Review Huawei Honor 4X .

Test results Huawei Honor 4X

Expert evaluations

Interfaces

Screen

Cameras

Internet

Multimedia

Dimensions and weight

Working with text

Battery

Performance

Memory

Huawei Honor 4X - it's 5.5-inch smartphone with excellent erformance for its price. He has a bright display, the information on it remains readable even on a sunny day. It has HD-resolution (1280 × 720 pixels), and is protected by glass Gorilla Glass 3. Huawei Honor is equipped with cameras 13 and 5 MP, both are very good in its price class. The smartphone can replace the "bar of soap" and take a qualitative self. The device operates in the LTE-networks. Chipset firm enough for most tasks (browsing, watching videos and games). However, it may slow down in the most demanding of them.Built-in memory - only 8 GB, but everything is solved installing the memory card on which you can install games and applications. In the smartphone has a slot for micro SD. "Weakest Link" device - its battery. In our tests it has received the results of its typical price tag, but lower than most devices such diagonal. It was enough for 6.5 hours of video playback and a little more than one day of use "average" mode. Overall, Huawei Honor 4X left a positive impression. The smartphone is a bargain, considering its price - only 12 thousand rubles.

Dimensions

Dimensions of the device - 153 × 77,2 × 8,9 mm typical 5.5-inch smartphone. In size, it is comparable with the Huawei Ascend G7 . Weight - 170 grams, which is good for such a diagonal. At the same time it is strange that the weight of 3 grams more than the 5-inch Honor 4C  with similar characteristics. As if in Honor 4X something is reported, because it is much larger. Huawei Honor 4X looks typical for a smartphone. Its appearance resembles Honor 4C, iPhone, Fly Tornado Slim . Unusually look buttons, stylized virtual buttons in Android 5.0. In the smartphone the original invoice cover with embossed logo Honor. The manufacturer claims that the establishment of diamond pattern on the cover of designers inspired by traditional Chinese embroidery. Phone cover is easily removed and put back. At the same time the battery is not removable. Housing materials and practical quality. Smartphone durable, non glossy, almost Mara and does not collect scratches. All items are in close contact with each other, no backlash and no creaks, if put pressure on the device. During the test, it has not lost the presentation. Huawei Honor 4X can be bought in black and white colors.

Screen

Huawei Honor 4X got a good display with a diagonal of 5.5 inches. In addition to IPS-matrix and HD-resolution (1280 × 720 pixels), it has some attributes of quality screen protective glass Gorilla Glass 3, oleophobic coating and the ability to adjust color balance.

The pixel density - 267 dpi, for such diagonal HD-resolution can not be called high or to clear the screen. We saw it a little grainy in small fonts and elements of the image. Viewing angles was average for IPS-display.When the horizontal deflection, the display bluish. Brightness varies from 9 to 548 cd / m2 - an impressive range, it is much wider than the Huawei Honor 4C. In the dark the display is comfortable to the eye. And at maximum brightness and the regime "to improve the clarity of the Sun" - you can safely use the device outdoors in any weather. Available have adequate working Auto Brightness feature. The screen has an oleophobic coating, but it is weak - fingerprints remain on the display. Mode gloves available. In general, the display can be said to be good, due to the low price of the device.
Camera

Huawei Honor 4X is equipped with excellent camera for its price. The main camera is 13 MP makes clear pictures with high detail. Autofocus works well, but with a slight delay. Moving objects is better to shoot in burst mode. Photos obtained with low noise, the camera works well with light. If the device considers that the frame will darken or overexposed, it automatically turns on HDR to enhance detail.

The maximum photo resolution - 4208 × 3120 pixels. There is a function Stitch, setting the focus in different areas of the frame and the mode of "decoration" of persons. The main camera shoots Full HD video (1920 × 1080 pixels) at 30 frames per second, stereo sound, and AF Tracking. The front camera of 5 MP is well suited for self shooting and HD-video. Maximum resolution Self-frame - 2592 × 1952 pixels.

Working with text

Huawei Honor 4X suitable for word thanks to the convenient and functional keyboard Swype. In this case, it is used instead of the standard keyboard from Google. As pros, we note the presence of additional markup characters and continuous typing. In the settings you can change the design of the keyboard, adjust its height, including work with dictionaries, store, and synchronize them (auto-update and add names from your contacts). The only drawback - switching between languages. You'll have to hold down the "Space" and select a language from the pop-up list.

Internet

On the smartphone Huawei Honor 4X preinstalled several browsers: Opera, Chrome, and a standard "browser." In each of them you can find different settings with their own capabilities. Reducing traffic on or off loading graphics on pages Incognito mode, auto-scaling of text, synchronization of tabs with the desktop version of the browser - it's all there in all three browsers. We tested the smartphone mode Internet surfing - tests showed that the device is virtually no brakes.

