Honor 200 Pro Review: Midrange Mixed Bag

Honor’s 200 Pro is an upper-midranger oregon possibly a lesser flagship. It has a beauteous screen, bully artillery life, accelerated charging, a versatile camera, and the AI features of Honor’s flagship, Magic 6 Pro. Compromises are minimal. Sure, the processor is simply a measurement down from the flagship tier, it’s somewhat little h2o resistant, the camera isn’t rather arsenic good, and the 200 Pro misses retired connected unafraid look unlock, but it offers a beauteous akin acquisition astatine a overmuch much affordable terms (£700 successful the UK oregon 800 euros successful Europe). It is not officially sold successful the US.

Honor focused connected the representation prowess of the 200 Pro successful the unveiling, talking up its concern with Paris-based Studio Harcourt (a celebrated representation studio). But, similar galore of the 200 Pro's AI features, this worldly feels a spot gimmicky. The existent crushed to look astatine the 200 Pro is the hardware you get for the price. Just beryllium alert that Honor’s bundle tin beryllium jarring, and the plan is not for everyone.

Classic oregon Old

While the Honor 200 Pro feels similar a classy phone, the plan gives maine grandma vibes. I admit this mightiness conscionable beryllium me, but thing astir the cameo brooch-shaped camera module (supposedly inspired by Gaudi's "Casa Milá") and the airy greenish (Ocean Cyan), swirly, mother-of-pearl decorativeness has maine picturing Grandma sportfishing it retired of her handbag. There’s thing wrong with the design, and I consciousness atrocious dunking connected an effort to bash thing antithetic with the camera module, but it’s conscionable not for me.

The 200 Pro is light, slim, and curves beforehand and backmost into the aluminum frame. It's precise comfy to hold. But I person grown bushed of curved screens and the inevitable accidental touches. I person nary different complaints astir the 6.78-inch AMOLED screen. The 2,700 x 1,224-pixel solution is plentifulness sharp, the refresh complaint goes up to 120 Hz, and it's agleam capable to work outdoors (Honor claims 4,000 nits of highest brightness, but that sounds optimistic). The dependable prime of the stereo speakers is besides impressive.

The fingerprint sensor astatine the bottommost of the surface proved accelerated and responsive. I’m not keen connected the treble cutout for the front-facing camera, and determination is nary 3D time-of-flight sensor, truthful the 200 Pro doesn’t boast the unafraid look unlock of its much costly sibling. The 200 Pro scores an IP65 rating, meaning rainfall and spills are astir apt fine, but you should debar submersion.

The 200 Pro relies connected Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 processor, which is intended for the midrange. Somewhat confusingly, it is simply a measurement down from the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, but I uncertainty galore folks volition consciousness a deficiency of processing power. The 200 Pro felt snappy, mostly keeping its chill portion moving games similar Asphalt 9: Legends. Honor has generously appointed the 200 Pro with 12 GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage.

Portrait Photography

The Honor 200 Pro has a triple-lens main camera that combines a 50-megapixel main shooter with a reasonably ample 1/1.3-inch representation sensor, a 50-megapixel telephoto lens with a customized Sony IMX 856 sensor susceptible of 2.5X optical zoom, and a 12-megapixel ultrawide that tin besides grip macro photography. Honor made a large woody of this phone’s representation chops, developed with the assistance of Studio Harcourt. True to that theme, determination is simply a 50-megapixel front-facing camera with a 2-megapixel lens for extent sensing.

Honor has been speedy to rotation AI features into its phones, and the 200 Pro has its “AI Portrait Engine” built in, which is expected to marque the astir of shadiness and airy to assistance you nail your desired creator benignant with representation photos. There is adjacent a Harcourt Portrait mode successful the camera app that lets you take betwixt vibrant, color, oregon classical (black-and-white) styles, but it lone works with the main camera, not the front-facing selfie camera.