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 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.