Although Honor is a separate company now, the UI is largely similar to that of Huawei’s skin. In the world of budget-friendly smartphones, the Honor Play 50 Plus emerges as a promising contender. This smartphone packs some impressive features that are sure to catch your attention. The Honor Play 50 Plus boasts a sleek and modern design. Its central punched-hole screen not only looks stylish but also provides an immersive viewing experience.
Finally, in July earlier this year, Honor announced its new smartphone Honor 50 with full support for Google Mobile Services. The Honor 50 has a unique and striking design on the back that is uncommon in other smartphones. The glitter back panel along with the chrome finish side make this phone visually stunning. At the same time, the back is slightly curved on the sides and is also not slippery. It offers a fairly decent grip, but that said, using a case is recommended and Honor is providing a transparent case in the box. The rest highlights Play 50 Plus includes a side mounted fingerprint scanner, dual speakers, and Hi-Res Audio support. The smartphone also comes with a 3.5mm headphone jack, a USB-C port, and 5G connectivity.
1. Display
- The display is sharp, bright, and the quality of the panel used by Honor is very good.
- Outdoor legibility is quite good as well, and the display can get pretty bright outdoors.
- Users can choose the color mode and temperature from the settings page.
- The various color modes include Normal, Vivid, and various color temperatures include Default, Warm, Cool. Moving on to the refresh rate.
- The Honor 50 can dynamically switch refresh rate to balance battery life and smoothness, and as usual.
- Equipped with a 6.8-inch TFT LCD screen featuring a crisp resolution of 2412 × 1080p and supporting refresh rates of up to 90H.
2. Performance
- The HONOR 50 is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G 6nm Mobile Platform which is an Octa core processor with 4 Kryo cores clocked at 2.4 GHz.
- Under the hood, the smartphone is powered by the Dimensity 6020 chipset octa care, and a Mali-G57 GPU.
- This combination ensures smooth multitasking and efficient performance, making it suitable for both work and play.
3. Battery
- One standout feature is the massive 6000mAh battery, which promises all day usage without the need for frequent recharging
- Plus, it supports 35W fast charging, so you can quickly top up your battery when needed. For audio enthusiasts.
- The Honor 50 battery lasted for a little more than a day easily.
4. Camera
- The Honor 50 sports quad rear cameras that are arranged in a dual ring camera design made up of two concentric circles.
- It is a combination of a 108MP main sensor , 8MP ultra-wide-angle, 2MP macro and 2MP depth-of-field sensor
- As for the image quality, the photos taken from the 108MP primary sensor come out quite good with a lot of detail and sharpness.
- While large sensors help in capturing more detail, fringing is an issue that have we seen in a lot of smartphones with large sensors.
- The night mode takes a few seconds to capture photos, and the output came out pretty good.
5. Price And Availability
- Recently in October 2023, the Honor company announced its new 5G smartphone at a low price.
- This 5G smartphone costs around Rs 15,999 approx in India.