Plus, Lenovo et all, had quietly been making steady progress. They may not be shaking up the sales charts but you’d be amazed to know there is quite a decent amount of crowd out there getting these phones. Let’s look at one of Honor’s latest offerings in the sub-midrange phones priced below 10,000 INR, the Honor 4C.
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Not a looker, but sturdy
Honor aims at bringing some good specs for a low price & that is one reason why, the overall kiến thiết of the phone is going to stick to lớn the basics. No slimming, no trimming but a sturdy build of plastic is what you’re looking at here. With a thickness of 8.8mm và weighing 162 gms, the Honor 4C is quite heavy for a 5 inch phone when compared to lớn the likes of YU Yureka that come around the 150 gms range in spite of being a 5.5 inch phone. Now this 5 inch screen packs in something close lớn 294 pixels per inch & has a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels. The screen is rather dull and you will find yourself increasing the brightness khổng lồ 100% when you take the phone out in the sun – địa chỉ cửa hàng to this the fact that the screen is reflective making it so hard for one khổng lồ use it when directly under the sun! Also, be warned that the display has no Gorilla Glass protection or anything.
Conclusion
To sum it all up, the Honor 4C has its strengths and is good with whatever it holds. But is that enough khổng lồ join the race & beat the competition? Well the lack of 4G support could be a major khuyến mãi breaker for some. The internal memory out of the box is very low and it is mandatory you bring along an additional micro SD else you may not be able lớn use the phone for long. The lack of backlight on the capacitive buttons, the chunkiness of the phone and the weight add on khổng lồ the negatives if the dull lack luster screen without any protection was not enough! At 8,999 INR Honor 4C would find it tough khổng lồ beat a Yureka that is loaded with the elusive Cyanogen OS or the long well-established mi Redmi cảnh báo 4G when compared spec to lớn spec. Otherwise, if you’re fine with a 3GB dual SIM phone & want a phone with a great camera và a stable OS, Honor 4C can be a good option. If you were to bump up your budget a bit khổng lồ 12-13K, you can consider the mi Mi4 which is a wicked awesome phone or the Mi4i.
Tech
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Huawei launched the Honor 4C along with the Honor Bee in India on 8th May. The 4C is the successor khổng lồ the Honor 3C which was introduced in August last year. The device brings a lot of improvements compared lớn its predecessor in terms of specifications, especially in terms of performance và camera. Let us see how the device fares in real life và whether it is a worthy successor to lớn the Honor 3C và whether it is worth the money that you pay for it.
Design and Build Quality
The design of the 4C has changed quite a bit compared to lớn the 3C. While the 3C had a rounded design, the 4C opts for flat sides with rounded corners. The physical size of the 4C is larger than the 3C that precedes it despite both the devices having the same sized screens. The Honor 4C measures 143.3 x 71.9 x 8.8 milimet while the Honor 3C measures 139.5 x 71.4 x 9.2 mm. That means the 4C is a lot bigger in terms of length & breadth while the thickness is marginally lesser. The 4C is also heavier at 162 grams compared khổng lồ the 140 grams of the 3C. Despite being bigger than the 3C, the 4C isn’t a tough phone to handle. The phone is still quite manageable và fits well in your hand thanks lớn the rounded edges on the four corners and the back. The phone is also easy lớn hold in both portrait và landscape mode due to lớn the same reason. The extra weight of the phone isn’t actually a bad thing as it feels more premium than it’s 3C counterpart.
The phone does feel quite solid và premium despite its pricing. There is a giả chrome bezel that runs all around the front of the device. It does have a chrome finish but has a slight gold tint lớn it. While it is most definitely made of plastic & feels the part, it is quite durable và gives the phone a nice look. At the front you have the 5″ 720p display which we will discuss in detail later on in the review. Above the display you have the earpiece, the ambient light sensor, proximity sensor & the front facing camera. Below the display you have the three capacitive keys for return, trang chủ and options/multi-tasking. Short press on the right most key brings up the options and long press shows you the recent apps. We feel that Huawei could’ve opted khổng lồ go for on-screen keys considering there is 5 inch worth of screen real estate and because most phones are headed in that direction nowadays. It also would have helped reduce the overall form size of the phone especially in terms of height.
