We can’t help but feel a little confused. Was the Honor 7 the right thing to do? This isn’t about the phone’s pros and cons, mind you. It just feels odd that the Honor 7 is so similar to the Huawei P8 - and in some ways obviously better. Unless these two are exclusive to different markets, which is quite likely, there is no point getting the P8, is there? And that’s as good a compliment as they get for the Honor 7.
But first things first. The Huawei Honor 7 actually over-delivers as a successor of the popular Honor 6. It improves on the design, screen, camera, chipset and throws in a couple of hardware extras and the latest software. The selfie camera may not be that big of a deal but the fingerprint scanner that helps in navigation is a definite plus.
The Honor 7 did quite well in a number of tests and aced the CPU benchmarks. It offers dual-SIM telephony and the latest Android version with intuitive gestures. The phone does great at still photography and provides more than adequate battery backup, the display is quite nice and so is the general build quality. It did get some things wrong like the underperforming Mali T628 GPU and the rather poor video recording.