Communication

Huawei Honor 4X supports a standard set of interfaces: Wi-Fi (802.11 b / g / n), A-GPS with GLONASS, Bluetooth 4.0 with profile A2DP. High-speed Wi-Fi standards are not supported, there is no NFC chip. In the smartphone has two slots for Micro-SIM cards. Instead, it operates in the LTE-networks (LTE Cat. 4). Plus Micro-USB connector - to support USB-host for connecting peripherals.

Multimedia

Smartphone Huawei Honor 4X supports many audio and video formats. In this respect, he's a little behind one of the leaders on this criterion - Huawei Honor 6. From the audio he play almost all formats except for AC-3 and DTS. From video formats smartphone not only coped with 2K and 4K video, everything else (MP4, MPG, TS, MOV, MKV, AVI) Play without any problems. Built-in player when it turned out to be poor on the settings and special features.

Battery

We appreciate the work of the smartphone Huawei Honor 4X the average, despite the impressive battery of 3000 mAh. In tests, it lasted 6.5 hours Videotest at maximum brightness of the display. This is good for its low price, but the majority of smartphones with a 5.5-inch diagonal run longer. Same Huawei Honor 6  with the same capacity to play videos up to 8.5 hours. The player mode Huawei Honor 4X discharged for 55 hours, this is a low result for the 3000 mAh. In the case of video test can be charged very high brightness of the display.In scenarios where a low level of energy consumption - the battery lasts faster than most smartphones we tested. The "average" usage mode (one film a day, an hour of the game, a few phone calls, browsing, music, always-on Wi-Fi and t.), We lacked a smartphone on a day with little. In this case Huawei Honor 4X has several power modes - "ordinary" (for games and online video), "smart" (daily use) and "energy saving". The last one reminds mode "emergency energy-saving" on smartphones Samsung. The image also becomes black and white, the system interface becomes simplified, affordable stay only calls and SMS-messages.

Performance

Huawei Honor 4X powerful enough for most tasks, but the most demanding games. It features a proprietary 64-bit platform HiSilicon Kirin 620. Despite the 8-core processor, this midrange platform, core work at low frequency - 1.2 GHz. At the same amount of RAM Honor 4X - 2 GB, usually at the low-end models of its half. Smartphone performed well in daily use: it does not slow down, fast-running applications, browsers, video, and so on. D. The device easily copes with most games. However, in the most demanding, for example Asphalt 8 graphics settings have to be reduced to low or medium, but it is unlikely to notice the difference in the eyes.Attempts to launch Dead Trigger 2 has not been successful - the game crashes on loading. In various synthetic benchmarks Huawei Honor 4X shows the results characteristic of filling the average. Thus, in AnTuTu smartphone received to 31,000 points, while Ice Storm Unlimited - approximately 5400 points.Surprising was the fact that he consistently got more points than Honor 4C. Slightly but constantly, from time to time, that looks suspiciously at identical characteristics.

Memory

In the smartphone Huawei Honor 4X has 8 GB of internal memory for data storage. Of these, 3.6 GB available to the user. The memory capacity is small, but it can be expanded via memory cards microSD, up to 32GB.The phone supports hot-swappable memory card. But more important is that it is possible to install games and applications - you only need to select the memory card as a "default save location 'settings.

Features

The smartphone runs on Android 4.4 and with its own interface EMUI 3.0. In summer, the company plans to upgrade to Lollipop. At Huawei Honor 4X has slots for two SIM-cards and support for LTE. It has a removable cover, but the battery is not removable. Micro-USB connector works with the technology of USB-host for connecting peripherals. From the pre-installed software, we note the presence of multiple browsers, file manager and manager of the phone. In the latter, you can optimize the operation of the device, delete unnecessary files, check your system for threats, and so on. D. In the smartphone has a number of "chips" with control using gestures. Such as turning your smartphone to turn off an incoming call, turn the display by double-clicking on it, and so on.. But the most interesting thing - the ability to run the desired application by drawing a certain letter on the screen is turned off. For these purposes it is possible to draw the letters C, E, M and W. Initially, they start the camera, respectively, browser, music and weather. But the values ​​of "letters" you can configure yourself. And you can not just choose any brand or pre-installed applications, and any installed on the smartphone.

Competitors

The price for Huawei Honor 4X is 11990 rubles. With such an attractive value for money difficult to choose the characteristics of his competitors. Find a smartphone with the same characteristics is easy, but it will cost a few thousand more. We say, for example, Sony Xperia C3  and Asus Zenfone 6. Today, they are both more expensive (16,500 and 15,000 respectively) and offer similar characteristics. True, Xperia C3 runs longer battery life, its body is thinner, and the front camera has a flash. For the rest, they either lose, or are on the same level.