At the top, you have the 3.5mm audio jack và at the bottom, you have the micro
USB port along with the primary microphone. The positioning of the micro
USB port is actually quite annoying lớn those who use it in their car. If you have your phone on a cradle and wish to lớn charge the phone, you will notice that the phone’s micro
USB port is blocked by the cradle’s support. The workaround would be lớn place the device with its right side facing downwards and enabling tự động rotate. Not the ideal solution and is an issue that could’ve been avoided with better placement of the port.
The left side of the device is empty as there are no controls or ports here. On the right side, we have the volume up/down rocker as well as the power/lock key. The volume button comes in the same colour as the phone but the nguồn key has a silverish golden paint effect. At the back, you have the 13 Megapixel camera at the vị trí cao nhất left along with the LED flash. It is flush with the body toàn thân but has a thicker upper lip because of the way the body curves towards the edges. The camera unit and the LED flash are housed by an elliptical plate & next lớn it is the secondary microphone. There is the Honor branding in the middle & the loudspeaker at the bottom right.
The texture of the back cover is quite nice lớn feel and look at và Huawei claim that they use actual Silk along with a combination of other materials khổng lồ make it. You can see the woven pattern when you look at it closely. While it looks good, the back cover does make the phone quite slippery. We’ve had the phone slip from our hands while we were testing it và although luckily we never dropped it, it still isn’t something good in terms of handling. Perhaps slapping on a case would be a good idea if you are getting yourself one of these. The back cover is removable thankfully so if your device does get some wear và tear, you can easily replace the back panel. You also need to remove the back panel lớn access the micro
SIM thẻ slots as well as the micro
SD thẻ slot. The battery however is not accessible to lớn the user and is non-removable. We quite liked the aqua colour finish on the black variant of the device while the white one has a grey colour with glossy finish.
The phone is available in both black & white colour variants. There is also a difference in the inner colouring of the battery cất cánh as mentioned above. The white colour variant gets a grey finish while the black variant gets an aqua colour finish. We personally prefer the trắng colour over the đen one as it gives a more refined look.
Display
The display on the Honor 4C is the same as the one on the 3C. Both are IPS l
CD panels with 720p resolution. The 4C is a larger device & has a lower screen-to-body ratio as compared to lớn the 3C though despite both of them having the same screen size of 5 inches. The 4C screen is designed in a way that it seems lớn be bigger than it actually is and seems to lớn be bezel-less at the sides when the screen is turned off. However as soon as you turn on the screen, you realize that it is much smaller than it seems to lớn be và that there are huge black borders surrounding the screen all around the display. This is true especially for the sides of the display. While we like the fact that it does seems to have a bigger screen, it is bad in some ways too. It looks good when not in use but when you start using the phone, the black bars are kind of annoying & do take some time to lớn getting used to.
The display hits the sweet spot in terms of size and the display chất lượng is quite good. The colours are vivid và the display has more than sufficient brightness indoors. For those of you who find the colour lớn be inaccurate, Huawei give you the option of customising the colour temperature lớn your liking. You can make it warmer or cooler based on your preference. Outdoors, the device performs quite well despite having a reflective screen và the tự động hóa brightness works very well. Due to lớn the reflective screen, some contrast is lost when viewed at an angle but it isn’t too bad that we’d complain about it. In fact, it is one of the nicer displays that we have seen on a device in this price range.
The capacitive buttons aren’t backlit but that is sort of norm at this price range. The buttons however vày have a reflective silver colour that kind of look appealing. One weird thing that we noticed on the phone was that it came with a screen protector built-in. We aren’t sure if all the units come this way or whether Huawei installed one before giving it for review but seems odd khổng lồ have it pre-installed. Perhaps they are doing something similar khổng lồ what Sony did for the first two generations of the XPERIA Z. But that was only because it didn’t have a nano coating on the display glass itself. In this case we aren’t sure why exactly it is on the device. While a screen protector is always good to have, we feel it should be left khổng lồ the discretion of the user to decide whether or not khổng lồ install it. We will check with Huawei regarding the same và update you regarding the same.
