moment it's on Dynamic I'm lying here but before I've been using
it most the time on high because after all that is what you are paying for when you get
the phone so I recommend to use that and all my tests later on I'll show you they were
all done with 120 hertz so there's plenty of options on here which is great and you
can adjust the color temperature which is what I love to see with any displays so in
my model here I've got has 12 gigabytes of RAM and 500 112 gigabytes of storage so it
is the top model here that I've got that Anna did send out to me to review now it's running
magic OS 7.1 based on Android 13 and you get the toggles and your notifications all there
in one and it is working really fast I have not experienced any lags any problems any
issues at all with it there's no bugs General performance does seem to be really good and
great and it really feels more like a Snapdragon 8 gen 1 the performance to me that is just
using it day-to-day tasks here so I've had it now for two weeks I'm using it and I do
find that the OS is great now when you first get it you will notice a couple of things
is that when you do first power it on you get quite a bit of bloatware here you can
see so Facebook booking.com Tick Tock there's games and top apps they recommend but that's
easy enough to remove and I really wish they wouldn't do this but there are of course just
a few things that are pre-installed it's not too bad compared to some Brands which can
be super heavy with the amount of extra apps the bloat that they do in store so at the
time time of me producing this video here the review that it's on the latest firmware
there has not been affirmware update for me so the charge time here this is me just testing
it out for the 5000 milliamp hour battery although it does State here uh with this application
this is using add two two that's four thousand nine hundred milliamp hours which it might
typically be really depends so it took 44 minutes to charge it at the 66 Watts so anything
that's under an hour in my book is still very good it's not the fastest out there but still
decent speeds and 22 score this is very good so the Snapdragon 7 gen 1 accelerated Edition
good performance here it does not feel slow as mentioned it feels more like a Snapdragon
8gen one it's pretty quick and snappy no real complaints you can see the GPU performance
is falling behind the CPU a little bit if you're into your benchmarks here you're not
really going to notice that because it can play all the games out there and I'll do a
gaming test later on so they do have a vapor chamber in this the cooling is very good you
can see it does not throw photo at all I mean wow 0.5 that was it that's all it throttled
down in this very demanding test here with Wildlife extreme so this is stressing it out
for 20 minutes and the performance did not drop off thermals were good it did increase
from 26 degrees Celsius this is the chipset up to 36 that's pretty standard and it gets
a little warm around this area but nothing alarming it really does not throttle so it
gets a big thumbs up there for the thermal performance not throttling like some other
models do now the battery life you are looking at if you're forced forcing it on to 120 hertz
about seven and a half hours uh screen on time so with this test here I got close to
seven that again is at 120 hertz so the battery life is okay it's nothing amazing and considering
the fact it's 5 000 milliamp hour battery I think it does all right now if you use the
dynamic refresh rate you can extend this quite a bit remember I had it forced to 120 hertz
but if you run 60 hertz or the dynamic option then expect to get better battery life than
my results here now honor with their loudspeakers they've only got one down the bottom we've
seen this before with some of their other models and they just don't seem to want to
use the Dual loudspeaker setup which of course does sound better because you'd have sound
coming out of the earpiece as well so it's just down below for a single speaker it sounds
okay but yes it really should have dual stereo loudspeakers here's a sample of it at uh 100
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my first Snapdragon 7 gen 1 accelerated version mobile I'm testing out gaming performance
gen chain impact on the absolute top settings set to 60 frames per second it does run really
well now when I first get into the levels loading in the areas you'll notice when you
look around that it feels a little bit choppy a little bit laggy thankfully that does settle
down and the game is super playable very good performance but it doesn't feel quite Snapdragon
8 gen 1 level it feels more like a Snapdragon 870 when it comes to the gaming performance
with our gpus performance but it's good it can play all the games that are in there in
the play store without any problems at all even on the maximum settings like gen xen
impact right here moving over to the camera so this is our front facing camera 4K 30 frames
per second no 4K 60 and you'll notice that it's a little bit Overexposed here these clouds
so the exposure has been tweaked up a little bit I wish it was a bit better there but overall
not bad quality it does have electronic image stabilization and unlike many other of phones
we do have that 4K with the front facing camera main 200 megapixel sensor now so it does not
have any Optical image stabilization this is all electronic for video and we do have
some limitations with the video and that is that it's 15 minutes record time limit for
4K and we cannot shoot 4K 60 only 4K 30.
now I can swap over to the ultra wide and then that main 200 megapixel camera
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commenting a little bit on that camera performance so the daytime Stills look very good portraits
are fine ultrawide is okay it wouldn't say it's the strength of it the weakness though
of the set of cameras with the 200 megapixel camera especially is the the fact that it
doesn't have any Optical image stabilization this means the low light photos don't look
as good as they could really be if it had the optical image stabilization it would remove
some of the trimmers help cut down on the blur of those photos and they would be able
to use a longer Shadow rate or exposure time too just to capture that light a little bit
better so that's a bit of a weakness as the low light performance another weakness of
this phone is the fact that it just has a single downwards firing speaker here and not
the Dual loudspeaker setups that we often see with other phones and I am missing that
I think it really should have it and it's a shame that it does not have it at all and
the battery life 5000 milliamp hours if you run and Force 120 hertz as I showed you looking
about seven hours of screen on time if you use a dynamic refresh rate then about eight
hours of screen on time which is pretty good the the 66 watt charging fully charges in
around 40 minutes or so slightly over that was what I got with my test for 44 minutes
but not bad anything that's over in under an hour sorry is I think acceptable and good
debt in my books the big one that I really do like about it is the screen it's fantastic
flicker free very bright it looks sharp so it's a very good screen that is Flagship level
the chipset that Snapdragon 7 gen 1 performs really well graphics performance isn't quite
that of a Snapdragon 8 gen 1 but this 7 gen 1 accelerated Edition still did game really
well and it's overall a good chipset it feels a little bit like a snap drink at 181 just
in the UI performance but when it comes to gaming more like a Snapchat again eight 700
sorry 870 is what it feels like a little bit there but still really good performance from
the chipset I like the weight the size of it and the build quality is very good even
though yes it does have a plastic frame it's nice to have a phone it's a little bit thinner
than the flagships and a little lighter there so that's the full story there of the honor
90 after my two weeks of using this as my full-time main phone and taken on my trip
up North about 900 kilometers away in Santander is where a lot of those photos were taken
in that area really beautiful cantabria part of Spain