Honor 7C

Jumping into the optics, the rear-facing dual camera module on the Honor 7C features a primary 13MP sensor, accompanied by a 2MP secondary sensor and an LED flash. At front, we have an 8MP sensor, with f/2.0 aperture, to click selfies and for video calling. Without beating around the bush, the camera performance offered by the Honor 7C is slightly inconsistent. While the handset manages to capture some really good pictures given apt lighting conditions, in low light and in night conditions, the smartphone fails to recreate the same quality. Images clicked in poor lighting conditions have considerable noise and turn out to be grainy most of the times. The secondary sensor allows the smartphone to capture images with depth effect, which essentially blurs out the background. The images clicked with depth effect turned out to be especially impressive for us.

The Honor 7C is powered by an octa-core Snapdragon 450 processor clocked at 1.8GHz, coupled with Adreno 506 GPU. The unit available with us packed 4GB of RAM, but there is a 3GB RAM variant available at a lower price. In terms of performance, just like the cameras, the 7C is hit-and-miss. The handset manages to breeze past even some of the more demanding apps at times but could then be found struggling with others. Multitasking presented the same consistency issues for us. There were few app crashes but at other times, the 7C performed exceptionally well too. The smartphone runs Android 8.0 Oreo-based EMUI 8.0 out of the box and as you might expect from an Honor handset, comes with some nifty features on top. You get a one-hand mode, Game Suite for configuring system settings for multiple games, and a Ride mode, among other options. The Ride mode essentially disables Bluetooth and provide users with the option to just access the dialler and emergency calls.

The new budget smartphone from Honor packs in a 3,000mAh battery. The company claims that the smartphone's battery has been designed for longevity and retains more than 80 percent of its capacity even after 500 full recharges. As there are many options priced below Rs 10,000 that offer larger battery sizes, this claim might be able to woo some customers to the handset. If we talk about real-day usage, the handset did not manage to last a full day for us and had to be recharged before the end of the day. However, it needs to be clarified that our usage was reasonably heavy, so the same result might not hold true for casual phone users. In our video loop test, where we run an HD video on loop with half the maximum brightness and half the maximum sound on the loudspeaker, the Honor 7C managed to last around 10 hours.

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