The power/lock key is located on the right side of the device và we felt the positioning lớn be good. However if you place your phone on a surface then it becomes difficult khổng lồ unlock the screen with one hand unless you hold it and then press the lock key. To lớn overcome this, Huawei have included the double tap to wake feature which allow you to bring the device out of sleep mode by just tapping the screen twice. You can choose to enable it or disable it from the settings menu.
The indicator light is quite bright và can be customized to blink when notifications are received or just glow when the phone has low battery or is charging. On the white unit, there is a bit of a light bleed as the colour of the light seeps through the trắng coloured plastic but in a way, it makes it more visible khổng lồ the user. The black unit doesn’t have this issue. There is also a cảm biến disable mode that prevents accidental pressing of the screen when it is in your pocket or bag.
Call Quality, Messaging & Connectivity
The dialer tiện ích is quite simple & easy khổng lồ use. It gives you quick access to lớn the dial pad, contacts and messages. The dial pad is large enough lớn enter numbers on and you also get the recent calls that you’ve made, received or missed. Despite being only a 5 inch device, Huawei have included a one hand UI mode where users can choose lớn make the dial pad smaller and move it to lớn either the left or right side based on their preference. This is quite handy as even though some people can manage the kích thước of the dial pad, they tend khổng lồ use the phone with either their left or right hand.
There’s a built-in Harassment filter that can be used khổng lồ block unwanted messages or calls. Users can customize the rules the phone should follow in order to block it. If you wish lớn block only messages và calls from the numbers you’ve added to lớn the blacklist then you can vì chưng that. You could also block a hotline or message that comes from a stranger or unknown number or all of the three. These calls và messages won’t appear in your regular call danh sách or inbox but instead appear within the harassment filter sub category. The phone can notify you when such a hotline or message is intercepted or can remove notifications altogether.
The contacts manager is just as good as any other android device. You can have practically unlimited entries of people và their information such as phone numbers, emails, addresses, birthdays, websites etc along with a photo as well. You can choose to giới thiệu it, import/export them và save them onto your SIM, phone or e-mail id. Messaging is quite easy on the 5 inch screen as it is coupled with the Google keyboard. Odds are that you have been using the Google keyboard as well on your previous phone & shifting lớn this phone would still feel at trang chủ since the layout doesn’t change. If you aren’t happy with the built-in keyboard, you can of course go for a 3rd các buổi party one by downloading it from the Play Store.
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Call unique is quite good – the earpiece gives sufficient volume & is clearly audible even in noisy environments. The microphone also does a good job at relaying clear audio to lớn the party at the other over thanks lớn the dedicated noise cancelling microphone. The phone supports dual Micro
SIM cards but there’s no LTE support on either as both get only 3G support. This is quite disappointing as for the price at which the handset is selling, there are competitors available with 4G LTE tư vấn and some models available even at cheaper prices with 4G.
The phone has support for Wi-Fi a/b/g/n but no support for the latest ac standard & does not tư vấn 5GHz. It does have công nghệ bluetooth 4.0 & a micro
USB port. As we explained in the kiến thiết section, we vị wish the micro
USB port was positioned more towards the center but aside from that no complaints here. The phone has 8GB of built-in memory out of which the user gets just 3.65GB at their disposal which is not a lot. But one relief would be that there is a micro
SD card slot that has tư vấn for cards up khổng lồ 32GB. Even then users cannot move their apps lớn the SD card. Perhaps support will come once the Lollipop update comes out. We tried OTG & the phone was able lớn handle even a 256GB flash drive easily.
Software and Performance
Despite most of the phones in its price range coming pre-loaded with app android Lollipop 5.0, the 4C still sticks khổng lồ the ageing Kit
Kat & that too 4.4.2. Huawei is promising an update to lớn Lollipop 5.0 soon but would’ve been nice to have it out of the box và probably 5.1 would be the norm by the time Huawei get app android 5.0 onto the phone. The consolation is that the phone does get an updated version of EMUI. Version 3.0 to be specific và it does bring visual changes & improvements in terms of tốc độ as well.
