Honor has simply unveiled its new budget-friendly Honor 600, with a reasonably spec-heavy bundle wrapped up in an iPhone-inspired shell.
On paper, the Honor 600 is a reasonably nice little bundle. A 6.57-inch AMOLED show hits 120Hz with a 3,840Hz PWM dimming price and, most significantly, 8,000 nits of peak HDR brightness. That’s wild for a smartphone normally, much more so one which’s in any respect on the funds aspect. The asterisk is that it solely kicks in with Netflix and Amazon Video. Nonetheless, it beats out even Honor’s flagship fashions.
That is working on prime of a Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 chipset, 8GB/12GB of RAM, 256GB/512GB of storage, and Android 16. The telephone is IP68/69/69K mud/water-resistant, and options two rear cameras with a 200MP main and a 12MP ultrawide that doubles as a macro digital camera.
Rounding issues out, there’s a 7,000 mAh battery stuffed within the 7.8mm chassis, and the entire thing weighs simply 190g – only a bit greater than a Pixel 10a. It helps 80W charging and lots of AI options.
There’s an Honor 600 Professional, too, however the firm didn’t present full specs for that system forward of at this time’s launch.
For the worth, this all appears to be like pretty strong. In Malaysia, Honor 600 is RM2,599. That’s round $650 USD when immediately transformed, not that this telephone will go on sale Stateside. That’s solely a tiny bit greater than the Nothing Cellphone (4a) Professional, as one level of comparability. Honor 600 will launch within the EU, however pricing wasn’t offered early. The EU model does have a smaller 6,400 mAh battery.
However, it’s arduous to utterly ignore the elephant within the room.
That’s an iPhone.
Or, at the very least it appears to be like precisely like one. From the digital camera array to the “window” throughout the again, Honor’s newest system positive does look lots like Apple’s. It even is available in an identical shade of orange. Honor already did this with its super-thin iPhone Air competitor, and now it’s made it to funds fashions too.
I’ve acquired an Honor 600 right here which, on very first impressions, is actually strong. The {hardware} feels remarkably good, and shockingly mild for the whole lot it brings to the desk. That’s in all probability helped by the plastic backplate, however one might simply be fooled into pondering it’s glass.
Keep tuned for additional impressions quickly – there are simply so many telephones for us to maintain up with proper now.
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