Review with characteristics, price and species

The camera of a high-end mobile in the body of a mid-high-end mobile. It is the concept that wants to convey honor with its new 4 Pro. A telephone that in general terms has convinced me a lot, and that leaves very few pending subjects.

A heart of Qualcomm, one of the best teleobjectives of the momentand a design that hides more than it seems in photographs. I tell you everything about honor 400 pro in its in -depth analysis.

Design, screen and sound: A yes to everything

It is difficult to transmit the good design exercise that has honored with the 400 PRO, since it is one of the few phones that They look better in person than in photos. Behind inevitably remembers Huawei pure 70 ultrasomething that seems phenomenal. But, in addition, it is a much more comfortable phone.

Honor has not been carried away by the prevailing tendency of flat songs to iPhone. This phone has A soft curvature on its sidesthat make it surprisingly comfortable in hand.

Painting work is also above the usual. This is a plastic finish on its sides, but It looks as if it were aluminum. It is true that I would have thanked more premium materials, but the phone looks spectacular.

The position of the button is also unusually lowso I arrive with the thumb on both volume buttons and unlock buttons. Something that should be a basic is an exception: almost all manufacturers locate the botonera so thanks, honor.

If we turn it, we have A slightly curved front And very well used. The curvature is minimal and does not bother at all, and gives the whole continuity. The front “island” is minimal, and although it is inevitable that it reminds us a bit of that of the iPhone, it has not bothered me just during these days.

The screen is quite quality: We talk about 6.67 inches Amoled, with a 5,000 nits peak brightness and a 120 Hz soda rate. It is a panel that looks great in the sun, with a very successful color calibration (it has a certain very pleasant trend) and, in general, it is at a fairly high level.

I did not like the sound so much that, despite having double sterreo speaker, It has a quite remarkable lack of serious. It is a sound that easily distorts when we pass half of the total volume, and that does not invite too much to reproduce content at all rag.

Performance, software and battery: balance and good numbers

With a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Few doubts could be about the performance of this phone. It’s just as you think: a bullet. I am a faithful defender of this processor, since it offers an experience not so far from that of the Snapdragon 8 Elite For much less money. The most demanding, multitasking games, video editing applications … absolutely everything moves as great agility with this chip.

If we give it cane, we will notice some heat from the top of the device, but It is not a mobile that is hot. There has not been a single situation in which I have lacked power or missed further performance. It is not a Snapdragon 8 Elitebut you’re not going to miss it either. By the way, this honor has not allowed us to install a single Benchmarks app during the analysis from Play Store.

I cannot say the same of the software: Magicos 9. This layer continues to drink from Emui, and at this point in the party I think that Honor should almost rethink it for the European market. There is enough Bloatware load: Temu, Reelshort (yes, I didn’t know this app), Temu, Booking, Trip.com … can be uninstall, but they are still left over.

At the UI level, it is a rom that barely respect the principles of Material You. He has a rather Asian design language, and he lacks that aesthetic and functional care that we see in some of his direct rivals. It is a functional and complete ROM, but far behind the main referents.

The artificial intelligence suite is called “Honor ai”, and lands with a total of six pillars:

• Suggestions with AI: Apps suggestions recommended according to our use habits
• Magic text: allows you to extract the text from an image quickly
• Magic portal: It allows Rodea’s gesture to search with the knuckle, in addition to automatically recognizing objects and text to copy, share or save them.
• Translate with AI: Real -time translation with an interpreter mode using an independent app.
• Intelligent detection: Look to maintain active screen, lower the voice volume, activate the on display and automatic panel orientation
• Gestures in the air: gestures with your hand to make screenshots, move the screen, etc.

In addition to these functions, Honor collaborates with Google and comes from Gemini’s hand for some of its AI functions (eraser of AI, reflex eliminator, improvement of the image with AI, etc.) emphasizes its video to video function. This allows you to create short clips encouraging our images. It is curious, although with a margin of improvement and, in server opinion, not too much real utility beyond to play the first days you have the phone in your hands.

Nor do I finish becoming familiar with the use of the knuckle to activate the magical portal. We interact with the finger with the phone and the knuckle, it is simply not so comfortable.

Regarding autonomy, I don’t have the slightest complaint. It is a mobile that is around seven hours of screen in usual use, somewhat less (about six) if we give it enough cane. Optimal and logical figures for a mobile with 5,300mAh. Loading times are also excellent: It is completely charged in about 40 minutes.

Cameras: an imperfect balance

The cameras are the reason for being in this honor 400 Pro. It is a phone with a main sensor of 200 megapixels, three -increased teleobjective and ultra wide angle. A more common configuration in high -end mobiles than mid -range. Despite megapixel figures, sensors are not especially large or fight with some of the most ambitious in the market.

The camera app … Okay. At the interface level it happens as to the system: it is somewhat outdated. The sources, the icons, the menus … Everything looks like the old Huawei app does three or four generations. But when Caesar is from César, at the level of functionality I have nothing to ask for.

The main chamber of Honor 400 behaves well. I liked that it preserves naturalness in color And in the white balance, something not so common in mobiles below 1,000 euros.

If we expand, we notice a clear obsession that honor has suffered for years: to eliminate noise. In full sun, at 10 in the morning, the camera insists on ending every trace of grain in the photo. Consequence? The detail is lost and the image is completely paid. In low light situations it can be a good strategy, but in full sun it is not the best idea.

Where I have been impacted is with the zoom. Is brutal, without more. In the occasional situation I have had a further washed photo but, in general, the results are spectacular. This phone makes 30x from the main sensor, and uses artificial intelligence to process the details. I have not noticed that anything is invented, already level of sharpness is spectacular.

The teleobjective is three increases, and promises zoom lossless up to 6x. Beyond there, Up to 30x, defends himself quite well. There is consistency with color and processing, and we are not facing the feeling of using a lower quality camera. Without a doubt, this is one of the best jobs in Zoom in its range.

The wide angle is correct, although here I notice that you need more processed to achieve acceptable results. However, I am surprised that there is hardly any lack of sharpness in the corners. Despite being the least luminous lens, it develops well, and I prefer that there is a certain sub -exposition to force HDR and give unrealistic results.

Portrait mode is also very goodOr, and segments even the finest objects (the LEGO are usually almost impossible objects for the portrait mode, since they require a fine segmentation of edges that not all phones achieve). The bokeh is quite realistic and adjustable, and the look is enviable.

The selfie, as almost always in honor, is very well resolved. Perfectly captures skin tones, does a good job with the portrait mode (although not perfect) and is angular enough.

On video recording, the sensations are correct, without many displays. It is not the most natural I have tried, but work with stabilization is excellent and is comfortable at its maximum allowed: 4k 60fps.

Honor 400 Pro, Xataka’s opinion and note

Honor 400 Pro is a very interesting phone. Its design is especially attractive, it has a great screen, the performance is beyond doubt and the versatility of the cameras is more than correct. It has no flagrant weak pointssomething not so easy to find in a smartphone of this type.

As with his older brother, the Magic 7 pro, Chamber processing still does not seem like the most natural. I appreciate that you are able to keep zoom above six increases, the focus on AI and the quality of the main sensor, but honor has a muscle with which you can achieve even better results. Despite this, a balanced mobile, which will be especially interesting when it starts going down price.

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