The UI is quite smooth & responsive. There aren’t any lags as such và the animations are soothing. The lack of an phầm mềm drawer is something that some people might not like. I personally prefer to have an phầm mềm drawer as well as I prefer to lớn have clean và organized trang chủ screens. Yes you can organize and arrange the home screens khổng lồ your but people who are used to ứng dụng drawers might find themselves hunting for the tiện ích drawer button only khổng lồ realize that it isn’t there. But that is something that you can solve by installing a 3rd các buổi tiệc nhỏ launcher. There is also a simple home view that looks lượt thích the Windows Phone UI if you prefer khổng lồ make things more simpler.
The lock-screen changes the wallpaper each time you put the device to sleep & wake it up. It offers the time, day and date as well as a camera shortcut. If you pull up from the bottom of the lock-screen, you get options lớn control you music including pause, next, save, share & settings. You also get shortcuts to lớn voice recorder, calculator and toggle for the flashlight. All of which can be accessed without unlocking the screen. Pulling down from the top gives you access to lớn the quick settings as well as notifications. You can even choose to allow or deny apps from showing their notifications. As mentioned before, the phone does tư vấn double tap to wake. You also have gestures that you can draw onto the screen in order to lớn launch a particular app.
These gestures work even without having to wake the device up from sleep. You have 4 preset letters to lớn choose from – C, E, M & W. While you can assign a different application to lớn each of these letters, the letters themselves cannot be changed và you have khổng lồ make vị with the 4 presets. Flip to mute (Calls & Alarms) and shake lớn rearrange icons are also two motion based actions that the phone can do. Although we don’t see a particular use for the latter especially considering it’ll be tough khổng lồ find the already cluttered apps on the home-screen. You can also enable the suspend button which basically enables on-screen versions of your capacitive buttons along with one cảm biến optimization và screen lock.
The 4C drops the Meditek chipset used by the 3C and instead opts for an in-house Kirin 620 octa-core processor clocked in at 1.2 GHz. It also has 2GB of RAM at its disposal out of which around 1.24GB of memory is available. We didn’t have any issues with the performance of the device even when multi-tasking. The device performed well without any lag or hiccups. Here are the Geek
Bench 3 & Nenamark 2 scores of the 4C.
If you wish to check out all the benchmarks, you can vì chưng so by following this link.
Camera
The Honor 4C is equipped with a 13 Megapixel camera with an LED flash. The camera performs quite well in daylight conditions. We found the trắng balancing khổng lồ be quite accurate & the colours are quite natural too. The camera manages khổng lồ capture quite good detailing & is capable of taking good chất lượng closeups as well. The chất lượng of the night shots aren’t too bad either but there is a bit of noise creeping in. The LED flash is quite under-powered & the image that are captured using it seems quite ‘un-natural’. We’d recommend taking photos without the flash và rather use the flash as a torch unless necessary.
The phone can record videos up-to 1080p resolution at 30 fps. The quality of videos is decent but the detailing isn’t very good. The colour accuracy is also not as good as the camera is able khổng lồ capture in images. The front facing 5 megapixel camera is decent but does face some issues with shutter lag so you have khổng lồ make sure that you are quite still when taking selfies. The output đầu ra is good even though the images bởi seem a bit soft. We wish that the sharpness had been a bit better but that’s probably something they can fix with a firmware update.
The camera interface is quite simple và it rotates based on the phone’s orientation. When held in landscape mode, you have the shutter button on the right along with the filter menu on top and the gallery shortcut below it. On the left you have the shortcut for the flash settings, the camera switch and the mode menu.You have 3 basic options lớn choose from – Photo, video and Beauty. Beauty mode is just like photo mode but allows you to enhance skin tone & details lớn make it look smoother. Within the settings you can adjust the ISO, trắng Balance, saturation, contrast and brightness as well. In the modes, you can choose between panorama, HDR, audio note, best photo, all focus và watermark. All focus allows the user to lớn change the point of focus after the image has been captured. The rest is self-explanatory.
