Features and capabilities of Honor 7A Pro (Honor 7A Pro)

In April 2018, the Chinese company Huawei released the budget and frameless smartphone Honor 7A Pro. He has a face and fingerprint scanner, a good camera, a capacious battery and a decent processor. To understand whether to buy a device or not, you need to consider other characteristics of the Honor 7A Pro.

Honor line

The Honor line is very hard to figure out and look for logic in the names is almost useless. Chinese manufacturers chased the maximum variety of products and finally confused their customers.

A reasonable question arises: why is the smartphone called Honor, and not Huawei? In fact, everything is simple here. You can draw an analogy with the automotive industry, when manufacturers create a line of cars designed for a specific audience. For example, the popular Infinity car is owned by Nissan Motor.

The Honor line works in exactly the same way. The Chinese company decided to hook on a young audience, which has its own requirements for the telephone. This brand offers smartphones with good features at a very reasonable price. However, you should not think that Honor offers only “state employees” - premium phones are also sold as part of the line.

The emphasis in the brand is on design. At first, the Chinese planned to sell these phones only via the Internet, but now they have become so popular that they are sold on a par with Huawei. Device Gradation:

• Budget devices.
• The average price segment.
• Flagship smartphones.

Huawei Honor 7A Pro belongs to the first category. It can be purchased without problems:

• In the stores Beeline, MTS, Megaphone.
• On the CSN website (dns-shop.ru).
• In stores selling electronics.
• On the official website of the company.

The official release date for the device is April 26, 2018.

general information

The Honor 7A Pro is one of the most affordable smartphones with a FullView display, which has an aspect ratio of 18: 9. This decision made it possible to consolidate positions in the budget niche. Developing low-cost devices, the company forces competitors to do the same thing that ordinary consumers benefit from.

Of the characteristics, it is especially worth highlighting the Qualcomm processor, a large screen, aspect ratio, a good battery and other interesting features that are more related to software. Of the obvious advantages, it is worth highlighting individual slots for SIM cards and for microSD. Among budget devices, such a solution is not common.

The characteristics of the Honor 7 A Pro phone are designed for those who want to get quality products for little money. To date, the average price of a smartphone fluctuates around 8 thousand rubles. Complete with the device there is an instruction, a charger and a clip.

Appearance

Although the Honor 7A Pro is aimed at young people, and it seems that the design should be on top, but there is nothing fundamentally new. "Seven" largely copies the previous models P Smart and Nova 2i. Not to say that a similar design is bad, rather, on the contrary, it will allow people to recognize the brand.

On the front panel below, there is an inscription of silver color Honor. The sides are rounded and made of brushed metal. In Russia, on sale you can find phones with three colors: black, gold and blue. The latter looks most attractive. The rest are already fed up.

The glass here is 2.5D, has a weak oleophobic coating: this allows the phone to quickly get dirty, get poorly erased greasy prints.Sliding your finger across the glass is not very fast.

On the front panel there is an event indicator, sensors, front camera with flash, speaker. The speaker works loudly and cleanly, the timbre is normal, low frequencies are not enough, the middle ones are mainly involved.

The back panel is not made of metal or glass, but of plastic. The socket does not protrude, flat and semi-matte. It can conditionally be divided into three parts:

• Top.
• Lower.
• Medium.

They are separated by silver stripes. If the phone was metal, then the strips could be antennas, but in a plastic case, the signal passes without any difficulty.

In the upper left corner is a module with a camera. On examination, it may seem that there are several, but this is not so - the usual design trick. Near the camera is a microphone. Below it is a fingerprint scanner. It works quite adequately, without delays or inaccuracies. But face recognition is slow.

The dimensions of the Honor 7A Pro phone are small - 152x73x7.8 mm, the weight is also small - only 155 grams. When you pick up a smartphone, you immediately realize that it is plastic and the device is most likely inexpensive. Flagship devices are usually heavy, as they are made of another material. Despite the fact that the case is plastic, it is quite durable. The phone is assembled perfectly, creaks nothing, doesn’t “play”.

At the bottom there is a microphone closed by grilles, a microUSB connector, a speaker for talking on speakerphone. Fortunately, the Chinese did not get rid of the 3.5 mm headphone jack. The rocker key, which is responsible for adjusting the volume, is recessed in the side right side. On the left are SIM cards and a memory card.

Display, battery and communication

An elongated screen is a rarity among budget devices, but some Chinese manufacturers still manage to make such smartphones for 5-7 thousand rubles. Huawei also did not stand aside and made its device.

Honor 7A Pro decent screen size - 5.7 inches. It just fits devices made in 18: 9 format. Resolution HD + (1440 × 720 px). There are 282 pixels per inch of display. In addition, an IPS matrix is ​​installed here. The touch screen is capable of taking up to 10 touches at a time.

The Chinese device has a non-removable battery with average parameters of 3000 mAh. Studies have confirmed that the Chinese company has optimized the software perfectly, increasing the battery life of the device without recharging. So, during normal use, it lasts for 24 hours at maximum brightness of the display. In the mode of viewing video materials in HD-quality, the device works for 5-7 hours. If you play games, the device will discharge in about 5 hours. It is worth noting that five hours in games is a decent result, most competitors are discharged after 2.5-4 hours of use.

With regard to communication functions, then works in a smartphone in GSM, UMTS, 4G LTE networks. The format of the SIM cards is nano. Everything else is practically no different from competitors: WI-FI, Bluetooth 4.2, USB 2.0. Navigation: A-GPS, conventional GPS and Glonass. The manufacturer does not indicate, but a Chinese navigation system called “BeiDou” is still supported. However, it does not need a Russian buyer. Navigation works accurately, in rooms it “sees” about 5 satellites, on the street - 15.

Camera, Performance and Memory

The smartphone developers did not install many cameras and made only two: one front, the other - the main one.

The main camera can take pictures in a resolution of 13 megapixels, optics has five lenses. Front camera 8 MP. Basically, all the smartphones of this company photographed pretty well, and this did not depend on the price of the device. 7A Pro was no exception. Of course, for such a price you can’t count on the perfect picture, but you can shoot: there is little noise, the white balance is normal. Detailing is normal, it focuses quickly and accurately.

The quality of the selfie is good, sometimes the white balance skips, most likely the software is to blame.The video recording format is FullHD, both with the main camera and the front camera. The quality is not bad, the sound is clear.

The camera interface is standard: swipe from right to left opens the main settings, from left to right - additional, in the upper part there is a button for switching cameras. Double-pressing the volume control down will quickly open the camera.

In Honor 7A Pro, the memory is minimal: 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal memory. Many applications cannot be installed on it. However, you can use a memory card up to 256 GB to store files. NFC (NFS) is not here.

The processor is installed from the American company Qualcomm, a modification of Snapdragon 430. It is 8 core, 64-bit. In normal use, the phone is not buggy and can easily cope with standard tasks. In Antutu, the smartphone is gaining 60 thousand points. But with games there are small problems: if simple and medium-sized toys go off with a bang, then PUBG is very slow even with a minimal level of graphics.

The smartphone runs on the Android 8.0 operating system under the proprietary EMUI 8th shell version. The software is standard for all smartphones: applications from Google, a compass, a calculator, a clock and so on, there are no significant features, differences or secrets.

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