Comparison: Honor 7 vs LG G3 vs Sony Xperia Z3+

By Promotion | Updated on 06-Nov-2015

06-Nov-2015

HIGHLIGHTS

To understand how good the Honor 7 is, the phone is compared against two flagship phones, the LG G3 and the Sony Xperia Z3+

Today, if you want to buy a smartphone under the 25K price mark you don't have many choices. You might have to buy a mid-tier smartphone or end up a buying a last gen flagship. However, there is a new phone in the market – honor 7. This is the flagship phone from Honor this year. It features a robust metal unibody design, which gives the phone a highly premium feel and look. The phone comes equipped with an Octa-core processor – Kirin 935. This is a very powerful processor based on the big-LITTLE architecture made by Huawei. On the back, one can find a 20MP camera which is capable of taking really good pictures. And, if you like taking selfies, the front-facing 8MP camera is coupled with flash, which will enable you take selfies even in the night. Also at the back, the phone features a fingerprint sensor which is superfast and very accurate. The 5.2-inch display offers a 1080p resolution, and is currently one of the best display in that price segment.

To give you an idea of how good the phone is, we have taken two flagship phones and compared them side by side with the Honor 7. The first contender is the LG G3. This is LG’s last year flagship phone which came out with top of the line specs and still is a good phone. The other phone which is being put in the mix is the Sony Xperia Z3+. This phone still has one of the best camera’s in the market. So, how did the Honor 7 fare, well, check out the spec comparison below.

	Honor 7	LG G3	Sony Xperia Z3+
SoC	Kirin 935	Qualcomm Snapdragon 801	Qualcomm Snapdragon 810
CPU	2.2GHz Octa-core	2.5GHz quad-core	2GHz Octa-core
Display Size	5.2-inch	5.5-inch	5.2-inch
Display Resolution	1920 x 1080p	2560 x 1440p	1920 x 1080p
RAM	3GB	3GB	3GB
Storage	16GB	32GB	32GB
Rear Camera	20MP	13MP	20.7MP
Front Camera	8MP	2.1MP	5.1MP
Battery (mAh)	3100	3000	2930
OS	Android 5.0	Android 5.0	Android 5.0
Fingerprint sensor	Yes	No	No
Metal Unibody	Yes	No	No

Here are some synthetic benchmarks comparing the three phones. This will give you some perspective about the performance of the smartphone.

Here you can see, the Honor 7 is much powerful than the similarly priced LG G3 and the almost as powerful as the Sony Xperia Z3+

Check out these images which were taken from the Honor 7. The images showcase good colour reproduction, wide dynamic range and good low light performance.