The camera focuses on the object that you put the tracker on & will also bởi the exposure according to the point of focus. The phone can shoot at a maximum resolution of 13 Megapixels in 4:3 aspect ratio. 16:9 aspect ratio is supported as well at a maximum resolution of 10 Megapixels. Users also have a 1:1 option if you are someone who uses Instagram a lot, this option should be quite helpful to lớn you as it will save you the hassle of having to crop the image later. It also has a maximum resolution of 10 Megapixel. Geotagging is supported và users can choose whether khổng lồ save photos onto the phone memory or SD card.
You can program the phone to take a photo based on voice commands as well. For example if you say “Cheese”, it will take the photo và it works pretty well even in noisy environments. The camera can also take photos automatically when it detects smiles & also use object tracking khổng lồ focus on an object and capture it in focus later on even if it is moving.
Music
The Music player is quite basic. It offers you the menu of Songs, Favourites và Playlists. The songs can be grouped in the khung of titles, artists, albums or folders. The now playing screen has the regular Previous, Play/Pause và Next buttons. You can see the time elapsed and time remaining và use the progress bar lớn seek through the songs. The DTS icon is present on the đứng đầu left corner. Enabling it will light up the biệu tượng công ty in a bluish-green color. Users can choose khổng lồ view the songs, album art or lyrics (not all tracks are supported).The music player also offers a timer setting where it stops playing after a certain amount of time as well as a length filter which will only show tracks that are less than the specified time limit.
The phone also has support for FM Radio & it performs really well. It offers good chất lượng without any distortions. You will need to plugin a headphone or earphone as it uses that as an antenna. Surprisingly, the volume using FM radio is much more than using the music player. FM Radio doesn’t work in flight mode but works even without a SIM thẻ as long as flight mode isn’t enabled.
The unique through headphones is good. The only issue we found was lack of sufficient volume. In most instances you wont have lớn use the phone at max volume. But in case you are in a noisy environment & the earphone or headphone you are using isn’t good at isolating the outside sound then you might find it to lớn be a bit soft. There is also a DTS mode which does seem louder & also gives a nice surround effect. It does artificially enhance the bass though & some people may or may not lượt thích it. There are no earphones/headphones bundled in the box itself so you will have to lớn use one of your own. Thanks khổng lồ the 3.5mm audio jack, you can at least be sure that almost every headphone will work with the device. Coupled with a decent pair of earphones, you can get a good experience out of the device. The loudspeaker of the Honor 4C is located at the bottom right at the back. The chất lượng is quite good and so is the loudness however if you place the device on a flat surface, the loudspeaker does get muffled and the volume also drops quite a bit.
Battery Life
In the time that we reviewed the handset, we found the battery khổng lồ be one of the major issues with the Honor 4C. The battery life is average at best và will definitely die down on heavy users around half way through their day. Light users could manage with the device và medium users could maybe pull off a day of use on certain days if they’re lucky. Here are some usage stats that we got upon use. We will be conducting our full-fledged battery tests soon và update the review with the results as soon as it is finished.
Conclusion
Overall the Honor 4C is quite a capable smartphone. The display is quite nice, the camera is of good quality and the music quality is also good. Where it falls short is the lack of 4G tư vấn as well as the average battery life. Then there is the pricing – there are quite a few devices out there that offer 4G tư vấn at the same price và their battery life is better as well. While they may not have as good a camera or display, they are still quite good and offer a better khuyến mãi at the same price. We would suggest that if you are going for the Honor 4C, vị so if you are fine with its disadvantages & if it offers everything you need.
Pros
Good Display (Even under sunlight)Solid Build QualityGood Camera quality (For its price segment)Good Audio Quality
Cons
Lack of 4G SupportAverage Battery Life
Low Internal Memory (Might not be an issue for all as it supports micro
SD)
Srivatsan contributed to this review
